SubscribeMonthly Archives: September 2010
Celeb Tweetup: Sex and Marriage
Ah fall, the perfect time to curl up with your lover, drink a glass of fine scotch (or grape juice), and just have a crazy, seven-month orgy until it’s time for the weather to get nice again. Or barring that, just move in with someone and get really passive-aggressive until your home feels more like a small, confining cage holding two animals that hate each other. Either way, time for today’s tweetup! More »
Dear Karen Owen: There’s No Point Apologizing for the F— List Now
Karen Owen recently graduated from Duke, where she kept busy in her free time compiling a detailed list of every hot athlete she slept with. She put the results in a massive PowerPoint. And after sharing it with three friends – oops – it went viral. Jezebel has an interview with Karen, who is now embarrassed and contrite that it went public. But here’s the thing: Virality is exactly what a Power Point created to mock and rank popular men’s sexual prowess is destined for. More »
Aliens In High Heels? Sounds Like A Laurie Anderson Song!
What do you get when you combine science fiction with high fashion? This metallic high heel based on the deadly creature from Alien. Created by Alexander McQueen‘s design house, the shoe’s a tribute to the concept surrealist painter H.G. Giger devised for the 1979 film. Though we assume it’s less prone to gruesome attacks. More »
Video: ‘Beat It’ Is Better Without Michael Jackson Song
The idea of taking the music of out of the music video to “Beat It” is so good, we don’t even mind the two doofuses behind the box crate. Besides, they’re kind of funny. Michael Jackson is spinning and moonwalking in his grave right now.
The ‘Beat It’ Video Makes Less Sense Without The Music — powered by Cracked.com
“What’s that guy doing on the forklift? He’s their leader!”… More »
Between The Lines: Everyone Has An Opinion On Lindsay Lohan
This past week saw Lindsay Lohan headed back to rehab after failing her latest drug test. The actress checked herself into California’s Betty Ford Center voluntarily, a move that’s been cited as a reflection of Lindsay’s growing maturity about her own addiction problems. The trouble is, Lindsay’s addiction problems seem to be everyone else’s problems as well. As often happens with public figures, people feel justified in offering their own opinions about the celeb’s issues. And when those people are themselves public figures? Well, you can see where this is going! More »
Freaks and Geeks Stars Get Freaky – Seth Rogen got engaged to long-time girlfriend Lauren Miller, while James Franco bought the rights to bring Stephen Elliot‘s sordid Adderall Diaries to the stage. (via LimeLife and E! Online)
Eastbound & Down may have debuted on Sunday with new episodes on HBO, but that doesn’t mean you can’t catch up with the show’s hilarious first season now. We’re giving two lucky Facebook fans Eastbound & Down: The Complete First Season DVD sets, and all you have to do to enter is click here and hit the “Like” button by 5 p.m. EST on Sunday, October 3. It’s easier than teaching a rooster how to fight.
Sex On the Wire: The Virtual Girlfriend Experience
• Thanks to a site called GameCrush you can now buy a girlfriend online for only $36 an hour. She’s even better than a regular girlfriend, because she’ll actually play Madden with you, instead of whining about her period or something. (Valleywag)
• Jenny McCarthy is mad that she doesn’t have a sex tape because she’s so good at it. Classy lady. (The Frisky)
• Two Taiwanese women tied up a guy and shaved his crotch before torturing him for hours. Why? Cuz he cheated on them, natch. Oh plus, he was already married to some third chick, lord knows what she’s going to do to him.(Tabloid Prodigy)
• Don’t try to donate to Feed the Children via the phone number of the back of Cincinnati Bengals’ Chad Ochocinco‘s Cereal boxes. It will connect you to a phone sex line. (Associated Press)
• According to a new study, women like to talk after sex, men like to sleep, drink beer, or have more sex. Don’t you love it when science just confirms long-standing stereotypes about the sexes? (Newswise)
• One man’s quest to find out if The Secret can actually get him in bed with a lady. Conclusions? It did get a girl to smile at him. (Lemondrop)
• Can you spend every day in October participating in a challenge to have better sex? What else are you doing? (YourTango) More »
Video: Yesss. There’s A New Burlesque Trailer
Guys! Are you excited for Burlesque yet? It only promises to be the best bad movie since 1995′s Showgirls. Just look at all that’s on offer: Cher! Stanley Tucci as her gay sidekick! Christina Aguilera playing an earnest wanna be burlesque singer! And now we’ve got a second trailer. Anything interesting in there? Oh, just Stanley Tucci goosing showgirls. And exploding glitter guns! Alright, I’ll stop with the exclamation points. Oh wait. Alan Cumming looking like a gay Charlie Chaplin!!! (Sorry.) More »
