Come on now. You know you’re not having just one more.

There have been a lot of Superman stories in the past 75 years, but if you’re looking to get caught up on everyone’s favorite superhero (in preparation for the release of Man of Steel , for instance), these are the stories that you definitely need to read.

Superman: Earth One - 2010

Written by J. Michael Straczynski
Drawn by Shane Davis

Superman: Earth One is one of the most recent iterations of the hero's origin story, so it's a great place to start if you're not familiar with the character. But, since pretty much everyone is at least a little familiar with the character, it's a good place to get a little deeper into his backstory. The graphic novel depicts the last moments of Krypton, like you'd expect to see, but also follows Clark Kent as he moves to Metropolis to try to find his place in the world, and Superman as he takes on his first major opponent. The Earth One books don't follow the exact same continuity as the rest of the DC Universe, so there are some differences between this Superman and the Superman from the monthly titles, but the main themes are all still there.

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Superman: Secret Identity - 2004

Written by Kurt Busiek
Drawn by Stuart Immonen

Another origin story of sorts, this is an alternate telling of the Superman story in which Clark Kent exists in a world where Superman is a comic book hero, much as he is in our world. Clark starts to develop powers similar to the fictional Superman's powers, and has to balance his personal life and his new life as a superhero — all while keeping his identity hidden from journalists and the government (both of whom are much more scrupulous than their fictional counterparts).

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Leave all that shakin’ and stirrin’ to the pros. Let’s go find a container large enough to bathe a puppy in and fill it with booze and laugh and laugh and laugh.

Sparkling Peach and Thyme Sangria

Recipe here.

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Perfect Pimm's Cup

HULLO. Recipe here.

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Watermelon Margaritas

Serves about four; please don't hesitate to multiply. Recipe here.

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Bart Chilton, the commissioner of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, wants stronger financial regulations. He also loves movies. On Thursday, he combined those two things into the best financial reform speech ever.

This is Bart Chilton. He has amazing hair.

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Bart Chilton has been a commissioner on the Commodities Futures Trading Commission since 2007 and is easily the coolest financial regulator of all time. Look at his hair! Look. At. His. Hair.

Anyway, Bart Chilton gives speeches that are almost as amazing as his splendiferous blond locks. He gave one this February that was several riffs on the color red. But the one he gave today at the Yale Club in New York City, titled "Cinema of Uncertainty," may take the cake. It's a call for writing strong rules in Dodd-Frank, the 2010 financial reform and regulation bill, as explained through a ton of movie references. Here are almost all of them:

The Great Gatsby

I know the Yale Club only from Fitzgerald's Nick Carraway of Gatsby fame who "...took dinner usually at the Yale Club." In fact in the new Gatsby movie Nick (Tobey Maguire) and Jay himself (Leonardo DiCaprio) mention the Yale Club. If you haven't seen it, The Great Gatsby (2013), my take is that it’s full-on super cinema. Go right after we're done here. In fact, if you do, it will be a great finale to our little mini movie montage here at the Yale Club.

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Belly of the Beast

First, I extend a heartfelt greeting from the belly of the beast—the nation's capital. (By the way, Belly of the Beast—2003—direct-to-video (DVD) Steven Segal film. The action sequences are impressive, but the script is pretty hurting. Nuf said). However, government does seem like a beast at times, right? I came up from D.C. the other day and I can tell you that the town that continues to take a licking keeps on ticking. That's not welcome news to some of you. In fact, at times, I'm with ya.

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*According to some videogame nerds.

*Well, to a nameless college football video-game character that happens to have the same number and attributes as one specific college football player in the real world. One musn't forget that this is an amateur sport that creates no revenue whatsoever.

*And remember, we're inferring that the University of South Carolina DE #7 is in fact All-American University of South Carolina Defensive End Jadaveon Clownney. In fact, it could really be any superstar South Carolina Defensive End who is 6'6" and weighs 275 pounds and has dreadlocks.

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Rep. Joe Heck’s son Joey has made several racist, homophobic, and sexist remarks on Twitter. “I apologize to everyone he may have offended,” the Congressman tells BuzzFeed.

