Kristen Stewart’s Mom Wanted To Cast Her Daughter as a Multiple-Rape Victim

Rich Juzwiak · 03/14/13 05:45PM

K-11, the directorial debut of Kristen Stewart's mom Jules Stewart, is like a weird nightmare you just woke up from, in which you went to jail, watched someone shit out a balloon full of coke, stared at No.2 pencil-drawn chola eyebrows for way too long, heard someone howl, "I want a jailhouse fuck and I want it now!" while never quite grasping why anyone is doing what they're doing, ever. And did you get buttfucked? It's too fuzzy to be sure. It's the B-est, gayest, longest episode of Oz. It's madness, borderline camp and it seems to be aiming for something as sleazily quotable as Showgirls. It can't touch those debased heights, but any movie featuring an old, effete prisoner shouting, "I ain't leavin' here without my laxative! I'm in pain, god damn it!" either knows what it's doing or at least is wise enough to stay out of its own ridiculous way.

Americans Moving Exclusively to Shitholes

Hamilton Nolan · 03/14/13 03:52PM

The complete and total collapse of the global economy had at least one upside for Americans: it briefly stopped them from moving to brand new housing developments in hellish southwestern desert exurbs. Only for a few years though, alas. The great migration of Americans towards hot places their children will come to loathe is back on!

A Discussion With Evgeny Morozov, Silicon Valley's Fiercest Critic

Adrian Chen · 03/14/13 02:30PM

Does each mention of "the power of crowdsourcing" fill you with blind rage? Are you sick of geeks foisting the latest Kickstarter-funded self-tracking weight loss gadget upon you as if your main problem is a lack of awareness of just how lazy you are? Think memes are horseshit? You will love Evgeny Morozov.

Maggie Lange · 03/14/13 01:52PM

People complaining to the FCC about Beyonce's halftime show note angrily "gyrated her pelvis" because they live in 1956

Cord Jefferson · 03/14/13 01:48PM

The Boston Globe reports that venerated alt weekly the Boston Phoenix is shuttering after nearly five decades. Very sad.

What It Is Like to Spend 25 Years in Solitary Confinement

Hamilton Nolan · 03/14/13 01:21PM

In February of 1987, deputies were transporting inmate William R. Blake to court in Dewitt, New York, to face drug and robbery charges. Blake grabbed a deputy's gun and shot two officers, killing one. He was apprehended immediately. For the past 25 years, Blake has been in solitary confinement in a prison in upstate New York. He will not leave prison alive.

Google Streetview Captures Public Handjob in Manchester, England

Adrian Chen · 03/14/13 12:48PM

This has got to be the most explicit and NSFW of all oddities discovered on Google Streetview. A prostitute giving a hand job to a "bloke" (that's British for, "prostitute customer" ) in a back alley in Manchester, which seems like a lovely town, by the way. Google took down the images soon after they were spotted by the Google Sightseeing blog, but the incident was memorialized by a troll who renamed the alley "Hand Job Alley" on Google Maps (also removed.) The wonders of crowd-sourcing.