Nerdist on the News!
Please watch this news piece about Chris Hardwick, the best boss on the planet, as he tries to explain to a journalist what he’s doing at Nerdist Theater at Meltdown and with the Nerdist podcast!
This is so good, I don’t even know if you deserve to watch it.
The final battle from the movie “Rock n’ Roll Nightmare” starring Thor.
Do you accept the challenge? (Thanks to Dom for this!)
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The HBO Recycling Program- it’ll make sense when you click on it.
Here’s a video of my good pal Pete Holmes doing bits with the fun stuff at Meltdown Comics. You can hear my snort at the end.
Kathleen Hanna, when asked about singers like Katy Perry and Lady Gaga, said the following. Long live the queen.
I mean, is it really that different when it’s a skinny white woman in a bathing suit singing these things? None of these women ever wear pants, first of all. Second of all, just because you’re wearing a goofy hat doesn’t make it performance art. I mean, that’s just my feeling about it. A lot of the music just sounds like bad Euro disco, though that first Ke$ha song “TiK ToK” was good. But (Katy Perry’s) “I Kissed a Girl” was just straight-up offensive. The whole thing is like, I kissed a girl so my boyfriend could masturbate about it later. It’s disgusting. It’s exactly every male fantasy of fake lesbian porn. It’s pathetic. And she’s not a good singer. I don’t want to trash other women. I mean, I think Jason Mraz is horrible. It’s not just like I hate other women performers. Jason Mraz, and the new James Blunt song is the worst thing that has ever been created on the face of the Earth.
Forever 21 is suing a girl for creating a blog that makes fun of Forever 21. Way to prove yourselves as humorless assholes that make clothes that smell like burning hair.
13 things you didn’t know about Saved By the Bell.
Holy shit please enjoy this spread in Vogue Italia of all plus-sized models, done without pity, self-congratulation, or hiding the models’ bodies.
Weinergate
I’m planning on writing a thing about the nature of online affairs and how people think of them differently than regular affairs, but it’s E3 week, so for now please check out this thing I wrote about infidelity in new marriages at Huffington Post!
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This species of jellyfish, the turritopsis nutricula, may be the only animal in the world that is immortal. Through the magic of transdifferentiation, which is what it’s called when cells turn into other types of cells, this jellyfish can turn back into its baby form and then grow up again.
Here are all the new words added to the Oxford Dictionary this year. I mean, at some point we have to admit that they’re just doing this to stay relevant, right? Kids like that ZOMG, let’s put it in!! Also, is the term “savior sibling” really being used often enough to warrant an add?
The honey badger narrator guy is back and taking on Jem and the Holograms! Watch!
The false experience effect: a recent study has found that if you have people watch a commercial of people enjoying popcorn and then ask them a week later how the popcorn was, a disturbing number of them will remember the popcorn and claim that it tasted delicious. Go read all about it, it’s probably been distorting our memories for years.
Also, there’s this.
Narratives.
This is the intro to a very long piece I am writing about the difference between living your life and watching it, and as I am feeling a bit stuck 13 pages in, I’ve decided to post chunks of it here at Gynomite. I welcome any feedback you may have, as this feels like a big idea that I want to make sure I’m breaking into digestible chunks.
I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve been in a situation – a party full of gangsters and goths, a hysterically bad date, or any subway after 2am – where, when things go understandably awry, I’ve thought Well, this will be funny later. Instead of looking for an escape from drama, awkwardness, or possible danger, time and time again I’ve found myself shrugging off the cost-benefit analysis and sticking around in order to observe the situation, as if I were watching it on TV. Sometimes I’ll even narrate, or give a particularly juicy scene a soundtrack. This has been true for my entire life, and the older I’ve gotten, the only thing that’s changed is that these days, I’ll even whip out my phone to preserve the witty observation I’m making of what’s happening to me.
I’ve been a therapist for almost eight years now, and I often use narrative approach with clients. There’s a lot to narrative therapy, but it boils down to this: helping clients figure out how the story they have written for themselves (I’m damaged/I’m entitled to more than other people/I’m unloveable) affects how they interact with the world, and if they’re not happy with their narrative, helping them to rewrite it. Your story – you could even call it an origin story, if you were so inclined – colors every single thing you do, from your confidence, to your social skills, to your job choice. Batman would just be a rich jerk if he hadn’t watched his parents die in front of him at a young age. But what I started seeing in clients is that their narratives seemed to be representing someone other than themselves. The narratives they were presenting to the world had little connection to their actual personalities.
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Rare and gorgeous pics of an early Marilyn Monroe.
Robert Kirkman talks about his favorite comic books at Meltdown Comics!
Urban Outfitters is stupid.
My sister has a blog where she reviews places in NC and writes about other fun stuff- go read all about it!
Top ten bodega cats! This is something I miss terribly about NYC- walking into bodegas and finding the cats that live there. It’s like a trashy scavenger hunt!
Having a private moment in the hot tub with Ice-T.
