On the way to work, pretend the empty in the alley is spin the bottle for you, and save your win for later.
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Kayfabe
In professional wrestling, kayfabe is the portrayal of events within the industry as “real.” That is, the portrayal of professional wrestling as being genuine or not worked. Referring to events or interviews as being a “work” means that the event/interview has been “kayfabed” or staged, and/or is part of a wrestling angle while being passed off as legitimate.
I’ve mentioned this before, but seriously, look at it. The WWE is one of the single most curious juxtapostions one could hope for in this world, like Adaptation meets NASCAR.
Needle In A Haystack
Good readers of this Tumblr, I need your help.
I am trying to find a fantasy series from my youth that my memory has lost the title and author of. It was in my grade school library, so it came out no later than early 1998. There were at least four or five of them, not long.
Of course, it starred a young poor boy learning how to be a wizard. One of the books had a castle and fair where everyone turned into animals, and the head wizard appears to the boy in the flames of a fire, telling him he’s got to save everyone or else, etc.
The first one may have had him rooming with a bratty rich wizard, who at one point got pissed and got in a duel with him, wasting a bunch of energy summoning a giant dog, not just an illusion of one - and then the kid summons a fake cage to confuse the beast, and the other dismisses it, with the narrator all being smarmy about how the other boy was being cocky and wasting his energy.
If any of this sound familiar to you, I’d love to know where it came from. Thanks!
And no, it is not this book (sadly).
It's a Long Way To the Top
Articles are easy. Someone else says stuff, and you just have to frame it right.
Coca-Cola Zero Facial Profiler, or: Does Anyone Even Remember 1984?
Yeah, okay, this. I actually thought this would be a really cool concept for a dating show - find two sets of people who look almost exactly alike, then send them on a date to see if they can fool each other switching back and forth, or maybe send them out with the mean “twin”, and a less attractive nicer person, but then replace the mean (assumedly hot, per TV rules) “twin” with a nicer version, or heck, replace both with twins and make the uglier one now mean to boot - it could be like The Little Mermaid but with some Twin Peak’s Black Lodge and Reality TV all mashed together. Basically what I’m saying here is that Coke took a promising possibility and turned it into a way for bros to have their labret piercings and baseball capped foreheads get matched up by poorly coded facial recognition software. Oh well.
Fleetwood Mac
DID YOU KNOW: Fleetwood Mac has had one of the most insane band histories I have ever heard of, ever (and I’m including Captain Beefheart here). 14 line-up changes! Grab a cup of cocoa and read! Put your feet up! Listen to “Dreams”!
The President and CEO of Club For Growth is...
I didn’t think that you could get much better than being named “Club for Growth”, who are behind the new Conservatives versus Republicans wave that saw it’s first fight in NY Tuesday. Predictably, they want the rich to stay rich and the ability to buy from the countries with the most despicable sweatshops cheapest products.
Their leader’s name? Why none other than…
