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The other day we were biking down a windy street and saw the prettiest thing: a swirling, spinning cluster of little off-white petals dancing in the street and up into the sky. Then we realized that it’s winter and there shouldn’t be any petals around. They were styrofoam packing chips, and we suddenly felt very [...]

Looking over this year’s Best Picture nominees at the Oscars, one legendary female character archetype – the phallic mother – looms large in The Reader and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (is Harvey Milk a proxy phallic mother to the gay rights movement in Milk? discuss). We’ll therefore be taking this edition of our [...]

The staff at CollegeHumor will be the subjects of MTV’s newest reality show, Editor-in-Chief Ricky Van Veen confirms. I’m praying the smart and hilarious group will put the final nail in The Hills coffin; a coffin constructed entirely of out of backlash and veneers. They’ve got more city-savvy than Whitney Port, more ironic [...]

The bloggers at Den of Geek compiled an epic list of the Top 50 Trips in Movies, ranging from eerily poignant hallucinations (Requiem for a Dream) to coked-up dance-offs (Starksy & Hutch). Here are their top ten picks:
10. American Beauty Suburban dad Kevin Spacey picks up a pot habit from the teen dealer next door, [...]