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oh, internet

News That Radiohead And Nine Inch Nails May Be Headlining Lollapalooza Prompts More Comment-Section Humorlessness Than Ever

Chicago Tribune music critic Greg Kot broke the news that Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails are probably headlining this year's edition of Lollapalooza on his blog, and the comment-section posturers were out in full force, hoping to let people know that they were, in fact, anonymously better than everyone else. To wit: "I paid $2 to see Radiohead in concert once back when I lived in NYC."; "The secret sale tickets sold out in something like 13 minutes this morning. No wonder you missed it."; and "Great! Can't wait to spend over $200 to hear these normally great bands sound abnormally mediocre thanks to generic festival audio mixing! Yeepee!" But my favorite comment has to be the one that was in response to someone trying to make a feeble joke about Radiohead's first big hit—you know, the one that they released when they were merely a bunch of 120 Minutes also-rans: More »

Times dining critic Frank Bruni gets Rickrolled in his own comments section. (I kind of saw it coming after he wrote incredulously that he was reminded of the adorable Enlish singer while dining at a Thomas Keller restaurant, but it was still funny, and would have only been better if the culprit had used the Mario Paint version instead.) (Also, yes, I am serious about the "adorable" thing.) [Diner's Journal]