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popculturebrain:

Watch This: Splitsider Presents ‘The Exquisite Corpse Project’ | Splitsider

Comedy website Splitsider just launched a new digital distribution label ‘Splitsider Presents’ and their first release is the hilarious feature film ‘The Exquisite Corpse Project.’ Available for $5 over at their website.

Director Ben Popik gathered together his former comrades from the legendary sketch group Olde English and tasked them with writing a movie. The catch: each of the five writers wrote 15 pages and only saw the previous five pages of the script. He then shot the movie they wrote, as well as documentary footage of the writing process and all the drama that it entailed, and put them all together into a unique comedy.

I had an opportunity to see the move last night and it is really something special. Besides being extremely funny and charming, it speaks volumes about the creative process, collaboration and friendship. The way the documentary aspect mirrors the narrative they wrote is fascinating. The film becomes much more than a silly project, but rather evolves into a statement about human nature and relationships. You definitely haven’t seen anything like it.

Go get it. For real. You won’t regret spending the $5.

I used to love Olde English when I was in high school. I am actually really excited about this. Will definitely be spending the $5 to watch it this weekend. 

jtotheizzoe:

Meet the world’s most adorable frog/real life Pokémon, the Namaqua rain frog. I did NOT expect that sound to come out of that thing. 

Seriously, I can’t stop smiling. However, my dogs hate this thing. I challenge you to make it through this video without becoming instantaneously happy.

Previously: The phylogeny and evolutionary history of Pokémon

(video by Dean Boshoff)

I want one please!

dogshaming:

Just like stealing breakfast from a baby!

I just stole the baby’s breakfast from her hand.

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That face. 

jtotheizzoe:

That awkward moment when you find out it’s someone else’s birthday on your birthday.

magicismatt:

mrgolightly:

didyoujustmolotovmybrother

HER FACE

I loved this moment.

This is what I feel like doing today. But instead I decided to be productive and come into work (which I regret). I really just want to be in bed, not dealing with anything right now.

(Source: butthorn, via thefacci)

jtotheizzoe:

Overly Honest Methods: Uncovering the hilarious truth behind how science actually gets done

Earlier this week, in a fit of comedic inspiration, a postdoc named Leigh tweeted a funny lab confession and included the hashtag #overlyhonestmethods. By the end of the day, dozens of scientists had joined in, and the result is nothing short of hilarious.

Science is an incredibly painstaking and difficult process, and in addition to being quite funny, these tweets pull back the curtain on just how human a process research really is. Some of them had me raising my eyebrows right after I finished giggling, because please tell me you didn’t actually do that. Others had me nodding sagely in agreement, because sometimes you drop a tube or run out of a chemical and the world has to keep on turning, man.

Check out this collection of 75 of the best, and Robert Gonzalez has picked quite a few gems at io9. What are your favorites? Got any confessions?

YES. But of course we are more professional in my lab… Some times.

latenightjimmy:

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon - “Album Covers” Autograph Giveaway

The LNJF blog team successfully snagged the signed, original artwork from Fred Armisen and Jimmy Fallon’s Album Covers segment on Late Night. Instead of using them to decorate our apartments, we’ve decided to give them away to our Tumblr fans!

All you have to do to enter:

1. Follow the Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Tumblr 
2. Reblog this post.

Four random winners will be picked at 12pm EST on Friday, January 11th.

Good luck!

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Legal residents of the US who are 18 or older. Ends January 11, 2013 at 12:00 PM ET. For Official Rules, including odds and prize details, visit [Official Rules]. Void where prohibited.

Ok, I just have to rant a little.

People can harp on gun laws all they want, killers don’t really care about doing things according to the laws. No, I haven’t read all of the stories on the recent shooting, and I don’t have all the details, but I do know that the shooter did not get the guns himself. He took his mom’s guns. He attempted to do things the legal way, and when he was turned down he found another way to go about it. Please tell me how having more laws in place would have stopped him?

I am a pro gun kind of person. Maybe if the teachers had been armed then there wouldn’t have been as many fatalities. Maybe not. You can never predict what is going to happen, or what would have happend if something had been different. You can’t predict someones state of mind. If they’ve snapped, then they probably don’t give a shit if someone else has a gun or not. But I just don’t understand how making more gun laws would have stopped something like this from happening?

shortformblog:

hypervocal:

Surely this New York Post cover isn’t as unapologetically appalling as the NYC subway snuff film that graced the cover eight days ago, and this won’t get the same instinctual rebuke that cover did. But what’s up at the Post? When did they become Faces of Death? Go back to sex sells — this is ugly.

MORE HERE.

The New York Post: You hear about the deaths we were unable to stop, twelve hours after they happen. Seriously, WTF guys?

Just… Wow.