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“Terminator 2” in the age of Snapchat

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Thanks to Dare Obasanjo for the find!

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Music video of the day: “Common People”, starring William Shatner and the cast of Star Trek

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Here’s one from the “How’d I miss this?” file: a fan-made video of the cover of Pulp’s 1995 hit Common People, as performed by William Shatner on his first good album, the 2004 alt-rock surprise Has Been. It takes the song and adds cuts from the original Star Trek series, syncing lips and lyrics whenever possible (the “I’ll see what I can do” lyrics lines up perfectly with a scene where Kirk utters the exact same words). It was posted in 2011, and has been making the online rounds after getting some press on Slate by way of Dangerous Minds.

If you go back another three years, you’ll find a similar treatment using scenes from the animated Star Trek series arranged in a Kirk/Spock slash fiction manner:

If you’re not familiar with the original version by Pulp, here it is:

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“Moms guessing what porn terms mean” is uncomfortably adorable

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Distractify’s set of videos in which some very sweet, white-bread moms are presented with terminology commonly used in porn (and in my private life, hur, hur, hur!) and guess what they mean is nothing short of adorable.

Here’s the first one, where they’re asked to suss out the definitions of: BBW, DP, money shot, and glory hole:

In the follow-up video, they’re asked to ratiocinate the meanings of MILF, BBC, golden shower, and Japan’s gift to adult cinematography, bukakke:

I love the definition for MILF that one mom came up with: “Mother In Lactating Fits”.

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Photo of the day: Billy Corgan at Disneyland

Despite all his rage, Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan is trapped in the world’s most powerful rat’s cage.

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Photo from Consequence of Sound. Click to see the source.

And now, music:

Thanks to David Janes for the find!

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I like my coffee how I like my Death Stars…

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Found via Death Wish Coffee’s Google+ account. Click to see the source.

Today started with an early wake-up to make the 40-mile drive from Westford to Logan Airport to catch a 7:20 a.m. flight. Damn right coffee was involved.

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The accidental all-American bathroom

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I placed my swim trunks on the shower curtain rack in my hotel room’s bathroom and voila: ‘MURICA!

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Life’s too short for plain gray duct tape…

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…which is why I went with bacon-themed duct tape.