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Aubrey Plaza went on Jimmy Kimmel to talk about her upcoming Grumpy Cat movie for Lifetime, and the result is an incredible display of high wire deadpan in which Plaza masterfully promotes her movie even as she skewers its very concept, likely leaving Lifetime execs' heads spinning as to what just happened. "It's not just for kids and cat lovers," Plaza explains, showcasing one of the world's great poker faces. "It's a gift to America. I think people are going to be blown away by it and I'm not kidding." Alright, Aubrey Plaza. We're sold ...

Baskin-Robbins, never strangers to new and interesting flavors, are celebrating Veterans' Day in the best way they could think up: camouflaged ice cream. They're calling the flavor First Class Camouflage (Sure. It's not like you could come up with anything better) and it doesn't sound half bad. The brown color is chocolate. The tan color is salty caramel. And the green color is vanilla cake. Not sure where Baskin-Robbins found green vanilla, but let's not quibble. The flavor will be available throughout November and ten cents of every purchase will actually go to the USO, so they're putting their money where your mouth is. Enjoy ...

Very big, very unexpected news out of Mars Hill today. Following the sudden, surprise resignation of famously controversial pastor Mark Driscoll, the massive, multisite church he founded will dissolve over the next two months. Each of the 13 churches that comprised Mars Hills' empire will either go their own way, merge with another church or close their doors for good. As Mars Hills teaching pastor Dave Bruskas wrote in a letter to the church today:

"Rather than remaining a centralized multi-site church with video-led teaching distributed to multiple locations, the best future for each of our existing local churches is for them to become autonomous self-governed entities. This means that each of our locations has an opportunity to become a new church, rooted in the best of what Mars Hill has been in the past, and independently led and run by its own local elder teams."

In the meantime, Mars Hill will sell all their existing church properties or allow them to be assumed by the new, independent churches. Mars Hill will also fire all their existing staff and then dissolve entirely. "Ultimately, the success of this plan, and the future viability of each of these new local churches rest solely on all of us continuing to be faithful in supporting Jesus’ mission through our attendance and continued giving," wrote Bruskas ...

Alvin Cross Jr. was out of jail and looking for a marijuana hook up, but for some reason, his friends and family wanted nothing to do with him. One can safely assume that's because Cross' Albany, Georgia community was looking out for him, not wanting him to get into any trouble with the law. But Cross handled getting into trouble just fine on his own. Out of options, he decided to text his probation officer to see if he had any weed to sell. Desperate times call for desperate(ly stupid) measures, and his probation officer had police raid Cross' apartment, where they found cocaine, so he's headed back to prison. Moral of the story is, well, you can figure out the moral just fine here on your own ...

There was waffle wedding cake. A friendly pit bull. Place-settings adorned with the silhouette of Lil Sebastian (RIP). A cool jazz club. A menu that contained Chicky Chicky Parm-Parm, steak and a big ol’ cookie. This Parks and Rec themed wedding had everything a Pawnee resident would expect at such a magical ceremony (warning, the post from Buzzfeed contains some explicit language). The “wedding” was the work of a photography duo from Michigan who collaborates with local caterers and vendors to stage a wedding for the purpose of showcasing their work. Each year, they choose a new theme for the faux-ceremony, and this time, they made the obvious choice: The union of Leslie and Ben. Almost everything used in the fake wedding was a nod to their favorite show—including the wardrobe choices, distinguished guest (including FBI agent Burt Macklin and the mysterious Janet Snakehole) and show references on all of the invitations. Sure, no one was actually married at the Parks and Rec wedding, but we can only hope that the photo shoot will serve as inspiration for a real couple to make this dream a reality ...

Virgil Griffith is a CalTech student who set out to find the correlation between average SAT/ACT scores and favorite bands, because life is short and we've all got to fill our days the best way we know how. Using Facebook, CollegeBoard stats and his own know-how, he put together this chart, broadly correlating bands' fan bases with their intellect. Of course, as he notes on his site, correlation does not equal causation, so the chart might not mean anything at all, but it's interesting. As you might expect, Beethoven fans are the smartest, followed by Sufjan fans. Meanwhile, Lil Wayne fans are solidly in last place. Among Christian bands, Jars of Clay fans rank smartest and as for last place, well, don't take it personally, Casting Crowns fans ...

