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aux Caption Contest: What is this dwarf from The Hobbit thinking?
By Josh Modell December 14, 2012 | 4:00pm
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aux The Joker and his flesh-mask are back in two haunting Bat-family titles
By Oliver Sava December 14, 2012 | 4:00pm
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tv The Simpsons believes in The A.V. Club bump
By Erik Adams December 14, 2012 | 3:30pm
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tv Glee: “Glee, Actually”
By Brandon Nowalk December 14, 2012 | 8:55am
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tv Unsupervised: “Black Squirrels”
By Brandon Nowalk December 14, 2012 | 6:55am
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tv Celebrate Christm... er... the holid... er... winter with Portlandia
By Emily St. James December 14, 2012 | 6:00am
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music Our favorite songs of 2012
By AV Club Staff December 14, 2012 | 6:00am
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aux Artie Lange opens up to Jay Mohr and Judd Apatow continues his rounds
By Genevieve Koski, Kevin McFarland, Kyle Ryan, Noah Cruickshank, Trip Cook, Maggie Serota, Steven Moore, Scott Tobias, Dan Fitchette, David Anthony, Oliver Sava, Scott Gordon, Colin Griffith, Claire Zulkey, D.X. Ferris December 14, 2012 | 6:00am
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aux The best podcasts of 2012
By Genevieve Koski, Aaron Frank, Nathan Rabin, Dan Telfer, Kevin McFarland, Kyle Ryan, Noah Cruickshank, Trip Cook, Steven Moore, Dan Fitchette, David Anthony, Colin Griffith, Marah Eakin, Claire Zulkey, D.X. Ferris December 14, 2012 | 6:00am
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music The least essential albums of 2012
By Kyle Ryan, Jason Heller, Josh Modell, Keith Phipps, Marah Eakin, Genevieve Koski December 14, 2012 | 6:00am
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tv Elementary: “The Leviathan”
By Myles McNutt December 14, 2012 | 5:50am
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tv The Big Bang Theory: “The Santa Simulation”
By Oliver Sava December 14, 2012 | 5:20am
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tv Burn Notice: “Odd Man Out”
By Scott Von Doviak December 14, 2012 | 5:15am
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tv The League: “Our Dinner With Andre” / “12.12.12”
By Margaret Eby December 14, 2012 | 5:00am
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tv Person Of Interest: “Shadow Box”
By Phil Dyess-Nugent December 14, 2012 | 4:45am
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tv It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia: “The Gang Dines Out”
By Emily Guendelsberger December 14, 2012 | 4:00am
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tv The Vampire Diaries: “O Come, All Ye Faithful”
By Carrie Raisler December 14, 2012 | 3:44am
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tv Last Resort: “Blue Water”
By Scott Von Doviak December 14, 2012 | 3:05am
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aux Comedian Duncan Trussell probably has “CANCER!!!”
By Kyle Ryan December 14, 2012 | 12:00am
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aux Hear a danceable new Foals track, "My Number"
By Josh Terry December 13, 2012 | 11:45pm
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aux Garrett Hedlund confirms he will be in next Tron movie, instead of doing whatever else it is that Garrett Hedlund does
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 11:18pm
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aux Tyler Perry creates two archetypically Tyler Perry shows for Oprah Winfrey's Oprah Winfrey Network
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 11:00pm
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aux Autechre announces Exai, a two-hour-long album
By Marah Eakin December 13, 2012 | 10:40pm
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aux The University of Chicago admissions office receives mysterious package intended for Indiana Jones
By Eric Thurm December 13, 2012 | 9:50pm
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aux Watch Hobbit stars play “Fuck, Marry, Kill” over Hobbit characters
By Tasha Robinson December 13, 2012 | 9:30pm
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aux Even Billy Campbell is done with The Killing
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 8:59pm
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aux TLC to explore death with the same dignity it explores all other aspects of life on Best Funeral Ever
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 8:23pm
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aux Kids! Enjoy Alien's light-hearted mayhem with this commercial for its action figure
By Nathan Rabin December 13, 2012 | 8:15pm
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aux Thurston Moore's iconic 1960 Jazzmaster stolen in Philadelphia
By Josh Terry December 13, 2012 | 8:10pm
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tv Yvette Nicole Brown, Kumail Nanjiani, and Damon Lindelof pick their 2012 pop-culture highlights
By Josh Modell, Marah Eakin, Emily St. James, Kyle Ryan December 13, 2012 | 8:00pm
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aux Justin Bieber narrowly avoided a grisly castration-and-murder plot by two hit men
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 7:33pm
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aux Scott Aukerman picks his favorite Comedy Bang! Bang! episodes
By Nathan Rabin December 13, 2012 | 7:30pm
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film A week of swordfighting films continues with Kurosawa’s startlingly bloody Sanjuro
By Noel Murray December 13, 2012 | 7:30pm
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aux Read This: Wired visits a Walter White lookalike contest judged by Bryan Cranston himself
By Marah Eakin December 13, 2012 | 7:00pm
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aux The Archer Live! Tour is a thing and it's happening
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 7:00pm
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music When Cloud Nothings played “Wasted Days” through a thunderstorm and without a PA
By Kyle Ryan December 13, 2012 | 6:30pm
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aux Watch Paul McCartney play a new song with the remaining members of Nirvana
By Marah Eakin December 13, 2012 | 6:15pm
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film Mel Brooks on how to play Hitler, and how he almost died making Spaceballs
By Steve Heisler December 13, 2012 | 6:00pm
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music Fartbarf, Neon Piss, and more: the year in band names 2012
By Kyle Ryan December 13, 2012 | 6:00pm
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aux Gillian Anderson to co-star on, possibly get eaten by NBC's Hannibal
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 5:43pm
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aux Want to listen to Björk's weird solstice song? There's an app for that.
