Justin Finnegan

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3/25/12!!!!

Weirdly enough, each one of these items has been a totem at some point in my life, (aside from the hat. Could never pull that one off.)

Friday at Five-ish: The bass line is enough for admission, but memories Cannonball conjures for The State’s Pants Sketch makes this doubly good. 

Ben Wyatt presents “Requiem for a Tuesday”

Best use of REM’s “Stand” since the opening credits of Get A Life. 

Yikes, the BBC employs a very loose interpretation of the word “flattering.”

BBC — CES 2012 in Pictures

Did I miss a memo about Groundhog Day today?

This National News highlight from The Onion is only funny to me because my wife is from Salem, NH and this seems like a thing she would do. 

Friday at Five: Sometimes you need the delicious combo of chugging guitar riffs and horn hooks to get you through the Friday crunch. 

If you find yourself afflicted by something on this list of fictional diseases, there is probably something on this list of fictional drugs to counteract the effects. 

Related: List of fictional Seinfeld movies; List of fictional last words; List of fictional books; List of fictional ducks

“@anniecolbert: The only adult that didn’t look like an idiot in animal hats was Davy Crockett.”

Challenge!

Breaking Bad in the soup line. Heisenberg spotted at Hale & Hearty

New location-based service idea: Sherlo.ck. Instead of telling you where a person is, like Foursquare, this app tells you all the places the person isn’t and then, based on this glut of information, you have to deduce where they are. 

Captains of Silicon Valley, I’d like my check made out to “Guy with the Best Ideas.”

Related: Sherlock Hemlock looks like Jeff Foxworthy

Great piece over on WNYC on New York City’s forgotten subways. But what of the Mole People? (Soundtrack: David Shire’s score to The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3.)

You know why I kind of hate Party Down? I can’t watch a classic like Trading Places now without being reminded of this exchange, which in turn makes me sad about the ultimate fate of Party Down. This is why we can’t have nice things. 

We are all taking it a little easy today after the New Years Eve festivities
last night. Roscoe still hasn’t quite recovered.

Decided to try and take a picture specifically for the Facebook Cover option. I wish my whole apartment was as hard-boiled as this one shelf on my bookcase. 

Cory Doctorow once mentioned that “Future Shock” by Alvin Toffler is one of North America’s most discarded books. Just saw a copy outside of a secondhand store in Brooklyn.

Future Shock on Wikipedia

Tourist 1: We need to go see Times Square, it’s on 34th St, next to that big library and Penn Station. Tourist 2: Also the Empire State Bldg. Tourist 1: And Tavern on the Green. I think that’s in Central Park. Me (being uncharacteristically helpful): Actually, Tavern on the Green closed. Doesn’t exist anymore. Tourist 1: Really? Now where are we going to eat?

Drunk Octopus Wants to Fight You