Why is everything in the world so much cuter when it’s in miniature?
The twee-est tea set in the world.
Tiny Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
This bijou cappuccino.
A baby suitcase filled with baby books.
29 Adorably Tiny Versions Of Normal-Sized Things
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I Think It's Time We Talk About The Margay
AKA the cutest little rainforest cat you’ve never heard of.
This, my friends, is a margay.
Via northrup.org
It's out-of-control cute.
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Margays dwell in the rainforests of Central and South America.
Scientists figured out that they are able to do all of their hunting in trees.
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This New Great Big World and Christina Aguilera Song Is Very Good, Will Make You Cry
Also Christina looks and sounds amazing. WHAT IS GOING ON?!
This may be the first time ever Christina Aguilera didn't scream-sing.
Enjoy.
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29 Reasons Jon Stewart Is The Most Perfect Man On Earth
Hi Jon . Thanks for daily show ing me your stunning good looks and flawlessly erudite charm.
And he even made this haircut look semi-decent.
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Rep. Michele Bachmann Refuses To Include LGBT Families In Adoption Resolution
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney: “I reached out to Rep. Bachmann to ask her to add language supporting all adoptive families, including families with two dads or two moms. … She refused.” Update: “The focus of the resolution is on helping vulnerable children,” Bachmann spokesman says.
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney
Maloney's Facebook Page
WASHINGTON — New York Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney — the out gay father of three — said in an email to supporters Thursday that Rep. Michele Bachmann is "intentionally excluding families like [his]" from an adoption resolution she introduced.
In a message sent to supporters Thursday, Maloney says Bachman is excluding families with gay or lesbian parents by declining to include LGBT-inclusive language in the resolution.
When he found out that Bachmann and Rep. Karen Bass would be introducing a resolution for National Adoption Month and Day, he asked the pair to include language supportive of LGBT parenting in the resolution:
Bass, a Democrat from California, said she was receptive to the language. Writing of the children he is raising with his partner, Randy, Maloney sent a letter to Bachmann, asking her "to recognize the contributions of LGBT families with adoptive children" in the resolution by including the language. Bachmann's office said the congresswoman would not support the language's addition, according to Maloney's office.
Bachmann's office did not immediately respond to a question Thursday about her views on LGBT parenting or adoption, or about the resolution itself.
Update: Rep. Michele Bachmann spokesman Dan Kotman told BuzzFeed, "The resolution honoring National Adoption Month is a bipartisan effort sponsored by both Democrats and Republicans. The focus of the resolution is on helping vulnerable children, as has always been the case when we have introduced it in previous years."
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26 Tips For Taking The Perfect Engagement Photo
Nothing says love like lying on a train track. Via badengagementphotos.tumblr.com .
First up, you need to make sure people know what's going on.
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Make sure everyone knows how happy you are.
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These guys, for example, are three times happier than most people.
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If you want to come across as the kooky couple you are, why not hang upside down.
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23 Front Pages From 1963 Covering The Day President Kennedy Was Assassinated
A nation mourned.
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Andrew Kaczynski Screenshot/Google News Archive
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Watch Jennifer Lawrence Going Nuts At The Paparazzi At The "Hunger Games" New York Premiere
She screamed and stamped her feet and everything.
Jennifer Lawrence went slightly mad at the New York Hunger Games: Catching Fire premiere when she was asked to move by photographers.
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First she posed perfectly for the paps.
But then she had enough of them shouting at her so she screamed and walked away.
Then, well then she went all out bonkers. Reason number 257,982 why we love her.
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9 Heartfelt Condolence Letters Jackie Kennedy Received From Famous People
An outpouring of sympathy for the widowed-First Lady.
Jazz musician Duke Ellington.
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The wife of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, who was assassinated earlier that year.
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Civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King.
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Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev (translation below).
