Wondering what those guys in Cex have been up to lately? Well, evidently still riding high from making the male half of our office feel like horrible scumbags with their last release (and making the female half really confused for a few minutes), Cex have cooked up another gem of a cover. The actual record is an EP of remixes from the kiddie-porn record, but I’d be surprised if between handing the sleeve to everybody who comes over to my apartment from now on and asking if they’re into “bubblegum” it ever ends up in the stereo. I also like that while rat-braining the clientele of any number of record stores is fair game, spelling out the word “fucking” didn’t make the cut (click the picture to make it big). Nice discretion, guys.
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We’re not sure what it is that makes the British so much better than us at turning people into hideous monstro-beasts. The class system, maybe? Anyways, following in the proud misanthropic tradition of Terry Gilliam and Ralph Steadman is Cyriak (not to be confused with his Indian counterpart, Cyriac). He makes some pretty solid comics and parodies of British TV shows, but his best work is in the medium of GIF. As in those tiny thumbnail animations that used to litter everybody’s geocities page back at the beginning of the internet. Cyriak has made literally hundreds of the little buggers, running the gamut from really cute to really grim to seems-really-cute-for-the-first-couple-seconds-but-then- something-horrible-happens-like-the-baby- barfs-out-all-its-organs. You can sort through the whole lot of them on his website one at a time, or you can treat yourself to a little five-minute break and watch this compilation of the best set to a score of his own creation. It’s hands-down our favorite thing on the internet for at least the next half-hour. Our UK office recently tracked him down to find out how someone with such a terrible name could turn out such excellent crap.

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On the way into work today a couple of us noticed this garbage bag full of smaller bags full of something. The boys guessed dog dookie, but every girl we showed it to said it was puke in bags and we think they’re right no matter how brown it looks (we tried to figure it out by smell, but it was just sort of generically gross). It’s basic logic: Bulimics who have roommate situations and can’t always puke in the toilet will puke in bags, store the bags up, and then throw them out all at once. You remember that MTV thing with the plastic tub full of vomit in that girl’s closet? Same deal. Now, tell us this, who in the hell saves up dog shit? Even if you were extremely lazy, you’d just leave it on the ground, and even if you were really into your dog’s shit you presumably wouldn’t dump it on the street in an untied garbage bag. So anyways: Barf. Case closed, right?