WASHINGTON — Nevada Rep. Joe Heck's teenage son has repeatedly used racist, homophobic, and sexist slurs on twitter to lash out at targets ranging from President Obama to the "Mexican security monitor" in his school.

Heck apologized for his son's twitter outbursts in a statement to BuzzFeed.

"I am extremely disappointed in my son's use of the offensive and inappropriate language on twitter: that type of language has never been permitted in our home," Heck said.

"I apologize to everyone he may have offended. My son also apologizes for his insensitive behavior. My wife and I have addressed this family matter directly with him and he has learned from it."

A review of tweets by Joey Heck, 16, dating to August of last year shows numerous examples in which Heck used words like "faggot" and "nigga." For instance, on Sept. 11 Heck tweeted "Fanny pack = fag bag," and on August 23 he retweeted a tweet that read, "There are gays everywhere. Maybe that's gods way of thinning out the population because faggots can't have babies."

Heck's twitter feed also included numerous racial slurs. During a Sept. 16 Jets football game, the younger Heck tweeted "[Mark] Sanchez can hop the border faster than he can throw the ball."

During the Oct. 16 presidential debate, Heck took issue with the performance of moderator Martha Raddatz, ABC's Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent. "This is why men need to be moderators," he wrote.

He also wrote that Mitt Romney "raped" Obama and made him his "slave" during a debate.

In an exchange with a friend during the debate on October 3rd, Heck asked rhetorically, "I would like somebody to tell me one good thing Obama did in these past 4 years…. I got nothing." Later in the conversation he said "yeah like spear chucking and rock skipping. The sports they do in his home country…"

Heck's political comments are particularly jarring, since his twitter feed clearly shows his active engagement not only in national politics, but his father's reelection race last year. He repeatedly argues his father's job as a congressman gives him an inside understanding of politics: For instance, during the Oct. 16 debate he tweeted "Obama didn't make the call to kill Osama… That was the intelligence committee #iwouldknow."

Additionally, at one point he bragged that his mother got him a well paying job with "some company for like voting stuff."

Heck joins the ranks of other children of lawmakers who have used social media sites as a platform for making insensitive and offensive comments. Sen. Jeff Flake's son Tanner used highly offensive language on Youtube and Twitter. Sen Flake apologized for his son's behavior earlier this week.

Kanye West is basically the only major star who has figured out how to keep his music from leaking to the internet.

Jay-Z and Kanye West's Watch the Throne is the only major album of the past few years to NOT leak. If anyone can keep a highly anticipated album from leaking, it's Kanye.

West's camp figured out how to prevent leaks after assessing the leak of a few tracks from his previous album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, in 2010.

Kanye's camp stopped sending versions of tracks to each other by email or any other online service.

"During Dark Twisted, we realized that no one's email was secure, whether it was Gmail or .mac or iDisk," Anthony Kilhofer, one of the engineers on Watch the Throne, told Billboard.

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He also stopped working in regular recording studios, choosing to instead set up small studios in hotel rooms and other locations where he could keep out anyone besides trusted inner circle collaborators.

West used the same methods in recording Yeezus.

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Kanye keeps works-in-progress tracks on password-protected external hard drives that were locked away in Pelican briefcases, never on laptop hard drives.

On top of that, the external hard drives can only be accessed by biometric fingerprint readers.

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It’s like winning the lottery the day after the world explodes.

A BUNNY WEARING BUNNY SLIPPERS = VERY INCONGRUOUS = IRONY.

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SEE IT'S IRONIC BECAUSE IT'S NOT A JOB WELL DONE BECAUSE THE FORTUNE IS SUPPOSED TO BE INSIDE THE COOKIE.

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COSMO criticizing someone else on sex advice — THAT'S IRONIC.

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Via Brooklyn. It's ironic because FUNERAL HOMES are not FUN.

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Too sexy, too violent, too blasphemous, too druggie, too suicidal, etc.

This childishly provocative Tom Ford eyewear ad from 2008 was banned in Italy.