It was with deep personal grief that I learned about the tragic death of your husband, President of the U.S. John F. Kennedy. All people who knew him greatly respected him, and I shall always keep the memory of my meetings with him. Accept my most sincere condolences and expressions of wholehearted sympathy with your grievous bereavement. N. Khrushchev.
JFK Presidential Library
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A Drunk Driver Tweeted "2 Drunk 2 Care" Before Causing Accident That Killed Two Victims
Police say Kaila Mendoza was allegedly going the wrong way when she crashed. Her Twitter bio says she’s a “pothead princess.”
Less than three hours before Kaila Mendoza drove her Hyundai Sonata onto a Florida expressway going the wrong way, crashing and killing two people, she sent a fateful tweet saying she was drunk.
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What It's Like Discussing "Scandal" On Friday Mornings With Your Co-Workers
As told by the characters of Scandal . And if you didn’t watch last night, go get in the hole.
You can't believe what you watched last night.
Partially because, as you'll find out later on, some of it was very misleading.
ABC / Via Emily Orley / BuzzFeed
So, you rush to get to work on time because you've already waited 12 hours to discuss.
And you're desperately waiting for others to arrive so you can debrief.
ABC / Via Emily Orley / BuzzFeed
When a co-worker tries to talk to you about something non-Scandal, you just can't deal.
ABC / Via popeandassociates.tumblr.com
Finally, everyone is here. Let's talk about this crazy shit.
Gather in the conference room (or your boss' office). This is a very important meeting.
ABC / Via yerundi.tumblr.com
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21 Photos Of "The O.C." Premiere Party That Will Take You Back To 2003
In the early 2000s was there a party that Paris Hilton didn’t go to?
First of all, an earlier less-hipster version of Adam Brody AKA Seth Cohen was there, in this candy cane tie:
(BUT HE WAS STILL FLAWLESS)
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And Ryan Atwood debuted his man bangs for the first time:
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Rachel Bilson showed up in these earrings and that shirt and 2013 Rachel just rolled over in her bed and screamed.
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Mischa Barton came dressed in a dress splattered in dry blood and dove feathers:
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The Talent Factory Behind Andre Agassi And Monica Seles Has Turned Its Eye To Football
Fall nights might never be the same if IMG Academy executes its multimillion-dollar plan to build a high school football program.
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BRADENTON, Fla. — In this balmy Gulf Coast town of 50,000, in a state known for its Friday football traditions, the only game in town was at a school with no tradition at all.
It was a cloudless mid-October evening, and the officials at IMG Academy were calling it homecoming, but there were no former football players returning to school, because this was the first year the team had ever played. The homecoming court wore Under Armour shorts and sneakers. The aluminum bleachers were about a third full, mostly with teenage tennis and golf prodigies who knew and cared little about the rules of a foreign game. Most of the adults in the stands were parents in town for the weekend.
The football team itself — the IMG "Ascenders" — was a collection of teens who came to this boarding school from Tallahassee and Tokyo, Saskatchewan and Savannah, Sweden and St. Petersburg. One of the boarders scored two touchdowns in the Ascenders' 49-3 victory and was playfully dubbed "Bo the Show" by the stadium's public address announcer.
"I never thought I'd meet anyone from Europe," Bo the Show — Bo Scarbrough — told me later that week. Scarbrough is a 19-year-old from Tuscaloosa, Ala. He's also one of the most promising running backs in the country, which is why he now goes to school here instead of Tuscaloosa's Northridge High School, which he attended through 11th grade. There's nothing wrong with Northridge — its website currently highlights 21 students who were named "Advanced Placement Scholars" for achievement on the high-level tests. But Northridge does not have a 450-acre campus or professional-caliber athletic training facilities, and it's not somewhere you will meet tennis prodigies from the Netherlands or aspiring golf stars from Far East Asia. IMG, meanwhile, has been the elite training ground for several generations of athletic stars, including former tennis champions Andre Agassi and Monica Seles, and football is its new frontier.
