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(Experience this as a TikTok.) “Play is the work of childhood.” – Jean Piaget “or children, play is serious learning.” – Mr. Rogers Adult learning is

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  • I wonder if Kiera Knightley ever gets tired of making that face. You know — like she’s smug? But about to whistle.
  • “Quantum of Solace,” as a film title, offends me personally. It sounds like Fiona Apple lyrics.
  • David Cook sounds like a cross between Mike Patton and the guy from Creed. Yes, I downloaded his latest single. And David Archuleta’s. And I like them. DO NOT JUDGE ME. If lovin’ Jordin Sparks is wrong, I don’t wanna be right.
  • The bridge of Christina Aguilera’s “Keeps Gettin’ Better”? Total cameo by Helper Bot. What is up with that? Can the Helper Bot effect be the square-wave of this decade? No, because…
  • Square wave is still in effect, as on Kanye West’s “Love Lockdown.” Which rocks me PLAIN SOCKLESS.
  • Britney Spears’ “Womanizer” is like if you mated the verse of The Turtles’ “Happy Together” with a complete lack of rhyming. In the hands of, say, Ludacris, you would get fifty infectious giggly “womanizer”-based rhymes. Alas, as it is you have this:


    Womanizer, woman, womanizer, you’re a womanizer
    Oh, womanizer, oh, you’re a womanizer, baby
    You, you, you are, you, you, you, are
    Womanizer, womanizer, womanizer, womanizer

    LYRICIST FAIL.

  • After a long work week, nothing props you up for punkin carving like sugar-free Red Bull and Seagram’s 7. Ah, I am a classy lassie.

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