CovEtsy: Last Minute Christmas Wish List by Rebekah Hakkenberg

Still trying to think of what to get me for Christmas? Or just because? Here are a few ideas:

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Sassy Magazine, 1993 by Rebekah Hakkenberg

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The day I brought my first issue of Sassy magazine home, I found this page and immediately tore it out and put it up on my wall. I was thirteen, and up until that point I had been reading Seventeen without an ounce of irony.

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Best Internet Discovery of the Day by Rebekah Hakkenberg

Not gonna lie- I've watched this 7x in a row this morning, going on 8 right after I post this. It's a demo deel Mike Bivens made for Biv 10 Records. At 2:23, Yvette Nicole Brown (a.k.a Shirley, from Community, you guys) makes an appearance! There is so much good stuff on this reel, I want to hear more from everybody on it! Especially Hayden, Tom Boyy, Lady V, and this little known group called Boyz II Men... why didn't they ever make it big? The only exception might be the unfortunately named Whytgize...

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Best Tumblrs of the Week Posted by Alex Snider

Ugly Renaissance Babies. Had any of the artists ever seen a baby before? 

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Walking Dead: In This Metaphor the Barn is a Womb and Hershel is the GOP? by Alex Snider

Guys! Guys. In a half-season of nothing, so much happened this episode, so many pointless things learned! The episode opened real strong like, with a lot of looking and head-shaking and looking and nodding. Emmys for everyone! Daryl and Carol didn't bone but they probably will have sad sex soon (it's one of the Kubler-Ross stages). Maggie must still be on her period because, man, mood-swings! T-Dog (or is it T-Bone?) had a line! Glenn discovered the benefits of washing hair with raw egg (so silky, so shiny). Hershel is a mouth breather when he eats (I bet he breathes really loudly on the phone too. He really is the worst). Dale is maybe omnipresent? No abortion metaphor is too big for the writers (barn=womb, zombies=fetuses, Shane=crazed coat-hanger wielding feminist). Those life-guard thingys that are used to fish poops out of pools are also strong enough to wrangle zombies. Rick's Sheriff hat has magical powers to turn Carl into an annoying mini-Rick who feels empowered enough to lay down the law (pun definitely intended). Shane's forehead vein is thisclose to getting it's own spin-off show. Oh and they found Sophia. And there was great rejoicing. Yay.

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Sunday Songs: Eurythmics (I Love To Listen To) by Rebekah Hakkenberg

All of this week's songs are from the 1987 Eurythmics concept album Savage.

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"We Have to Address That the Basic Rights of These Community Members are Being Denied" by Alex Snider

"The greatest resource that we have in the North is not the oil sands, it's not the diamond mines, it's not the copper mines, it's the children who come from these reserves." Holy smokes. This. 

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Walking Dead: Boring Barn Zombies are Boring by Alex Snider

Another week, another notch in the ole’ patriarchy belt. Everyone got all up in Lori’s grill about her pregnancy, whether getting all mean girls about her weight (Glenn) or I dunno, being extremely anti-choice. Even the guy who wears a Hawaiian shirt and drives an RV and should be played by Randy Quaid weighed in on how during the zombie apocalypse she would bring down the survival chances of the Apple Dumpling Gang even more by keeping the baby. Gah.

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Groupon Facebook Ad or Derek's Profile Picture? by Alex Snider

Groupon and our BFF&E Derek have a lot in common, well one thing in common: they both have an amazing ability to find incredibly disturbing and/or hilarious photos in order to foist them on unsuspecting potential customers (Groupon) and friends (Derek). It's impressive. Pop quiz! Can you guess which of the following are pictures from the Groupon ads and which are from our friend's Facebook profile? THERE IS NO ANSWER KEY. Because there are no winners or losers. Totally kidding, the answers are at the bottom.

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'Riel Talk': An Original Jam by Alex Snider

Rebekah and I love R Kelly's unsung masterpiece Real Talk. Like know-all-the-lyrics love. We also love word-play and Louis Riel. Put the three together and you've got Riel Talk, the one-sided conversation between Riel and John A MacDonald during the Red River Resistance of 1870. (Let's call it a resistance and not a rebellion because language matters and the people of Red River were not rebelling against the Canadian government as they were not actually a part of Canada at that point; they were resisting.)

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Must Read Article of the Day Posted by Alex Snider

Oh man, this is an incredibly heartbreaking: The story of Tayshana Murphy, Chicken to all who knew her, basketball superstar, ranked the nation's 16th best point-guard in her class on the ESPN website, murdered on September 11th this year during run-in between rival project gangs. She wrote poetry and danced and wanted to play in the NBA and she was just 18 years old. 

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Are You Listening To 'A Tribe Called Red' Yet? by Alex Snider

You should definitely be listening to A Tribe Called Red. They are Bear Witness, DeeJay Shub and DeeJay NDN, three Aboriginal dudes from Ottawa. Their sound is dubstep meets club meets Pow Wow drumming and singing meets hip-hop with even a little dancehall thrown in to create their signature brand of "Pow Wow Step". And their videos are awesome and full of subversive cleverness. And they've remixed Diplo! And they've got a show in Toronto on Friday!

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"I am Over the Passivity of Good Men. Where the Hell are You?" THIS x10000 Posted by Alex Snider

The best thing you will read today (possibly this week, maybe this month), from The Huffington Post:

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Reason #81223084 Rebekah is the Bestest Roommate/Friend Ever by Alex Snider

She just made me a milkshake.

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Nellie McKay - Mother of Pearl Posted by Rebekah Hakkenberg

One of my favourites. And they say feminists don't have a sense of humour. "Take it off!"

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