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There’s nothing quite like a fine musical rendition of nerd culture. With so many humorous, skilled and geeky musicians out there, I’ve decided the world needs presented with a daily dose of musical nerdity for a week or so. To launch, here is one of my favorites – and hands-down the world’s foremost rap about Hamlet.

“Hey There Ophelia” by MC Lars.

MC Lars is coming with MC Chris and a few other awesome fools to Mr. Smalls in Pittsburgh in early September. That would be a cool show to attend, if I had any other real-life friends who appreciated nerdcore, and if I didn’t have a distinct fear of small places filled with strange people of questionable cleanliness.

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I’m a big fan of Tanga. I have many annual magazine subscriptions purchased through them for between $2-6, and have yet to have any trouble with their service. Recently, they launched a new site into their family – LOLShirts. At its launch, they had a super cool $2 shirt sale. So I bought one. That was August 5. Since then, 19 days later, I am at the point where I can’t even remember what shirt I ordered. Obviously it hasn’t arrived.

From the site:

It takes about 3-5 business days for your t-shirt to ship and up to 7 days after that for delivery.
LOLShirts ships via the U.S. Postal Service by Priority or First Class Mail.
If you have not received your t-shirt in 2 weeks from the date of your order, please contact us and we can track it down for you.
Tracking will be emailed to you when the product actually ships.

I’ve sent two emails to customer service within the last week, both to no response. They say to contact them if you haven’t received your item in two weeks. I’m past that – I’m still waiting on hearing that the thing has actually shipped.

All this is curious given my previously great response to buying from Tanga. Did anyone else place an order through LOLShirts? Have you had success?

Update: (9/5/11)
The shirt finally arrived on August 29th, nearly a month after ordering it. I still to this day haven’t received any response from LOLShirts’ customer service in regards to my emails. At least I got the product. The shirt looks decent as far as quality goes, but I’m not sure I’d order from this site again unless they had another dirt cheap sale and I really didn’t care how long it took to arrive.

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Now THIS is Fallout DLC.

After pitiful Fallout: New Vegas DLC performances thus far with Dead Money and Honest Hearts, gamers were given a treat at the end of July with Old World Blues. Not only is it easily the strongest DLC package for New Vegas, but it is arguably the best DLC to date among all of Fallout 3 and New Vegas’ DLC combined. A lackluster performance of late has been easily redeemed with this content, completely worth the 800 MS points.

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Believe it or not, NPR took a break from talking about the debt ceiling! This afternoon, Steve Carell was on NPR’s Talk of the Nation, as he discussed with Neal Conan his upcoming movie, his departure from The Office, and a little bit about what goes into playing a funny character. There are a number of interesting points in the interview about his family and the methodology behind his work, which for any fan, gave a thoughtful behind-the-scenes peep into the intelligent, humble person behind the goofy chuckles. It was a great interview from a funny, classy guy. Check it out here.

Around 13 years ago, my mom bought me a book. “You should read this,” she said. “It’s becoming a pretty big deal.” As a 4th grade English teacher, I figured she knew about the trends. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone was the book she gave me. It looked strange, questionably juvenile, and I regret to say that I put off reading it for a short while. In my defense, I was 13ish, and that’s an age where you don’t like anything. I recall the book sat on my shelf for a short time before I decided to give it a read.

And then that was that.

All subsequent entries in the series were pre-ordered and read front to back on their respective release dates. Hours were spent online, chatting with others about the stories, taking trivia tests, playing the associated video games, and wishing Hogwarts was a real place, and Quidditch a real game. I wanted chocolate frogs and butterbeer and something to happen when I shouted wingardium leviosa aside from looking like a total nerd. None of it happened, but Potter was there to make it all seem real.

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Rebecca Black destroyed the lives of millions with “Friday.” I mean, I play it every Friday morning at work for all to hear, but that’s just because I’m a jerk. I quite enjoy everything about the song and its video because of its immeasurable horrendousness. It’s so bad that I can’t get enough.

And hey, I don’t have a music video. +1 for RB.

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Confused, uncomfortable holiday wishes from Tad, Pam & Goat.

That’s a really unfortunate place for a foot, Emma.

 

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You know when little kids go Trick or Treating, and old ladies open the door, look down at them and say “Well, what are YOU supposed to be?”

This is the film equivalent of that.

YouTube – Art Film :Lindsay Lohan For Richard Phillips.


I hardly write anything anymore. One thing I can usually be counted on to write is a review of a Fallout DLC. And folks, today marks the release of Honest Hearts, the second DLC expansion pack for Fallout: New Vegas. And much to my dismay, I am sorely underwhelmed.

Let me preface by stating that I played through the Honest Hearts story, got both endings and bagged all 120 achievement points in just over three hours. That’s $3.33/hr. And I even did all the optional missions that have no relevance to the actual plot. Let’s take a look…

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