By Austin Bernhardt December 13, 2012 | 5:30pm
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aux Little Miss Sunshine directors to tell the quirky story of Black Panthers founder
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 5:18pm
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aux Exclusive: Teenage Bottlerocket goes “Cruisin’ For Chicks” in a new video
By Kyle Ryan December 13, 2012 | 4:45pm
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aux Mark Wahlberg to make a movie about hackers and tell them to knock it off with the hacking
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 4:39pm
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aux Watch an exclusive Ben Folds Five performance of "Do It Anyway"
By Josh Terry December 13, 2012 | 4:00pm
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music Phil Spector’s A Christmas Gift For You aimed for respectability—and created a new tradition
By Noel Murray December 13, 2012 | 4:00pm
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aux The memoir of Kiss drummer Peter Criss is endearingly needy and sleazy
By Nathan Rabin December 13, 2012 | 4:00pm
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tv Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: "The Way Of The Warrior"
By Zack Handlen December 13, 2012 | 4:00pm
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aux Pacific Rim
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 3:48pm
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aux The Golden Globes also like Lincoln, but prefer The Newsroom to Mad Men
By Erik Adams December 13, 2012 | 3:33pm
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tv The Middle: “Twenty Years”
By Will Harris December 13, 2012 | 8:00am
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tv Top Chef: “Even The Famous Come Home”
By Emily Withrow December 13, 2012 | 7:00am
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film Save The Date
By Scott Tobias December 13, 2012 | 6:03am
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film Any Day Now
By Noel Murray December 13, 2012 | 6:02am
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film Consuming Spirits
By Tasha Robinson December 13, 2012 | 6:01am
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film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
By Tasha Robinson December 13, 2012 | 6:00am
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film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
By Tasha Robinson December 13, 2012 | 6:00am
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tv Watch Neil Patrick Harris get felt up in Neil’s Puppet Dreams
By Erik Adams December 13, 2012 | 6:00am
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tv Love (or Love Actually) is all around in this year’s Glee Christmas episode
By Erik Adams December 13, 2012 | 6:00am
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film Best films of 2012 so far: an annotated checklist (Part 2)
By Scott Tobias December 13, 2012 | 6:00am
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tv Arrow: “Year’s End”
By Alasdair Wilkins December 13, 2012 | 5:40am
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tv American Horror Story: “The Coat Hanger”
By Emily St. James December 13, 2012 | 4:00am
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tv Modern Family: “Diamond in the Rough”
By Donna Bowman December 13, 2012 | 3:45am
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tv The Hour: “Season Two, Episode Three”
By Emily St. James December 13, 2012 | 3:15am
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tv Survivor: “Gouge My Eyes Out”
By Carrie Raisler December 13, 2012 | 3:08am
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aux Visit the inspiration for Portlandia's feminist bookstore with Kumail Nanjiani
By Marah Eakin December 12, 2012 | 11:50pm
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aux People Still Buy Music: Believe it or not, some people still give CDs as Christmas presents
By Marah Eakin, Austin Bernhardt December 12, 2012 | 11:40pm
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aux The CW's quest for a Hunger Games-like show leads to it making The Hunger Games real, basically
By Sean O'Neal December 12, 2012 | 11:29pm
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aux Johnny Depp is confirmed to star in a movie in which his brain is uploaded into a computer
By Austin Bernhardt December 12, 2012 | 10:30pm
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aux They Might Be Giants announces new record for grown-ups, tour dates
By Marah Eakin December 12, 2012 | 10:20pm
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aux Someone assembled a Simpsons gingerbread house on YouTube, so it’s officially Christmas
By Austin Bernhardt December 12, 2012 | 10:00pm
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aux R.I.P. Reinhold Weege, creator of Night Court
By Sean O'Neal December 12, 2012 | 9:58pm
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aux Rocket From The Crypt announces first run of 2013 tour dates
By Marah Eakin December 12, 2012 | 9:00pm
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aux "Paranormal" Romeo And Juliet and Jennifer Love Hewitt's Pride And Prejudice added to TV's sort-of-reading list
By Sean O'Neal December 12, 2012 | 8:45pm
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aux New on DVD and Blu-ray: December 11, 2012
