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Pajiba: We Don't Know What It Means, But We Won't Admit It

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Pajiba Love | Comments (13)



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In this year’s (Sh)it List, I revealed my dislike for our tagline, “Scathing Reviews, Bitchy People,” but many of you came out in support. Others offered up a lot of great alternatives. So, we’re going to keep Scathing Reviews as the official tagline, but for the next few weeks (months), I thought we’d have some fun and use a lot of the alternate suggestions in the masthead. This week’s comes from TrickyHD.

This is the week when most folks release their top tens (ours, traditionally, comes out next week), so I thought I’d plug other folks top tens this week. For instance, the AV Club named Mass Effect 2 the best video game of 2010. (AV Club)

Director Darren Aronovsky’s pick of the year: Angry Birds, which he played as fast as possible and immediately deleted (as did I, before I received a “30 Hours Played” badge and shot myself in the head). (WSJ)

The NYPost named Robyn’s Body Talk the top album of the year (I’ll try and do better with top ten album lists throughout the week. (Pop Wrap)

Ripley’s Beleive It or Not offers up the 10 strangest stories of the year. (Business Wire)

Vince Mancini easily one-ups Ripleys, however, with the 12 Strangest Stories of 2010. (FilmDrunk)

Our pal Chez has kicked off his 25 Best Singles of 2010. (Deus Ex Malcontent)

A bill pledging federal funds for the health care of 9/11 responders becomes law, and we basically have Jon Stewart to thank. (NYTimes)

Steven Zeitchick, who is kind of a bonehead, offers up another overrated films of 2010 list. Seriously: If you took a couple of these overrated films of 2010 lists and put them together, you’d have a pretty decent Best of 2010 list. (LA Times)

Here’s a new image from The Smurfs movie — they’re really tarting up Smurfette this time around. (Think McFly)

Five Retroactively Awkward Cameos in Would-Be Franchise Starters. (IFC)

Ryan Reynolds gets a divorce, and Alanis has a baby. Would’ve been a much better story if Alanis hadn’t named her baby … (Celebitchy)

Ask Jeff Bridges if he was high during his Oscar acceptance speech, and you get the best answer ever. (MTV Movies Blog)

Mocking celebrites without makeup is a cruel pastime, but it’s kind of impossible not to look. Ali Larter is not even the same person. (The Evil Beet)

Here’s a solid interview with the Coens on True Grit, via Jason P. (Deadline)

Damnit, as loathe as I am to include videos of cute pets, in the spirit of the holidays, here’s a classic: Two-and-a-half minutes of kids getting new puppies for Christmas. (H/T Scully) (Gawker)

This is whimsically adorable: A video montage of a dad videotaping his kids coming down the stairs for Christmas every year for 25 years, put together by the son.









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Comments

Are we sure that's Ali Larter? Are we sure that's not actually Charlize Theron from "Monster?"

Posted by: superasente at December 27, 2010 12:21 PM

Yay Jon Stewart!

Posted by: Jerry at December 27, 2010 12:29 PM

Don't wanna be here at work today, so I'm a wee bit 'Bitchy'.

---> Please do not give pets as gifts.

Signed, your local dog Rescue representative

Posted by: Ms MoMo at December 27, 2010 12:29 PM

Am I the only one who thought most of those women looked pretty good without makeup?

Posted by: jimbob at December 27, 2010 12:50 PM

It was hard to watch the video once the dog showed up, cause I knew he wouldn't be walking down the stairs eventually.

And yes, don't give pets as gifts unless you take the time to think about it. And don't just give them as a surprise, take the person to the shelter or the rescue organization, look at the dogs, try to match energy levels and temperament for your house/personalities, financial ability to take care of it.

It's like choosing a roommate for life, that you also need to feed, so don't take it lightly.

Posted by: e at December 27, 2010 1:28 PM

eesh. Some of those women looked fine, eg Barton and Shakira. But are the other women living on a planet with higher gravity? Really unfortunate.

Posted by: Ian at December 27, 2010 1:52 PM

I like when Dustin does Pajiba Love.

Posted by: Vince Noir at December 27, 2010 2:01 PM

Ali Larter was preggers in that photo.

Posted by: snapnhiss at December 27, 2010 6:29 PM

Please tell me that Feist isn't coming back

Posted by: Jack Random at December 27, 2010 8:35 PM

Most of those dogs-as-gifts were parents giving them to their children, which isn't problematic, as long as they chose a dog responsibly and realize they will be the ones caring for it primarily, not their grade-school children.

But otherwise, yeah...not the best idea.

Posted by: Lindsay at December 28, 2010 12:05 AM

Gisele Bundchen WITH makeup isn't all that. I'm still trying to figure that one out. She gets like 100 bonus points just for being Brazilian. Somehow.

Posted by: , at December 28, 2010 12:33 AM

Of course Smurfette looks tarty.
She is being played by 2010's Tart of the Year: Katy Perry.

Posted by: Simon at December 28, 2010 5:13 AM

Damn you Angry Birds!!!!!!!

Posted by: anikitty at December 31, 2010 10:35 PM