All Stories published by The Hairpin on December 02, 2011

Yacht Rock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX1Nh6c80wo

Have you encountered these soulful reenactments of musical greats Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald writing their most incredible, mellow songs? Because, if not, Episode 11 (“Footloose”) features Jason Lee as Kevin Bacon and Wyatt Cenac…


George Is the Trendiest, But John Is Still the Best

“He had two personalities,” Ringo says. “One was this bag of [prayer] beads, the other was this big bag of anger.”


If First Person Shooters are Wrong, Who Wants to be Right?

Zelda’s back, for the Wii. But, more importantly, you know you can get DOOM for your iPhone, right? (The functionality is terrible.) But DOOM is still the greatest. I made it to “Ultraviolence” in high school, but couldn’t survive the second round without cheat codes.


Thanksgiving Is Behind Us

Real Simple has an interesting algorithm for detecting “similar recipes”:


Epic Fail

Perhaps you might enjoy doing very poorly on The Atlantic’s (extremely pretty) Google Earth puzzle. Part One, Part Two.

From a distance / the world looks blue and green / and the snow capped mountains do not reveal a unique location.


No, Really, This Poor Guy Died

Well, it finally happened. Another lesson in the merits of a strict “peanut M&Ms and alcohol only” policy while airborne.

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