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Coppy Was The Best Damn Thing That Ever Happened To Tumblr

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Pour one out for the April Fool’s joke that stole our hearts, and possibly our souls.

Yesterday a gift was bestowed upon us, a gift we squandered like the petty little shits we are.

Coppy, who was born in jest and lived in scorn, rose above all to lend a helping hand to all those tumblrs in need.

Coppy gave us friendship, guidance, emotional reassurance, and when we needed it most, real talk.

But all we did was heap disdain right in his little perky face.

And something truly dark and strange began to happen, all because we never stopped to think how much abuse can a copy machine really take?

Hubris.


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19 Signs You Really, Really Need A Dog

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It’s a ruff life.

Basically, you REALLY want a dog. Like, you think about it at least five times a day. But you don't have one.

Which basically ruins your entire life.

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You spend a good amount of time every single day looking at cute pictures of dogs.

You spend a good amount of time every single day looking at cute pictures of dogs.

Some may call it an obsession.

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And you're instantly attracted to someone if they have a dog.

Is there a Tinder but for dog owners only??

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You care about dogs more than you care about most humans.

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These Jim Carrey Celeb Impressions From 1992 Will Make You Smile

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AAAAAAALLLRIGHTY THEN.

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Mick Jagger

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E.T.

E.T.

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23 Things That Happen When You Introduce Someone To Your Favorite Show

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Game of Thrones is back in two weeks. It’s time to force your roommate to watch it.

You're talking to your friend one day like...

You're talking to your friend one day like...

This needs to be remedied immediately.

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So you zero in on your target.

So you zero in on your target.

Time to convert a new recruit.

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So you start to tell them all about it.

So you start to tell them all about it.

Like they haven't heard already.

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You gather everyone you know who also loves that show.

You gather everyone you know who also loves that show.

To fill your friend with ~good show vibes.~

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Your Favorite Songwriter’s Favorite Songwriter Is Still Chasing The Dream

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Ron Sexsmith is gently strumming his guitar at Plyrz Studios, a hip recording space in Valencia, California, owned and operated by seven-time Grammy-winning producer/engineer Jim Scott. He’s there to put the final touches on his new album, Carousel One (out now), but with his unassuming manner, tousled hair, and casually worn button-down shirt he could easily be mistaken for a member of the production team instead of the star at the center of these sessions. He may not quite look the part, but he’s certainly lived it, and between listening to new mixes he opened up to BuzzFeed News about his life and career, including an amazing encounter that happened during his first tour of England.

“We had a night off, so [tourmate] Chris Tifford told me to cancel my hotel and come stay with him at his place out in the country, in Sussex,” says Sexsmith. “On the way there he says, ‘You’ll never guess who lives up there.’ And I was like, ‘Paul McCartney?’ My first guess. And he nods. I ask if he’s ever been up there and he says a few times. And then he goes, ‘Maybe I’ll give him a call tomorrow.’”

In the morning McCartney’s late wife, Linda, invited them over, and only a few minutes later the former Beatle answered the door in his pajamas. He invited Sexsmith and Tilford into the kitchen where they discussed music as Linda made the McCartney brood breakfast.

“I was asking him mostly about Wings because that was more my era, and we ended up breaking out the guitars and singing [the Wings’ hit] ‘Listen To What The Man Said’ together."

That’s largely how Sexsmith’s two-decade plus career has gone. You may not know him, but the artists you know and love do. Elvis Costello once said Sexsmith “has got one of the purest senses of melody since Paul McCartney," and Elton John personally called him to praise his 2007 album, Time Being. Even Bob Dylan handpicked a couple Sexsmith tunes to play on his Sirius radio show, Theme Time Radio Hour. And this for a musician who’s never scored a top 40 hit.

“I never set out to be a cult artist,” Sexsmith says while picking at his guitar. “I always wanted to be Elton John or somebody.”

