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Los Angeles Police Insatiable For Evidence Regarding The Chris Brown-Frank...

by Dave Bry "R&B singer Frank Ocean intends to press charges against bully boy Chris Brown for punching him and starting an all-out brawl outside Westlake Studios in West Hollywood on Sunday...

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I Will Spend The Rest Of My Day, Week, Month, Year, Etc. Staring At This...

by Dave Bry Go here and look at this. (Unless you are acrophobic. In fact, even if you are acrophobic. Consider it exposure therapy. I swear, it is so awesome.) [Via] 3 Comments

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Yo La Tengo, "I'll Be Around"

by Dave Bry Okay. I should breathe. I'm trying to remain calm. Because I already got all "THIS IS GREATEST THING IN THE HISTORY OF THE INTERNET!!!" today over that panoramic picture from the top of...

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How Conservatives Should Talk About Hip Hop

by Dave Bry "Conservatives who talk that way don't just forfeit the chance to influence the social norms surrounding the genre. They reinforce the perception that their views are shaped by little more...

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Could One Of These Cultured Chimpanzees Please Show Me How To Open A Juice...

by Dave Bry "Researchers from Kyoto University in Japan and the University of Kent in England gave two groups of chimpanzees straws and put them in rooms with juice boxes mounted onto the wall. One...

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Andre Cassagnes, 1926 – 2013

by Dave Bry "Mr Cassagnes saw the potential for the toy when he noticed, while working with metal powders, that marks in a coating of aluminium powder could be seen from the other side of a...

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Joan Jett Is Like A Magic Octopus When It Comes To Picking The Winner Of The...

by Dave Bry Joan Jett has correctly picked the winner of the last eight Super Bowls. And she missed predicting the exact score of yesterday's game by three points. [Via] 1 Comments

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Man Likes Other Man

by Dave Bry "The moral complexity of the Rampaging Dad saga—or at least the semblance of moral complexity—comes in the unfolding depiction of how even a righteous mission can warp, debase, and harden...

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Rhye, "Open"

by Dave Bry I like this song from Canadian/Danish soul duo Rhye, which will open (hey now!) their debut album, Woman, when it arrives in stores next month. I like the horns especially, and the voice...

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Two-Wheeled Mountain Biking Extravagant, Self-Indulgent, Say German Extreme...

by Dave Bry Do you speak German? No? How sad for you. I do. And I have done you the favor of translating the narration of this incredible video of 26-year Lutz Eichholz his friend Stephanie Dietze...

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Lizzy Caplan In "Fashion Film"

by Dave Bry Director Matthew Frost and actress Lizzy Caplan pay homage to treehouse tea party Zooey Deschanel. 2 Comments

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Donald Byrd, 1932 – 2013

by Dave Bry The great Detroit-born trumpeter Donald Byrd died Monday in Delaware, where he was artist in residence at Delaware State University. Starting in the 1950s as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz...

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Dear Shrewsbury, New Jersey Board of Education

by Dave Bry I'm sorry for vandalizing your schoolhouse. This happened in 1985, when I was a freshman at Red Bank Regional High School. Red Bank Regional as you know, draws from the towns of...

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Raptor Escapes Captor: We're Losing the War Against Birds

by Dave Bry "This is the greatest thing I have ever seen." —And that's coming from a person who has seen a lot of professional hockey games that start with a huge Andean condor (wingspan: 10 feet!)...

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Pusha T and Rick Ross, "Millions"

by Dave Bry Here is a good new rap song from Pusha T of the Virginian duo Clipse, and more recently, Kanye West's Good Music collective. It has a guest verse from Rick Ross on it, which I think...

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Toothless Woman's Toothless Children Possibly Cola-Related

by Dave Bry "Drinking large quantities of Coca-Cola was a 'substantial factor' in the death of a 30-year-old woman in New Zealand, a coroner has said. Natasha Harris, who died three years ago after a...

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Jim James, "A New Life"

by Dave Bry The dancing woman in this lovely new video from Louisvillian troubadour Jim James (a.k.a. "Yim Yames," also of My Morning Jacket and The Monsters of Folk) is a lot like this guy in this...

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Would You Be Able To Tell The Difference Between A Robot Actor And, Say, Ryan...

by Dave Bry "Robots and humans acted together in harmony for this particular performance. But Hirata suggested that robot actors could begin replacing human actors within the next few decades." 7...

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Justin Timberland and Jay-Z, "Suit & Tie"

by Dave Bry All right. This song is growing on me. It's just so expertly done in every facet. And the video helps. It's exactly what it should it be. (Justin Timberlake eats cereal while Jay-Z watches...

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Ten Things Love Does On Valentine's Day

by Dave Bry (Warning: nudity, neon phallic symbol) (These next three songs are all about the same thing that love does today.) 0 Comments

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