Four years ago, James Nguyen's low-rent "romantic thriller" Birdemic: Shock and Terror shocked audiences everywhere with its terribleness.

When Taco Bell execs learned that residents of Bethel had been fooled by a hoax into believing that the fast-food chain was opening up shop in their remote Alaskan town, they quickly arranged to have 10,000 Doritos Locos Tacos airlifted in from Anchorage, some 350 miles away.

A vast new survey has found that school in America is far too easy, according to America's students, who are unable to pass tests indicating minimal competence in school.

Last week, after nearly a month of steadily intensifying drama, troll lawyer Charles Carreon withdrew his lawsuit against The Oatmeal creator Matthew Inman and retreated to his bridge, declaring victory as he slunk.

YouTuber playerjames6280 says: "It took me 10 years to build up the courage to tell her." Not to spoil the surprise, but suffice it to say this kid's mother takes her son's big news extremely well, all things considered.

Frank Ocean performed his song "Bad Religion" on tonight's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and absolutely destroyed it. Accompanied by a string section, he sang the tale of unrequited love with a man ("I could never make him love me"), which seems to be modeled after the same relationship that he wrote about in his CD's liner notes. When that narrative was posted on Tumblr last week, it amounted to Frank's coming out. This is a stellar performance, particularly when he flips none too gracefully into his falsetto. It's not as fully formed as, say, Usher's, but there's also no vanity there, either — it's pure expression. This song is deeply felt and this performance only makes it deeper.

Episcopalians continue to out-progressive many other religious groups with two LGBT-friendly votes at the Episcopal General Convention in Indianapolis.

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SoHo club Greenhouse has been closed since the June 14 bottle-throwing fight in its basement lounge, W.i.P. Brown. You know, the brawl Drake or Chris Brown or someone else entirely might have started.

Our fascination with gritty true crime is nothing new, but thanks to 21st century innovations, we can now "like" psychopaths on Facebook. At least, until Facebook wises up and takes the fan page down.

A cross-country flight isn't always pleasant, what with delays, turbulence, and seat-kicking to contend with. But the trip is, at the very least, shorter than 19 hours.

Katie Holmes was allegedly granted primary "physical" custody of Suri, according to reports on the private divorce settlement she and Tom Cruise reached earlier today.

Paris-based electro new wave pop band The Aikiu is looking to stir up some buzz ahead of its debut album, which will be released later this year.

After a woman called police in Saanich, British Columbia, to report a possible break-in, multiple units were sent to set up a containment around the scene.

The New York Times reports that male jewelry enthusiast Johnny Depp has begun editing work on "House of Earth," a previously unpublished novel written by folk singer Woody Guthrie.

Christina Das, a 19-year-old resident of Rochester, N.Y., suffered broken ankles and broken wrist when she fell from a light pole at a Phish concert on Sunday. Shockingly, she was "under the influence of something," such as, possibly, good vibes. Also, she was naked.

Taking issue with Bill Maher dropping his name in reference to President Obama's supposed lack of "real blackness," mild-mannered comedian Wayne Brady recently blew a gasket, threatening physical harm against the HBO host in a manner reminiscent of his now-iconic Chappelle's Show sketch.

Quintessential '90s one-hit-wonder Chumbawamba, AKA that band that plays "Tubthumping," have posted a notice to fans on their official website announcing their split after 30 years (!!) in the music industry.

XO Jane went through a lot of serious drama when they had to part ways with dust-smoking suicidal narcissist downtown swinger beauty columnist Cat Marnell, after they had sucked every last car-wreck-in-action page view that they reasonably could from her while still maintaining a decent Caring Big Sister posture. But there's good news, desperate readers: XO Jane has an equally depressed suicidal beauty writer to serve as Marnell's spiritual successor.

On Saturday, Gawker writer Louis Peitzman haphazardly insinuated that a tweet from KTLA newsreader Sam Rubin was a bad practical joke, but it turned out that he was actually hacked, according to Rubin. He sent this email to Louis on Saturday night: