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BenjaminTheAss

  1. Musical anachronism aside, this Great Gatsby trailer has me pretty... jazzed? youtube.com/watch?feature=…
  2. Minnesota Avenue has the worst Safeway ever.
  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?
  4. Obama is like The Avengers movie, albeit in discomfiting ways. benjamintheass.blogspot.com/2012/05/summer…
  5. Genuinely curious: do the characters in #Battleship realize their predicament is a bastardized simulacrum of a Milton Bradley guessing game?
  6. Does Tom Morello really expect his radical politics to be taken seriously when he's contributing to the score for the Battleship movie?
  7. No, Charles Murray, dismantling the welfare state is not going to make for better art. benjamintheass.blogspot.com/2012/05/viewin…
  8. #AynRand's response to a question about #VladimirNabokov illustrates the deadening effect of her philosophy. objectionism.blogspot.com/2012/05/playin…
  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.
  10. Until his next birthday, next year.
  11. And help pass the time
  12. They’re silly and rhyme
  13. Who wrote many limericks you might have a-heared
  14. There once was a man named Edward Lear
  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…
  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/…
  17. @BuzzFeedAndrew You need to update the article's last sentence.
  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-…