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Thanksgiving Drinks
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The holiday season is in full swing here at WNV, and we were hoping to share a little of our spirit with all of you. Spirits, more accurately. Here are a few of our favorite thanksgiving drinks to help you get weird this year.
Meat Alloys and Marketing Ploys
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Spam has been an ongoing annoyance since the beginning of telecommunications. Be it via telemarketer, SMS, ad-ware or e-mails, that's not a lot you can do to avoid it. In a heroic recreation of the final scene from Independence Day, Admiral Rowe hurls himself headlong into the belly of the beast. I don't have a good feeling about the outcome.
Hey guys did you hear about Rob Ford, the crack-smoking, drunk-driving Mayor of Toronto? Well, unfortunately for us all, Twitter definitely has, and as always, they hold only the most interesting of opinions about him and the future of his career.
I recently sat down to watch the film Thor: The Dark World. Consequently, I now have opinions regarding Thor: The Dark World.
Pope's Memoirs: Red Sox
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Some will call me monster for what I've done. Some will call me hero. But none of that matters to me. Not anymore. What's important is that we won. There were certain measures that had to be taken in order for that to happen, and those choices are now mine to live with.
The History of Halloween
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Halloween is a tradition that has endured for thousands of years in hundreds of cultures, and that is showing no signs of slowing down. While Christmas is slowly gorging itself on more and more of the year, lets step back and take a look at this spooky, scary custom's extensive history.
Pope's Memoirs: Working With Whitey
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In his many years traveling this Earth, Pope has experienced a great deal, and learned even more. In our new series, Pope's Memoirs, he shares some of that immense knowledge with the rest of us. Or he just makes a bunch of shit up. It's really hard to tell sometimes.
WNV: Insider
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Today we take a look behind the WNV curtain and see how the metaphorical (and occasionally literal) sausage is made. If you've ever wondered what fanciful adventures of literary and cultural discovery we go on to create content for this website, then buckle up: this one's gonna be underwhelming.
One More Thing: Prologue
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WNV takes a new direction today with the launch of our newest series: One More Thing, a long-running and mysterious story written as one chapter per post. Hold onto your butts; things are about to get reeeeal uncomfortable.
The US Government has been shut down after Congress was unable to reach an agreement on the 2014 federal budget. A number of Twitter users, as always, have some very important and insightful things to say about this. And I have some less than pleasant things to say about them.