Gynomite’s Reading Room!
Another day, another awesome Patton Oswalt essay about comedy and worldviews and heckling and everything else.
This is supercool- this photographer took photos of the fans of several famous musicians. The Cure fans are my favorites.
This actually made me rethink my utter dismissal of Kim Kardashian a bit. But not too much. I’ve never seen her show, but it’s not her sexuality I have problems with- it’s her constant media-fucking.
New Indoor Kids episode up, and it’s our E3 audio diary! Come with us as we trade sweat with thousands of other nerds walking the floor!
WATERMELON OREOS MOTHERFUCKER!
Victorians used to be real into breastfeeding.
If you live in LA, try and spread these images of four men who beat up a transgendered woman at Hollywood and Vine.
This is Ween making an appearance in the 1994 movie “It’s Pat”.
Gynomite’s Reading Room!
Edible chocolate buttholes! Just what you always wanted! (the pics are amazing)
Three comic strips about being a female game journalist.
The Indoor Kids got some love from the AV Club today!
Just in time for summer: drowning doesn’t look like drowning.
New Indoor Kids episode up, and it’s our 100th! Celebrate with Steve Agee!
I’ve always loved Nathan Barnatt’s dance videos, and Kumail and I were happy to make an appearance in the newest one (Jonah too!)
Gynomite’s Reading Room!
Jockey is introducing 55 new bra sizes
I was quoted in the Denver Post about the rise of nerd culture! Get into it!
This guy wrote about how he wanted to stop having sexual thoughts about women on the street. This lady set him straight that it’s actually a bit more demeaning to go from seeing women only as sexual objects to not seeing them at all. Great reads, both of them.
If you like _____, then you’ll like _____: a thing I wrote for Elizabeth Banks about video games you may like based on stuff you already like!
Marcia Marcia Marcia! The Jan Brady Syndrome captured in photo form.
Kumail and I appear on the Double Date podcast with Shane Mauss and April Macie!
Gynomite’s Reading Room!
New Nine Inch Nails album coming out this year! I don’t know how to feel, but I do look forward to more pictures where they try to hide the fact that Trent has filled out a bit.
Holy shit, please watch this trailer for a movie starring Poot from The Wire, Nick Hogan (car accident-murderer son of Hulk), and Tila Tequila. It looks like something my friends and I made in high school when we had an hour and access to our drama department’s costume closet.
And as a palate cleanser, here’s Nicole Richie having a conversation with RuPaul about ladies dragging up their looks.
Wish I’d thought of this: 10 couples who probably broke up after the movie- from Buzzfeed!
Gynomite’s Reading Room!
Kim Kardashian’s baby shower invite is a music box that plays Kanye songs because of course it is.
My review of the Doctor Who finale is up at TV.com!
There was a totally normal, sexual, badass, fun female character who also happened to be overweight in a few episodes of The New Girl. Huge progress, guys!
The final episode of Fetch Quest went up today! Go watch!
Where am I, hormonally, if this video of a man recreating his interpretive dance to Landslide 10 years later made me cry?
Girls are distracting boys with their normal outfits. Sheesh.
This puppy has the hiccups, and it’s very cute.
Gynomite’s Reading Room!
LA Weekly’s People of LA list for 2013! (Kumail and I were on it in 2012, so our reign is done)
Prince doesn’t talk about Minnesota’s recent legalization of gay marriage, because Prince.
Changes in Doctor Who’s newest companion Clara, from Neil Gaiman’s mouth!
Plus size model Jennie Runk talks about why her job is important.
Lest you forget Madonna’s… Madonna power, she posed for an Instagram of herself with a vacuum cleaner, and sales of that specific type of vacuum have skyrocketed.
These students have been mapping where hate speech on Twitter exists in America. Yeah, it’s a restricted range of the people who are actually able to be online and know about Twitter, but it’s still fascinating.
Oh hey look, the HBO pilot Kumail was in got picked up to series! Created by Mike Judge!
Gynomite’s Reading Room!
Glenn Greenwald tearing Bill Maher a new one about his opinions on Islam being a specifically violent religion.
New Indoor Kids, with Anders Holm of Workaholics!
Monterey Jill, because ladies be fat.
My review of Saturday’s Doctor Who at TV.com!
Bloodwood tree. Badass.
On the real, this is the best damned thing I’ve ever seen, and if I can get this to happen to me, I can die happy .
Gynomite’s Reading Room!
I love this! Ten albums made for weird reasons, like shitting on a contract!
For Screen Crush, I wrote a thing about movies I’d love to see adapted into video games that will never happen.
I have become obsessed with this YouTube Trends Map. It updates regularly and shows what people in different cities across the US are watching the most. AND YOU CAN LOOK AT GENDER AND AGE GROUPS TOO!
I wrote this for HuffPo about five things that can help you get through a divorce.
After 19 months, Allie Brosh is back. Thank god.
Gynomite’s Reading Room!
This is a fantastic post about the sometimes psychotic nature of teenage crushes. Please enjoy.
New Indoor Kids up today! Dominic Dierkes is with us to talk game mascots!
An amazing post about bad TV actors from my former Vulture editor Willa Paskin!
Kids check email/Instagram/Facebook during studies about how they study, because they cannot even go 15 minutes without multitasking. WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE.
Here’s a link to my Tumblr, How to Disappear Completely. Go follow it! I’m more active there these days!
The Disney Princessification of Disney movie heroines.
I was interviewed over Google Docs over a period of a couple of weeks by this dude, and it was fun! Go read the result!
Elizabeth Smart speaks out against abstinence-only sex education, where analogies are made that sex makes you a chewed up, used piece of chewing gum. Boys aren’t used up after they chew one piece of gum, but the girls, who are the gum, are wasted and useless. Horrible analogy.
Madonna, some dude, and Frank Ocean at the Met Gala, which was punk themed, and yes, I still feel weird about it.
Gynomite’s Reading Room!
This is how excited I get about most things.
A new thing I wrote for ElizabethBanks.com, and it’s about pre-date stalking!
An amazing post at The Militant Baker of things no one will tell fat girls. Really funny and good stuff.
Vh1 is making a TLC biopic because someone needed to.
Doctor Who review for you from me! At TV.com!
All this week (and in the month or so beforehand) I’ve been the Director of the first ever comedy festival on Twitter, for Comedy Central! Here’s a great piece about it in the New York Times!
George RR Martin, rather than finishing the Song of Ice and Fire books, is making this bullshit Tyrion quote book.
The Meltdown (and yours truly) were featured in The Hollywood Reporter‘s annual comedy issue, as one of the top places to see standup in LA! Yay!
