#JUSTICE4PERFUME.
First, I have a few questions for you:
Have you ever heard of a little music video called "Stronger"?
A certain comeback that blew everyone's goddamn minds titled "Womanizer"?
And seriously just GO AWAY if you haven't seen "Toxic."
Why We Demand To See The Director's Cut Of Britney Spears' New Music Video
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20 Last-Minute Gifts For People You Don't Care About
Whatever.
CD from Starbucks
Just pray they have a place to stick CDs into.
Vanilla shower gel
They have to shower, right? Do they even like vanilla? Not your problem.
Memo cube with a picture on the sides
There's no way this will sit around unused for years.
Drugstore blanket
Soft? Wrapped up in a little roll? 100% polyester? Let's do this.
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Watch John Goodman's "SNL" Promos
He’ll be hosting this week with musical guest Kings Of Leon.
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24 Heartbreaking Responses To India's Ban On Same-Sex Intercourse
Yesterday, after a 12-year legal battle, India’s Supreme Court upheld Section 377 of the constitution, an old British law that criminalizes sodomy. Here are some poignant social media reactions from the Indian public.
In 2009, Delhi's High Court struck down Section 377 of the Indian constitution, an anti-sodomy law from when India was under British rule.
On Dec. 11, 2013, India's Supreme Court reinstated it, thereby recriminalizing same-sex intercourse in India.
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Snoop Dogg Made An App Called "Snoopify"
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The 18 Coolest Makeup Artists You Need To Follow On Instagram
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Meet The Hottest Vatican Priests
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12 Days Of Internet Christmas
Instead of two dozen birds, here’s stuff you might actually want this holiday season.
Press play and sing along. If you're in an office, sing especially loud.
On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...
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On the second day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...
Adam Ellis / BuzzFeed
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Is This The Sneakiest Dog Ever?
It’s like he wasn’t even there.
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24 Of The Most Brilliant Music Videos From 2013
Here are some of the year’s most memorable videos that were not “Blurred Lines,” or parodies of “Blurred Lines.”
Miley Cyrus, "Wrecking Ball" [Directed by Terry Richardson]
This video inspired countless parodies, and for good reason – it's full of simple, striking, memorable images. Miley's video for "We Can't Stop" is also iconic, but this edges it out in how it somehow manages to be a bit playful and silly without getting in the way of the song's earnest emotion.
Au Revoir Simone, "Crazy" [Directed by Alex Braverman]
This is a remarkably faithful remake of Martin Scorcese's hugely underrated After Hours in which all three members of the band appear as various characters in the movie.
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35 Things Puerto Ricans Know To Be True
Take a trip to Puerto Rico. From salsa and bomba y plena to the coqui, mofongo, bioluminescent bays, Old San Juan, and everything else that makes you proud to be Boricua.
This is the most beautiful flag in the world.
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Marc Anthony can do no wrong.
The best-selling salsa singer of all time wears his love for Puerto Rico on his sleeve.
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Watching him sing "Preciosa," about his love for the island, in Puerto Rico, with the crowd singing every word, gives you chills.
The coqui is a magical little frog that rarely survives if taken out of Puerto Rico, and you love him because he's named after the mating call he makes: coqui, coqui.
Flickr/acevvvedo / Via Flickr: djsoundwav
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The Most RT'd Tweets By Athletes In 2013
From the company’s Year In Twitter feature. Looks like one of the best ways for players to get attention online is talking smack.
(Context.)
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The 15 Junkiest Books About Drugs You'll Ever Read
Everyone should read these books before they go to that great rehab in the sky.
