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Ugliest Tattoos: In Case the State of the World Has You Feeling Schadenfreude-Deficient

Let's face it: things right now are...not great. The situation in Iran gets more and more intense every day. The economy is still utter poo. Psychos are out in full force and heavily armed. Personally, I often find myself feeling pretty crappy about being a member of the human race. And sometimes, when I'm that kind of mood, I just really need somebody to look down on. I'm not saying it's good or healthy, but sometimes I just need help getting out of bed with the knowledge that I'm not the biggest idiot around.

Enter Ugliest Tattoos.

Make Mine a Montage

For the second time this year, a sports team in my home city, Pittsburgh, won a major championship and provided me with at least a week of sports-related good mood when the Pittsburgh Penguins brought home the Stanley Cup. Of course, the win itself was awesome and capped off a truly exciting season and getting to celebrate has been terrific. But one of the best parts of a big sports event are the montages. I. Love. Montages.

MySpacebook Now Becoming a Reality

First, I want to draw your attention to the MamaPop Blingee to the left that I took waaaay too long to create. Considering how relatively shoddy the writing for this post is going to be because I put all of my creative efforts into creating that monstrosity, it would really mean a lot to me if you just drank that in in all of its animated .gif glory. If you don't check it out now, don't worry. I'm going to post it again at the end of this post just for good measure.

Anyway, the Blingee was inspired by the news that Facebook is going to pull a very MySpace-like move and allow users to create distinctive user names as of June 13.

The Dumbest Thing You'll Read About All Day: Twitter The TV Show?

So I guess Twitter is developing a television show?

"WTF," you say? Yeah, I don't know, dude. All I really know is that Twitter is making a TV show about people competing and chasing celebrities or something. I don't think there's an actual concept, to be honest.

Look, please stop sputtering at me — I'm just the messenger. I don't really understand it either. My brain is actually crashing right now thinking about it. Syntax Error. Abort, Retry, Fail? Yeah, definitely FAIL.

YOOOO LET YOUR INTERNET BE GREAT!!!!!!!!!111TWELVE

 In a perfect world, Kanye West would follow MamaPop closely, fuming or laughing with us whenever we give him a hard time. In reality, we can only imagine that the image to the left is what Kanye might see if he was a loyal MamaPop reader.

Things that Make You Go, "Whoa!"

It's a holiday here in the U.S., which means that there are many grills being fired up and many beers being consumed. Besides the obvious memorializing that takes place today for all of soldiers who gave their health and/or lives in war, it's not a day for heavy thinking. Er, well, at least not for me. So, I present to you some really cool pictures.

Submitted For Your Approval/Disapproval

A dose of random awesome to start your Monday off right:

Quimby The Mouse: A video put together by Chris Ware for "This American Life -- Live!" -- in which Ira Glass hosted an episode of the radio program performed onstage (I saw this live in the theater, and it was, incidentally, freakin' awesome).

The Star Trek Failure Generator: Because a "Failure in the trellium-D subspace node" sounds like some serious shit.

Louis CK in Time (video): I've loved this guy for years, glad to see him getting his due finally.

Obamtourage: Apparently Obama loves Entourage so much that he rearranged campaign commitments in order not to miss an episode. Now that's MY kind of president.

Awkward Family Photos: Man, they're not kidding.

Edward Cullen: I Can Has Brooding Cheezburger?

The best Twilight casting decision yet...replace whiny Bella with a delicious, tempting cheeseburger.

You're Gonna Love My Nuts

That's all. And you're welcome.

Auto Tune: Everything Sounds Better!

There may be nothing more grating than Auto Tune as its recently been deployed -- nay, applied to the listening public's collective skullcase with a sledgehammer -- in hip-hop and pop music lately. GRANTED. But I for one welcome the LOLs now being generated by the Auto Tune backlash and it's fine video products. Join me for a sampling of teh funneh after the jump, won't you?

My New Web Series Obsessions: Greg & Donny and All's Faire

Do you ever find yourself stewing in your own self-pitying and self-loathing juices, completely hating your circumstances in life and the clueless jackasses that you have to co-exist with on the planet every single goddamn day?
That was me over the weekend...well, that's still me right now. But for a few minutes this Saturday, my mood was vastly improved thanks to a friend who tipped me off to a few hilarious web series, namely Greg & Donny and All's Faire.

Feels Like the First Time: Reliving Your Cultural Watershed Moments

The AV Club has another fantastic and thought-provoking, loosely list-based article that asks its writers and readers to list "Things we want to experience again for the first time."

Did President Obama Violate Copyright Law With the Queen's iPod Gift?

A little brainteaser for all the geeks in our audience. Okay, fine, we're all geeks. Make that "for our audience."

"President Obama reportedly gave an iPod, loaded with 40 show tunes, to England's Queen Elizabeth II as a gift. Did he violate the law when he did so?

You know your copyright laws are broken when there is no easy answer to this question."

For real. Read the full article at Electronic Frontier Foundation's website. It's weirdly interesting.

(Personally, I lost all faith in our copyright laws thanks to the continued existence of Coldplay.)

MamaPop to Become Sovereign State; Sparklecorn to Rule

Fueled by Jager Bombs and Percocet, the writers of MamaPop have declared this site a sovereign state. That means that if you're reading this, you are now under our jurisdiction and will be subjected to all of the disciplinary wedgies therein. All hail Sparklecorn.