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All I want to know is: How did ChickenDiapers.com remained unclaimed until 2002?

[WSJ]

This stuff never really gets old. Also, he’s French!

This is the kind of stellar branding that goes on in suburban Pennsylvania.

I knew a kid in middle school with a Fight Club T-shirt. The back of the shirt, which included the rather redundant list of club rules outlined in the film, proved a valuable distraction in the midst of eighth grade science, but I always thought it was a bit disingenuous. After all, I knew this guy—he got A’s in school and probably played a lot of video games. Presented with an actual fight, I find it hard to believe he wouldn’t wind up stuffed in a locker with a bloody nose.

Today’s revelation that Kyle Shaw, the 17-year-old arrested and charged in connection with a small explosion outside an Upper East Side Starbucks, only proves a theory I’ve retained since those adolescent years: Fight Club really appealed to losers. Read More ›

It’s taken awhile, and no small sacrifice of dignity, to admit that Shia LaBeouf is an up-and-comer, if not an already-came-and-doing-so-well-it-defies-all-logic-er. When the one-time Disney star nailed a leading role in Disturbia, wherein he churned out sarcastic one-liners and got to kiss a girl way out of his league, we at RA realized this pint-sized goofball was a force to be reckoned with. While the shock of seeing nearly-geriatric Harrison Ford duke it out with Commies made Indiana Jones a Shia sleeper, the 22-year-old’s reappearance as leading man in Eagle Eye meant LaBeouf was back in the saddle. Unfortunately for him, the action thriller, whose budget could no doubt feed a small country, lost out in the box office this weekend to, I shit you not, Beverly Hills Chihuahua.

Given that particularly embarrassing coup, perhaps its time to put Even Stevens’ quip-master back in his place. For this Dumb or Dumber, RA toiled away on a line-by-line comparison between Shia and original sarcasm-purveyor Justin Long, who would probably be on welfare right now if it wasn’t for Apple. Read More ›