Dopefiend by Donald Goines
Goines didn’t just write street life — he lived it. He wrote 16 novels in five years, at times cranking out a book a week on heroin. He died at 35 after fleeing an L.A. drug debt to Detroit, where — legend has it — the dealers he burned tracked him down and blew his head off. Dopefiend is the downest, dirtiest, and rawest of Goines' ultra down ’n’ dirty books. Among other things, when his customers don’t have the money to pay, Porky, the heroin dealer, makes them do things with dogs that would make Cesar Millan rip his eyes out and burn them. DMX made a movie of another Goines novel, Never Die Alone, and hip-hop’s debt to the author is undeniable. To steal a line from 2Pac in Tradin’ War Stories, “Machiavelli was my tutor, Donald Goines my father…”
Via Holloway House
Junkie by William S. Burroughs
Originally published as an Ace paperback, meant for reading on the subway, Junkie was written under the pseudonym “William Lee,” with the subtitle “Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict.” The novel takes readers on a needle ride from Manhattan to Mexico City to New Orleans and back again. This is pre-Naked Lunch Burroughs, written in prose so hard-boiled you could crack your teeth on it. Junk, our narrator tells us, is not a drug — it’s a way of life. As ever, William Burroughs is the perfect tour guide in hell.
ELVIS: The Last 24 Hours by Albert Goldman
Elvis Presley did so many drugs, the America Pharmaceutical Association should put a plaque on his grave. And thanks to Lenny and Lennon biographer Albert Goldman’s tiny tome on the subject, we know exactly which ones he did. Think quaaludes, amphetamines, liquid Valium, codeine, Demerol, Dilaudid. (And that’s just breakfast.) By the end, narcotics took the worst thing narcotics can take from a man: bowel control — leaving us with the image of the drug-addled King chowing down on his last peanut butter-bacon-and-banana sandwich in a King-sized diaper. Goldman’s dignity-be-damned chronicle of sunset at Graceland may not be everybody’s cup of Elvis. But drug-lit lovers will eat it up.
Via amazon.co.uk
Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson
The ultimate junky outsider saga. Eleven linking stories, all told by Johnson’s broke, strung-out narrator, the funny/tragic misfit whose unhinged experience of the world permeates our own until his most crazed utterance begins to make absolute sense. Johnson’s people survive the nonstop hells they make of their lives in a kind of staggered enchantment. This is the real, un-chic junkie life: petty crime, car wrecks, abortions, routine lying, and (of course) death. All rendered in dead-on Junky-Vision, which turns the grimmest situation into occasions for deranged humor and - weirdly more menacing — sweetness. Did I mention the main character’s name is “Fuckhead”? (Side note: Will Patton’s reading of the text may be the most perfect book on tape of all time.)
Via blogger.com
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Mayor Bloomberg Puts Online Gun Sellers On Notice
New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg announced new findings on illegal online gun sales and criticized Congress for failing to act on gun control legislation.
Hundreds of high-volume gun sellers are moving arms online without conducting proper background checks on purchasers, according to an investigation conducted by Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg held a news conference Thursday to announce the findings of the investigation, which focused on the popular gun retail website Armslist.com.
The study concluded that nearly one-in-three gun ads on the website are posted by high-volume sellers, who are selling more than 34 firearms a year without a license, despite federal legislation that requires anyone "engaged in the business" of selling guns to obtain a Federal Firearms License. At this rate, these unlicensed sellers would transfer more than 243,800 guns each year, many in violation of federal law, he said.
"On December 14th, we will mark a very somber anniversary and pause to remember what happened at Sandy Hook Elementary School one year ago," Bloomberg said. "Our report shows much more clearly needs to be done to prevent unlicensed sellers of firearms from illegally flooding the Internet with weapons and the result is a massive online, unregulated, second-hand firearms market that threatens public safety. These findings clearly tell us that law enforcement, legislators and web sites all need to take steps to choke off this potentially deadly stream of illegal firearms sales."
Bloomberg, who leaves city hall after three terms as mayor in January, called on the federal Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms to crack down on internet gun sellers engaged illegal activity. The report's recommendations state: "ATF should promulgate a regulation to define "engaging in the business," and federal prosecutors should consistently and forcefully police the boundary between licensed dealers and private sellers." In 2013, the Obama administration appointed B. Todd Jones as ATF director, the agency's first permanent director since 2006.
Bloomberg also criticized Congress for failing to act at the federal level on gun violence since the Sandy Hook shooting. "They've basically done nothing," Bloomberg said during the press conference. "I don't know what tragedy it's going to take. I for one am going to keep the pressure on."
