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ICYMI: Mysterious Purple Orb Found Off Channel Islands Probably Aliens
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- What do you think
this mysterious purple orb scientists found
in the depths off the Channel Islands is? Probably aliens.
- In more comforting news about the ocean, scientists have discovered
a new species of whale
.
- The ultimate Bernie Bro:
watch Bernie Sanders' own brother cast a delegate vote
for the Vermont senator. You'll need a tissue, like Bernie does.
- Ghostbusters director Paul Feig is
making a film adaptation of an Elle magazine article
that is being added to our reading list: "
Supermodel Snowpocalypse
."
- Smash Mouth is back and
they've gone EDM
.
- It's like playing GTA but doing it IRL: a man led police on a chase across two counties in Washington
simply because he was bored
.
- Via Father John Misty's Instagram, the
crystal stolen from Moon Juice
has
spoken out
.
- Prosecutors argue that Harrison Ford
could have died
as a result of the accident on the set of The Force Awakens.
- And finally, all these conventions have gotten us in a pretty political mood. Here's Ronald Reagan getting punched in the face by John Cassavetes (after he slaps Angie Dickinson). From Don Siegel's The Killers:
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