Teen Mom’s temper could send her to jail. On Tuesday’s night’s episode of Teen Mom, star Amber Portwood started hitting and kickinng her ex-fiancé Gary Shirley. And now she’s under investigation for domestic abuse by the Anderson Police Department. Oops! (via Radar)
Sweet Repeat: Justin Timberlake is a NERD
Maybe it’s because he was in The Social Network and started hanging out with nerds, but Justin Timberlake has been getting his geek on lately. Between giant chunky glasses, fedoras, and bow-ties, he’s starting to dress like Larry King. So why are we finding him so much more attractive? Hmmm… More »
The Situation Is A One Hit Wonder (In Bed)
The Situation may be the most marketable star to come out of MTV’s crazy popular show The Jersey Shore, but there is one department where he appears to be under-performing: in the bedroom. Just today, a Florida club promoter named Melody Eckerson told Star Magazine that The Situation is not exactly well endowed. And if you pay close attention during the show, it looks like Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino may simply be a bad lay. For starters, unlike fellow cast members Pauly D and Vinnie, The Situation seems to get zero repeat business from ladies he brings to The Smush Room. More »
Dave Eggers’ Sweet Animal Drawings
A heartbreaking stork of staggering wingspan? Beloved novelist Dave Eggers is proving himself to be something of an artist as well as a scribbler. His first book of drawings came out this week, published by his own company, McSweeney’s. Is It Right to Draw Their Fur: Animal Renderings contains 26 sketches of animals plus captions of what the creatures might be thinking. There’s one featuring a dog saying “I love you too much to love you” that broke our hearts too much to post (ironically enough) — but these four seem pretty safe. More »
Crushable Quotable: Kiernan Shipka Knows What’s Up
Much of this fourth season of Mad Men has been about the burgeoning rebelliousness of Sally Draper, Don’s adorable blonde daughter. Sally’s played by 10-year-old Kiernan Shipka, who infuses the role with a level of sophistication that’s surprising yet entirely believable. Vulture interviewed the precocious cutie about working with Jon Hamm (whom she describes as “a really good guy”) and playing young Sally: More »
Exclusive: ‘Vampire Diaries’ Kat Graham Gives Us Her Pop Culture Predictions
We have to admit: We were nervous about talking to Kat(erina) Graham. As much as we like our vampire mythologies around here, it’s daunting to talk to someone whose character Bonnie Bennett on the CW’s Vamprie Diaries happen to be a psychic and a witch. Add in the fact that the young actress recently covered Paula Abdul’s “Cold Hearted Snake” and is slated to appear in two major films this year, and you’ve got a downright formidable young actress to call up. Was she going to be a diva? A ditz? Little did we know (though maybe Kat did, psychically), that by the end of the interview we’d accidently say “I love you,” instead of “Goodbye.” Too much? We don’t care: Kat Graham is a kick-ass lady. More »
World’s oldest twins credit longevity to liquor – First of all, the world’s oldest twins (98!) are named Raymonde and Lucienne Wattelade, which is absolutely perfect. Second of all, they say the reason they’ve avoided kicking the bucket for so long is because of a fondness for pastis and whiskey. Happy birthday, ladies – shots for everyone! (via Jezebel)
The Daily WTF: Frankentoy
Our new favorite Etsy user is some dude who calls himself Frankentoys. This, um, artist takes apart stuffed animals and sews them back together in bizarre combination with other plush creatures. It’s like somebody nuked a Toys ‘R Us!
In addition to the mutant flounder from Finding Nemo, our pal Frank also offers a two-headed Winnie the Pooh, a Mr. Potato Head dinosaur and Tigger with a teapot head. We’re not sure what on earth child would actually want to own one of these. Maybe some relative of David Lynch? Stop playing God, Frankentoys! More »
Hypercolor Flying Shoes!
Our sister site The Gloss posted a photo the other day of these white Adidas that gave a new meaning to the phrase “wing-tipped.” But then we found the same shoes in what we are praying is hypercolor, and were like “Whoa.” More »
Win a Lunch Date with Allison Brie – The Mad Men and Community star is being auctioned off for an exclusive, two-person lunch engagement on Ebay. The bidding so far is up to almost $1,600, and there’s 10 hours left. Creepy? *Places bid* (Ebay)
Video: The Worst Movie Line Ever
When we spotted this post on Buzzfeed with a headline billing it as the worst movie line ever we were skeptical. There are some pretty bad quotables out there. I mean, have you seen Notting Hill? And what about Braveheart? But then we watched the clip and we had to agree. This is, in fact, the single worst movie line we’ve ever heard. Way to go, Howling III!
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