As Parks & Rec gets ready to bow out of its delightful run, its stars are gearing up for other projects. Long careers seem assured for the likes of Chris Pratt, Aziz Ansari Aubrey Plaza, Rashida Jones, Nick Offerman and Adam Scott, but what of beloved team leader Amy Poehler? Well, it turns out she'll be re-teaming with Parks & Rec executive producer and staff writer Aisha Muharrar to write a new single-cam comedy for NBC, and the premise is one that might interest you. It will center around a young, agnostic woman who inherits a church building and a bevy of wild and wacky congregants. It's being described as "a work-place comedy" so it will probably be tonally similar to Parks & Rec, but word is, Poehler will be writing, not starring in the series. So you might want to get working on that audition tape, dear reader ...

If you’ve ever watched one of Bill Murray’s guest appearances on The Late Show, than you know that he’s never overly interested in promoting whatever recent film he’s starring in. Usually, he’s got bigger things on his mind. This week, he joined Letterman—wearing a tuxedo—only to inform him that the interview was coinciding with his marathon training. Pure Bill Murray magic ensues ...

Last time Jenny Slate and her husband, Dean Fleischer-Camp, released one of their irresistible "Marcel the Shell with Shoes On" videos, Slate was mostly known for her one season on SNL. These days, her future is looking bright, with her lead turn in Obvious Child grabbing all sorts of critical acclaim, as well as her note-perfect portrayal as Jean Ralphio's sister, Mona Lisa, on Parks & Rec. But she hasn't forgotten her best character, a tiny, sneakered shell named Marcel. But there's now a children's book to market—called The Most Surprised I've Ever Been—and she's back with a new video. Take it away, Marcel ...

Where other people saw predictive text as a new iOS feature that got what you were about to say right oh, maybe, half the time, Musician Jonathan Mann saw an opportunity. Here is his pop song comprised entirely of lyrical nonsense put together by Apple's predictive text, and it's the first true jam of the fall. "The only one who has been the most important thing is the only thing that could have a great way to the best of the best part is that it would mean the absolute world to me and my life" indeed ...

As any connoisseur of grocery store ice cream knows, the chunks of raw cookie dough found in pints of Ben & Jerry’s Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough are some of the best on the market. There is simply no arguing with this fact. A food blogger for Thrillist decided to find out how good the cookies themselves would be if he fished out the small pieces that had been marinated in the frozen goodness and actually baked them. The courageous snack scientist made it his mission to find out, “Are they actually, you know, cookie dough? Or are they some sort of weird, cookie dough-flavored concoction?” It turns out, they make for a pretty good batch of cookies. But that was simply a practice run to his main experiment: Baking an entire container of cookie dough ice cream on a cookie sheet. The results: “Pudding. Hot, delicious pudding … I ate the whole thing.” Just when we think there are no new frontiers left to explore, brave bloggers like Andy Kryza go prove us wrong ...

The Internet can be a lonely place. You throw your carefully-filtered picture of a sunset or some artisan meal you just overpaid for out into the ether, and just wait helplessly for a the digital affirmation known as a “Like.” Sometimes though, the Like never comes. The app “No Likes Yet” wants to bring attention to those forgotten posts by allowing users to browse only Instagram photos with zero likes. You can even filter only your friends, and view the sad, forgotten images in your community, and maybe even consider giving them the attention they never got the first time around ...

Oh, Internet. You've been around for a few decades now, but you can still delight. Today, that source of delight comes from a brilliant Tumblr called "Love, Grampa and Grandmaster Flash." Some genius noticed that an absurd number of grandparents—in attempting to sign their Facebook posts "Grandpa" or "Grandma"—accidentally let Facebook autofill the tag and ended up with seminal hip-hop emcee Grandmaster Flash. It's a small, silly mistake, but it is (a) incredible how often it happens and (b) a riot to see notes that read, for example: "Hi sweetie ...just sending you a hug ...love, Grandmaster Flash" ...