No off-brand Genie for us, never ever ever.

We know it’s hard to imagine ever traveling outside of the loving womb that is the Morningside Heights neighborhood, but the rewards for taking a little trip to Brooklyn can be VERY worth it… you could, for instance, discover a three-eyed catfish living in the Gowanus Canal. Or, you know, you could just have some Dough donuts… (Animal Planet)

If you ever find yourself revisiting your college admissions essays and moodily wondering if a different Ivy would have been a better choice than CU, just remember that even Yale has its own problems (and every university needs to work on catering to POC students more attentively). (New York Times)

There were totally UFOs over Cape Town, South Africa this past weekend. Or, it could probably be something else, like clouds. But isn’t it more fun to gel your hair back in your best Mulder impression and whisper “the truth is out there” to all your friends until they tell you to shut up? (WeatherNation)

The late Robin Williams did probably the best thing possible for fans of Aladdin… he wrote in his will that he didn’t want his voiceover outtakes used for any postmortem sequels to the classic movie. Never again will Genie fans have to stress about the possibility of suffering through a perversion of the original film in which Jasmine cheats on Aladdin with the Genie… (MoviePilot)

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