Sexsmith was born in St. Catherines, Ontario, far away from the recording hubs of New York and Los Angeles, and raised in government housing for low-income families (mainly by his mother; his father “wasn’t really in the picture"). From a young age music was his main focus in life, and he quickly earned a reputation as a “human jukebox” thanks to the many cover songs he could play. Whatever inroads he was making toward a career in music, however, were all for naught — at least in Sexsmith’s eyes at the time — when he got a co-worker, Jocelyn, pregnant during a post-high-school summer job.

“She was the first person I ever made love to,” Sexsmith says. “Not only that, but we didn’t know each other. We were tree planters who got drunk one night.”

Sexsmith recalls hearing Bruce Springsteen’s classic song “The River” (with its iconic line “Then I got Mary pregnant and man that was all she wrote”) and crying. “I thought, ‘Well, there goes my music career.’”

A son, Michael, soon joined the new couple, but their life together was far from easy. “I remember thinking, ‘Here I am with this woman I hardly know, we have a kid, I don’t have any money.’ It was scary.”

In time Sexsmith and Jocelyn fell in love, and later welcomed a second child, Evelynne. It was around this time he realized that fatherhood, rather than being a threat to his artistry, could represent a new start.

“I wrote my first songs when my son came along,” Sexsmith says. “So ultimately I needed that to happen. Because I never wrote before.”

Sexsmith was finding his voice as a songwriter, but he was still many years away from his proverbial “big break.” In the interim he worked as a courier during the day while cramming songwriting sessions in late at night after his family went to sleep. When he finally signed with Interscope Records in 1994, he was a rarity in the music industry — a 30-year-old watching the ink dry on his first major-label record contract.

Mitchell Froom, Sexsmith’s frequent collaborator and the producer behind Crowded House’s first three albums, says he’s never been able to pinpoint why mainstream success eluded Sexsmith.

“There were any number of times I thought we really had a chance,” Froom says. “In some ways Ron’s a bit out of his time. Maybe if he had come up in the '60s or '70s something would have hit big.”

Froom was one of the first producers Interscope approached to helm Sexsmith’s debut album, and he immediately responded to the idea.

“What really got me was the record company sent me this first batch of songs,” he says. “And then I asked to hear all of his new songs — and there were something like 35 songs. There were all these incredible songs they hadn’t even played for people and I thought, Man, this guy is really something else.

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Sexsmith’s self-titled debut — produced by Froom — received high praise from critics, including a 4-star review in Rolling Stone, which deemed the album “a thing of beauty” and enthused that Sexsmith “just may be the most fluent balladeer to come along since Tim Hardin or Harry Nilsson.” Despite this, Interscope only released the album in North America, where it failed to make a splash. “I’d be touring around, and every town I was in I’d go into the record store and maybe it would be in the 'S' miscellaneous section,” Sexsmith says with a shake of the head.

At the end of the year Sexsmith believed Interscope was getting ready to drop him because of his debut album’s poor sales when Elvis Costello appeared on the cover of Mojo magazine holding up the album. This stoked enough interest in Sexsmith that, instead of dropping him, Interscope decided to finally release his album outside North America.

“The whole of ’96 we spent introducing that record to the world, and that’s where I found my audience,” Sexsmith says. “People in Canada didn’t even know me, they thought I was from England or something, so if Elvis hadn’t done that I don’t know where I’d be.”

For his sophomore effort, Sexsmith again worked with Froom with the intention of making an album that would help him cross over into the mainstream. Froom, for his part, had high hopes that the album would yield a hit. “We’d be working on a song and I’d think, Wow. That’s a really catchy song. That’s a great song.” But, like its predecessor, Other Songs received rave reviews but failed to break out.

“I think the label he was on just never really endorsed him enough,” Froom says. “They were always kind of fighting him a little bit, and they were less than enthusiastic with him.” A third Sexsmith/Froom album, the darker-themed Whereabouts, met the same fate.

