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• When I was just a kid, there were a series of Coke commercials that aired in the US featuring a strange, stuttering, and profoundly bizarre character named Max Headroom. The character has the ability to randomly appear and interact with people near his television set, and soon became the main character of his own [...]

  Max Headroom Returns!
  
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• This post could be titled “Good Son/Bad Son”. Good Son because I drove to Houston and back twice so my Mom could spend Thanksgiving with me. Bad Son because I’m totally about to make fun of her.
  “Black Friday” was originally so named because of the heavy traffic on that day, although most contemporary [...]

  Black Friday is Not a Racial Holiday
  
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• Yes, I’m a huge nerd and also a World of Warcraft addict.
  And if you’ve never played the game (or any MMO, for that matter) you won’t get the jokes in the animated image above.
  N00b.
  My favorite part has to be that they suspect Boromir of being a ninja. “I get plate drops kk?”

  Lord of the Rings meets World of Warcraft
  
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• When you look up “hip indie music” in the dictionary, Sonic Youth’s band picture is shown. Their bizarre/catchy song Bull In The Heather off of the Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star album released May 3, 1994 is the focus of today’s Flashback Friday.
  The album this track appears on was my first Sonic [...]

  Flashback Friday: Sonic Youth
  
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• I’ve been quite the shutter bug since I finally got around to buying myself a digital camera again after I lost the last one in California. I try to find any opportunity to take photos now just to fulfill the secret desire to be a decent photographer.
  I switched from Flickr to Picasa Web Albums [...]

  Five Thousand Words
  
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• Suzanne Vega’s 99.9F° is today’s Flashback Friday, off of the album of the same name. Suzanne Vega had a few major breakout hits in the late 80’s/early 90’s, including “Luka” and of course the remixed “Tom’s Diner“. FYI – The original Tom’s Diner was a capella!
  The track and both the album were phenomenal, [...]

  Flashback Friday – Suzanne Vega
  
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