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Jay-Z recently stepped out onto the Glastonbury stage with a guitar for no reason to cover the Oasis classic “Wonderwall” to open up his set. He walked out and half assed fake strumming for a bit during the intro before he proceeded to belt out sub par karaoke vocals. I’ve got 99 Problems and this shit is one.

Self proclaimed heir to “the best rapper alive” crown, Lil’ Wayne is also guilty of misusing a guitar and being a rapper. From the “Leather So Soft” video to busting it out live, whenever Weezy F. Baby puts on a guitar I feel so backwards that I could make out Birdman Baby Sr. too.

Here’s by far the best video. This is also a good PSA for getting too high and thinking shit sounds good:

Okay, so let’s pretend you already know that cosplay cafes are nothing new in Japan. These themed restaurants began with maid cafes, featuring cute waitresses dolled up in eccentric variations of Victorian maid costumes who catered to the whims of normally girl-shy otaku customers. Soon after, ladies got in on the trend with the introduction of Butler Cafes, where they could be waited on by anime-haired pretty boys in tuxedos. And now, along comes the Hibari-Tei cafe, whose waitstaff is made up entirely of dudes dressed as waitresses. These men may be even less convincing as women than this picture, but still, the employees interviewed above seem so earnest about how much they enjoy their job, it’s almost hard to make fun of them. Oh, and did I mention there are also cat cafés now? Thank you, Japanese people, for letting us laugh with you, and not at you.

[via Japanator]

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YESORNODC is organizing a site-specific event of performance, moving image and installation work for June 2008. We organize with new and unrepresented artists or work that experiments beyond the forms we conventionally see presented in the DC arts community. Send us a description of your work with images and any questions to yesornodc.submissions@gmail.com

If you thought that the combination of Gilbert’s return/last second injuries/crushing buzzer-beater loss to the bucks was the most exciting thing that happened to the washington wizards on wednesday night, then you were wrong. (incredible photographs here)

Congratulations, you made it to Friday! As a reward, here’s your lunchtime diversion: Mekuri Master (aka Schoolgirl Skirt Attack) is a free, flash-based online game in which you rack up points based on the speed and accuracy with which you lift the skirts of nubile high school girls as you run down a hallway. Yes, you read that right, and yes, that’s pretty crazy, but keep in mind this is from the same company who brought us Rose & Camellia, a turn-based fighting sim with Victorian women slapping the taste out of each other’s mouths. Thank you, Japanese game creators, for blurring the line between totally messed up and totally awesome.

Fenerbahce SK totally dunked on Chelsea today in the Champion’s League. Deivid blasted a straight sexy goal from many a yard out after an unfortunate own goal to send Fenerbache into Stamford Bridge with a one goal lead on aggregate. Colin Kazim-Richards scored a smooth goal of his own to equalize in the second half.

Arsenal and Liverpool drew even in the Emirates Stadium at one goal a piece. Adebayor totally got jiggy with it again with a bomb header despite his less creative hair style. Here he is with old buddy Thierry Henry with the cornrows and flava.

In other news…

Male model/Footballer David Beckham pumps up dumb sluts and myself tomorrow night on ESPN 2 as the LA Galaxy take on the San Jose Earthquakes…sigh…”Soccer”.

Ok, I think we’re good. 

Even if you’ve been under a rock for the past few weeks, you’ve probably still seen these posters all over the place, featuring hand-scrawled type on a white background and pouring some serious haterade on some poor girl named Sarah Marshall. Well, if you haven’t figured it out by now, the posters are all part of the huge viral marketing campaign for the Judd Apatow-produced, R-rated breakup comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall, starring Kristen Bell and someone’s least favorite British comedian, Russell Brand (I still think he’s brilliant, by the way). Well someone got so fired up over this campaign that they created their own version, this one dedicated to hurting the feelings of random trees. If you look closely enough in the photo, there’s a WordPress URL which, although it doesn’t contain much now, promises to upload more of these hilarious piss-takes in the very near future.

Big ups to SlashFilm.

UPDATE: Because some people are never satisfied, please let it be known that actor Jason Segel also appears in the feature film Forgetting Sarah Marshall. You can peep his IMDB entry here, or get more thorough biographical info via his Wikipedia entry here. (Oh the things we do for the sake of a cutesy love/hate blog relationship!)

In reference to Jonatron’s post on Battlestar Galactica last week, here’s all 3 seasons of the SciFi Channel’s original series condensed into just eight minutes. Reasons you might enjoy watching this: If you’re already a fan of this epic space opera, or if you’re a latecomer and want to get caught up in time for the fourth and final season, which begins April 4. Or, I dunno, even if you’re just a fan of incredibly condensed recaps of awesome sci-fi movies, like this one.

“Goddamnit, Bruce Springsteen wrote Born to Run when he was 24. What have I done?”