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Thursday, December 16, 2010
Redundant Pandora Ads
If you spend enough time on Pandora, You will notice that they cycle through a limited number of audio advertisements. These are not targeted at specific audiences, as I have noticed through my stations based on Bob Dylan, DMX, the Jackson 5, Movie Scores, and 90's club music. Some of our favorites:
Friday, December 10, 2010
The Tri-Solo-CupTournament
Do you ever feel like a drunken trip through the mods eerily resembles the maze at the end of "The Shining" or "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"? To help those poor unfortunate souls, we shall post a map of this endearing neighborhood and give cheat codes of how to get past the obstacles that block us college students from a night of drunken debauchery.
Notice: There is no Mod 1
There may be a subliminal message hidden in the pattern of mods to unlock the national treasure buried by Father Leahy in the days of yore
After passing the BCPD and answering the riddle "how many drinks have you had tonight?" unleash your wand to banish the crowds of drunk kids you know but did not wish to see on this particular evening.
You must then decide whether the secret entrance to the Modular lies at the front door or the glass sliding door in back. Do you wish to knock and ring until your knuckles no longer bear it? Or do you wish to be that person that peers in creepily through the glass only to realize that there are only 8 people in the common room. The choice is yours, but at the end of the evening, these tips will hopefully make you the Tri-Solo-cup winner!
There may be a subliminal message hidden in the pattern of mods to unlock the national treasure buried by Father Leahy in the days of yore
After passing the BCPD and answering the riddle "how many drinks have you had tonight?" unleash your wand to banish the crowds of drunk kids you know but did not wish to see on this particular evening.
You must then decide whether the secret entrance to the Modular lies at the front door or the glass sliding door in back. Do you wish to knock and ring until your knuckles no longer bear it? Or do you wish to be that person that peers in creepily through the glass only to realize that there are only 8 people in the common room. The choice is yours, but at the end of the evening, these tips will hopefully make you the Tri-Solo-cup winner!
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Meryl Streep
If there is anything that bloggers Addams and Daggins like to do, it's identify people that we find offensive and sway people to join our opinions with our well founded arguments (law school, here we come)
In light of the oscars approaching, there are a few things that can always be counted on:
The host will make awkward, ill-timed jokes
The gay men interviewing on the red carpet will offend the celebreties (a la Isaac Mizrahi and Scarlett Johansson's boob)
Meryl Streep will be nominated for some absurd role
Though Meryl has had a successful career and is certainly more talented than stars like Megan Fox (sorry boys) and Mariah Carey, the accolates she recieves are far too excessive. If anyone has ever seen her in more than one of her movies, you can see some common threads. Meryl loves to stretch a little and take rolls where she can flaunt her acting chops. By this I mean that she finds a way to include a goofy accent in nearly EVERY role. Her performances are so overstylized and cartoonish that I can't watch them without getting distracted (read "want to slap her") Sophie's Choice is almost unbearable beacuse of her terrible broken English, In Julie and Julia she was nominated for the Oscar with an arguably worse performance than Dan Aykroyd on SNL. Even in The The Deer Hunter, Meryl finds a way to make a working class woman from Pennsylvania sound like an extra in the movie Fargo.
The worst part is, many people can't see through these "scenery-chewing" performances. As everyone cracks jokes about her 16 nominations and her status as the greatest of our time, Meryl merely throws her head back in laughter or makes a face saying "who, me?" Please. She cannot hold a candle to past greats like Katharine Hepburn and Liz Taylor, or even current stars like Kate Winslet and Hilary Swank (who, by the way, has the same number of W's as "the greatest of all time")
In short. NONE OF THESE are amusing!
In light of the oscars approaching, there are a few things that can always be counted on:
The host will make awkward, ill-timed jokes
The gay men interviewing on the red carpet will offend the celebreties (a la Isaac Mizrahi and Scarlett Johansson's boob)
Meryl Streep will be nominated for some absurd role
Though Meryl has had a successful career and is certainly more talented than stars like Megan Fox (sorry boys) and Mariah Carey, the accolates she recieves are far too excessive. If anyone has ever seen her in more than one of her movies, you can see some common threads. Meryl loves to stretch a little and take rolls where she can flaunt her acting chops. By this I mean that she finds a way to include a goofy accent in nearly EVERY role. Her performances are so overstylized and cartoonish that I can't watch them without getting distracted (read "want to slap her") Sophie's Choice is almost unbearable beacuse of her terrible broken English, In Julie and Julia she was nominated for the Oscar with an arguably worse performance than Dan Aykroyd on SNL. Even in The The Deer Hunter, Meryl finds a way to make a working class woman from Pennsylvania sound like an extra in the movie Fargo.
The worst part is, many people can't see through these "scenery-chewing" performances. As everyone cracks jokes about her 16 nominations and her status as the greatest of our time, Meryl merely throws her head back in laughter or makes a face saying "who, me?" Please. She cannot hold a candle to past greats like Katharine Hepburn and Liz Taylor, or even current stars like Kate Winslet and Hilary Swank (who, by the way, has the same number of W's as "the greatest of all time")
In short. NONE OF THESE are amusing!
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