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Audioslave breaks up.

Cornell sez: "I wish the other three members nothing but the best in all of their future endeavors."

What might the other three members POSSIBLY do with all their new free time?

Hmmm....

So long, Peter Forsberg

Traded to Nashville this evening. Hopefully, with him goes the most unexciting stretch of Flyers hockey in the past 10 years.

Ice Ice Baby

I just got back from picking up Matt at the Philadelphia International Airport, and I have to say that I am pretty disgraced with the way the roads in West Chester are. On most streets, including Gay and High street, it's like they haven't plowed at all, and there's a layer of ice and sludge at least 3 inches thick in those places.

It's not like this in other parts of the area. In fact, once you leave the borough, the streets are clear and dry all the way onto I-95. Seriously, even Erie probably has better roads than this. So fuck you, West Chester. No other place I've been in my life makes me wish I didn't have to drive anywhere, ever.

Olbermann re-ups with MSNBC

From MSNBC:

Keith Olbermann will continue to be a thorn in Bill O'Reilly's side for at least four more years.

NBC News announced Thursday it had agreed to a "second term" with the MSNBC "Countdown" host, whose contract was due to expire next month. The extension will take him into 2011.

Besides feuding with Fox News Channel's O'Reilly, Olbermann has become a liberal hero. He has seen his ratings increase since launching a series of anti-President Bush commentaries late last summer.

His prime-time program averaged 715,000 viewers in January, according to Nielsen Media Research. While his audience is often less than a third of O'Reilly's in the same time slot, Olbermann's viewership is up 85 percent over January 2006.

While Keith isn't exactly a model of objectivity in journalism today (see his World's Worst feature), he's certainly a refreshing breath of cool air in the face of windbags like Sean Hannity & Brit Hume, folks who disseminate conservative propaganda under the thinly-veiled guise of "news anchor". Keith, who knows a thing or two about putting on an engaging show, has sprinkled in the occasional Edward R. Murrow-inspired Special Comment, passionately lambasting the same news figures that the rest of the media coddles.

While it's ultimately the duty of a news anchor to concentrate only on the news rather than making news themselves, Keith is to be commended for stepping outside the bounds of that role to return fire at hacks like Bill O'Reilly, criticize the rest of the news media, and serve as the megaphone for the marginalized American public. His skyrocketing ratings are proving to the major outlets that people want true balance and integrity in their news.

Link via [Crooks & Liars]

"Gnarliest Dudes You'll Ever Meet" base jump off the Comcast Tower

I felt compelled to post this after seeing it on Philly Will Do. I've been watching this building go up, a little at a time, for the past six months. On Sunday, these guys parachuted out of the unfinished tower from 20 floors up.

That's badass.

The "Hoohaa" Monologues?

Really?

"We decided we would just use child slang for it. That's how we decided on Hoohah Monologues," Pfanenstiel said.

They did this after a driver who saw it complained to the theater, saying she was upset that her niece saw it.

"I'm on the phone and asked 'What did you tell her?' She's like, 'I'm offended I had to answer the question,'" Pfanenstiel said.

There's this phrase, see, that adult use when children ask them uncomfortable-to-answer questions. It's called "ask your mother," and it conveniently removes any obligation from having to answer said questions, or to get offended about it. Certainly public censorship should be the absolute last course of action for a person that can't even be bothered to string together a decent explanation about vaginas to their ignorant little offspring...right?

Seriously, though, what child old enough to read signs and form coherent English sentences about them doesn't know what a vagina is? What about the word "vagina" is offensive to the person forced to talk about them?

I don't know, maybe if the production was called "Stories About My Cunt" -- then maybe this lady would have a point.

Sixers going back to the red unis

No word on when they're going back to not sucking.

Honestly, why the blue triangle on the shorts? What's with the white piping? Can't you just have a blue stripe down the side of the jersey and the shorts so it looks like something normal:



Link via [Uni Watch]