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Beg for Mercy! Xmas Edition!

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

Here. No, really, take it! It’s the new Christmas episode of the “Beg for Mercy” podcast starring one of TheDirk.com’s VPs of Marketing and John Patrick Nelson as well as one Alison Star Locke Nelson.

You gots Santa laughing, The Jack Price Comedy Hour Holiday Treat episode from 1938, The Werewolf’s battle with The Creature from the Black Lagoon, and you got the ZookeepaZ with their new rap, “Thug Chriztmaz” (contains a sample from The Mormon Tabernacle Choir)!

Click up in it to get the episode!

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Amazon Review of “Ys”!

Monday, December 11th, 2006

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Joanna Newsom’s new album, “Ys,” blends classical harp with hardcore punk vocals (not the latter, though). Our in-house Amazon reviewer has something to say about it!

Click for his review.

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Ask Dr. Science-Patterson!

Friday, December 8th, 2006

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Hey, Dr. Science-Patterson! What is the history behind kids hanging stockings at Christmas for Santa to fill with toys and candy? – Christmas Cheerer, Biloxi, MI

Dear, Christmas Cheerer - This tradition reaches as far back as at least the early 1980′s in the United States when children would hang stockings at Christmas. The idea was that Santa Clause would fill them with toys and candy and other assorted goodies.

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F’n Christmas Cards for People!

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

‘Tis the season…for the holidays, that is! And greeting cards provide words, which are a way of conveying those holiday sentiments that just can’t be fully expressed through mere silence or acts of compassion and love. And what better words than those of our most classic songs and films? Huh?

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from Dr. Dre’s song “Let Me Ride”

Click here to open up this card to read its inside

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from David Mamet’s film “Glengarry Glen Ross”

Click here to open up this card and read its inside

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from Larry Clark and Harmony Korine’s film “Kids”

Click here to open up this card to read its inside

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from Todd Solondz’s film “Happiness”

Click here to open up this card to read its inside

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Didyaknow? Fairly Fun Facts!

Friday, December 1st, 2006

DIDYAKNOW that the Oedipus Complex is not limited merely to your desires regarding your parents? That’s right! According to Freud, not only do you want to sleep with your mother and kill your father, you also want to shake hands with your uncle and MOLD YOUR BROTHER-IN-LAW IN CHOCOLATE!

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