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The Danger Zone Taste Test-Dr. Snap Soda

  What is this? A quick review of a store brand soda Why? Because I’m bored and I thought it would taste like Dr. Pepper. Also this Your name is, “Fuck you,”? I…

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From Rush Limbaugh, With Love

It’s been a crazy last couple of weeks- gas prices are going up, Syria is on the brink of being a giant cemetery,  TJ Lane shoots and kills 3 of his classmates in Ohio,…

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SNL – Making or Breaking Careers and Making Us Laugh for Years

Sam Rashid Takes a look at a few performances by artists on Saturday Night Live that either made the bands career, or ruined them forever.

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A Perspective on Whitney Houston

Patrick Delehanty gives his insight on the death Whitney Houston.

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My Embarrassing Music Yearbook

Everyone has musical skeletons in their closets and writer Shelby Mongan shares some moments from her embarrassing musical yearbook.

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Who is Bon Iver?

    Many of my friends are very aware of two things about me: I am a devoted Bon Iver fan, and I spend a lot of time online. Thanks to these obsessions,…

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Grateful for Gershwin

Thank you, all of you, for talking about nothing, loudly, and for the football or the flu.

A day of thanks, a day remembered that whitey (pilgrims) kinda set up the Indians for a century plus of epidemic genocide with an offering of peace in the early 1600s. Oh let us give thanks for the diseases, and warfare tactics, delivered from across the seas to what was the Native American Indian’s home. Thanksgiving, sort of their Last Meal. Lest we forget our own American history, your welcome.

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The Danger Zone, Sour Grapes, and Patton Oswalt

Not Cool, You Guys: Beloved Internet Betrayal Edition Last week I entered a contest sponsored by the Onion AV Club’s local Chicago chapter. The basic premise was that Patton Oswalt would come to…

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Roast of Charlie Sheen Review

The last year or so (I haven’t really been paying THAT much attention) Charlie Sheen has been a public relations person’s dream come true.  I say that with the old “showbiz” mentality that…

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Paul Simon “The Sound of Silence” – September 11th, 2011

Paul Simon “The Sound of Silence” – September 11th, 2011

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