Slackatory recently posted a video of SNL characters losing their shit and it’s freaking hilarious. It’s incredible that it doesn’t happen more often.
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His work for Tombstone Pizza was of particular excellence.
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I have to wash my eyelashes tonight … Sorry!
Whether you've had a long day, or you're a secret introvert (like me!), you just immediately want to die a little.
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Baby rabbits are called KITTENS?!?!
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The average ticket price shot up big time this year, and it’s not stopping. Ryan Gosling, Jake Johnson, and Olivia Wilde are here to help.
The National Association of Theater Owners made public this week what anyone who has meandered over to Fandango or a multiplex already knows: A movie ticket has become really freaking expensive.
The trade group that represents theaters revealed that the average price of two hours or so in their dark rooms has shot up to $8.38, a big 40 cent increase over last year. If you're in a major city, you're actually salivating over the idea of paying eight and change to see a flick; an average movie ticket in New York City, for example, is around $13.50 — and $21.50 for an IMAX 3D movie. There are cheaper baseball game tickets, especially if you're a Mets fan.
There are lots of reasons for the spike, from 3D movies to declines in actual ticket sales (maybe they're related?). More important, however, is how you can avoid feeling like pirates just jumped out of a kiosk and plundered the gold hidden inside your wallet.
The answer is Video on Demand. Given that major theaters are clogged with big blockbusters, there isn't a ton of room for the smart, silly, and experimental movies you'd have likely seen on more big screens just a few years ago. So, distributors are releasing more and more films on demand to everyone at the same time as they put them in a few theaters (and sometimes, way before); in 2012, the number of movies that played simultaneously in theaters and homes hit nearly 70.
A rental on iTunes is just $7 at most, and you can invite as many people over as you'd like. Plus, the popcorn is way cheaper and less buttery. Here's a list of some of excellent new movies you can watch on demand this summer, whether they're in your town or not.
Starring: Jake Johnson, Olivia Wilde, Anna Kendrick, Ron Livingston, Jason Sudeikis
Directed by: Joe Swanberg
The Skinny: Jake Johnson and Olivia Wilde work at a brewery. Jake is dating Anna Kendrick, but maybe he's into Olivia, who might be returning the feelings? Improvised, hilarious and heartfelt, the movie just came out on VOD.
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vithaya Pansringarm
Directed by: Nicolas Winding Refn
The Skinny: Julian, a drug-smuggler thriving in Bangkok's criminal underworld, sees his life get even more complicated when his mother compels him to find and kill whoever is responsible for his brother's recent death... Many critics disliked this movie, but your wise guide here at BuzzFeed thinks it's one of the funniest of the year.
Photoshop is a tricky, tricky thing.
The truth: It's pretty, but alas, it's a Photoshop. None of those trees are purple, nor Scottish; the photo is actually of Shotover River in New Zealand. See here for the complete debunking.
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According to the caption: “This fruit grows in some parts of Japan, and is known for its vibrant blue color. What you probably don’t know about this fruit is that it can switch flavors after you eat it. Everything sour will taste sweet, everything salty will taste bitter, and it gives water a strong orange-like taste.”
The truth: Uh.... Photoshop.
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According to the caption: Usually listed as "brand new baby polar bear" or "cute polar bear.
The truth: It's not a real bear. It's a stuffed bear that you can buy a pattern to make on Etsy. It IS cute, though.
The truth: Just a regular owl with some pretty Photoshop accessorizing.
The level of detail is staggering. Costume embroider Michele Carragher takes her job very seriously.
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So you’re tired of henching for other villains — think you can do better? We’ve got all the homemade tips you need to start out strong!
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Now that you've got a lair, it needs illumination. These step-by-step instructions turn any book into a light switch. Bonus! It doesn't even hurt the book.
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It got weird. As you might expect.
New York Rep. Anthony Weiner announces his resignation during a press conference Thursday, June 16, 2011 in New York City, New York.
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Always read the fine print.
Being a sports agent, like the highly successful (and much-reviled) Scott Boras, must sound like good work if you can get it. Sure, you work long hours and end up with few friends, but you get rich and watch a lot of sports. OK, fine, but the thing is that the job doesn't end once the signatures dry.
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Take football. Many contracts in the NFL have escalator clauses, meaning that once X is accomplished, the numbers (be they years or actual dollar amounts) go up Y. Sometimes, the requirements are hard, and sometimes they're ridiculous easy, like showing up for a few official workouts in the offseason.
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Tarell Brown, defensive back for the 49ers, had one such clause in his contract, which would pay him an extra $2 million this season, on top of $925,000 in base pay, if he did just that — showed up to some workouts. Except that someone's agent forgot to tell him about it, and he worked out on his own in Texas, away from the team and his $2 million.
