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The Second City comedy troupe imagines a world where Prince isn’t famous — instead he’s a plumber named Roger.
It looks like this is the first in a series. So who should they do next? I’d suggest Celine Dion or Kanye West.
Hat tip: Anita Manbadly
Why doesn’t The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson get more attention? I rarely see his stuff linked from other big economics-oriented liberal bloggers and he seems to always be overshadowed by the other writers at his own publication — folks like James Fallows, Ta-Nahesi Coates and (barf) Megan McCardle.
Ten years ago, DC Comics published the seminal “Death of Superman” comic book series. In this storyline, Superman takes on a monster called Doomsday, who *spoiler alert* kills Superman. Doomsday was created in a lab on Krypton by a mad scientist named Bertron, who then subjected Doomsday to the harshest possible environments and situations. Consequently, Doomsday died. A lot. However, each time Doomsday died, he would be reconstituted by Bertron, and adapted to whatever killed him. He died thousands of times, and through this forced evolution eventually became virtually indestructible, at which point he turned on Bertron, killed him, and went on a galactic rampage.
New developments in file sharing software now threaten to release a digital Doomsday, and copyright and patent holders may sooner rather than later find themselves in the role of Superman. Continue reading
It is no big secret teenagers tend to be nightmares. Tommy Jordan’s 15-year-old daughter Hannah is not an exception. Continue reading
Have you ever wondered how the average moron uses Facebook? I always have. Then I found the answer — a Facebook Page with a name that only an illiterate teenage baby mama could have come up with: Gr8 ppl, Gr8 thoughts. Continue reading
Woody Harrelson[‘s PR person] provoked the anger of Redditors on Friday while attempting to promote Harrelson’s latest movie, Rampart. While Reddit AMAs (Ask Me Anything) have been well-received in the past coming from celebrities, Harrelson[‘s PR rep] clearly didn’t do his research.
Things quickly turned sour when participants realized that whoever was behind Harrelson’s account had no intention of answering any questions that didn’t concern Rampart and quickly disappeared. The highlight (or lowlight)? Redditor AndyRooney asked if Harrelson remembered crashing his prom party in LA and “taking the virginity of a girl named Roseanna. You didn’t call her afterward. She cried a lot.” The Harrelson account replied with, “First of off, its not true, and second off, I don’t want to answer questions about that. Lets focus on the film people,” an instruction sure to please internet commenters everywhere. Continue reading
Could choosing to co-parent without messy love entanglements, the specter of a bad relationship, or hell, even bad sex, be the ultimate way to redefine the modern family?
New website Modamily.com seems to think so. Continue reading
Watch a horrible mistake unfold, and facepalm with me.
We don’t have to be first. My fellow journalists may be going into convulsions as I say that, but it’s true. We don’t. People are sick of that. It means nothing, in this age when information is almost instantaneous, and first means little more to an audience than a few seconds. Audiences care about presentation, about snappy writing, about looks and sound and branding, about reliability. Continue reading