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BenjaminTheAss

  1. Musical anachronism aside, this Great Gatsby trailer has me pretty... jazzed? youtube.com/watch?feature=… 8:24 AM May 23rd via web
  2. Minnesota Avenue has the worst Safeway ever. 2:20 PM May 22nd via Twitter for Android
  3. Apropos of nothing, what are the Coen Brothers doing? Last year was the first in, what, four years that they didn't have a movie ready? 9:05 PM May 20th via web
  4. Obama is like The Avengers movie, albeit in discomfiting ways. benjamintheass.blogspot.com/2012/05/summer… 11:23 AM May 19th via web
  5. Genuinely curious: do the characters in #Battleship realize their predicament is a bastardized simulacrum of a Milton Bradley guessing game? 7:32 PM May 18th via web
  6. Does Tom Morello really expect his radical politics to be taken seriously when he's contributing to the score for the Battleship movie? 3:48 PM May 18th via Twitter for Android
  7. No, Charles Murray, dismantling the welfare state is not going to make for better art. benjamintheass.blogspot.com/2012/05/viewin… 12:15 PM May 18th via web
  8. #AynRand's response to a question about #VladimirNabokov illustrates the deadening effect of her philosophy. objectionism.blogspot.com/2012/05/playin… 7:32 AM May 14th via web
  9. If an hour of lead time isn't enough for a 30 minute trip, #wmata, you're really going to need to get your shit together. 5:11 PM May 12th via Twitter for Android
  10. Until his next birthday, next year. 10:32 AM May 12th via web
  11. And help pass the time 10:32 AM May 12th via web
  12. They’re silly and rhyme 10:32 AM May 12th via web
  13. Who wrote many limericks you might have a-heared 10:32 AM May 12th via web
  14. There once was a man named Edward Lear 10:32 AM May 12th via web
  15. IRL antipodes of the 20thC Motor Company in #AtlasShrugged r the victims of Mitt Romney & Bain's parasitic investment objectionism.blogspot.com/2012/05/advent… 9:20 AM May 12th via web
  16. I remember the Obama administration comparing gay marriage to child rape and incest. What a difference 3 years make. slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/… 12:34 PM May 10th via web
  17. @BuzzFeedAndrew You need to update the article's last sentence. 12:02 PM May 10th via web in reply to BuzzFeedAndrew
  18. @DouthatNYT This ignores the arguments for same-sex marriage, as well as stigmatization SSM opponents have engaged in. benjamintheass.blogspot.com/2012/05/moral-… 10:26 AM May 10th via web in reply to DouthatNYT
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