Scarbrough's days at IMG — the academy is owned by the New York–based sports and entertainment conglomerate — are full: pre-dawn workouts, morning classes, and afternoon football practices. They are a mix of exhausting routine and novel cross-cultural exchange. Nightfall is harder — Scarbrough's strapping 230-pound physique and heavily inked arms make it easy to forget that he's away from home for the first time. "As soon as night came, I was like, 'Man, I'm ready to go,'" Scarbrough said. "I could've went back home, but...it's going to be like this when you go to college, so why not get used to it now?"
It's a fair point, though life at IMG Academy goes far beyond the typical boarding school experience. The school audaciously bills itself as the "world leader in integrated academics, athletics and personal development for student-athletes." On its first football team, there will be no letter jackets, all-district nominations or even the chance to play in the postseason. There will be no crosstown bus rides to play a rival in a game with real stakes; IMG has no real peers in high school and, for the immediate future, won't even play anyone in its area code. But here's what IMG does have: a former Heisman Trophy winner, Chris Weinke, as head coach; an endorsement deal with Under Armour that keeps students in the latest athletic gear; and the opportunity to go through the same training regimen (with the same trainers) as the NFL stars, like Cam Newton and Russell Wilson, who regularly pass through Bradenton.
Now that one exists, it seems obvious that a football training academy would appeal to teenagers who aspire to make millions of dollars in the NFL. "They already educate and train top athletes from all around the world," MaxPreps.com national high school football writer Stephen Spiewak said. "They're almost perfectly suited to operate a high school football program." Given the national obsession with the sport, and the related industry in identifying and critiquing potential future pros as young as 15 years old, you might even ask: Why did it take so long?
The answer could be that the same cultural status that makes football so lucrative also makes it hard to change. All that most players, coaches, and fans have ever known is the traditional Pop Warner-to-high-school-to-quaint-college-campus path taken by top players. And what IMG is doing in Bradenton is a direct assault on that tradition.
In 1978, a tennis instructor named Nick Bollettieri turned 40 acres of tomato fields south of Tampa into a tennis boarding school. By 1987, talent-management and promotional giant IMG had bought the academy from Bollettieri; he remains a presence on campus. IMG added golf in 1993 and more sports followed. The "Pendleton School" opened in 1999 to provide formal academic instruction. Athletes now traverse a virtual country club, with tennis as the clear axis. Kids walk the grounds in shorts and sneakers (mostly Under Armour) with backpacks, and often a racket, either on the way to class or one of the 52 tennis courts.
The pursuit of high school football players got off the ground with the launch of the IMG Madden Football Academy in 2010. NFL Hall of Fame coach John Madden is no longer affiliated with the program, but having his name attached at the outset couldn't have hurt, given the popularity among the younger generation of the Electronic Arts' Madden-branded football video game series. Former Florida State star Chris Weinke was hired away from an Austin-based investment firm to lead the program. The initial plan was for IMG to host offseason camps, training programs, and 7-on-7 (a form of touch football) tournaments for high school players.
These offseason events might not register on the radar of casual football fans, but they are essential to the football industry — often organized and sponsored by apparel companies or scouting websites, the camps and tournaments are the first points of contact between high-potential players and football's hype and marketing apparatus. Any high school kid who doesn't participate in the offseason circuit is hurting his chances of "showcasing" himself. While integral to the world of amateur football, the events are largely unsupervised and uncontrolled by high school athletic associations or the NCAA. The NCAA last year, in fact, banned its member schools from hosting 7-on-7 competitions and said its concern stems from "increased influence of agents, third parties and scouting services" at the tournaments.