Whereabouts and the darkness that accompanied it were largely inspired by Sexsmith’s home life, which was troubled by the extended time Sexsmith spent on the road — and his inability to resist its temptations.

“For the first 10 years Jocelyn and I had a really good thing, and then I started touring and being like a clichéd road musician,” Sexsmith says. “I never had my wild twenties, and I felt like I was having my twenties in my thirties.”

Sexsmith’s relationship with his children was also affected by his time away from home. “I was always the ‘kid guy,’ and that was really hard when I started to tour. All of a sudden there was this hole there because there wasn’t someone there to…they sort of had to fend for themselves. I think, looking back, I could have handled things a little better.”

Sexsmith is quick to add that he’s still very close to his (now adult) children, but he clearly hasn’t forgotten those difficult times. One of the new songs on Carousel One, “Can’t Get My Act Together,” addresses how he wasn’t the father he hoped he could be to his daughter when she was small.

“I’ve had a lot of guilt and a lot of regret,” Sexsmith says solemnly. “I mean, Jocelyn was the one who kicked me out. I didn’t want to be the dad who walks out, but I finally got the boot, you know. And I was kind of relieved because I really did think it was for the best.”

As it happens, it was this low point in Sexsmith’s personal life that led to an artistic high-water mark.

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Cobblestone Runway (released in 2002) features unlikely touches of electronica courtesy of new producer Martin Terefe, but it was the especially strong collection of songs that really stood out. Two of these songs have gone on to become among Sexsmith’s most covered: “Gold In Them Hills,” a ballad about finding hope in difficult times featuring Chris Martin of Coldplay on vocals, and “God Loves Everyone,” a thought-provoking lullaby written in response to the Westboro Baptist Church’s picketing of Mathew Shephard’s funeral.

Sexsmith says he is now on the Westboro Baptist Church’s hate list for writing lyrics about an inclusionary God who is very different from theirs:

There are no gates in Heaven / Everyone gets in

Queer or straight / Souls of every faith

Hell is in our minds / Hell is in this life

But when it's gone / God takes everyone

“The reaction to the song was positive overall,” Sexsmith says, but there were people — even outside of an extreme group like the Westboro Baptist Church — who took offense.

“I remember doing an interview with someone in Texas and he said, ‘You’re not going to be performing that song down here, are you?’” After a later performance in Chicago, a woman told Sexsmith she would pray for him because she thought he was going to go to hell for writing the song.

“It’s amazing when you have a song named ‘God Loves Everyone,’ which is so positive, and then people take issue with it because they don’t want to know that, or to think that, because they want their heaven to be like a private club where only people who look like them get in,” Sexsmith says.

To promote Cobblestone Runway Sexsmith set off on a world tour in support of Coldplay just as they were becoming one of the biggest bands in the world. At first, the excitement of being part of a tour of that magnitude was undeniable. After years of playing club shows, Sexsmith suddenly found himself singing his songs at legendary venues like Madison Square Garden and the Hollywood Bowl. He was even duetting every night with Martin on “Gold In Them Hills.” “People would go apeshit as he walked out,” Sexsmith says with a laugh.

Another highlight of the tour was getting to know the members of Coldplay. Sexsmith’s long-time drummer and collaborator Don Kerr describes them as “a really great bunch of guys.” Echoing that sentiment, Sexsmith offers details of a night off he spent with Chris Martin in Phoenix, Arizona.

“Chris and I saw in the paper there was an open stage, so we just went down,” Sexsmith says. The impromptu duo performed Bill Withers’ “Ain’t No Sunshine” in front of what must have been a very shocked group of amateur musicians — plus Gwyneth Paltrow, who was listening from Russia over Martin’s cell phone.

Sexsmith was playing in front of thousands of people every night, hanging out with bonafide rock stars, and enjoying the perks of touring in style, but he couldn’t help but find the experience a little depressing.

“It’s weird when you’re the opening act,” says Sexsmith. “I mean, it’s great you’re playing these places, but when you’re playing Madison Square Garden no one cares and they aren’t there to hear you. After a while you’d rather play a small room full of people who like you rather than a bunch of people who don’t care.”

