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The Co-Creator of 'Underdog' Has Died, as Has Your Childhood
William Watts Biggers, the co-creator of "Underdog," the dimly recalled yet foundational mod cartoon you once watched at your grandmother's house, thrilling as the shy and awkward shoe-shine dog...
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Record Company Says It's Censoring Lil Wayne's Emmett Till Reference
A few days ago, a remix of Autotuned warbler Future's "Karate Chop" made its way onto the Internet. Metaphorical extraordinaire Lil Wayne guests on the track and in his own Autotuned warble, delivers...
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There Goes the Asteroid: We Will All Die, But Not All at Once Yet
As science predicted, the universe, in its magisterial indifference, has not bothered destroying life on Earth right now. You'd better thaw something out for dinner. Might as well go ahead and tell the...
View ArticleWicked Pissah: The Bid to Make the Modern Lovers' "Roadrunner" the Rock Song...
Joyce Linehan is the former manager of the Lemonheads, Sub Pop's Boston rep, and the manager of songwriter Joe Pernice. Courtney Love wrote "Doll Parts" staying at Linehan's place. But she's also the...
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All the People Working in Television More Significant Than Lena Dunham That...
An essay today by Brian McGreevy on Vulture.com about Lena Dunham begins this way: "Girls creator and star Lena Dunham is debatably the most significant figure currently working in television..." Wait....
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CIA Finds Some Extra Pics of bin Laden's Corpse Lying Around the Office
After Osama bin Laden was assassinated in 2011, there was perhaps no more hotly sought after document on the planet than a hypothetical photograph of bin Laden's dead body, which had of course arrived...
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Introducing the Fox News Class of 2013
The human resources department at Fox News has certainly been busy the last few weeks. After dumping former Bill Clinton campaign manager-cum-conservative blowhard Dick Morris and Real Housewife of...
View ArticleBearded Lady Confessional: AMC's Touchy Feely Freaks
Last night, AMC debuted the series Freakshow, a reality show about the Venice Beach Freakshow. Its owner, former Grammy-winning producer Todd Ray (Santana, Korn), believes in reclaiming "freak" as a...
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There Is a Possible Serial Cat Killer on the Loose, Which Is, Y'Know, a Real...
Authorities in New York state's Putnam County area believe there's a "serial cat killer" at large. Earlier this week, a seven-month-old feline named Blackfoot died in the Westchester Animal Hospital,...
View ArticleCNN's 24-hour Coverage of the Shit-Ridden Carnival Cruise, In Summary
CNN certainly was the only one covering the plight of the Carnival cruise ship Triumph by land, air, and sea yesterday, but to what avail? Well thanks to CNN a mother was able to see her daughter whom...
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Aliens Are Coming For You: Here's What You Need to Know
For much of today, the people of Earth have had their gaze transfixed on the most majestic vaulted ceiling of all: the sky. At around 9:20 a.m. Friday (local time), a giant fireball crashed into...
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Cashmere Capes, Michael Jackson's Hat, and a Rolex: What Jesse Jackson Jr....
Civil rights scion and disgraced former congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. was officially charged today with, among other things, conspiracy to misuse around three-quarters of a million dollars in campaign...
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'Any Chance I Could Get a Naked Meeting' and Other Indecent Proposals
You had a nice Valentine's Day didn't you? Anyway we sensed that you were feeling too much love and how are you supposed to feel the highs without the lows? Exactly. So without further ado, here are...
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Is Amanda Bynes '25 Things You Don't Know About Me' the Weirdest Story Us...
Every issue, Us Weekly runs a feature called "25 Things You Don't Know About Me," in which a celebrity, ostensibly, writes up interesting 25 facts about themselves (and then an intern transliterates...
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The Cold Slab and the Razor: My Old Faith, Gone Beyond Resurrection
I was about to fold a pair of jacks when my little brother died. I was seated at a round table in the hospital waiting room with two cousins and my brother-in-law, taking a break from the prayer...
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Alec Baldwin's Wife Sued for Traumatizing Yoga Class [UPDATE]
Hilaria Thomas, wife and soon-to-be baby mama of Jack "Alec Baldwin" Donaghy, faces a lawsuit from a student injured in her Manhattan yoga class last month. Plaintiff Spencer Wolff alleges that he...
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Will Ashley Judd Restore the Senate's 'Comity,' So Rudely Disturbed by Ted Cruz?
Ted Cruz, the freshman Senator from Texas, has not made nice with his new friends in the Senate, where decorum and comity are king, and the brash antics of the Tea Party a rude interruption to the...
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Magnolia Bakery Infested with Tourists, Actual Vermin
The West Village's storied Magnolia Bakery was shuttered by the Health Department Thursday due to a mouse infestation. Spokespeople predicted the Bleecker Street shop would reopen today, but a call to...
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Nate Silver Might Stop Blogging if He Starts to 'Influence the Democratic...
Election-Svengali Nate Silver will stop blogging if he believes that his election forecasts begin to actually affect elections. According to a report in Politico (a site Silver has a pretty hilarious...
View ArticleNot to Be Outdone by Russia, California Gets Its Own Fireball in the Sky
Between the meteor (meteorite? meteoroid? meteorologist?) explosion over Russia and a close-flying asteroid that doesn't respect personal space, it wasn't a particularly relaxing Friday for the planet...
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