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Early Addition: Area Man Opens Up About Becoming A Hipster Meme
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Ben Yakas
Published Sep 19, 2013
Modified Sep 19, 2013
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- A 30-year-old man who was fatally shot in the head in Brooklyn may have been on the street all night before anyone noticed his body.
- Here is the ridiculously pretentious dinner invitation to the “The Influencers Dinner,” a monthly gathering of self-described “influentials” in Manhattan.
- A couple's dream wedding day was delayed after a man stormed into church having just hacked his testicles off.
- It Happened To Me: I was a Hipster Meme.
- The Pope said in an extensive interview that the Roman Catholic church had grown “obsessed” with preaching about abortion, gay marriage and contraception.
- Check out the creepiest anti-Obamacare ad yet!
- A morbidly obese two-year-old has become the world's youngest person to undergo weight loss surgery.
- The man who sharpens pencils for money has begun to tire of his line of work.
- Drake is apparently running a today-only pop up shop on Rivington Street.
- The final two Breaking Bad episodes will each be an extended 75 minutes long.
- And finally, this cat loves watching the Discovery Channel:
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