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Unnoticed Entertainment: Internet Comments Nobody Sees

By John Jacobs

It’s late at night, you’re up late, you should be doing your homework, but of course you’ve ended up on Facebook or Youtube watching irrelevant videos. That’s when you finally find the actual entertainment: the comments below. Starting with Facebook: ...

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Rap: Have the Lyrical Boundaries Been Breached?

By John Jacobs

If you haven’t heard the huge news in the rap world recently (and you probably haven’t), rapper Lil Boosie is currently in jail during an ongoing investigation for first degree murder charges linked to a total of five murders. He ...

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Sports and Entertainment: Tampa’s Great Divide

By John Jacobs

Tampa is a city full of entertainment. Unfortunately, sports fans, it’s not rare for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ games to be blacked out due to a lack of ticket sales (and talent). In the off-chance that a game is televised, ...

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A Day in the Life of an Average Tool

By John Jacobs

Here at The University of Tampa people make jokes all the time about what a stereotypical UT “tool” is like and how they would act in some situation. Although stereotypes are bad and just generalize a large group of people, ...

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Ninja Assassin: Terrible Tour of Japan

By John Jacobs

As we all know March 16 was the DVD release of the movie Ninja Assassin, so I decided I would watch it and write a review of how I thought the movie was. I expected to see a good action ...

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Chatroulette.com Is Like Russian Roulette for the Eyes

By John Jacobs

The most popular new online trend over the last few months by far has been the notorious “Chatroulette.com.” If you don’t know what Chatroulette.com is, it’s a website which randomly pairs you with someone else on the website to video ...

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A New View of a Nudist Colony

By John Jacobs

When I heard for my visual literacy class that we’d be taking a field trip to a nudist colony I thought, “Awesome it’s going to be just like walking around the set of a porn movie!” and the thing is, ...

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Ultra Music Fest: Get Your Freak On While Watching Freaks

By John Jacobs

Last Saturday I was lucky enough to attend Ultra music fest in Miami (for journalistic purposes of course). It’s the largest gathering of trance/techno/house/dance DJ’s in the world. If you’ve never been, I’d recommend it to anyone as it’s the ...

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Slightly Stoopid Concert at UF Shuts Down Early

By John Jacobs

Last Saturday on The University of Florida’s campus, Slightly Stoopid performed in front of a crowd of 12,000, only to have the whole concert shut down a mere six songs into their set. The school was completely unprepared for the ...

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March Badness Possesses Every Basketball Fan This Month

By John Jacobs

Last week, the men’s NCAA basketball tournament started, aka “March Madness,” and everyone has filled out their brackets and started studying other schools basketball teams more intensely than they studied for their midterms. Everybody always believes they’ve filled out “the ...

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Winter Olympics: Usually Irrelevant Sports Pit Countries Against Each Other

By John Jacobs

With the winter Olympics at an end, everyone can finally return to their normal lives after taking on the role of the ultimate patriots for those sixteen days in Vancouver. The Olympics are a unique event that takes place every two years alternating between winter and summer games...

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Summer Job Search Tips: Sell Yourself…and a Little Dignity

By John Jacobs

With the new semester almost halfway through, it’s around that time where students are applying to summer jobs or internships and anxiously waiting to find out what their plans are going to be for the upcoming summer. However, it doesn’t ...

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