The tour also drew into stark contrast the financial disparity between a lower tier musician like Sexsmith and an act like Coldplay.

“The funniest memory for me is when we were all eating dinner together,” Kerr says. “Chris was asking Ron all kinds of questions because Ron was one of his songwriting heroes, and Ron mentioned that he writes a lot of songs at the laundromat. Chris asked, ‘Don’t you have a washing machine at your house?’ Ron replied, ‘I don’t have a house. I rent an apartment; I can't afford a house.’ And Chris Martin looked like he was going to faint.”

More than 10 years later, Sexsmith still rents (a house now) and does his laundry at the laundromat. (Though he says this is partially because he likes to write songs there.) Overall, he describes himself as making an “OK living.” The financial reality of being a cult hero is that Sexsmith doesn’t make much money from album sales. Instead, he’s largely dependent on touring and especially publishing to make a living. Thankfully for Sexsmith, many artists — including Rod Stewart, Feist, Emmylou Harris, and k.d. Lang — have covered his songs. The most high-profile cover of one of his songs was the one that caught him the most off guard.

“One day I was having dinner when Michael Bublé called me out of the blue and said, ‘Hey, Ron, check this out!’” Bublé, the Canadian crooner who has sold more than 30 million records worldwide, played over the phone a Bossa Nova remake of Sexsmith’s “Whatever It Takes” that he’d just recorded with 16-time Grammy-winning producer David Foster. Sexsmith was shocked. “I’d been sending him songs for years — torchy, Sinatra kind of songs — and nothing. I never got any kind of feedback at all.”

Bublé wasn’t through with his surprises, though, and asked Sexsmith to come to Foster’s recording studio in Malibu, California, to add vocals to the track.

Sexsmith describes singing in front of Foster as “nerve-wracking,” but says that the legendary producer of Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” quickly put him at ease. “Bublé was there, too, listening and cheering me on.”

The Bublé/Sexsmith duet version of “Whatever It Takes” became the closing track on Bublé’s multiplatinum 2009 smash Crazy Love, which spent two weeks atop the Billboard 200 and won a Grammy for Best Traditional Jazz album. After 20 years in the music business one of Sexsmith’s songs (and vocal performances) was being heard by millions of people. It was a breakthrough for Sexsmith, but a largely anonymous one. Record buyers were buying an album with Bublé’s name on it, not his, after all.

Sexsmith didn’t get rich off the song, either. “I didn’t really see much money from that because I live off publishing advances and royalties, so whatever money came in, the publishing company used to pay themselves back first.”

Up until this point of his career Sexsmith had made a living as a perpetually “on the verge” artist, a fixture of “to watch” lists. But as he entered his forties it became increasingly difficult to get his music out into the world. No longer on a major label, Sexsmith was often forced to label shop each new album with varying results.

The Froom-produced Time Being, released in 2006 on Kiefer Sutherland’s newly formed independent label, Ironworks, was especially trying. “Kiefer was really nice, but at the time he was having a lot of alcohol problems, and that was sort of disastrous,” Sexsmith says. “Right away we had issues with the label because it was the only time I had a different album cover in the States than in the rest of the world. They didn’t want my picture on it.”

Sexsmith promoted the album with a tour that he describes as the worst of his life. “We were on this horrible, poor man’s tour bus, like an airport shuttle with no heat, and we were touring in January and February, freezing. I was getting sick. We tried to get out of our agreement with the tour bus company and they threatened physical violence."

The album, like two others he released around that time, “came out and sort of died the next day,” Sexsmith says. “So I felt my career was, I don’t know how true it was, going down the toilet.”

23 Little Things You're Guarenteed To Miss When You Leave Your Country Hometown

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How’s the serenity?

The quiet.

The quiet.

No traffic for miles. No party in the apartment below you. No neighbour's TV blasting Real Housewives.

