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Review: Yelle’s “Pop Up”

Artist: Yelle Album: Pop Up Label: Source Etc. Sometimes you hear songs that, when taken at their individual elements, you’d say “why would anyone like this?” but when taken as a whole, you’d say “how could anyone not like this?” That’s how I feel about Yelle’s 2007 debut album Pop Up. It’s an offering from

Top Ten: World’s Most Gaping Holes

10. The Arizona Meteor Crater (Shown Above) This privately owned hole in Arizona is known as the butt hole of the earth. It was created by a giant turd shaped meteor that crashed into the earth’s crust an unknown time ago. Originally thought to be leftover from a volcano, until one day one man realized

Midseason Replaced: A Look at TV’s New Shows

Working with TV Guide’s list of new shows for this Fall season, we made our picks for shows that will have the staying power to make it through at least their first season.  This is not a list of our own personal watching habits (because seriously, who has the time to watch all this shit?)

I Went To New York and All I Got Was This Stupid Black Eye

So apparently people have been protesting corporate greed by marching on Wall Street. They’ve been at this for 10 days. The cops have begun using force to get them to go away because that’s what cops do: they enforce the laws of a governing body. One of which is to stop mobs from destroying property.

AFTB: It Always Seems Impossible Until It Is Done

Advice From the Bathroom is a weekly post where D-Sane regurgitates and dissects a piece of advice that an anonymous stranger leaves in the bathroom of his office every week. The ultimate goal is to attempt to uncover why said advice is left for all bathroom goers to see. Advice from the bathroom: “It always

Today’s Bullshit: Harry Potter Years 1-7 Part 1 Gift Set

Today’s bullshit comes from Amazon.com and Warner Brothers. For today only, you can purchase a DVD or Bluray gift set of almost all of the Harry Potter movies at a discounted price on Amazon through their gold box program. It would be the entire collection had the last movie not be split into two films.

Top 5 Bars in Austin On a Budget

We all know the saying “a penny saved is a penny earned,” but how many people follow that advice when it comes time to go to the bar? A lot of people like to pay a little extra for their drinks if it includes nicer service and cleaner bathrooms, but in this economy, you’ve got

Feast of Delicacies: The Party Pie

Feast of Delicacies is a pictorial guide to elegant dining as enjoyed by a modern foodie in the prime of the feast. He could smell the crust browning in the oven the next room over. The crumbs of previous meals adding their own suggestions to the delicate balance of meat and cheese. Silently he must

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Review: Fallout: New Vegas

Developer: Bethesda Softworks Platform: PS3 Genre: First Person Action Role Playing Shooter Fallout is a series I had never even heard of until the 3rd iteration hit modern consoles and PCs in 2008. I never played it but I watched a friend of mine play it. It made me sick to my stomach to even

AFTB: Amazing People Do Not Just Happen Redux

Advice From the Bathroom is a weekly post where D-Sane regurgitates and dissects a piece of advice that an anonymous stranger leaves in the bathroom of his office every week. The ultimate goal is to attempt to uncover why said advice is left for all bathroom goers to see. Advice From the Bathroom: Amazing People

Review: Gears of War 3

Developer: Epic Games Genre: Third Person Face Fuck Advertising Theme: Sad As we draw ever closer to yet another pitiful holiday season, one game company goes out of their way to prove they can sell you the same game a third time. And while I’m sure the final installment of Mass Effect will suck as

Boss Battles in Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Seriously, fuck this shit.

Cable TV? Yeah Right…

Published by in tv on September 13th, 2011

It seems like every month I get another of these goddamn letters in the mail from my internet provider telling me how fantastic cable TV is. Except it isn’t. $40 per month is entirely too much money to ask for “service” that is being provided. It goes to waste most of the time, it’s full

Human 1.0: Digestion As an Energy Source

Human 1.0 takes the stance that humans are not the perfect form of God-created life, nor are they the final link in the evolutionary chain. Be it through genetic mutations or cybernetic alterations, humans have a long way to go before becoming perfect. Let’s talk about digestion for a minute. Humans use this to collect

YouTube Round Up: Unicorn Robots & Horse Riding Lions

YouTube Round Up is an infrequently posted feature where we show off some of our favorite YouTube videos. This was on some other blog that a friend of mine showed me earlier. What you have are two artificial intelligence robots speaking to each other for the first time. If I were the programmers of these

September 7th GOP Debate: Simplified

The following is a transcript of the Republican presidential debate on Sept. 7, 2011. The language has been simplified for express reading and all bullshit has been removed. I have attempted to simplify each piece down to the purest point. Each candidate will then be scored against himself, giving a completely accurate representation of political

The Poor Vision Tax

This is not a call for a new tax, rather an attempt to expose the hidden tax involved in corrective vision. It extends beyond poor vision, i’m sure, but vision is a perfect example of something that should not be regulated. As silly as it is to assume that someone can see more accurately through

State of the Race to the President of the States of the Republic

As the time to choose a new president grows near, it’s easy to get lost in the confusion of media. Since there is no monetary limit on political campaigns; television, print media, digital media, and your roadways, will soon be plastered with advertisements for the candidate who will make the corporations who paid for those

Goodnight, Sweet Prince: The End of the Postal Service

In the wake of a horrible economy and a collapsing pyramid scheme instigated 80 years ago by socialists in the federal government which is currently being exploited by greedy, freeloading baby boomers (AKA social security), we are now seeing what can only be described in financial terms as “the end of days.” Even 236-year-old government

Review: Fantastic Mr. Fox

Director: Wes Anderson Format: Stop Motion Animation Film Runtime: 87 minutes that feels like 8,700 minutes Fantastic Mr. Fox is a stop motion animated film about woodland creatures doing things. I don’t really understand what those things are because there’s not much plot to be found in the film, but hey, it looked cool, right?

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