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Another Inartful (not a word, SHOULD BE) Tom Ford ad, this one from 2007, was banned everywhere. Shot by the inartful deviant Terry Richardson.

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Hilarious classic Levi's commercial was banned in the UK.

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FLY53.

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“He looked lost.”

Rep. Ralph Hall (R-Texas) showed up at an LGBT event for the Victory Fund on June 5th:

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According to bystanders the Texas Republican "sipped his drink and made polite conversation."

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If you’re feeling good about life, steer clear of any of the movies on this list. These are 25 films that will leave you raw, empty, and in desperate need of a shower.

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)

I first heard about Salò from an Italian professor who quickly cautioned, "Do not watch it. Ever." Naturally that made me seek it out faster. For those who haven't seen it — or read the book by the Marquis de Sade — the Pasolini film focuses on a group of fascists who kidnap, torture, and sexually abuse 18 teenagers. The most repulsive scene involves coprophagy. And this time, I must warn you: DO NOT LOOK IT UP.

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Dancer in the Dark (2000)

We usually think of musicals as escapist entertainment, but that's not the case with Dancer in the Dark, which is the bleakest musical you will ever endure. If the ending doesn't leave you feeling completely empty, you might be dead inside. Björk stars as a blind Czech immigrant who has to do terrible things to pay for surgery that will save her son's sight. Things do not end well for her, or for the audience.

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Funny Games (1997)

This psychological thriller has been remade (both by its director Michael Haneke and as obvious rip-offs) but the original is still the hardest to watch. Why do the two young men take a family hostage and torture them with sadistic games? Unclear! That makes it so much worse — as do the direct addresses to the audience, reminding you that you're taking part in the voyeuristic thrills.

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A Serbian Film (2010)

Commonly regarded as the most depraved movie of all time, A Serbian Film is horrifying enough that even reading the Wikipedia description will leave you feeling dirty for days. Suffice it to say the plot involves a porn star tricked into making a snuff film, complete with necrophilia and horrible things done to children. Steer clear. Those who have seen it say it's not worth the trauma.

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Technology: not all bad!

Because of a rare blood disorder that has weakened his immune system, Nick LeGrande can no longer attend baseball games. So, for his 14th birthday, his family got creative.

The LeGrandes and Google built an miniature, indoor baseball field at his grandmother's, along with a sensor that detected his movements. The movements controlled a robot, seen here being wheeled out in the A's stadium.

At home, LeGrand threw the ball. And at the stadium, the robot mimicked his motions, throwing out the first pitch of the game. A's catcher Ryan Cook, who caught the pitch, helped facilitate the whole thing.

Players and fans gave him a standing ovation as he looked on through a video monitor.

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Remember that phase when you wrote awful, sentimental poetry? Some celebs never grew out of it.

Suzanne Somers' poetry collection features the typical "large photo of the poet" cover.

From the titular poem: "Touch me / In Crowds / When a single look says everything / In solitude / When it's too dark to even look / In absence / When I reach for you through time and miles."

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As does Alicia Keys', which is titled "Tears for Water."

The beginning of "Caged Bird":
"Right now I feel like a bird
Caged without a key
Everyone comes to stare at me
So much joy and revelry
They don’t know how I feel inside
Through my smile I cry
They don’t know what they’re doing to me
Keeping me from flying"

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Ally Sheedy wrote her 1991 collection while in rehab.

From "On the Road":
"brighter and brighter every day
calmer
my insides slosh about like a nauseous ocean
it takes great gulps of air
words from religious books
and Diet Cherry Coke to quiet the sound"

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Kate Moss also wrote poetry while kicking a drug habit.

It's a limerick: "Please let me tell you in brief / what has always been my belief, /
Though you may have a passion / for beauty and fashion, / What matters / is what's underneath."

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He rocked the house.

First Sebastien de la Cruz was bashed on Twitter, then the Internet rushed to his defense. But on Thursday night he stole the heart of a country looking for a hero.

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Then San Antonio Mayor and fellow Mexican-American Julian Castro introduced him, while standing next to his wife.

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Nope-ity nope nope nope.