Just quiet.

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Farmer's markets with actual farmers.

Farmer's markets with actual farmers.

Selling things that aren't a $15 ~raw brownie~ inside a mason jar.

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Having a backyard for activities.

Having a backyard for activities.

Or, you know, to just hang your washing in.

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Being able to own pets because you have a yard for them to play in.

Being able to own pets because you have a yard for them to play in.

And don't have a landlord that'll laugh in your face if you ask if their place is pet friendly.

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How Well Can You Read Britney's Lips?

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It’s like a competition of you against this quiz.

17 Nuggets Of Wisdom You've Learned From Ellen DeGeneres


This Dog Loads His Human Friend's Dishwasher And Proves He's Better At Doing Chores Than You

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Baron, FTW!

We all know the struggle is too ~DAMN~ real when it comes to doing chores ANYWHERE, let alone the kitchen. Can we say, "EW!"

We all know the struggle is too ~DAMN~ real when it comes to doing chores ANYWHERE, let alone the kitchen. Can we say, "EW!"

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But, this human is in luck, because his dog knows what’s up. Baron, a 5-month-old German Shepherd helps load the dishwasher like a pro.

But, this human is in luck, because his dog knows what’s up. Baron, a 5-month-old German Shepherd helps load the dishwasher like a pro.

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Baron is a service dog. His owner, Linda Gonzalez, says "it was a simple step-by-step process" to teach him this slick trick. Check out more of Baron in action:

GOOD BOY!

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16 Scrumptious Ways To Eat Pretzels For Dessert

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You’ll never look at pretzels the same way again.

Deep Dish Peanut Butter Pie with Chocolate Pretzel Crust

Deep Dish Peanut Butter Pie with Chocolate Pretzel Crust

The only thing better than deep dish pizza is deep dish pie. Recipe here.

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Pretzel Chocolate Chip Cookies

Pretzel Chocolate Chip Cookies

A salty twist on your favorite cookie. Recipe here.

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Chocolate Dipped Pretzel Smores

Chocolate Dipped Pretzel Smores

Sprinkles make everything better. Recipe here.

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Caramel Apple Soft Pretzels

Caramel Apple Soft Pretzels

They're salty and sweet and fun to eat. Recipe here.

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Can You Guess These Celebrity Face Puzzles?

Was This Photo From Canada Taken In December Or April?

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Alternative title: Winter or Second Winter?

17 Matzoh-Inspired Crafts You Can Own

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Just in time for Passover. Because the best skateboards and iPhone cases are unleavened.

Matzoh Apron

Matzoh Apron

To keep matzoh crumbs from getting all over your matzoh dress. Buy it here.

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Matzoh Baby Onesie

Matzoh Baby Onesie

To show the world that your precious offspring is, in fact, kosher for Passover. Available here.

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Matzoh Skateboard

Matzoh Skateboard

XCORE. Available here.

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Matzoh House for Your Collection of Adorable Anthropomorphized Plagues

Matzoh House for Your Collection of Adorable Anthropomorphized Plagues

Locusts have never looked so huggable. Available here.

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A Fan Of "The O.C." Sees Death Cab For Cutie Live For The First Time

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How seeing Death Cab for Cutie live for the first time brought back memories of one of my favorite television series.

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Growing up a young black kid in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, I often had to juggle different music tastes; I had to listen to Biggie and Pac to fit in with black kids at school (only a struggle at that age since my mother listened to the same music and I wasn't trying to have the same tastes as my parent) and I listened to Weezer to fit in with white kids (another struggle, because my dark secret is that my favorite Weezer album is Make Believe).

Luckily, that all changed on August 5, 2003 when The O.C. debuted. The show instantly became a television sensation that everyone was talking about, regardless of race or even age, there were quite a few teachers at school who watched it too. It caught fire the way that Empire has now and Scandal and Lost did in the past.

