About The 818

Morgan Shanahan is a professional blogger and screenwriter living in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley (aka “The818”) with her toddler daughter, dashing hubby, and farting trio of dogs. In addition to over-sharing her personal life (complete with curse words) on The818.com, she's also BlogHer's Entertainment Editor, and writes occasionally about art and design for Cargoh.com. She also tweets, pins, and instagrams.

What Have You Done For Me Lately? Child Stars We Loved Who Are Still Trying To Act


"My Girl" is all grow'd up and passing her panties to that creepy dude from Desperate Housewives under the table.

Did you guys watch last night’s very special episode of Law & Order: SVU? Because if you did, you would have caught a svelte Anna Chlumsky giving a not-too-shabby performance as a sexy/young/hot E.L. James knock off — having written 25 Acts, a BDSM book that’s taken the country by storm. Then she gets raped repeatedly as [...]

If I Get Kidnapped You’ll Know Why: Are Tom Cruise And Xenu Calling It Quits?


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Every so often I find a topic online that I find so fascinating, I read until my eyes bleed (don’t you? I mean that’s why the Internet works, right?) and most recently the topic I followed down that digital rabbit hole of information was that beloved celebrity money-sucker: Scientology. So it’s fitting then that one of [...]

X-Factor’s Soul Crushing Reunion: Emotional Discomfort Makes The Ratings Go ‘Round


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I hated Meet The Parents. Watching people embarrass themselves gives me the trots, so I’d like to thank The X-Factor for the fifteen pounds I undoubtedly lost after watching the world’s most horrifically uncomfortable competition show audition OF. ALL. TIME. I missed X-Factor last season, but you KNOW I wasn’t going to miss Britney Spears‘s [...]

The Greatest Internet Supercuts OF! ALL! TIME!


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Once upon a time there were movies. And then the PowerMac came along, and after that YouTube was invented, and before you knew it you could think to yourself, “I wonder if anyone has ever made a montage of every single instance of Nic Cage losing his shit on film ever in existence?” and THE [...]

The Price Is Right For New Male Spokesmodel…Here Let Me Help You With That


Is it just me or is Drew kind of starting to morph into Bob Barker? It's like the microphone comes with it's own THINNER curse.

Oh, that crazy The Price Is Right always breaking down gender barriers and paving the way for men to get into positions formerly thought of as strictly for women. Wait, what? That’s right folks! Drew Carey’s modern bastardization of The Price Is Right is ready to break out of the Barker era for good. Gone are [...]