IMG's entry into this world began modestly. "I didn't have an office, football fields... I didn't have nothing," Weinke said. But it hasn't taken long for "nothing" to turn into what MaxPreps has called "the most impressive high school football facility in the country." Three years, actually. Attendance at the offseason events was strong enough that the full-time team was added. The Ascenders, as they're known, work out in a 10,000-square-foot weight room with a four-lane track; have access to a covered 60-yard facility that comes in handy during Florida's rainy summers; and play in a 5,000-seat stadium lined with "professional-quality" Bermuda grass turf and overlooked by a video scoreboard that rivals anything seen on most NCAA Division I campuses.
All of this is only the beginning. When I meet Weinke on a recent Tuesday, he — all 6 feet 4 inches of him — is crammed behind the desk of a small corner office littered with sheets of paper from a playbook, college brochures, media guides, and other detritus. The blinds are nearly drawn shut, letting in only a few rays of light. From here, Weinke runs it all — from the facilities down to the offensive game plans. For now, Weinke, his coaching staff, and the players work out of a large portable trailer at the edge of the campus. It's one of the few reminders that this is — in practice — a high school program. But soon the trailer will be gone too, replaced in the spring by a towering 40,000-square-foot field house with locker rooms, meeting spaces, and offices. The shell of the unfinished facility looms large from the trailer where the team conducts most of its meetings and film sessions. It will almost certainly widen the gap between IMG Academy and whatever school has the nation's second-best facilities.
As you might guess, Weinke is more than just a manager; he also has some pretty useful connections. He's already received the endorsement of none other than University of Georgia head football coach Mark Richt, his former offensive coordinator at Florida State — although the endorsement came begrudgingly and after what Weinke calls a "heated conversation" over proper throwing mechanics. "I guess I won," Weinke said, smiling, "because he sent his son to me."
Indeed, young Jon Richt spent time working out with Weinke at IMG to prepare for pro workouts following the end of his career at Mars Hill College in North Carolina. (He's yet to get signed by an NFL team.) But the elder Richt had developed trust in Weinke long before their quarrel over the best point in a throwing motion to release a football. "He may be the most competitive guy that I ever coached," said Richt, not faint praise from someone who has coached at least six NFL quarterbacks. "Anything short of winning was not acceptable to him."
Weinke's immediate competitive challenge is getting kids to Bradenton full time. "For our business, studies show the only thing that holds us back is a lack of awareness," said Greg Phillips, the academy's athletic director and a former senior associate athletics director at the University of Oklahoma. "Once people get onto our campus, they usually end up coming here. We've just got to get our name out as much as possible."
The first IMG football team enrollee to generate headlines and recruiting buzz was Michael O'Connor, a 6-foot-4-inch quarterback originally from Canada, who announced on Jan. 4 that he'd be attending IMG. O'Connor brought exactly the sort of media attention that IMG was seeking and, in more practical terms, a blue-chip college recruit — O'Connor is currently planning to play for Penn State — to build its inaugural team around. O'Connor has lived up to his billing as the program's headliner, winning honors at offseason camps and tournaments and throwing for 1,804 yards and 18 touchdowns in 10 games; IMG sent out a press release when he committed to the Nittany Lions.
The move also had clear benefits for O'Connor himself; he'd been seeking a greater challenge than Canadian high school football and wanted the opportunity to work under a quarterback coach. IMG and Weinke fit the bill. "It was almost like a business decision," O'Connor told me. "Coming here, it already feels like a college program."
But it was Scarbrough's announcement in August that he was transferring to IMG Academy that heralded the arrival of a new high school powerhouse. IMG needed Scarbrough much more than he needed IMG; he already held a scholarship offer to play running back at the University of Alabama, the surest sign that you're a man-child among boys — the last three starting Crimson Tide running backs were high draft picks and currently play in the NFL. Scarbrough would come to Bradenton with nothing to prove.
At 6-foot-2-inches, Scarbrough towers over most of his teammates and bears a strong resemblance in appearance, build, and playing style to former NFL star Edgerrin James. For players of his caliber, offseason transfers to more high-profile high schools have been a relatively regular occurrence for years. Many school districts — driven by high school coaches and athletic directors who don't want their best players poached away — have passed rules to prevent such moves.
