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• Inventor Kid Invents Useless Piece of Crap!

• 99% of Indians Polled Find Gay Cowboy Movie Very Realistic!
• Cancer Awareness Bracelets Found to Cause Cancer!
• Disturbing Hidden Camera Footage Reveals Local Health Club Still Playing Fabulous Thunderbirds Videos!
• ‘Real World’ Cast Member Dies During ‘Gauntlet’ Event, Doctor Determines Cause of Death to Be Old Age!
• Trader Joe’s Employee Goes from ‘Very Friendly’ to ‘Very Irritating’ in a Matter of Seconds!
• Rabid Sports Fan Hits Rock Bottom, Joins Fantasy Paintball League!
• Kevin Costner and a Really Bad Premise Team Up Once Again for New Movie!

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USA Today’s pop culture maven, Whitney Matheson, is on a well-earned vacation. In her absence, Whitney was kind enough to let me write a piece for her site “Pop Candy.” I wrote about a topic I know fairly well:  “Need a good podcast? Problem solved!” I give some recommendations on top-quality music and comedy podcasts I think pop culture geeks like us would enjoy.

If you drive a lot and don’t enjoy hearing your local radio stations blaring AC/DC and Guns N’ Roses every hour on the hour, or if you’re just plain tired of listening to your uninspired, played-out playlists as you sit on a bus or train, an iPod full of high-quality music and comedy podcasts can be your very best friend.  More>

Please feel free to comment On the Pop Candy site or here about other great podcasts we might enjoy. When you’re done reading, check out our podcast UsedWigs Radio.

Thanks again to Whitney, an extremely cool person who always fills your day with quality workday distractions! Follow: @popcandy

Hooray for Us! Thanks to PhillyBurbs and Chris Illuminati for naming UsedWigs one of “Ten Best Philadelphia Websites.” FYI, we won a year’s supply of butter (salted I hope, adding your own is time consuming). Since we’re in the midst of our own horn tooting and talkin’ PhillyBurbs, here’s a fun little interview we did with Dave McGurgan a few months back.

Creative Staircase Design: Cool? Yes, very. Practical? Um, maybe, unless you have little kids, old people or drunk relatives needing to access different floors of your house.

Music Blog Guys Unite! 5 of the top indie music bloggers in the Western Hemisphere have banded together in matching skin-tight costumes to fight crime, battle injustice and save the world from imminent… um wait, no, they just made another blog. It’s called MBV and will feature contributions from the masterminds behind Said The Gramophone, Large Hearted Boy, Fluxblog, Chromewaves and Catbirdseat. Why have the they joined forces? Not really sure. But the design is minimal so the content must be stellar. Website: www.mbvmusic.com.

Here’s a Brimming Cup o’ Cuteness: An orphaned deer and a wild rabbit quickly become best friends. [via metafilter]

State of “The State”: Funnyman Kevin Allison brings us good tidings about his old beloved comedy troupe:

“The State is doing a special for Comedy Central in 2009, and we’re finally releasing the box-set of our MTV series in the spring. More>“

Download This: I just discovered Issue Oriented, an excellent podcast featuring “Punk, hardcore, indie, metal and beyond.” The latest show features Tom Gabel of Against Me! Very cool.

Cool Gift: This cool little laptop desk will provide comfort for your internetting and cushioning for your boners.

Sad to Report: Philly-area writer and video producer Brian Hickey (City Paper, Philly Weekly) was seriously injured by a hit-and-run driver this past Friday night. He’s a good guy and talented writer, keep him in your thoughts, here’s the latest from City Paper and more from Philebrity.

So forgive me for another sunny little shout-out. CBS3’s Nicole Brewer just posted this funny follow up from her day spent with me and the boys. Nicole works very hard, even though Todd accused her of taking naps while she was filming our podcast.

(If any other beautiful female reporters only would like to spend a day with us, we’ll find time in our skeds. Drop us a line.)

“I went into the shoot expecting the content to make for good television, but never realized how much fun I’d have in the process! Jeff, Russ and Bob, er Todd were all amazing to work with and Russ’ wife Lisa even allowed us to take complete run of her newly remodeled home.

Even before the cameras were rolling, the guys had me in stitches. Of course, things only worsened once I put them on-camera altogether. (Can you say tangents?!) At one point, I had to cut the audio out of the video because you could hear me cracking up. (I’m pretty sure it was as a result of Jeff’s awful attempt at pretending to type for the camera b-roll.)” Read Entire Post>

And thanks Nicole for wearing the UW tee designed by Bob Marrone.

It must have been a slow news week in Philly… but we’re not complaining. The lovely, talented and extremely patient Nicole Brewer of CBS3.com spent some time with with Team UsedWigs (sorry, we did not have the cash to fly in Scott) and she produced a great video highlighting our little nonsense-filled website and our podcast.

Please read Nicole’s blog “What’s Brewing” on a daily basis for the latest and greatest in Philly-based fun. She Rules!

Watch the video here (be warned, the camera adds ten pounds… to my nose.)

• www.cbs3.com/brewer/
• www.cbs3.com/brewer/used.wigs.radio.2.796669.html

Nicole also took part in our podcast which we be available next week!

Please check back.

The folks who make Twix , the scrumptious mouth treat, have impeccable taste in time wasting websites. Go here: www.twix.com/needamoment/ and click on the floating wig and you’ll be magically transported to a wondrous place where dreams are fulfilled and wishes are granted.

I would like to thank Dave McGurgan and the nice folks at phillyBurbs.com for this swell little interview they did with me: UsedWigs.com: The phillyBurbs Interview.

You can learn important things like:

Q: Name the thing you’d like to see happen the least in Philadelphia?

A: Tidal wave or a John Mayer concert.

And much more!