Olympic Gold Winner Hope Solo Accuses DWTS Partner Of Physical Assault In New Memoir


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US women’s aoccer goalkeeper, Olympic gold medalist, and awesome-name-haver Hope Solo recently released a timely memoir entitled Solo: A Memoir of Hope (see what I mean about the awesome name?). In it, among the usual triumph-over-adversity narrative that is de rigueur with athletes’ autobiographies, is the shocking allegation that Solo’s partner on Dancing with the Stars, [...]

Chatter Box: Feminist Ryan Gosling Tumblr Becoming A Book; Emily Is The Boringest Bachelorette EVAR


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Hey girl. if I told you to love your body, would you hold it against me? Ryan Gosling is getting a book deal – or rather the fictional Feminist Ryan Gosling of Tumblr fame is coming out in book form. The microblog was conceived by a grad student named Danielle Henderson, who used the medium [...]

Facebook Goes Public – Let’s All Gets Paid!!!


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Alright, folks, let’s get the boring, financial mumbo-jumbo out the way straight off: Facebook is finally going public today by selling initial shares of the company at around $38.00 a pop.  At its very basic, that means you can buy a very, very tiny piece of the company for less than $40.00.  But at its [...]

Someone Please Make It Stop: Built-To-Order Clone Dolls


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Despite growing up in the middle of Cabbage Patch mania, I was never a huge fan of dolls as a child. One year for Christmas, I remember asking for a doll that could drink water and then pee it out (fascinating!), but instead I got some busted hard plastic bitch named Colleen who came with [...]