Scarbrough had come to IMG for a 7-on-7 tournament feeling like high school had already run its course. "There was nothing else for me to do in Tuscaloosa," he said. "I would basically stay at the gym all day." After the tournament, he went back home and convinced his mother to let him spend his senior year at the academy. He enrolled only a few weeks before the start of classes. It happened fast, and his departure from Tuscaloosa was greeted with skepticism and derision. Internet message board types wondered if Scarbrough went there to avoid grade troubles that would make him academically ineligible. Others suggested someone — maybe a sinister Florida or Florida State fan — lured him from town to escape the clutches of the Crimson Tide.
"They didn't want him to leave at all," his mother, Donetris Scarbrough, said. "Could you blame them?" In America, with its belief in high school sports as a community-building activity, IMG Academy departs from the high school model even more radically than 7-on-7 tournaments. It is a high-profile embrace of individual prerogative in the country's top team sport — leaving the small-town stadium behind in order to maximize future value. This summer Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany — one of the most powerful men in amateur football — suggested that athletes unhappy with the amateur structure and scholastic component of college football could attend IMG instead. "You don't have to play for the Redskins or the Bears at 17, but you could develop at IMG," he said. Delany's dismissive implication — and really, the wager that the whole NCAA is making in resisting compensation for athletes — was that few red-blooded American kids would choose take such a path. Leaving home to train at an athletic academy is, after all, something people do in Europe.
IMG officials don't like to think of their institution an alternative to going to school. "I don't agree with that — there must be an educational component," Weinke said of Delany's comment. "But as a whole, I think we need to recognize some kids have a passion for certain things. And many times you see kids who have a passion for a certain sport aren't necessarily rewarded like a kid who has passion for something else — music or academics."
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8 Fun Facts About Dan Harmon's New Animated Show "Rick And Morty"
One of the cast pooped their pants once. Just sayin’.
Rick and Morty — created by Dan Harmon (Community) and Justin Roiland (House of Cosbys) — is a half-hour animated series that follows the (mis)adventures of genius scientist/inventor Rick Sanchez and his dimwitted grandson, Morty. Oh, and Rick is a belligerent drunk that constantly belches and perennially has vomit on his mouth. Trust me, it's hilarious.
The creators are thrilled that they aren't tied down by logistics.
Rick and Morty often visit other dimensions and time periods, something that is easily done in animation. "If an episode needs the Loch Ness monster in it, so be it," Harmon told BuzzFeed. "A running joke on Community is the line producer asking if [a scene] could take place in the cafeteria," he added, since they have an actual set that needs to be used. Roiland also said that while other animated shows have to be aware of story arcs and character lists, he and Harmon intentionally made their show "not bound by rules," thus letting the characters and stories move in a more organic way.
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Roiland voices both main characters, which is no easy feat.
"It's like parkour," said Harmon with awe, referencing the fact that Roiland will sometimes record both voices at the same time in dialogue with himself. As Roiland tells it: "I'll usually do Morty's lines, then flip. That's when I'll usually go off script." He also said that, unlike Harmon, he's better "when I'm just talking instead of sitting in front of a Final Draft document."
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Sarah Chalke, who plays Rick's daughter/Morty's mom, loves the art of Rick and Morty.
"I love the animation," said Chalke (Scrubs). "It's beautiful." However, as much as she loves art, she confesses that she would love to be able to draw. "I have one drawing that was of a cowboy boot," she said.
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How These 5th Grade Football Players Responded To Their Waterboy Being Bullied Will Move You To Tears
You’re about to have 45 new heroes.
Grab the tissues.
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This is Danny. A first-grader in Bridgewater, Mass, Danny suffered from a brain hemorrhage shortly after he was born. He is also the waterboy for the fifth grade football team.
