Botswana Meat Commission FC

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Botswana Meat Commission FC created Crasstalk.com when he saw the need for a crowdsourced solution to capturing Osama bin Laden. His heroes include Nick Denton and all Bronies ever.

New York Times Car Reviewer Notices How Lame the Toyota Camry Is

beige boring Toyota Camry
Times auto reviewer Ezra Dyer got the worst possible assignment last week — to write a review of the 2012 Toyota Camry. You have to feel for the guy. What the hell do you write about those ubiquitous, dowdy beige grocery-getters that could possibly make for an interesting article?

The Camry, which has less flavor than Mitt Romney eating half a saltine, has been America’s best selling automobile for 13 of the last 14 years. (Think about the awfulness of that next time someone starts bad-mouthing the cars coming out of Detroit.) To Dyer’s credit, he realized there is no way to talk about the most boring car ever built other than to point out numerous times how lame Camry owners are.  Continue reading →

I Think I’ve Discovered the Umami of Music

If you’re a pretentious foodie geek culinary savoir-faire you’re probably familiar with the concept of umami. It’s a Japanese word for the “fifth basic taste” (after sweet, sour, bitter and salty) that was only isolated and identified in 1985.

The idea of some hidden dimension of flavor is a pretty coddamn interesting one and while listening to music recently it occurred to me that my ears were detecting something similar in many new songs.  Continue reading →

Why the Gender Pay Gap Doesn’t Matter

Recently my favorite blogger, Derek Thompson of The Atlantic, cited the commonly-heard statistic that women earn 77 cents for every dollar men earn and asked his readers to answer a simple question: “Is the U.S. Economy Sexist?”

Thompson helpfully pulled together some of the most insightful answers from his comment section, but after reading through all of them, I’m left feeling even more bewildered. Does the pay gap really exist, and if it does, should it matter? Continue reading →

Craigslost: Anal Princesses, Down Bitches and the Perfect Nutrition

You thought I forgot about Craigslost? Hell and no!

Slim Pickens and I spent hours this week trawling the bottom of the human slime pond that is Craigslist to bring you another round of soul-crushing-yet-hilarious stories about JO knife fights, sack-punching fetishes and manhood camping the human condition.

Let’s get to the fuckery!

(Craigslost is NSFW but there’s no nudity, just sexual language.)

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I’m a Hot Tub Rash Survivor. This is my story.

Educate yourself about the risks of Hot Tub Rash

The other day Crasstalk superstar commenter MonkeyBiz was informing us that he and his three roommates (yes, I count Leo) have opened their hot tub. You all congratulated him on his new, swinging jacuzzi-based lifestyle and while I too was happy for Mister Biz, I felt a deep sense of conflict.

I had something to get off my chest. I’ve kept the feelings bottled up inside me for so long that I’d forgotten the joys of a three-hour hot tub soak. I’m writing this today because my fellow survivors have stories to tell — stories about 6 to 10 days of mild discomfort, stories of cool dudes with shiny t-shirts and bangin’ ass chicks with Kanye glasses who have been relegated to the shadows of society for up to a week and a half.  My friends, I’m writing this today because I am a Hot Tub Rash survivor and this is my story.  Continue reading →

Watch M83’s Entire Set From Coachella

We live in amazing times. Within a day of M83’s by-all-accounts-amazing set Friday night at Coachella, high quality videos of the entire set were up on Youtube. Most concert footage posted on the internet is utter crap, but in this case whoever shot these apparently had access to the soundboards because the audio sounds great. Oh, and the set is split into four video, so I embedded them as a playlist and they’ll all play together.