Liza Minelli Was Invited To Lindsay Lohan’s Intervention


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Lindsay Lohan is someone who I don’t think about too much, but when I do, my feelings are conflicted. On one hand, I get annoyed that she can’t get her shit together. She is an adult and we’re all ultimately responsible for ourselves. But on the other hand, I realize that’s not fair to her. [...]

Ray J Says “I Hit It First.” What Say You, Kim Kardashian?


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Kim Kardashian is a beautiful woman, famous for who knows what. An ass barely conceivable in nature? Terrible reality shows? Siblings with K-names willing to make asses of themselves on reality shows? Bruce Jenner is her dad? Sure. I don’t even know. Related (work with me here): Beefs are to hip-hop as peanut butter is [...]

Hadoken-ing Meme May Give You Street Cred With Your Kid


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Those crazy Japanese are always reminding us about their superiority in things like weird toys, technology, and–now–memes. Hadoken-ing is a meme collecting some speed across the Pacific and it’s better than the Harlem Shuffle, better than planking or owling or whatever-the-hell-that-was, and, dare I say, even more compelling than grumpy cat. Yeah, I said it, [...]

Trailer For Ke$ha’s New MTV Reality Show About As Crazy As You’d Expect


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Which is to say, VERY VERY CRAZY. The new series, My Crazy Beautiful Life, was filmed by Ke$ha‘s brother and follows her rise to superstardom over the course of  two years. The inevitable collapse into substance abuse and increasingly erratic public behavior* that will no doubt follow soon after? Well, they’ll just have make a [...]

Beck’s Accidentally Awesome ‘Loser’ Turns 20: A Celebration In Pics & Questionable Lyrics


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Wanna feel not-so-young? Well, if teenage pop stars like the Biebs aren’t already making you feel old enough, maybe this will: Beck’s Loser just turned 20 years old. Crazy how time flies, right? Suddenly, I’ve gone from being a disenfranchised 20-something to being a disenfranchised 40-something in the blink of a decade. (Or two, really. BUT STILL.)

Reading about the iconic song recently, I picked this tidbit: that Beck essentially categorized Loser‘s cultural impact as wholly random – as almost an accident. More »