One of the best things about The O.C. was how it used indie music instead of Top 40, so it introduced fans to bands like Imogen Heap, Modest Mouse, and most importantly — Death Cab for Cutie.

One of the best things about The O.C. was how it used indie music instead of Top 40, so it introduced fans to bands like Imogen Heap, Modest Mouse, and most importantly — Death Cab for Cutie.

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The first Death Cab song I ever heard was "A Movie Script Ending," in the seventh episode of The O.C.'s first season, "The Escape."

Summer (Rachel Bilson) described the song as "one guitar and a lot of complaining." Seth (Adam Brody) warned her, "Do not insult Death Cab!" The episode sparked a love affair with Death Cab's 2001 album The Photo Album. I was free to listen to the album without the judgement of my teenage peers, because it was music from The O.C., so of course everyone was already listening to it.

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34 Things First-Time Visitors Need To Know About Las Vegas

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It is everything you think it is. Except weirder and more.

Las Vegas is a fake place that still manages to exist.

Las Vegas is a fake place that still manages to exist.

"The City That Never Sleeps." "Tinsel Town." "Old Gambley."

As a first-time visitor, I was familiar with Las Vegas' reputation as a kitschy "Disneyland for adults," and its legacy — both pop-culturally and historically — as a citywide den of gleeful debauchery, constructed by sheer force of will in a desert wasteland so devoid of life that most theologians agree it was where God tested the atomic bombs that killed the dinosaurs.

Yet here exists a collection of improbable monuments to success and pleasure, presumably built upon catacombs lined with the skeletons of forgotten gangsters, where, even in recent memory, you could be locked inside of a walk-in freezer or exploding car for accidentally looking at Frank Sinatra's girlfriend's necklace area.

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"Las Vegaaaas" —Dean Martin, probably

"Las Vegaaaas" —Dean Martin, probably

But I was also aware of the Vegas of today — in no small part thanks to the conscious rebranding efforts of their tourism officials — reinforcing Las Vegas' second life as both a family-friendly resort town and internationally recognized nightclub haven, where gambling is tertiary to the Vegas experience, if not outright discouraged, and DJs, magicians, and celebrity chefs tower above grateful commoners like benevolent space kings, whose very tears of joy fall to the sidewalk as tinkling diamonds, and all of us are moving parts in a cosmic joy machine.

So yeah, I figured I had a pretty good idea of what I was in for.

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Here is what it's actually like to visit Las Vegas in style, and all of the things you can expect to happen to you while you're there.

Your hotel will romanticize the past, but exist in the distant future.

Your hotel will romanticize the past, but exist in the distant future.

This is the lobby of The Cosmopolitan Las Vegas Hotel & Casino, or "The Cosmo" as the world's coolest cab driver insists we refer to it.

A relatively new hotel, catering to a younger crowd, The Cosmo has a lobby that features video-screen pillars with rotating themes that synchronize with the elevator monitors and act as the welcome screen on your hotel room television — sort of like living inside a screensaver.


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Undocumented Harvard Student Details Her Complicated Relationship With The School In Music Video

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Sonia Espinosa said despite Harvard accepting and helping undocumented students pay for tuition there are still gaps to fill. Her video, From an Undocumented Student: Dear Harvard, is her message to the school’s president.

Sonia Espinosa, an undocumented Harvard student, made a video and wrote a letter to the university’s president asking her to publicly advocate for students and help them navigate the school's system.

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The video, From an Undocumented Student: Dear Harvard, casts the school and its undocumented pupils as being in a rocky romantic relationship.

"Harvard, everyone wants to be vulnerable, everyone wants to be loved,'" Espinosa says in the video. "I love you, too. But, you also make it a little difficult sometimes for me to be vulnerable with you."

The United States has a similar relationship with its 11 million undocumented immigrants, Espinosa told BuzzFeed News. The country is unwilling to give them legal status but offers them a tax identification number to pay taxes.

The 22-year-old said Harvard has been amazing in accepting students and helping them afford tuition, but there's more to be done. She hopes the video will move Harvard President Drew Faust to help students navigate the campus and immigration system.

"What I really want to do with this is encourage Drew Faust to come out and support us," Espinosa said. "If Harvard is so willing to accept us as students it should also be willing to publicly support us as undocumented people."

Harvard declined to comment on the video.

Last year Faust told the Washington Post that Harvard offered undocumented students full access to financial aid.

"I am an advocate for those students and the potential they have," Faust told the Washington Post, "and what they have given us at Harvard, and the kinds of contributions they make to the community and what they will certainly give this nation."

This isn't the first time Espinosa used music to discuss undocumented issues. Last year she and Dario Guerrero, another undocumented Harvard student, wrote a song for his mother.

This isn't the first time Espinosa used music to discuss undocumented issues. Last year she and Dario Guerrero, another undocumented Harvard student, wrote a song for his mother.

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Guerrero was in the national spotlight when he was stuck in Mexico after traveling to his native country to help his dying mother find alternative cancer treatments. He was able to return to the United States months later with a humanitarian visa after his mother died.

Espinosa, a junior studying social anthropology, grew up in the suburbs of Greendale, Milwaukee. She was able to attend Harvard under a scholarship that covered most of her costs, but required her to work part-time, a difficult task for an undocumented student.

With the help of a professor she was able to secure a job as a researcher for a graduate student as a freshman. She later qualified for Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which allowed her to legally work and apply for a driver's license. She said her father calls her everyday asking if she has received it yet but she's reminded that it is only a temporary solution.

She hopes work like hers help change the way undocumented people are perceived in the country.

"We're always placed against the economy, money and labor, we're never humanized," Espinosa said. "I want undocumented people to know they are beautiful creators and have the ability to define themselves."


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What Is Your Favorite Fast Food "Off-The-Menu" Item?

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Tell us your secret order!

By now you've probably heard about a "secret menu" at certain fast food chains.

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Sometimes it's just an item that is technically off-the-menu...

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While other times it's about knowing what to order and creating the item yourself.

While other times it's about knowing what to order and creating the item yourself.

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But whether it's a not-so-secret order or a customized concoction, we want to hear about it.

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59 Magical Places To Hide The Afikoman At Hogwarts

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Accio Matzoh!

1. Inside the room of requirement.
2. In the sorting hat.
3. In the Chamber of Secrets.
4. In the fireplace inside Hagrid's cabin.
5. With Aragog's colony.
6. In the sleeves of Ron's R sweater.
7. Mixed in with the leaves in a Divination tea cup.
8. In the vanishing cabinet in the room of requirement.
9. In Luna's lost sneakers.
10. In the staircase to the Gryffindor girls' dorm.
11. At the top of the Owlery rafters.
12. Taped behind Moaning Myrtle's toilet.
13. In the entrance to one of the passageways from Hogwarts to Hogsmeade.
14. In a different passageway from Hogwarts to Hogsmeade, moved while people are looking.
15. On a moving staircase as it's moving.

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16. As a constellation in the great hall ceiling.
17. Under the seat cushions on teacher's platform in the Great Hall.
18. Under a mandrake pot.
19. Anywhere in the Ravenclaw tower.
20. Under the cushion to one of the armchairs in the Hufflepuff common room.
21. In the potions closet.
22. Under the trapdoor when Fluffy isn't looking.
23. Behind one of Umbridge's framed proclamations.
24. Mixed in with the trophies in the trophy closet, since the Afikomen is the ultimate trophy.
25. Between the towels in the Prefects' bathroom. Safety against crumbling!
26. Tied to Mrs. Norris' collar (if she lets you get that close).
27. In front of the lens of a telescope in the Astronomy tower, so you can only see it when you look through the eyepiece.
28. In the dungeon cupboard (if Hagrid could stash a baby Aragog there, surely you can hide some matzoh).
29. Between pages 394 and 395 in your textbook.

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