Category: Time Wasters

Ridiculous Indie Rock Band Photos »

Silly bands looking silly in photos. When I’m not busy mangling PHP code or Photoshopping face wrinkles out of my photos, I can be found scanning lots of music sites looking for goodness to share with you. I’m a visual person and also a jerk, so if I deem an artist/band photo too precious, too staged or just too ridiculous, I will quickly move on and not click the MP3 or MySpace link.

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The Best of The Best Vintage Employee Training Videos »

A while back my favorite intrepid video explorer@morganclinesent me a delightful vid called “Cold Drinks” (below). Not only did it make me thirsty and very dancey (I counted it as a workout), it sent me into a dizzying YouTube search pit looking for other oddly fascinating employee training treasures. I found some goodies and then moved on to looking for old Big Drill Car videos, as you would expect.

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Things Now Sold in My Local Borders Bookstore Besides Books »

# Toys
# Sacks of Grain
# Timeshare Vacations
# Smart Fortwo Car Two-Packs
# Refurbished Nooks
# Nuova Simonelli Espresso Machines
# Barstools
# Karate Lessons

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Follow UsedWigs on Twitter »

Follow @usedwigs on Twitter and you’ll get all this unfiltered wisdom and so much less.

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What Has Obama Done So Far? »

Signed financial reform law establishing a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to look out for the interests of everyday Americans. Signed financial reform law prohibiting banks from engaging in proprietary trading (trading the bank’s own money to turn a profit, often in conflict with their customers’ interests)

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Bad Halloween Costumes: Little Mr. Kotter »

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My dad swooped in and picked up a couple prepackaged gems from our local variety store (Schatzows 5 & 10, Belmar, NJ) on his way home from work. A tremendous amount of thought was not put into the purchase. The costume box contained a semi-pliable mask (decorated with lead paint, I’m sure) and a chintzy, plastic smock that displayed the theme of the costume in an extremely budget fashion.

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Greatest Time Waster Ever: Photos of Sci-Fi Fans Meeting Sci-Fi Stars »

Thanks to videogum and @timheidecker for discovering this unholy grail of uncomfortable super fan photos that will—no doubt—be used one day by the FBI in some serious celebrity stalking and kidnapping cases.

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Actors Who Were Too Old to Play Teens But Did Anyway »

The Mathletes Club here at UsedWigs High have compiled a classroom full of actors who were well past their teenage years when they portrayed high-schoolers on the big and small screens

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Quality Tweets of The Day! »

I will help you find some very funny people on Twitter. Twitter is a contest and every day I pick the winner (except for Sundays, that’s when the Lord and I rest). This is a good place to find the funny people on Twitter.

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Julie Klausner is The Cat Whisperer »

If you’re like us and love Julie Klausner (read our 2007 interview) and love James Urbaniak (The Venture Brothers) and love lazy-ass cats, then this is like Christmas morning for you. Without any of that pesky Baby Jesus adoration.

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