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“Despite all the affected teenage rebellion, I continued to call myself a Christian into my early twenties. When I finally stopped, it wasn’t because being a believer made me uncool or outdated or freakish. It was because being a Christian no longer meant anything. It was a label to slap on my Facebook page, next to my music preferences.”

This essay is just…just…perfect.

Warning: Video contains strong language and some heavy stuff to think about.

Gabrielle Bouliane (Austin Poetry Slam) (via eirikott)

I think that it would be ideal to live in a world where race was recognized as a cultural or societal invention that i believe it to be. At the same time, a lot of what I like about this life is a direct result of some extreme bullshit that happened, you know, hundreds of years ago…

—Kyp Malone (TV on the Radio) on NPR’s “All Songs Considered”

Kseniya Simonova won Ukraine’s Got Talent 2009 competition with her dramatization of Germany’s invasion of Ukraine during WWII, performed with sand on a giant lightbox. (via Kottke)

Craig Ferguson 7/21/9 A Late Late Show beginning (via Brian Rice)

ESPN’s Jason Sobel’s Live Blog Theme Song, written and performed by my friends, Far Beyond Frail

Cool A Cappella Version of Toto’s “Africa”

Site of the Day

Cool Guys Don’t Look at Explosions! (via Ben)