Category Archives: Dept of Awesome

Ironic Deaths

By admin | Published: February 21, 2010
Best Dwight K. Schrute quote ever, from the deleted scenes from “Blood Drive” on the Season 5 DVD of The Office: If you can avoid dying ironically, then you can live forever. I mean, it’s on every newspaper headline. Olympic swimmer drowns in bathtub. Poor man dies by falling bag of money. Child star dies [...]
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The Strange History of the J. Peterman Company

By admin | Published: December 12, 2009
This is odd: The J. Peterman Company was founded in 1987 by John Peterman. It took up the travel and safari theme originated by Banana Republic that was abandoned by them soon after their acquisition by The Gap in 1983. … The company grew by offering distinctive lifestyle merchandise within catalogs that differed from other [...]
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Final Countdown: In Which Your Face is Rocked Off

By admin | Published: December 7, 2009
Greatest. Music. Video. Ever. By the ultimate hair band, Europe. Gotta love the: Guys that look WAAAY too much like girls, even by 80s standards Big hair (see previous point) Headbanging (see previous point) Lighter tribute Massive potential for later use by magicians as a theme song Helicopter footage in the video Way the video-editing [...]
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Unstoppable

By admin | Published: December 7, 2009
Via an old Seth Godin post Music is Santogold‘s “Unstoppable”
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