OBVIOUSLY SPOILERS AND NOTHING BUT After five seasons and six years of tweaking expectations, Breaking Bad‘s series finale contained only one surprise: somewhere between New Hampshire and New Mexico, Walter White was murdered and replaced by a pod person. At
Sept. 16, 2013, Rep. Confirms Liam & Miley Have Called Off Their Engagement: One Day (And Counting) Without Tweeting
So by now, you know Stephen Colbert ran an obviously sarcastic clip from Fox News’s Red Eye as an example of right-wing rage at President Obama–“the equivalent of running something from The Onion as a real news story,” host Andy
It’s from his first music album in 20 years, titled 9, and it isn’t terrible. The actor and comedian also joined Twitter specifically to plug the song, so you can take a look at that, too, if it’s you’re thing.
While viewers unfamiliar with “twerking” found Miley Cyrus’s Sunday VMA performance shocking or distasteful, viewers with professional twerking expertise–such as Freddie Ross, aka Big Freedia–found it lackluster. Big Freedia, a New Orleans hip-hop artist known for popularizing the twerk-heavy “bounce”
Mere days after Miley Cyrus’s attempt at twerking set the U.S. aghast, music producer Diplo hopes to organize a twerking event so big the whole world will notice. Tentatively titled “Butts Around the World,” the dance and reggae hitmaker (pictured, right)
I’m sure someone somewhere could consider this mildly spoilerish, so consider that disclaimed. Of all the memes and mashups I’ve seen born of Sunday’s intergenerational twerking calamity, this one wins everything. Side note: I wrote a post nitpicking the premiere
Oscar-winning Argo director Ben Affleck will play Batman in Warner Brothers’ followup to Superman flick Man of Steel, according to Variety. Predictably, hordes of nerds and fair-weather nerds who deem superhero casting decisions sacred are outraged. I have but one thing
I don’t want to talk about it. I was just trying to confirm something people were talking about on Twitter. I really don’t want to talk about it. But I already went this far. Okay, here it is. Deep breath.
Fans have heaped lavish praise on Sunday night’s Breaking Bad premiere–and with good reason. One of the greatest television dramas of all time continued to toy with audience expectations, dishing out the catnip of great moments from beloved characters and
Film director Spike Lee says he has resolved the situation caused by his retweet of a Florida family’s address thought to belong to George Zimmerman, the man since acquitted in the self-defense shooting of teen Trayvon Martin. In a Reddit
The Conversation was a little sparse yesterday, so here’s some inspiration to start the week off right. To all the parents out there, I urge you to learn a valuable lesson from this music video: always take your kids dancing
Ever since their debut single “You Know You Like It” in 2011, AlunaGeorge has been an arresting artist, standing out with bleeding-edge R&B production from George Reid and acrobatic vocals from Aluna Francis. As more songs came, they showed again
Nik Richie of TheDirty.com, the blog that broke the latest sexting allegations against Anthony Weiner, says the young woman who gave him this story claims Weiner wasn’t a satisfying lover over the phone. Richie reveals on HuffPostLive that his source
BuzzFeed Politics claimed an exclusive find as the top story on the site’s homepage Tuesday evening–the presumed identity of the young woman caught up in Anthony Weiner’s latest sexting scandal. Note: the images of the woman’s face are uncensored at
I’ve been combing through enough videos from local news teams recently to see that leaving children (or pigs) in parked cars during heat waves is enough of a problem to merit a PSA. And that is far more depressing than
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has offered asylum to NSA leaker Edward Snowden, according to Reuters. Snowden is reportedly hiding out in Moscow as he awaits word from countries on whether they would extradite him to the United States. The U.S.
When I first heard the name “Alison Lundergan Grimes” floated as a challenger to Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell, I thought of what any worthless, narcissistic Millennial would: hipster music. See, there’s a young artist who goes by the name Grimes
Derek Lowe, a doctor of organic chemistry with decades of pharmaceutical research experience, has published a takedown of a BuzzFeed post that went super-viral over the weekend: “Eight Foods That We Eat in The US That Are Banned in Other
From the White House that brought you “man-caused disasters,” “shared prosperity,” and “kinetic military action,” check out this new entry in the public lexicon: “Founding Founders.” That phrase made its way into the headline of a White House blog post
Cyndia Lauper won a Tony Award for Best Original Score for the musical version of “Kinky Boots” during Sunday evening’s award ceremony. She previously won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1985 and an Emmy Award in 1995
Mike Herrera, the lead singer of the punk band MxPx, has tattoos–a lot of tattoos. In fact, he’s got a giant bald eagle inked across his entire back, which means he’s sort of a fan of America. Mike’s not necessarily
Prolific graphic novelist Doug TenNapel is bringing his distinctive style back to the video game world for the first time in 14 years. TenNapel is best known for creating the video game character Earthworm Jim in the mid-1990s, and his
As President Barack Obama gave a shout-out to families affected by last week’s tornado in Monroe, Oklahoma, he was off by about 200 miles. Let he who is without gaffes cast the first stone, but the President accidentally flubbed the
St. Louis TV news station KMOV has fired Larry Conners, the news anchor who revealed the IRS shook him down after asking President Obama tough questions in an interview. The station says of his departure: Larry is certainly entitled to
