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Nov 7

I walk by this sign every day. I grow increasingly confident it makes no sense.

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Nov 6

CollegeHumor’s Halloween costume contest is one of my favorite things we do all year. Today is the last day to vote!

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Nov 5

People Doing Stuff. Amazing video. They move with such purpose.

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Nov 4

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Golden Earring - Radar Love

Probably the greatest driving song of all time. I’ve never had an MP3 of it before because I always thought it was “Red Hot Love.”

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Nov 4

They are among us, does anyone have any more info?

(via our intern Ariel)

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Nov 3

Earlier this week, I got to interview Weird Al over the phone. As you may not know but can probably guess, when I was younger I was a huge fan of his work. Weird Al was not just the first album I bought, he was the first several. I’ve written about his work several times on this blog¹, which basically means I enjoy writing about Weird Al in my free time for fun.

Al was very friendly and a real pleasure to talk to, and you can read the interview right now on CollegeHumor. Here’s a teaser:

CollegeHumor: You are by far the number one selling comedy musician of all time. Do you even know who number two is?

WA: Uh, I don’t.

CH: Why do you think there are no other Weird Als out there?

WA: I don’t know, I guess the zeitgeist only had room for one and I got it. I just started at the right time and had a few lucky breaks and worked hard at it and surrounded myself with talented people and I’ve just been very lucky I guess.

1. Past excerpts from JeffRubinJeffRubin.com

- “I really don’t know what to wear to the Weird Al concert.” - 10/19/07
- “Some of [Al]’s recent stuff is better than anything he’s ever done.” - 9/28/08
- “Really, it’s hard to believe Weird Al survived at all - much less thrived - before iTunes and YouTube.” - 10/8/08
- “All this thinking about Weird Al reminded me of one my all-time favorite Onion articles, “I Must Take Issue With the Wikipedia Entry for ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic.” I went back to read it, and I’m a little embarassed how much it resembles the blog post I wrote last night.” - 10/9/08

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Nov 1

(photo by Pat)

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Nov 1

The first season of Sons of Anarchy was good, but the new episodes might be the best thing on TV right now. In other words, I think that right now Sons of Anarchy is even better than Mad Men.

It’s a little bit apples-to-oranges, but they are both TV shows that compete for my time. When I was away for a while and got back with a lot of DVR to catch up on, and I watched Sons of Anarchy first (why do I feel like I just confessed something? ). The season premiere was so twisted I actually had trouble sleeping after watching it, and they’ve topped themselves several times since. I’m strongly considering Clay Morrow for Halloween next year.

Sons of Anarchy people. Get on board.

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Nov 1

Here’s what I did. I’ve been thinking about this since the movie came out.

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Oct 29

I knew I said I was going to stop posting Bleep Bloops here unless I’m really excited about them, but Gabrus has one of my favorite Bloop jokes of all-time in this week’s deleted scenes. You’ll know it when you get there.

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We played both Wu Tang Shaolin Style and Hannah Montanna The Movie The Game for this week’s Bleep Bloop, though neither made the main episode.

Hannah Montanna’s just not that interesting. We actually played this one when we shot our last sequel, Girly Games Slumber Party II, though it wasn’t interesting enough for that episode either. I’d say it’s pretty unlikely we’ll try for a third time, sorry Miley.

Wu Tang Shaolin Style is one of the few PS1 games that doesn’t work in PS3. You can watch the movies and get to the character selection screen, but it hangs on the loading screen.We actually went out and bought a PS1 ($25!), but then we couldn’t get the PS1 to work with our video recorder.

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