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Couches aren’t just for hiding drugs and losing coins in, you can get anything in there. Like pets. After all, what kind of domestic animal doesn’t have at least one completely ridiculous and inaccessible hiding spot? Why, that’s what keeps them in touch with their animal instincts, surely. In which case, the pets in Urlesque’s [...]

One time we saw a vending machine stocked with sushi, and we thought it was just about the worst, grossest idea we’d come across. Eating the tasteless, too-chilled sushi confirmed our suspicion that this was a bad idea, as did the subsequent case of food poisoning.
That hasn’t stopped people from putting things into vending machines [...]

With The Hangover coming out in North America tomorrow, the fairly mediocre bachelor party movie genre gets another entry at the low end of the spectrum. Not surprisingly, this has prompted list-makers to their movie archives, and though there’s major overlap between Future of Classic’s 10 Best Big-Screen Bachelor Parties and Clompex’s Top 5 Bachelor [...]

Today, we’re told, is Rooster Day – which, being half French, makes us a little tingly under the beret. Of course, the French only invented the rooster (hence why it is our national emblem), but now with immigration, globalization and whatnot there are all kinds of roosters. To celebrate just the choicest, tastiest of the [...]

Now that fears of the swine flu apocalypse are behind us, it’s time to start putting this mini-epidemic (minidemic?) into context. After all, comparisons to global zombiism pandemics as in 28 Days Later quickly proved excessive in this case, but there have been times when such analogies wouldn’t be so far-fetched. For posterity’s sake, Neatorma [...]

With the worsening economy and people cutting back on superfluous luxuries, will we see a renaissance in themed weddings? After all, it’s much cheaper to get all your bridesmaids Princess Leah outfits than designer dresses. If so, we suggest you get to studying so you’ll know exactly what you need when that special someone from [...]

We took part in a pretty incredible interview once. Our interlocutor seemed really interested, enthused and responsive every time we asked a question, we were funny, clever and – dare we say it – dashing. We were convinced that between our sexy new suit and relaxed but not unkempt demeanor it would be one of [...]

It’s always funny to read about the pop production processes that go into creating a hit track, and realizing that for the most part record labels have no idea what they’re doing. As a friend working for a major label once put it, “we just wait to see what sells and then try to copy [...]

Now that Earth Day is over, we can contemplate the end of Earth with a selection of those fabulous Cold War nuclear scare dramas. While we wait more and more impatiently for John Hillcoat’s adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, we suggest looking at some of the genre’s better entries, like those compiled by Future [...]

The other day we bought red peppers at the grocery store for the first time in four years. Seriously, they’ve cost $8.99 per pound for ages now, but last week they were suddenly $3.99, the same price as their less tasty green, yellow and orange cousins. We got really excited and wondered: “Maybe the days [...]