Kanye West Wore a Face Mask of Crystals to Make You Forget About his Skirt
Earlier this month, Kanye West wore a Givenchy Kilt while performing at the 12-12-12 benefit show at Madison Square Garden. Everyone lost their collective minds over it. A behind the scenes video was...
View ArticleHome Addresses of New York Journalists Who Published Contact Information of...
If that bulky headline didn't give you warning enough, prepare to jump down the rabbit hole now. Cast your mind back to a few days ago. Neetzan Zimmerman noted that local New York paper the Journal...
View ArticleWhy is Roseanne Barr Aligning Herself with Anonymous and Calling Herself...
A rape case in Steubenville, Ohio, involving some members of the city's beloved football team has drawn national attention. The Times said that it was a notable case because it was "a sexual assault...
View ArticleThe Real Consequences of the Fiscal Cliff
The fiscal cliff is imminent. We are hurtling, not to mention barreling, toward it. Also, it's looming. Every news organization has been churning out folksy little cartoons explaining the situation at...
View ArticleKatt Williams Should Stop Doing the Following Things Immediately
Katt Williams has had the worst holiday season ever. His month of hijinks included a mic-throwing incident, a police chase, a smack across the face of a Target employee, and a tearful retirement (and...
View ArticleThings We Lost in 2012
What we lost: Romantic comedies Who took it: Audiences, Gerard Butler, Tucker Max, Netflix, sequel-based franchises. Vulture charts the steady decline: In 2002, the top five highest-grossing romantic...
View ArticleGeorge H.W. Bush is No Longer in Intensive Care
And as the "perfect snow" falls all over New York and the day comes to a close, there's good news coming out of Houston tonight. CNN reports: Former President George H.W. Bush was moved on Saturday out...
View ArticleOf Course House Republicans are Trying to Stop Hurricane Sandy Relief Funds
Hurricane Sandy relief efforts continued over the holidays with volunteers dropping off meals on Christmas eve and confidential documents being returned from the wreckage to their rightful owners. But...
View ArticleUp Close Footage of Yesterday's Russian Plane Crash Captured by Dashboard Camera
Dashboard cameras placed in Russian cars have revolutionized the Internet in ways we could have never imagined. Thanks to them, we now have up close footage of yesterday's plane crash in Russia that...
View ArticleRepublicans Start to Give Up as Obama Clowns Them on Meet The Press
President Obama appeared on Meet The Press this morning to talk about the ongoing fiscal cliff negotiations. His 30 minute conversation with host David Gregory was pretty cordial and never really got...
View ArticleMan in Queens Offering 'Rare' Poster for Two-Hour Massage and Enema
It is for moments like this one that the word "wacky" was created. A man in Queens has an offer he would like the students among you to consider (with thanks to reader Lindsey G., who is keen-eyed and...
View ArticleThis Week in Caves
It feels so good to bring that headline back again. We have new developments and origin stories; ice-bound catastrophes averted and mysterious crimson disks identified. For all of these stories we...
View ArticleUsing an iPhone on a Plane Won't Make it Crash, You Morons
It's 2012 and The Federal Aviation Administration still doesn't allow electronic devices to be used during takeoff and landing. Of course, phones — the F.A.A.'s worst nightmare ever, aren't allowed to...
View ArticleThe Most Terrifying New Year's Eve Party Invitations You've Sent Us
PR email blasts take on a kind of terrifying, poetic majesty at this time of year. Some caps become all caps; "don't-miss" becomes "can't-miss"; I have now read the words "burlesque" and "cabaret" so...
View ArticleAnne Hathaway Says her Performance in Les Misérables was "Eh"
Les Misérables has already made off with $67 million at the box office since debuting on Christmas day, but a lot of people have found the sweeping musical largely problematic. Many are quick to...
View ArticleDoes Charlie Sheen Really Have a Lisp Or Did He Just Use a Homophobic Slur?
Actor and profesional crazy person Charlie Sheen recently hosted the opening of his new bar in the El Ganzo hotel in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. The mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, was on hand...
View ArticleGenre Face-Off, Part II: American Needs More Books About People in Their...
You can never be too rich or too thin or have enough portmanteaus for your post-adolescent generation. It's Twixters, now. Who is a Twixter? Everyone, probably. Any woman who has ever listened to...
View ArticleGerman Magazine Celebrates George H.W. Bush's Release From Intensive Care by...
When George H.W. Bush was released yesterday from the intensive care unit of a Houston hospital, most news outlets reported the event in a straight forward enough fashion, with some even taking the...
View ArticleHillary Clinton Hospitalized With Blood Clot Two Weeks After Suffering...
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was admitted to a hospital Sunday after doctors discovered a blood clot during an follow-up examination related to a concussion she suffered earlier this month. Her...
View ArticleAmericans Officially Don't Care About the War in Afghanistan Anymore
Earlier this year, we asked if you remembered Afghanistan. The answer then, obviously but somewhat unofficially, was no. Now, with the release of several news organization's year-end top stories...
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