It's the heartwarming story that just keeps heating: 9-year-old cardboard arcade owner Caine Monroy, who was the subject of a recent Facebook cashmob organized by filmmaker Nirvan Mullick, was invited to visit the non-cardboard LA-based pinball shop Pins and Needles, where he got to meet pinball champ Keith Elwin, among other pro-flippers.
Khristopher J. Brooks is a young reporter who was excited to be hired by the Delaware News-Journal last week. In a playful little gesture, he wrote up a fake "press release" on his own personal Tumblr announcing, "On Wednesday April 4, 2012, the News Journal Media Group acquired veteran education reporter Khristopher J. Brooks." He included some quotes about his career and background on the paper itself. For this, he was immediately fired, because NEWSPAPER WORK MUST NEVER BE FUN.
On tonight's Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert spent some time working on a solution for the often difficult transition back to civilian life that many soldier face. Turns out, we all have a part in the solution just so long as it doesn't involve Colbert doing anything himself.
Now that Rick Santorum has dropped out and Newt Gingrich can't afford to be on the ballot in certain states, it seems that the Romney vs. Obama general election match up is all set. To kick off their coverage, the Daily Show placed correspondents at Romney and Obama headquarters to survey where each candidate stands at the start of the main event. Turns out, they're in basically the same place.
Katie LoCricchio and her partner are engaged. The two live in Queens and, now that same-sex marriage has finally been legalized in New York, they can begin the process of planning their wedding. LoCricchio, like so many frenzied brides-to-be, went straight for the magazines.
A couple years ago, when CNN Entertainment correspondent Shanon Cook was nine months pregnant, a man was polite to her in a grocery store. The obvious conclusion from this story is that this dude wanted to GET. IT. IN.
In light of the "hullabaloo" surrounding BDSM novel Fifty Shades of Grey, elderly Smithtown, New York resident David Shobin gave the lusty lady book a read. Afterwards, he penned a powerfully ambivalent Amazon book review that has since been quoted in The Los Angeles Times and Vanity Fair. (Both publications quoted Shobin as a nameless "Amazon reviewer.")
Yesterday, Community, NBC's sitcom about the odd and endearing relationship between a diverse group of community college students, was named TV Guide Magazine's fan-favorite comedy, and its fan-favorite ensemble. Its time slot competitor Big Bang Theory, the Caltech-set CBS comedy about a pair of nerd genius roommates, didn't win in any category.
