Out today.
This groove is out of fashion, these beats are twenty years old:

Thirty or so years ago, I was good friends with a fellow who said that if the first words uttered on the first day of the month were “rabbits, rabbits, rabbits,” good luck would befall the utterer for the rest of that month. He didn’t really believe that, of course, but on the occasion that [...]

In a rare show of consensus, practically all Consumerist commenters agree: talking on your cellphone while dealing with retail staff is unacceptably douchey behaviour and we applaud the Subway sandwich outlet which posted the above sign. Consumerist commenter flamewars are expected to resume with the very next post.
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From the always-aweseome Tuckova comes news of another, long-overdue collaboration (and tour!) from the architects of my favourite album of all time, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, and I’m so excited I could plotz. Whatever you do, don’t tell the government:
Brian Eno and I recently finished our first collaboration in about 30 years. [...]

Neil Patrick Harris is all kinds of cool, from surviving child stardom — in a really awful series, no matter how fondly you might remember it — to dealing with his outing in the classiest, most casual way possible. He achieved cult status with his ironic cameos in the Harold and Kumar stoner-hit movies and [...]

Remember Julia Sweeney? I do. I remember not particularly enjoying her “It’s Pat!” segments on Saturday Night Live after the first or second time I saw them but, then again, all Saturday Night Live segments, after the first or second time I saw them, were not particularly enjoyable.
True fact: The It’s Pat! movie was funnier [...]

Is it just me, or has it been a bad week for religion?
I mean, you’ve got those twits praying to the good lord above for a reduction in gas pump prices, a tactic sure to bring prompt results, since prayer has been so helpful for everything from ending war and curing heart disease to restoring [...]

So what was your most enduring memory of Pride 2008?

About three hours after this photo was taken last Sunday, I’d packed Champ off home and was still feeling a little… partyish. Heading out the door to the gaybourhood, I passed the photo location outside the Co$ and where there were once parade-cheering multitudes there were [...]

In case you hadn’t noticed, it’s “Trouble Week” here at This. That. No Other. (like “Shark Week”, only troublier), and what better ambassador for the best kind of trouble than the inimitable Eric Leven — New York blogger, filmmaker, activist and bon vivant — who celebrates 27 years on this planet today. Everyone says Leven’s [...]

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Those are, of course, “The Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television,” the legendary George Carlin routine by the legendary — and now very dead — George Carlin. Sad face. Very sad face.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFmRypAYz_E

George Carlin was the first public figure I ever heard who accurately articulated the uncommon nonsense [...]