A formerly church-loving college kid writes “an open letter to the Church,” invoking Macklemore, marriage equality, and the need to embrace change. My point in writing this isn’t to protect gay people. Things are changing—the world is becoming a safer place for my gay friends. They’re going to get equal rights. I’m writing this because […]
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Donny & Marie & Steely Dan
This started making the rounds a couple days ago and rightly so, for it is tremendous. (Ice-skating kick line! Severely attenuated “comedy”!)
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Newsflash: Murderers Are Assholes
So said T.J. Lane, the 18-year-old convicted of killing three students at Ohio’s Chardon High School, to the families of his victims at his sentencing this week. From the Associated Press: T.J. Lane, 18, had pleaded guilty last month to shooting at students in February 2012 at Chardon High School, east of Cleveland. Investigators have […]
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A Mother’s Final, Inadvertant Act of Love for Her Child
Landing on her back. From the New York Daily News: A Manhattan lawyer strapped her 10-month-old son to her chest and leaped to her death from an eighth-story window in Harlem on Wednesday—and the baby miraculously survived with little more than scratches, police sources said. Cynthia Wachenheim, 44, who left a suicide note castigating herself […]
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Today in Advertising That Inspires Me to Bitch on the Internet
Exhibit A: The latest monstrosity from Hot Pockets, featuring a horny idiot guy, a blowup-doll of a woman, and whatever the fuck Hot Pockets are. Exhibit B: The latest billboard hyping McDonald’s Fish McBites, featuring a complete failure of a tagline, which is succinctly dissed by AdPulp here. (Seriously, “The Catch That’s Caught Here”? A […]
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Macklemore’s “Thrift Shop”: Gateway to Demonic Possession?
Sure, the horn loop has merciless haunting power, but Pat Robertson’s concerned about actual demonic possession, via demons that may attach themselves to clothes purchased from Goodwill. Enjoy! Thank you, Right Wing Watch.
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“Seth MacFarlane and the Oscars’ Hostile, Ugly, Sexist Night”
The New Yorker‘s Amy Davidson tells it like it is. One choice nugget: The Academy is supposedly a trade group, and yet it devoted its opening number to degrading a good part of its membership. And who knows what the Los Angeles Gay Men’s Chorus thought that it was doing by serving as MacFarlane’s backup […]
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“The Saddest Map in America”
That’s how Andrew Sullivan characterizes the “scholarly study by Dorothy Gambrell of the ‘missed connections’ section of Craigslist. This is where you thought you saw your future spouse or date or hook-up, state by state.” DOROTHY GAMBRELL I understand Sullivan’s use of the adjective “sad,” but for me, the primary effect is fascination. Take Oregon, […]
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Today in Articles I’ve Been Waiting My Whole Life to Read
The opening number to the 1989 Oscar ceremony will forever shimmer in infamy, featuring as it did then-hearthrob Rob Lowe and a helium-voiced human Snow White performing “Proud Mary.” Here is the whole amazing thing: Now, after 24 years, the poor actress tasked with playing Snow White has opened up about the ordeal in The […]
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Chris Brown Is Not a Rapper…
..a fact which doesn’t bode well for the latest provocation by Camille Paglia, the world’s preeminent chronicler of the importance of Madonna’s 1984-1991 output. Paglia begins her 2,000-word Sunday Times think piece “Why Rihanna Is the New Diana” with the above mischaracterization of one of her main characters, and hopes sentences like “Diana and Rihanna […]
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Meet Your New Favorite Super Hero
Florida Man! Here are but a few of Florida Man’s most recent exploits. For never-ending updates, follow Florida Man on Twitter! Thank you, Metafilter.
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Alex Gibney’s Mea Maxima Culpa
On February 4, HBO premiered Alex Gibney’s Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, a brilliant and infuriating documentary exploring the epidemic of priestly sex abuse at a Milwaukee’s St. John’s School for the Deaf in the ’60s, and drawing damning conclusions about the conspiracy of silence mandated by the Vatican. Here’s the […]