"We'll keep fighting. Maybe we'll fight even harder," said Bloomberg, noting that he'll have more time to focus on gun violence and Mayors Against Illegal Guns after exiting office.
The Associated Press reported this week that Bloomberg is installing paid staff for MAIG in more than a dozen states expected to take up gun control legislation in 2014.
"In 2012, the mayor spent about $10 million or so dipping his toe in the water. I guess we'll find out what the whole foot looks like in 2014," said Mark Glaze, Mayors Against Illegal Guns' executive director.
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22 Indications That Your Competitiveness Is Out Of Control
“Relax, it’s not a competition.” FALSE. Everything is a competition.
As a competitive person, you know that NOTHING is off limits when it comes to competing.
Inanimate objects? COMPETITION.
And mundane errands like grocery shopping have taken on a life of their own.
Be careful not to bump into anyone while you're careening through the store.
Al Howard Productions / Via youtube.com
You certainly don't mess around at the gym.
You're not above "racing" the people around you.
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Now You Can Take Selfies Inside Old Nintendo Games
With the help of the Interstellar Selfie Station .
Christine Love is best known for her imaginative indie gem Analogue: A Hate Story, a kind of visual novel set aboard a Korean generation ship. Well, until now. Her new project, the Interstellar Selfie Station, is not a game, but rather, a program that syncs with your webcam and lets you take selfies in the pixelated style and color palette of your favorite 8-bit games. Yes, if you've ever wanted to know what you would look like if you lived inside of Zelda or Metroid, this is your chance.
The Interstellar Selfie Station only works in-browser right now, but it's coming to iOS and Android doodads next year.
Metroid
Zelda
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20 Most Painfully Awkward Moments Of Having "The Talk" With Your Kid
This is all because those darn neighborhood kids can’t get their facts straight.
Realizing your kid is old enough for “the talk” and OMG YOU’RE GOING TO HAVE TO DO THIS!
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Researching sex ed online and finding it’s a lot more complicated than you remember.
Wait... that has a name?
BBC
Making the mistake of asking your parents for advice.
The awkwardness won't stop until you've heard: "You should know your mother and I had a very healthy sex life. Still do."
Universal / Dreamworks
Your spouse cornering you and saying, "So how's the preparation going?"
Bravo
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Watch What Happens When A Remote-Controlled Piano Is Set Up In A Chicago Train Station
A lot of very cute things, that’s what happens.
A "Magical Piano" was set up at Chicago's Union Station by Amtrak. The magic is that it's played by remote control with local musician Andrew Blendermann tinkling the ivories off-camera.
The people playing the piano were in on the joke.
So while this businessman getting down with his bad self was an actor who knew that Blendermann was playing remotely, the guy on the left there didn't.
Actors or not, Chicago's Magical Piano was a cute little installation put together for the holidays.
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Rainbow Appears Over Building Where Nelson Mandela's Body Lies In State
The sky over South Africa’s Union Buildings lit up with colors at the end of the second day of the public viewing.
On Thursday, a rainbow appeared over the Union Buildings, the government offices in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, where Nelson Mandela's body lies in state.
AP Photo/Matt Dunham
Thousands of mourners lined up for hours on the second day of the public viewing to say their final good-byes to the beloved former president.
AP Photo/Matt Dunham
As president of South Africa, Mandela often referred to his country as a "rainbow nation."
AP Photo/Matt Dunham
We enter into a covenant that we shall build the society in which all South Africans, both black and white, will be able to walk tall, without any fear in their hearts, assured of their inalienable right to human dignity — a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world.
Via Nelson Mandela / Inaugural Address / anc.org.za
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13 Times Background Legolas Was The Most Important Part Of "The Lord Of The Rings" Movies
AKA the main reason you should be excited for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug .
When he blatantly stared at the camera when he thought nobody was looking.
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When Aragorn accidentally kneed him in his Elvish gems.
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When he tripped on Boromir's cloak and felt really bad about it.
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When Gandalf told him that he didn't like his hair and he was all, "HOW DARE YOU."
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