Massive viewer complaints about glare from the Final Four venue ribbon boards on TBS’s broadcast led to the lights being blacked out late in the first half of tonight’s Oklahoma-Villanova semifinal.
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04 Apr 00:41
Stadium Blacks Out Ribbon Boards To Fix Horrific TBS Glare
by Timothy Burke on Screengrabber, shared by Timothy Burke to Deadspin
AlecbuggThat glare was atrocious
02 Apr 14:27
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AlecbuggMeet Brock Lee!
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01 Apr 12:22
dailygiffing: Video: Little Girl Shows Off Her Adorable BB-8...
AlecbuggTotes adorbs
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30 Mar 19:38
The discount rules at Mr. Yogato’s yogurt shop in Washington,...
AlecbuggJared you ever go here?
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30 Mar 19:19
Newswire: Oscar Isaac reunites with Alex Garland to lead us to Annihilation
by Danette Chavez
AlecbuggEx Machina was freakin awesome. This is terrific news
Although production on Star Wars: Episode VIII could probably keep him busy until that film’s December 2017 release date, Oscar Isaac has just boarded Alex Garland’s latest sci-fi project, Annihilation. The film, an adaptation of the first book in Jeff VanderMeer’s The Southern Reach trilogy, will reunite Isaac with his Ex Machina writer-director, a development we hope inspired Isaac to bust out a celebratory dance. After all, VanderMeer seems pretty psyched about the news:
Very happy that Oscar Isaac is joining the cast of the movie version of my novel Annihilation!
— Jeff VanderMeer (@jeffvandermeer) March 30, 2016
Fortuitous reunions aside, Annihilation sounds like a great fit for Garland, who seems more than capable of adapting VanderMeer’s genre-crossing novel. The story centers on a team comprising an anthropologist, psychologist, surveyor, and a biologist (who serves as the narrator). The four unnamed women are on an expedition to ...
25 Mar 15:02
You don't have to see Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
by Justin McElroy
AlecbuggThis article is making me re-think paying money to see it
You don't have to see Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
That should be obvious shouldn't it? Logically it is, of course; I haven't been forced to watch a movie since we watched Mr. Holland's Opus in driver's ed (it's a long story [the teacher looked like Richard Dreyfuss in the movie {OK, it wasn't that long}]). But throughout all the crummy trailers and poor reviews for Batman v Superman, I still harbored this thought in the back of my mind: "Well, fine, but of course I'll still see it."
That changed for me today when I was talking with Polygon entertainment editor Susana Polo about our review. We were commiserating that characters we cared about (Batman for her, Superman for me) were cast in a film that seemed to fundamentally...
25 Mar 13:47
The O.C. is finally going to be available to stream in April
by Julia Alexander
AlecbuggCaliforrrrnnniiiiaaaaaa....CALLLIIIIFFFFOOOORRRRNNNNIIIIAAAAA
25 Mar 13:47
Anime classic FLCL getting new episodes on Toonami
by Allegra Frank
AlecbuggWeirdest fuckin show I've ever seen. I can't wait
24 Mar 14:18
Great Job, Internet!: Getting hammered at Chipotle is possible, but it can be tricky
by Joe Blevins
AlecbuggFunny idea
Chipotle doesn’t seem to be able to give its margaritas away. Nearly half of the chain’s 2,000-plus locations currently serve alcohol, but booze only accounts for 2 percent of Chipotle’s sales. What’s the problem? Why don’t people go to Chipotle for happy hour? Foodbeast’s Elie Ayrouth decided to investigate the matter, and he has now filed his report. He admits that Chipotle locations are not exactly conducive to drinking: “Maybe it’s the ambiance, maybe it’s the high schoolers running around.” But he gives the place a fair trial anyway. Recently, he joined his roommate and a couple of buddies for an honest attempt at a fun-filled, alcohol-fueled evening at a Chipotle restaurant. The results were decidedly mixed. First, the good news: Chipotle makes a very decent margarita. Ayrouth ranks it as one of the best he’s ever had, and they ...
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24 Mar 12:08
Contest: Chicago, see Jeff Nichols’ Midnight Special early and for free
by Cameron Scheetz
AlecbuggHere ya go, Jared. In your wheelhouse
Writer-director Jeff Nichols has always infused his gritty American dramas with a bit of mysticism, but he’s getting outright supernatural for the first time this year with Midnight Special. Nichols casts his muse Michael Shannon as a father on the lam from seemingly everyone when it’s discovered that his young son possesses potentially dangerous superpowers. On their journey, the two cross paths with quite an interesting cast of characters played by Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, Adam Driver, Sam Shepard, and more. In his review of the film, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky states that this one-of-a-kind film is carried “by Nichols’ measured style and an embarrassment of wonderful performances.”
