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Reminder to parents that u may think dressing ur tiny baby as a pumpkin for Halloween is predictable or whatever… I promise it is not and that nothing is cuter than a pumpkin baby
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One of the great PR blunders of all time:
Full disclosure: I napstered the shit out of Metallica songs
In May 2000, Metallica's Lars Ulrich delivered 13 boxes to Napster's office. Inside were the screen names of 335,435 users who had shared the band's songs for free.
Napster agreed to block them. To many, it looked like Metallica against its own fans.
In the video below, Ulrich explains why he did it. "Napster hijacked our music without asking."
It started with a leak. Unfinished versions of "I Disappear," a song for Mission: Impossible 2, were already playing on US radio. The band traced them to Napster.
On April 13, 2000, Metallica sued. In 48 hours, Ulrich said, over 300,000 users made 1.4 million free downloads of its music.
Napster said it stored no songs and only connected users. Fans called it sharing.
Ulrich rejected the word. "If I share a sandwich with you, I'm left with half a sandwich."
That September, Napster's founder, Shawn Fanning, walked onstage at the MTV Video Music Awards in a Metallica T-shirt. He said he had borrowed it from a friend.
Metallica and Napster settled in July 2001. That same month, Napster's free service went dark.
In 2003, Apple opened the iTunes Store at 99 cents a song.
Thirteen years later, Ulrich put it this way: "It's not about money. It's about control." He knows how he will be remembered: "It'll be in the first five sentences of my obituary."
So was Metallica protecting its music, or turning on its own fans?
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Zach-o'-lantern retweeted
“But Debbie…pastels?” gets me every single time
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Just did the thing where I take my melatonin, take a shower, and then forget I took it and accidentally take another one. Fixin to say what’s up to The Hat Man.
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Fester got one crumb of what Debbie was giving out and immediately dropped his whole family. Musta been YANKIN.
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I watched Addams Family Values tonight, I really think it’s the funniest movie of all time. No movie makes me laugh harder.
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Yikes on bikes
Sam LaPorta on not receiving an extension from the Lions, via @PardonMyTake:
"You know, like last year, whatever it was, Week 9, Week 10, you know, I break my fucking back for the team and then I'm going out there this year and I'm balling and maybe they're just not showing the love ... And in three months, if I don't get to wear the Honolulu blue and play for the Lions anymore, it's going to be all good. I'll go get paid somewhere else."
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I love how messy SNL could be.
Like when Chris Farley broke up with an SNL staffer. Farley said, "Well, she may find somebody better looking than me, or she might find somebody richer than me, but she’s not going to find anybody funnier than me."
Writer Fred Ward had to break it to him; he was wrong, the staffer had just started dating Steve Martin.
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we came a long way from this
Apparently, Hasan Piker saw Joe Rogan when he was at QT Cinderella's wedding. Hasan was staying at the same hotel, and he saw that Joe was trying to catch the elevator, so he held the door open for him, but Joe refused to get inside the elevator with him. 😭
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I no longer believe what the brewers did was stupid or harsh. Good job Brewers highkey.
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never putting any kind of iron cross on my body, sorryyy
Tyrese Haliburton arrived for the Pacers’ regular season opener in the Triple H jacket from his 2002 return
(@Pacers)
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