When his fifth-grade teammates learned kids were picking on Danny for wearing a tie and jacket, and for having a speech impediment, they decided to do something about it.
They rallied behind Danny by all coming to school donning suits and ties.
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27 Reasons Adam Pally Would Literally Make The Best Friend Ever
“Friends are like stars, they come and go, but the ones that stay are the ones that glow.” Soy true.
First off, he'll always accept the person you are; on the inside AND on the outside.
Happy Endings / fuckyeahmaxblum.tumblr.com
He loves to play matchmaker for you!
The Mindy Project / blanksociety.tumblr.com
He's got his priorities in line!
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Facts That Aren't True....YET
The Future is WOW
First this happens
We have all heard this.
And then this happens!
Whaaatttt?
And then this will happen!
we are all doomed
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28 Bad Movies To Watch With Your Gay Friends
These camp classics are best viewed with the right audience. And a lot of booze.
Valley of the Dolls (1967)
The gist: Three young women embark on careers in show business and soon find themselves lost in a world of backstabbing, infidelity, and lots of pills.
What makes it bad: Despite the serious subject matter, the performances are too over-the-top to be taken seriously. Every emotional moment is undercut with awful line readings and a cloying score.
Gay icon alert: Patty Duke as Neely O'Hara, a character based on Judy Garland.
The moment you'll want to rewind: Having lost everything, Neely suffers a breakdown in an alley, crying out for her former friends and lovers — and finally for Neely O'Hara herself.
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Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
The gist: It's basically a trippy rehash of Valley of the Dolls with three young women in a rock band getting seduced by drugs and sex in Los Angeles.
What makes it bad: That's questionable — the script by Roger Ebert and direction by Russ Meyer is all very intentionally campy. It's not bad in the traditional sense so much as a gleeful mess.
Gay icon alert: Director Russ Meyer, no matter how heterosexual his intentions were.
The moment you'll want to rewind: The first introduction to Z-Man is iconic, including the line "This is my happening and it freaks me out!" (later co-opted by Austin Powers) and a performance by Strawberry Alarm Clock.
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Can't Stop the Music (1980)
The gist: It's a fictionalized biography of the Village People, in which songwriter Jack Morell puts together a band with the help of his model roommate Sam.
What makes it bad: The Village People are best appreciated in small doses, not in a two-hour musical starring Steve Guttenberg on roller skates. That there's a story at all is laughable.
Gay icon alert: The Village People as themselves.
The moment you'll want to rewind: "YMCA" gets performed at the YMCA. And despite the fact that this is a PG-rated film, there's plenty of full-frontal male nudity involved.
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The Apple (1980)
The gist: In the science fiction future of 1994, Alphie and Bibi try to make it in the music industry and discover its dark side in this disco-infused Biblical allegory.
What makes it bad: Did you see the part about it being a disco-infused Biblical allegory? God is a hippie named Mr. Topps. It's all brightly colored, incredibly grating nonsense.
Gay icon alert: None really, but there's a lot of disco.
The moment you'll want to rewind: The titular song is pretty amazing, complete with a giant (metaphor) apple and presumably a lot of cocaine. "Oh, it's a natural, natural, natural desire / Gets ya higher, higher, higher, higher!"
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This Powerful Love Story About Two High School Sweethearts Will Move You To Tears
With a few months left to live, Leslie had only one wish: to marry Daniel.
This is Leslie Rivera, an 18-year-old from Murrieta, Calif.
Sarah Pizzaruso / Via Make A Wish
This is Daniel Mendez, Leslie's boyfriend. They met while working together for an anti-racism group at their high school, and have been dating since last October.
Sarah Pizzaruso / Via Make A Wish
This past April, at the age of 17, Leslie was diagnosed with leukemia. Despite the illness, she graduated from her high school in May.
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17 Problems That Only Busty Girls Have
Unexpected running? Oh no. Oh no no no.
LINK: Busty Girl Comics
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