Day: March 11, 2015

“Be yourself.” It’s a cliché, sure. But, with the ability to recreate ourselves (terribly) on the Internet, it’s important to remember that being yourself isn’t the best because we’re naturally the best. It’s the best because, dude, that’s the best you’re ever going to do.

For instance, I could aspire to be better. I could be Batman … until I wake back up in the ICU with severe head trauma from 10 years of martial arts training, frostbite and bullet wounds.

Lesson learned: Even if being me does not improve life for anyone or anything on Earth, I will be myself because trying to be Batman hurts and trying to be Stephen Hawking gets you rebuked by the American Association of People with Disabilities.

Now, if only the following people/companies would learn the same lesson …  Continue reading Take it from Snee: Be yourself

A man is being widely acknowledged for using an incredibly realistic and lifelike mask in order to rob a North Carolina bank (warning: autoplay).

Had he used a mask that actually worked, we might not be giving any acknowledgment. Because he’d still be on the lam.

Jurors ruled in favor of Marvin Gaye’s estate, forcing Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams to pay the family for copiously lifting musical elements from Gaye’s “Got to Give it Up” to write 2013’s number one hit, “Blurred Lines.”

Despite roughly all music produced today sounding nearly identical (and, really, all songs with rhyming lyrics are just bad poetry), jurors could not dismiss evidence that all but two bars in “Blurred Lines” contained elements from “Got to Give it Up.”

Musicians are now worried about what this means for their business, as nearly all art comes from building on what has been done before and then rapping some new lyrics over it, even painting. This could mean an end to pop music as we know it.

… What’s the problem, again?

This blog would never encourage you to do anything illegal. Which is why if you’re reading this in Ireland, stop immediately, and go do some drugs.

That’s right, thanks to a court ruling and a loophole in Irish drug laws, ecstasy, mushrooms, ketamine and other drugs are completely legal–until Thursday. An Irish judge has found one of the country’s biggest drug laws unconstitutional, which means that of the Class A drugs, which probably means most of the hard stuff, is temporarily legal.

Saint Patrick’s Day has come early for the Irish. In case you forget what’s legal on your way out to buy drugs, here’s a helpful song. (Last 30 seconds NSFW.)