April 2010
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WatchArtifacts of Modernity presents a new Museum feature called ‘F*** Yeah Catholicism Coverups!’, where we take a look at the growing scandals surrounding molestation charges against many a Catholic Priest.
Today we go to a recent ‘Larry King Live’ where the President of the Catholic League William Donohue informs us that the answer to solving this problem has been to make it...
March 2010
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In Case You Didn't Already Know You Were a...
Science once again tells us what we sorta already knew but didn’t necessarily know to this extreme:
“Bacon and cheesecake can alter the brain in ways similar to heroin and cocaine, according to scientists who say they have found the most compelling proof yet that high-fat foods rewire the brain and drive the development of compulsive eating.”
We encourage...
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Best New Meme Ever: 'President Obama Looking at...
Behold, the current President of the United States, Barack H. Obama.
From Health care to the economy, he’s tackled quite a lot. But the awesome objects he tackles in this new meme open up a whole new frontier of bad-ass meets nerd meets awesomeness. Photoshop, you ask? I would highly doubt it. Let us introduce you to some of the examples of this newfound meme. Huzzah!
Barack Obama...
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How Hipsters Break Up (via txt msg via iPhone via...
hipsterdate:
The self-labeling as a “has been and always will be asshole”, the blaming of the other for not believing the “asshole”-ness, the self-declaring of being “over it”, and of course, the fact that this was sent as a text message on the iPhone…
It’s all so hipster. It’s all so postmodern.
Love (or lack thereof) in the time of...
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“I dont really care where you live at
Just turn around boy and let me hit that...”
– “Music”, according to the radio / Billboard.
The Museum is sorry that it’s not sorry about how much it despises Ke-dollar sign-ha.
The Museum would like to remind you that her inclusion into the Museum does not validate her role in society in any way; instead, it only looks to...
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Thanks to the Aesthetic of Cigarettes, Reading is...
Looking for a more cultured way to pretend to get your nicotine fix?
Hoping for a new way to illustrate your innate pretentiousness while expressing your intellectual strength?
Desperate to be an even bigger hipster d-bag than you already are?
Want to “read in style” without an iPad?
…Well, the Museum of Modern Artifacts (yes, people get us and the MoMA confused all the...
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“(In anticipation of yesterday’s Congressional vote on healthcare):...”
– Representative Steve King (R-Iowa), speaking to LOLer Scholar Glenn Beck.
Beck’s reply: ”This is an affront to God.” And don’t you all forget it.
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"Suri Cruise Ditches Dance Class to Eat Chocolate"
[Real News Story…Actually]
“So much for happy feet.
Katie Holmes took daughter Suri Cruise to dance class Thursday afternoon — but the two left just 15 minutes later. The 3-year-old “did not feel like dancing,” the X17online.com photographer who spotted them said.
Holmes, 31, cheered her daughter up by taking her to Le Pain Quotidien in Beverly Hills to pick up a...
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Do You Want This Kid??: A Purchasing Opportunity...
No parent is perfect.
And it’s by no means easy to raise kids.
And sometimes, in very unfortunate situations, being a parent becomes no longer possible or feasible.
Which is why it’s so great to know that instead of just abandoning their child, parents can now turn to the glory of the Internet to sell their unwanted sun/daughter. This brings us to an unidentified man who goes by...
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Wheelchair chic: A New Fashion Trend (presented by... →
As part of the Museum’s new “CARLES (the hpstr runsoff dude)” exhibit, and to directly exploit the hard work of other’s pursuits for finding relevant stories on the internet, we are proud to bring you what we like to call ”Copying hipsterrunoff word for word, because even though we could probably articulate shit better than Carles, we’d rather him do the dirty...
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HIPSTER UPRISING: AmApp's Williamsburg Store Under...
That Shit’s too Hilarious for words presents the following true story…
On Friday, March 5th, the American Apparel in Williamsburg, Brooklyn was attacked by “hipster revolutionaries”, who lay siege to the clothing store with stones and smoke bombs.
Welcome to the world of Retail Terrorism.
Here’s a quote from an innocent bystander:
“The the American Apparrel...
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WatchThe video has premiered.
I don’t know who exactly to blame for this bizarrely-thrilling-yet-hardly-seductive-but-potentially-mentally-damaging experience…
Do we blame Beyonce?
Do we blame Kill Bill?
Do we blame Tarantino?
Do we blame America’s legal system?
Do we blame diner culture?
Do we blame Ryan Seacrest RE: the way E! capitalized on this video-premiering process?
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I always wondered when this day would come......
The inevitable has finally happened.
Dakota Fanning is finally a hot mess of a slutty badass bitch (for film’s sake).
Yes, this is a trailer for her upcoming biopic film about the all-girl band titled “The Runaways”.
Yes, the above video is of Dakota singing The Runaways’ song ‘Cherry Bomb’/a music video for the song from the film.
Yes, this is...
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(Re-)Introducing a 2k's Cultural Favorite: Jihad...
America’s lowest ranked news source has more:
Washington (CNN) — A Pennsylvania woman has been indicted for conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists and kill a person in a foreign country, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.
Colleen LaRose, known as “Jihad Jane” and “Fatima LaRose,” has also been charged with making false statements to a...
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Mona Lisa + P Diddy = Hot new commodity →
Sometimes, hipsterrunoff says it better than our little start-up Museum ever could.
Carles, author of the acclaimed blog, has more:
In an effort to rebrand herself to fit in with the modern world + to fit in with tweens and minorities, the popular celebwhore “Mona Lisa” paid for the opportunity to chill with popular 1990s/2000s rapper Puff Daddy AKA Sean Combs AKA P Diddy AKA Bro Puffdy.
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A Whole New Way to Keep Kids Safe... (FML)
Dear 2010, I hate it here. See below:
Condoms in ‘extra small’ for boys age 12 set for Britain’s shelves soon
(taken from The Daily Mail, UK)
Extra small condoms for boys as young as 12 could soon be on our shelves.
The Hotshot condoms are going on sale in Switzerland after research found that not enough 12 to 14-year-old boys were having protected sex.
The condoms are...
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