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You’ll all recall the two outtakes from I <3 HUCKABEES that circulated a few months ago of David O. Russell and Lily Tomin screaming at each other. Surely you’ve seen them, I won’t even bother linking. Shortly after they appeared, Michael Showalter and Paul Rudd put out a faithful, brilliant re-creation as part of The Michael Showalter Showalter.

Timed for its release in a few weeks, a video has now leaked with footage of ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT’s Michael Cera getting fired from the male lead role in KNOCKED UP. The scene from the outtake was released as a trailer a few weeks ago, and probably works better if you see it first. I didn’t love 40 YEAR OLD VIRGIN, and I wouldn’t normally run out to see a romcom like this, but I really am excited about KNOCKED UP — maybe it would make a good double feature with OCEAN’S THIRTEEN.

There are plenty of thing people buy just for the packaging, why not nothing? It’s really not such an awful idea, but it can’t help but feel like, in concept and execution, a final project for an art school industrial design course.

$6.28, from I Want One of Those, ships from the UK.

thanks gizmodo!

Reminds me of the artist who sells genuine new york city garbage in plastic cubes. only $50.

White-On-White Violence Claims Life Of Accounts Receivable Supervisor
Herbert F. Kornfeld, 34, was an alleged accounting gang leader considered by law enforcement to be a key player in a series of ongoing office worker turf wars. He was found dead Monday morning in the third-floor copy room of Midstate Office Supply, his employer of 12 years.

Sadly, I never met Kornfeld or had the opportunity to hear him speak, but I read his columns avidly. It was his raw, fresh-from-the-streets prose that first brought my attention to The Onion back in 1996, when a friend thrust a copy of one of Kornfeld’s essays before me. I was mesmerized. Kornfeld hasn’t been contributing much lately, his first piece since 2005 was published just last week where he recounted the recent rise of the increasingly volatile Accounts Payable department and the troubles he was having with the new generation of his Accounts Receivable bruthas. Kornfeld seemed distraught, but knowing what a stone cold muthafucka he is, I figured he would come to a measured, reasonable solution to the issues plaguing Midstate. He had survived so much, for so long, I always though he would achieve his dream of retiring to Branson, MO with his son, Tanner, now 7. I never could have imagined he would go out like this. Such a tragedy.

One year ago today I stepped off Amtrak’s Empire State line at Penn Station and into a exciting new adventure. I have learned a lot since then (where Penn Station is, for one), and maybe I’m not where I thought I would be a year ago, but I have also done a lot of things I never thought I would do. People have told me that your first six months are the best time you will have here. My first six months are mostly a blur now, all I strongly recall is a lot of work stress, not knowing where anything was, yet a hopeful sense of discovery.  I suppose it’s either a testament to my optimism or naivete that I continually feel like the next six months are going to be the best six months. Sure, I have some regrets but I absolutely do not regret the move as a whole, it’s been an amazing, inspiring experience and I’m really looking forward to seeing how the next year unfolds…  maybe i’ll even blog about it.