This horrible day of half-baked tricks and low-key treachery is nearly done, but not before the sneaky quirksters at The Bold Italic pulled what I hope is the most well-executed April Fools’ I’ve seen today: a feature-length work of stunt journalism in which the entire staff purportedly worked in the nude for a month. Upon closer […]
By now, we’ve come to expect Stephen Colbert to get really weird with his political coverage, and he definitely delivered Monday night. His coverage of Philadelphia’s Democratic National Convention opened with Colbert doing a psychedelic 1960s-style musical number. “Death, Taxes, Hillary” was introduced as a bad cheesesteak-induced trip through the realms of consciousness and current events, such as the Democratic Party’s […]
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver alone is worth the fee of an HBO subscription, if you ask me. Oliver tackles each and every trending topic with a passionate point of view and sharp wit and is often able to take his “bits” further than other late-night comedians who are tied down by major cable networks’ […]
Victoria Foyt is the (white) author of a new young adult book series called Save the Pearls. The book chronicles the adventures of Eden Newman, a white woman, or a “Pearl,” whose entire race has been enslaved by the dominant race of “Coals” — or dark-skinned people. Hoping to capitalize off of the popularity of […]
“Here’s a little movie-magic fun fact for you. I did all my research by going on ChatRoulette, that website where guys masturbate for strangers. My moves in [the masturbation scene in] “Hall Pass” are an amalgamation of, I don’t know, maybe 20,000 different dudes. I took the facial expressions from SexHog22; I took the hand […]
Alexandra Kerry, 36, the eldest daughter of Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, was arrested last night for allegedly driving drunk. The LAPD said Kerry was stopped on a Hollywood street at 12:40 a.m., failed a sobriety test and was charged with a DUI. [AP] Come on, Alexandra Kerry! Even the Bush twins didn’t get themselves arrested. […]
What’s better than one celebrity taking down another well-known person on Twitter? Answer: an awesome celebrity couple doing just that. A few days ago, Chrissy Teigen and John Legend slammed Piers Morgan over his tweets about the late, great Muhammad Ali. While the world was mourning the loss of the boxing legend June 5, Morgan […]
It is impossible for me to write about Melissa Broder’s So Sad Today, a collection of essays based on Broder’s once anonymous Twitter account @SoSadToday, without talking about myself and my own anxiety and depression. I feel weird and embarrassed by that, I can assure you, but onward. One of the more frustrating manifestations of […]
1. Feeding Frenzy, Part 1: You’ve gotten a reservation at your city’s hottest, hardest to get into restaurant with a young, hipster chef who braises short ribs in Coca Cola and serves thrice cooked bacon over rice patties that look like scallops. The menu is so revered and so complex that you literally make a […]