Midnight Special opens in Chicago theaters on April 1, but The A.V. Club and Warner Bros. Pictures have an opportunity for you to see it for free on March 29. For your chance to win a pair of passes to the ...
23 Mar 12:14
Family member texts the wrong number about an incoming...
Family member texts the wrong number about an incoming baby… wrong number shows up anyway (with gifts). (via phersephoneia)
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22 Mar 17:19
Amazon's new NFL reality series follows one team for an entire season
by Chris Welch
AlecbuggPretty awesome
It's not Thursday Night Football, but Amazon can now say it'll be streaming the NFL this year. NFL Films and Amazon Video have jointly announced a new show called All or Nothing, which promises a behind-the-scenes look at a single NFL team over the course of a season. Season one, set for release this summer, will recount the 2015 Arizona Cardinals’ season which concluded at the NFC championship game.
"All or Nothing will offer fans a glimpse into the week-to-week drama that unfolds within the lives of players, coaches and owners of an NFL franchise during the course of the regular season," the NFL announced in its press release. For football fans, here's the full synopsis:
21 Mar 17:22
Doctor Who is coming back to Amazon Prime Video as a US streaming exclusive
by Jamieson Cox
AlecbuggHere ya go, Jared. 6 days away!
Amazon's staring contest with the BBC over the streaming fate of Doctor Who is over. The company announced this morning that it's signed a multi-year licensing agreement with the British broadcaster, one that'll make Prime Instant Video the exclusive American streaming provider of the beloved sci-fi series' modern incarnation for the indefinite future. Prime members in the US will be able to watch seasons one through eight and their associated holiday specials on March 27th, and the ninth season — Peter Capaldi's second as the Twelfth Doctor — will be made available this fall. (The tenth season is scheduled to premiere in 2017.)
This is a major victory for Amazon in the company's larger battle with competitors like Netflix and Hulu....
18 Mar 12:28
Review: 'Midnight Special' serves up a strangely beautiful parable on parenting
AlecbuggGreat job, Jaeden! Lieberher earns all of it with a sensitive, subtle performance as this very special boy, and it helps that he's playing opposite Shannon and Dunst at the absolute top of their game.
A young boy who possesses strange and difficult-to-explain powers makes his way towards a mysterious rendezvous with his father doing everything he can to protect him from anyone who might stop him.
That's it. That's the basic plot of Midnight Special, and when you boil it down that fa...http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/motion-captured
18 Mar 12:27
Welcome to the "Animal" or "Food/Object" Mega Post!
AlecbuggI AM SICK OF THESE! IT'S VERY EASY TO DETERMINE WHICH IS A DOG AND WHICH ISN'T! ENOUGH
You've probably seen the "Puppy or Bagel?" photo by now. No? What about "Chihuahua or Muffin?" C'mon, these things are internet gold. Turns out there's one single person to thank for them all... or most of them, anyway. Her name is Karen Zack and she's clearly a gift to us all. Check out the best of her creations below.
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16 Mar 13:46
A Roof Collapsed Underneath Some Unlucky 'St. Fratty's Day' Partiers
AlecbuggThe result of that house that collapsed. No death's!
Thousands of students were gathered together in green for a "St. Fratty's Day" party at California Polytechnic State University. In the video you can see many people standing on roofs, exemplifying the poor judgment of drunken college students. That's all fine until one roof just couldn't take the weight and crashed to the ground, taking several unlucky students with it.
And here's a better angle of the collapse:
Firefighters responded to the situation and shared this photo of the aftermath. Some people were taken to the hospital but no one died. 
via @SLOCityFire
According to FOX6NOW, everyone is ok, but one person sustained a particularily nasty injury:
The city said in a statement that in the most serious injury, a person’s thigh was impaled by a piece of debris early Saturday. At least seven others were treated for cuts and bruises. None of the injuries are life-threatening.
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13 Mar 13:28
Some Evil Idiot Attacked The Iditarod Frontrunners And Killed A Sled Dog (UPDATE)
by Patrick Redford
AlecbuggHoly shit that's awful