A fetish called ocular linctus, "worming" or in more casual terms, "eyeball licking" has been sweeping through middle schools in Japan.

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It's basically what it sounds like: you put your tongue on someone's eyeball.

OH MY GOD.

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For many teens, eyeball licking is the new "second base" and comes after making out.

In one classroom of 12-year-olds, one third of students confessed to "worming" or being "wormed."

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But it's not just teens; adults are using "worming" as a type of foreplay.

"My boyfriend started licking my eyeballs years ago and I just loved it. I'm not with him anymore, but I still like to ask guys to lick my eyeballs," a 29-year-old grad student from the U.S. Virgin Islands told The Huffington Post. "I just love it because it turns me on, like sucking on my toes. It makes me feel all tingly."

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The Doors just released a new app for iPad . It’s full of little nuggets of information that you never knew about the band, like these 10 pieces of trivia.

Among The Other Firsts...

The Doors were the FIRST band ever to advertise a new album on a billboard. Jac Holzman chose the Chateau Marmont because it was a favorite nesting place of Jim’s.

Jim Morrison And Frank Sinatra Used The Same Microphone!

Jim Morrison used the same kind of microphone to record Strange Days as Frank Sinatra used to record several of his own albums. According to Jac Holzman, Jim was super stoked on that fact.

Curious?

If By No, You Mean Yes...

Jim Morrison swung like Tarzan from the ropes of the Aquarius Theater during the shows which became part of Absolutely Live. Permission was granted the moment someone said “I wouldn’t do that.” Want the rest of the story?

"Break On Through" Was The First Real Music Video

“Break On Through” was the first real music video. Elektra filmed it to save The Doors from the exhaustion of an expensive promo tour; Elektra founder Jac Holzman would later co-create "Pop Clips" for Nickelodeon which evolved into MTV.

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Praying to Yeezus I assume.

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It’s a movie about diamonds, excess and celebrity. How do you tease Hollywood while visiting Paris Hilton’s house and being showered in crystals and new clothing?

It was as if they had stepped into their own movie, entering the world that they had spent months satirizing and now, inevitably, had to join. During their visit to the Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of The Bling Ring, the highly-anticipated movie depicting a group of vapid teens who in 2008 and 2009 robbed the homes of wealthy celebrities, Katie Chang and Israel Broussard discovered that the best parody is almost a mirror image of reality.

"I got a box from Swarovski with a clutch and sunglasses and it was super, super nice. I was just so not used to that and I don't think I ever will be, getting free stuff," Chang, an 18-year old actress and industry rookie, remembered during an interview with BuzzFeed in Manhattan earlier this week. "I walked in and was like, who's been in my room?"

In writer/director Sofia Coppola's take on the infamous true story, Chang's character is named Rebecca but is based on Rachel Lee, a Valley girl who led her friends in a crime wave inspired by reality TV and material aspirations. They read gossip blogs to find out when personalities like Paris Hilton, Audrina Patridge and Rachel Bilson were out of town; found their addresses online; and then waltzed into their mansions, pilfering diamonds, clothes and any other valuable signifier of excess and glitz.

Broussard stars as Marc — in real life, Nick Prugo — the lone guy in the group who goes along with the robberies, despite initial reservations, due to his crush on Rebecca. Typical teenage stuff in an atypical world. As he recalled, he found a note from a fashion designer asking him to wear a custom suit to the Bling Ring premiere; against his manager's advice, he kept the note, because even though he already secured an outfit for the red carpet, he didn't want to be rude.

On the mention of the big jewel heist that actually happened while they were in Cannes, they were quick (almost too quick?) to make it clear: "Not involved," Broussard said, followed closely by Chang's assertion that "We didn't do it."

Chang has a focus and clarity during such a whirlwind trip that makes you forget she is a rookie who booked the movie out of her Illinois high school, while Broussard, who moved out to LA in 2008 but counts The Bling Ring as his big break, shows an enthusiasm for the material, if not the celebrity-industrial complex that hitches itself to any rising star. Their journey, from Hollywood outsiders into the machinery of talk shows and tabloids, is sort of the inverse of the story they told and quietly mocked on screen.