By Scott Tobias December 12, 2012 | 8:00pm
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music Loud’s best metal, punk, and hardcore of 2012
By John Semley, Jason Heller December 12, 2012 | 8:00pm
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aux Wavves announces new album for 2013, releases “Sail To The Sun” single
By Austin Bernhardt December 12, 2012 | 7:50pm
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aux Paul Revere may finally get what's coming to him with new AMC comedy
By Sean O'Neal December 12, 2012 | 7:40pm
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film John Boorman’s Excalibur covers the King Arthur legend in blood, flesh, and Jung
By Keith Phipps December 12, 2012 | 7:30pm
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aux “Weird Al” Yankovic posted a picture of himself with a dead hooker
By Tasha Robinson December 12, 2012 | 7:10pm
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music Mike Mictlan’s druggy, dirty “Spicy Peeñ” is a love-it-or-hate-it jam
By Genevieve Koski December 12, 2012 | 7:00pm
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aux The Screen Actors Guild really enjoyed Silver Linings Playbook and the hot TV comedies of three years ago
By Sean O'Neal December 12, 2012 | 6:44pm
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tv 10 episodes that show how Buffy The Vampire Slayer blew up genre TV
By Emily St. James December 12, 2012 | 6:30pm
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aux The Knife announces its presumably eerie, disturbing upcoming album with an eerie, disturbing teaser
By Austin Bernhardt December 12, 2012 | 6:30pm
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aux Bone up for The Hobbit with this handy dwarf flowchart
By Marah Eakin December 12, 2012 | 6:25pm
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aux Linus delivers Orson Welles' "cuckoo clock" Third Man speech in the most highbrow mash-up ever
By Josh Modell December 12, 2012 | 6:05pm
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film This week we're barely putting up with Jack Reacher
By Amelie Gillette December 12, 2012 | 6:00pm
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film Garbo sneezes!: 26 genuinely effective movie taglines
By Nathan Rabin, Parker Winship, Zack Handlen, Scott Tobias, Alison Willmore, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Noel Murray, David Sims, Tasha Robinson December 12, 2012 | 6:00pm
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tv The Sopranos: “The Blue Comet”
By Emily St. James December 12, 2012 | 6:00pm
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aux Paul McCartney to sorta, kinda front a reunited Nirvana at tonight's 12.12.12 concert
By Marah Eakin December 12, 2012 | 5:45pm
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aux R.I.P. Ravi Shankar
By Phil Dyess-Nugent December 12, 2012 | 5:34pm
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aux HBO developing Game Change sequel about the 2012 election we thought we all agreed we'd never speak of again
By Sean O'Neal December 12, 2012 | 5:09pm
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aux Cat Power breaks down in front of a bunch of kids (on Funny Or Die)
By Josh Modell December 12, 2012 | 5:05pm
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tv Tess Harper on Breaking Bad, Tender Mercies, and shooting Kevin Bacon
By Will Harris December 12, 2012 | 5:00pm
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aux There will now be even more Arrested Development beyond the new Arrested Development you'd already accepted
By Sean O'Neal December 12, 2012 | 4:32pm
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tv The American Dad Christmas episodes provide an antidote to holiday cheer
By Genevieve Koski December 12, 2012 | 4:00pm
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tv Christmas? Modern Family is more popular than Christmas now
By Emily St. James December 12, 2012 | 6:00am
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aux December 12, 2012
By David Malki ! December 12, 2012 | 6:00am
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tv “…And Introducing Chewbacca’s Family!” Case File #30: The Star Wars Holiday Special
By Nathan Rabin December 12, 2012 | 6:00am
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aux December 12, 2012
By Dan Savage December 12, 2012 | 6:00am
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music 40 great songs in 40(ish) sentences
By Noel Murray December 12, 2012 | 6:00am
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film The Story Of Film: An Odyssey
By Noel Murray December 12, 2012 | 6:00am
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tv New Girl: “Santa”
By Erik Adams December 12, 2012 | 5:48am
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tv Vegas: “Masquerade”
By Phil Dyess-Nugent December 12, 2012 | 5:45am
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tv Don’t Trust The B---- In Apartment 23: “Bar Lies...”
By Emily Guendelsberger December 12, 2012 | 4:50am
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tv Parenthood: “What To My Wondering Eyes”
By Emily St. James December 12, 2012 | 4:35am
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tv The Mindy Project: “Josh And Mindy’s Christmas Party”
By David Sims December 12, 2012 | 3:00am
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tv Raising Hope: “Last Christmas”
By Phil Dyess-Nugent December 12, 2012 | 2:40am
