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How many common idioms have the word "rock" in them? Redditor MariettaLittlelamb has (or actually had) a life-size cardboard cutout of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. She took a series of photographs that illustrate a long list of visual puns using the word "rock" -and there are a lot of them! I was particularly drawn to Rock Paper Scissors because all three elements work together so well.

Oh sure, you could think of more rock puns, but MariettaLittlelamb explained that the cutout is no more- he went to too many Christmas parties and never came home. He was definitely Party Rock. -via Uproxx  

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A fairly recent subreddit, /r/gifsound, is dedicated to putting an appropriate soundtrack onto popular gifs. Here's a compilation of their best creations from the past year. The YouTube page has a list of the posts they are taken from. You can go back through each to find the original video or gif if you are that curious. -via Daily Picks and Flicks

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The former Mets pitcher isn't shocked that Hall of Fame voters didn't vote in Mike Piazza last time around.

Around these parts, it is as clear as day: Mike Piazza should be in the Hall of Fame. He is the best hitting catcher of all time. There's no proof that he used steroids. Out there, it's different. Piazza doesn't have a World Series ring. He played during the Steroid Era. He maybe used steroids because he once had back acne, which is how we know what "bacne" is.

Now we can count former Mets pitcher Tom Glavine among those who doesn't think that Piazza is a lock for the Hall of Fame. Per Mike Puma, Glavine said of Piazza's candidacy, "[Was] he a first ballot Hall of Famer? I don't know. There are certain guys like that who are a little bit debatable."

Glavine also compared Piazza to Craig Biggio: "If you're not surprised that Biggio didn't get in with 3,000-plus hits, you can't be totally surprised [Piazza] didn't get in."

Glavine's comment about Piazza goes against what he told Alan Schartz of the New York Times about Piazza six years ago. Thanks to @nyyankeefanfore on Twitter for digging this up.

"He's a first-ballot Hall of Famer, certainly the best hitting catcher of our era and arguably the best hitting catcher of all time."

Of course, back then Glavine probably thought that Craig Biggio's 3,000 hits would make him a shoe-in, as well.

Let's not make Glavine out to be a villain when the information he is dealing with changed between 2008 and today. Still, it would be nice if the pitcher backed up his former teammate the way Chipper Jones did with Greg Maddux:

Chipper Jones on ex-#Brave Maddux: "Some dumb (bleep) will probably leave him off the ballot because no one else has been a unanimous pick."

— David O'Brien (@ajcbraves) January 7, 2014

The complete Hall of Fame Class of 2014 will be revealed on January 8 at 2:00 pm EST.

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As 50% of the Western world sleeps off the NYE hangover, Vampire Weekend, pry to get everyone out of their beds with a new rap remix of “Step” that features new verses from Danny Brown, Heems and Despot.… (in post Vampire Weekend – “Step” (Remix) ft. Danny Brown, Heems, and Despot from Hillydilly. More by this artist at )

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Let's retire the Wilhelm scream and replace it with the one at 3:59.

I’m generally not a tattoo guy, as there’s nothing I’m so committed to that I’d want it on my body forever, but I am a fan when tattoos get incredibly creative. This took me a half second, but once I realized it wasn’t just a forearm tattoo of Popeye, and it was one of the […]

A partial goal for our Summer Undercover series is to get our pasty staff members out into the sun, and with some help from Rogue Wave—who put out the excellent Nightingale Floors this year—we had one of the best days of the year on a boat, the Tall Ship Windy. For their cover, Rogue Wave played Duran Duran’s “Rio,” which was highly appropriate, and since they were already set up, they played a few extra songs for us. Also appropriate: the band’s own “Lake Michigan,” because that’s where we were sailing. The weather report scared us a bit, threatening wind and storms, but it turned out to be one of the most beautiful days of the year, complete with beautiful music. (And no actual rogue waves to, y’know, kill us.) Enjoy “Lake Michigan.” We did.

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Numerous sources have reported the death of James Avery, the actor who honed his commanding presence and regal bearing with Shakespeare, then wielded them as a foil for wisecracking youngsters like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Will Smith’s The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air. Avery died of complications following open-heart surgery at the age of 68.

If Smith’s smart-alecky scrapper sat on his throne as the Fresh Prince, then Avery’s “Uncle Phil” was the king of that popular early-’90s sitcom, where his stuffy, patrician ways clashed with Smith’s West Philadelphia breeding. And yet, while Uncle Phil didn’t stand for any nonsense—just look at what happened every time poor DJ Jazzy Jeff popped by—his was a tough love, and Avery’s portrayal ably toed that line between stickler and softie that makes for the most iconic of TV dads. Indeed, TV Guide ranked Philip Banks at No. 34 on ...

I decided to take a break from watching TV on the couch all day with my beautiful dog to post this new remix from YONAS that takes Lorde’s “Team” and gives it a quick spin, adding his own… (in post [Download MP3] YONAS – Team (Lorde Remix) from Sunset in the Rearview. More by this artist at )

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Farting in Public 2014 Calendar

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Gifs showing the end of the Weidman vs. Silva (ghastly) and Rousey vs. Tate fights.

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Maybe it’s because I spend the bulk of my time reading and writing about music or talking with people who do the same, but as much as I love TV and movies on their own merits, the second or third sentence I’ll say about any given piece of visual media usually deals with what sort of music it used, and how. This isn’t to suggest music is the superior art form and deserves the bulk of the discussion no matter the circumstances—I love writing about TV and movies, too, and maybe my favorite part of any of it is talking about where the different pieces of art interact and change each other. Soundtracks are pivotal. Not just because they sometime accompany the most iconic moments—that torture scene in Reservoir Dogs, that Scorsese montage (pick one), those final minutes of Trainspotting—but because a movie or show’s use of music shapes our experience of it, whether in how music is present or in how it can be conspicuously absent. We can have boilerplate network drama characters describing their origin story with distractingly generic orchestral swells (looking at you, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) or we can have a Walter White screed backed only by vibrating silence. The power of the latter sort, the absence, partially comes from how it could then later be juxtaposed against a sunny ’60s pop song or some other surprise. Just as so many of our real life memories are bound up in music, so too can music sequences be the checkpoints in a viewing experience. Music and visuals and narrative coming together is the sweet spot where a movie or show (or, since there are some included here, video games) can hit you on all levels at once. It’s when we’ve been following along enough to have the intellectual understanding of where the narrative has taken us, but also where that extra bit of well-edited music usage makes the entire experience visceral.

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Snowglobes usually depict idyllic scenes of winter wonderlands or important landmarks from around the world, but this series of snowglobes by artist Miss Heather depict those colorful, messed up and non-tourist friendly moments that take place in New York City, making them the opposite of what a visitor to the city would buy in a gift shop.

From Hurricane Sandy to Santacon, stop and frisk scenes to people taking a stand for public nudity, Miss Heather’s subversive snowglobe series Urban Renewal celebrates the diversity of good and bad that makes up life in NYC.

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In addition to everyone already left over from previous films, this one adds Wesley Snipes, Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson, Antonio Banderas, and MMA fighter Ronda Rousey. Because action movies loaded with cameos and Mel Gibson as the villain never go wrong... Seriously, the Expendables films are pretty objectively terrible - the first one had such bad editing that I still don't know how Steve Austin's character died, and the last one had shots that weren't even in focus. And yet I keep watching...mainly because I enjoy seeing Dolph Lundgren play a crazy person. The teaser's pretty straightforward, and crowded as all hell. Continue reading "The Expendables 3 Teaser Is More Crowded Than the Next Superman" >

Drinking in the Street, a guide

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