The following is an edited and condensed transcript of their conversation with BuzzFeed.

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Katie, you just moved to LA to shoot this movie. So what's your experience been like, first time in LA?

Katie Chang: I liked it because I was working, but I feel like I could get it really toxic when you're not working. Just because everyone's in the same industry and everybody's working towards the same goal and that gets really competitive and you start comparing yourself to other people. And you'll do that anywhere, but I think it's really, really heightened in LA, and especially because there are so many girls that can look exactly like you going out for the same parts and it seems a little one-track minded.

You guys are more or less outsiders to the big industry, and this movie is all about getting caught up in the whole LA lifestyle. So being outsiders to LA, can you see how that happens with people?

Israel Broussard: Yeah, I think for me I had a good upbringing. I like to think I have a good head on my shoulders.

KC: For the most part.

IB: Yeah... wait, what?

KC: He does, he has a really good head on his shoulders. What if I just freaked out and said, "Israel sucks?!" Nah, he does have a good head on his shoulders, sorry.

IB: I think a lot of people go out to LA in search of their dreams, it's kind of like that "Into the Great Wide Open" song by Tom Petty, but half the time, it doesn't happen. People go there expecting so much and they go there expecting to do an audition, make it big and bam, they're a movie star, and that's kind of what my sister was expecting out of it. But it's a lot of work, a lot of rejection. Some people can't handle it.

Did you know who Audrina Patridge and all those reality stars were before the movie?

IB: It was over my head.

KC: In doing prep for the film, we watched a lot of LA-centric reality TV and so The Hills obviously was one of them. But I remember trying to get into The Hills when I was younger, but not really understanding the pointlessness of it. They'd sit down and have a lunch every other minute and they'd just talk about the same things and it didn't really make sense, but it was perfect source material for this movie.

Did you get to meet any of them?

KC: We got to meet Paris.

IB: Paris actually lent us her house for this. We talked to her when she did the cameo scene. She's actually a really intelligent, sweet woman. It was a big move for her, opening her house to us, because first you're going to have a bunch of reckless teenagers in there and now you're going to have a whole film crew. So yeah, she's got a great sense of humor about herself. A lot of respect goes to her for opening her house up and letting us go through it.

KC: Paris was the only person that we got to meet; of the celebrities who got robbed, she was the only one that Sofia worked with.

Does she have a sense of humor of what happened to her?

KC: Yeah, I think she was kind of shocked the first time she saw the movie, but in general, she knows what people think about her and in reality, she's pretty intelligent. She's totally down to make fun of herself and really easy to work with.

What was the craziest thing you saw at her house?

[At this point, Israel elongates a word that sounds like "Polaroids."]

IB: Did you get that?

KC Let's not talk about that... She has a pig, a pot-bellied pig that just sort of walks around. That was pretty crazy, I wasn't expecting that.

IB: I wasn't expecting the safe behind the wall.

KC: Oh yeah, she has a safe behind her wall. It was insane.

She's like the Batman of Bling.

IB: Oh my god, she is. You should coin that.

KC: That's the title of this article.

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As many as 100 people fell into the water following the collapse of a wooden deck at Shuckers Bar & Grill leaving at least 24 injured and 3 in critical condition, according to law enforcement.

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NORTH BAY VILLAGE, Fla. (WSVN) -- Police are on the scene after the back section of a South Florida restaurant and bar collapsed into Biscayne Bay.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue received a call after a portion of the deck of Shuckers Bar & Grill collapsed into Biscayne Bay on Thursday night.

Rescue divers are on the scene. Three people are with critical injuries. 24 people are injured and have been transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital.

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Additional Photos From The Scene:

Eyewitness photo from Shuckers Bar & Grill:

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The Swedish Vallhund looks like a combination of a wolf and corgi and it’s basically the perfect.

This the Swedish Vallhund.

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Also known as "The Viking Dog," which is really badass.

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They're an ancient breed that has been around for over a thousand years.

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It's both adorable...

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