The One With Thought-Provoking Shiznit [Facebook Roundup Weekend]

I haven’t done Facebook Roundups in a few months, so I’m compiling the best items from the ROTI Facebook Page into a series of posts for this weekend.

In this final entry, I offer you an assortment of superb articles and videos that will expand your mind and fertilize your soul.

There’s only one place to begin: A Liz Taylor tribute, and while we’re at it, a Paul Newman tribute as well. Two insanely talented actors who also happened to be ridiculously good looking. Rest in peace, you two.

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The New York Review of Books is easily the best periodical known to man, and not just for its academic bitch-fights in the letters section, or the most erudite personal ads you’ll ever read. The consistently superb writing makes the NYRB well worth the price. A recent issue contained a Janet Malcolm review of “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” that is hilarious, incisive, sensitive and thoughtful. It’s one of the best pieces of criticism that I’ve read in a long time.

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The One With Unfettered Hilarity [Facebook Roundup Weekend]

I haven’t done Facebook Roundups in a few months, so I’m compiling the best items from the ROTI Facebook Page into a series of posts for this weekend.

This is the first entry, with the funniest items I’ve come across since December dawned. Hope you have not recently been stitched up in the midsection, I assume no liability for this.

The picture above? It’s the mugshot of a dude who allegedly swallowed an entire bag of cocaine.

ROTI reader Izzie B found this insanely amusing video from The Kelly Family.

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Buzzfeed calls these “Unusable” stock photos. Au contraire, they seem very useful to me. Especially when you need to evoke the symbolism of “cakepillow.”

We’ve seen the Olsen Twins host a pizza party, and cringed when they assigned the only black person to wield the chicken drumstick. But it turns out this isn’t the only instance of Mary Kate and Ashley’s adorable racism:

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Anyone who loved Making the Band 2 will enjoy this old Chappelle’s Show clip, in which he completely skewers reggae-rapper Dylan. Not that the guy had any talent to begin with, but Chappelle destroyed him for all time. He’s still out there trying to make it in the music business, but every other comment on his videos is “I rip and I rhyme, I rhyme and I rip!”

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The One With Harvard Quidditch and Late Night Bacon [Facebook Roundup]

Here’s our regular wrap-up of the goings-on at the ROTI Facebook page. If you haven’t signed up for regular delivery of great links and videos, you should probably do that right now.

Last week, we learned that hundreds of college students actually play the “sport” of quidditch: wearing capes, horseying around on brooms, and tossing various athletic balls through hoops. It’s incredibly embarrassing to watch.

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