In the context of some weird speech about how Katy Perry, Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus and–of course–Madonna, were all in cahoots with Satan to turn all of the children into Satan worshipers, Baptist Pastor Charles Lawson of Temple Baptist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee, launched into a dramatic reading of the Katy Perry part of […]
When I arrived at the basement of the Calvin Theater in Northampton, Massachusetts, I found folk musician Ani DiFranco in the midst of trying to get her six-month-old son Dante down for a nap. Minutes later I spotted the young baby — still very much awake — strapped into a carrier about to head out […]
When I first went to 4chan.org, I didn’t know what the heck was going on. It’s a pretty plain-looking site with long lists of random topics that users can click on. However, once I unlocked the secrets of this site, I realized that it’s basically like an internet army. It’s turned into a place where […]
Kanye West is having a hard time right now. He was admitted to the UCLA Medical Center on Nov. 21 for exhaustion and sleep deprivation, and reports claim the Chi-town rapper was encouraged to check himself in after alleged erratic behavior at his personal trainer’s home. Unidentified sources reportedly revealed that November is a hard time […]
America’s hottest supercouple is officially calling it quits, and there are so many theories about why Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are divorcing that it’s hard to focus on anything else. What earthly thing could have come between these heavenly bodies? Jolie filed for divorce citing “irreconcilable differences,” but that’s a catchall phrase that everyone […]
Nature, you sexy beast. This timelapse video of various flowers blooming — including my beloved PEONY, which is in season right now, YIPPPPPEEEEE — is downright sensual and I NEVER use that word. It’s actually from 2009 and is promotion for a cool-seeming app called Bloomclock which shows the passage of time via the blooming of various […]
As if just being the acclaimed equestrian daughter of a Russian fertilizer magnate wasn’t glamorous enough, 22-year-old Ekaterina Rybolovleva is now the owner of the most expensive apartment in the most expensive city in the world. That’s right — her father, Dmitry Rybolovlev, in a sale that shattered Manhattan’s individual property transaction records, parted with […]
I’m a senior in college and last year, my friends Angela and Rachel and I lived together and it was a disaster. Angela and I fought a lot as we’re both stubborn and I was depressed after a death in my family so I lashed out a bit. Since then, I’ve spent time dealing with […]
As part of a new anti-harassment policy at Reddit, several subreddits known to harass people have been shut down, including r/fatpeoplehate (sadly, one of the fastest growing subreddits in recent history, with 151,000 subscribers). Via Reddit: Today we are announcing a change in community management on reddit. Our goal is to enable as many people as […]
