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nature

Shark Surfer

You see, they're not all bad. Once we all learn to be friends with our aquatic cousins we can harvest their colossal strength for the greater good of humanity. More »

2:45 PM on Sun May 4 2008
By ian spiegelman
5,995 views, 43 comments

movies

Genius of Point Break Finally Recognized By Government

Who among us could not be a changed person after seeing the 1991 beach-based thriller Point Break? Patrick Swayze as the surf gang leader Bodhi; Gary Busey as the world-weary cop Pappas; and Keanu Reeves as Johnny Utah, trying to do whatever he imagined an actor's job to be. The movie became an instant classic, of a sort, in 1991. It took 12 more years before the inevitable stage version of the show, "Point Break LIVE!," hit theatergoers like a surfboard to the face. And that show—in which an audience member is selected to play Johnny Utah each night, and "reads their entire script off cue cards in order to capture the rawness of a Keanu Reeves performance"—has put in five long years on stage before being awarded its own official day in a formal proclamation by San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom. As the immortal Bodhi said, "Goddamn! You are one radical son of a bitch [MAYOR NEWSOM]!" They should make it TWO days: More »

2:52 PM on Wed Apr 9 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
2,330 views, 28 comments

Latest by adminslave: @famousauthor: I don't know, but instead, imagine this: Center Stage Live ! more »

stupidity

A Guide To Safer Subway Surfing

Ads like this one got me thinking: Do people really ride outside of subway cars? Do they do it to the extent that the city of New York must spend thousands of dollars on an ad campaign advising mouth breathers not to take their own lives in their hands and screw up commutes for the rest of us? And if you were going to ride outside a train, would you really do it by clinging onto the outside edge of the closed door, terrified face pressed against the window so all inside could see your horror before you inevitably fell onto the tracks and died? The answer to all of the above is, sadly, "yes." More »

9:43 AM on Mon Mar 24 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
7,737 views, 49 comments

Latest by SlickaNicka: @riskybusiness: True...I got a case of the Bosnia embellishment-itis. Sorry. more »