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So guess who fired his agent yesterday? "If I would have known the clauses in my contract -- that's what agents get paid to do, to orchestrate the contract and to let you know what you can and can't do as far as workouts and OTAs and things of that sort," said Brown, according to the AP. "That's what he got paid to do. He didn't do that, so in my opinion you have to be let go. We all are held accountable for our actions. This is part of the business." (His agent, Brian Overstreet, has not yet commented and, if what Brown says is true, is probably currently filing for a legal name change somewhere in northern Mexico.)
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Sloths. Wear them on your body now.
Shelfies, $35
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Sock It To Me available at Amazon, $10
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Shelfies, $60
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Etsy, $20
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In the awe-inspiring artist ‘s own words: “Always put a dollop of whipped cream on everything .”
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Unfortunately two films have a romanticized one very famous myth about the night the ship sank.
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As Titanic Stories points out, if that were true, then all of the boilers would have to been lit (which they weren't).
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This is what would happen if the Ocean could hire an ad agency.
When you’re not just addicted to one show… you’re addicted to every show. And you want it all now now now now NOW.
(And everyone's kind of mad at you about it.)
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Great, now we have nothing to talk about. EVENING RUINED.
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“NBCUniversal strongly supports equal rights and the fair treatment for all people,” the company told BuzzFeed in a statement. “Platitudes,” says LGBT rights group.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin and IOC President Jacques Rogge on May 30, 2013.
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WASHINGTON — NBCUniversal, which has the exclusive U.S. rights to air the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, responded to questions about their coverage plans in light of Russia's anti-LGBT laws with a broad statement that the company "strongly supports equal rights."
The statement from NBCUniversal came hours after the International Olympic Committee announced that they had received assurances from Russian officials that the anti-LGBT laws there would not be enforced against athletes and attendees of the Sochi Olympics.
"NBCUniversal strongly supports equal rights and the fair treatment for all people. The spirit of the Olympic Games is about unifying people and countries through the celebration of sport and it is our hope that spirit will prevail," NBCUniversal senior vice president of corporate communications Cameron Blanchard told BuzzFeed Friday evening.
Human Rights Campaign had raised questions about the coverage plans in a letter to NBC officials earlier this week, with HRC president Chad Griffin writing, "NBCUniversal … has a unique opportunity — and a responsibility — to expose this inhumane and unjust law to the millions of American viewers who will tune in to watch the Games."
Fred Sainz, HRC vice president for communications, said, "We're in agreement. Unfortunately platitudes won't do away with these heinous laws that are an abomination to LGBT people. NBC has an obligation to provide fair and balanced coverage of Russia. It would not be an accurate depiction of the environment for the Olympics to merely be a commercial for the Russian Federation. History demands that NBC depict the truth."
NBC officials also noted that the Olympics are seven months away and specific coverage plans are yet to be finalized.
Sainz, however, said that HRC officials "certainly hope that [NBC] will begin factoring [the Russian laws] into their coverage now and engaging the U.S. Olympic Committee and the IOC in addressing these incredibly serious questions."
Thanks to the musical stylings of Aretha Franklin, this dance was weird, it was beautiful, it was majestic and it really happened.
Sexdorable= sexy AND adorable. He’s got it all.
1 point for sexy.
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1 point for adorable.
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It’s the closest videogames have come to Yeezus .
One of the challenges of writing about games for a mainstream audience is the relative uselessness of genre terms, which to gamers connote extremely specific and well-understood sets of information, but to someone with merely a passing familiarity with games, mean nothing. It's probably even worse than in music writing. So if I was to say to a gamer that Teleglitch is a roguelike, this would mean that it is a very challenging game with randomly generated maps and some form of permadeath — that is, if you die, that's it, start over. And it's science-fiction-horror, so if you were a big gamer, I could say, "Hey, play Teleglitch, it's a sci-fi horror roguelike," and you'd either play it or not based on your preference for these two niches and your own speculation as to whether the overlap of these niches would be interesting or fun.
But you're, let's say, not a gamer. So to you I would say: The reason you should play Teleglitch is that as a media-consumption experience I think its closest cousin in 2013 may be Yeezus. I'm serious. Teleglitch, like Kanye's most recent album, is an industrial nightmare, an abrasive and hostile product that continually dares you to disengage from it. You're a little pixelated smudge sprinting around an abandoned space station — what else? — and the point of the game is to scrounge its poor resources to fight off hordes of wailing abominations from what I'm going to say is another dimension. It's brutal and mean and played from a top-down perspective so high as to suggest your cosmic insignificance. It seems, like Yeezus, to make a point of not giving a shit about you.
It's ironic that a tossed-off joke of an RPG "starring" Kanye is getting all the press this week, because Teleglitch has so much more to do with the glitteringly malevolent creative spirit of his most recent work. The game came out first late last year, but its creators, a couple of really talented Estonians, have repackaged it for Steam and other digital distributors in a new edition. It's 13 bucks, it's different than anything else you'll play this summer, and you should get it. It's a hateful little game, and I love it.
Funny money.
Origami by Long Quach.
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By Kristi Malakoff.
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