Before he was the third actor to play Ser Gregor Clegane—"The Mountain That Rides"—on Game of Thrones, Hafþór "Thor" Júlíus Björnsson was already making heads explode with his performances in strongman competitions.
Used to be when a bunch of people got murdered with a gun, it was called a "murder." But now it's a "shooting," because the leftist media lies, except it's not a lie, but whatever. The point, according to this awesome he-hulk in an NRA propaganda video is: Don't watch the news!
By his own admission, award-winning author Colson Whitehead went on a “strange odyssey” when he journeyed to Las Vegas for the World Series of Poker. He was on assignment for Grantland, ESPN’s culture website, and had trained for weeks with Helen Ellis, a tournament-hardened card player. But there was just one thing: the odds were, well, stacked against him.
Two black workers in a Tennessee cotton factory just filed a federal complaint against a domineering white supervisor who called them "monkeys" and was recorded lamenting racial integration while telling them the water fountain and microwave were for whites only. Happy 2014!
As part of a PR stunt for Ehrlich Pest Control, 13 restaurants, including one in D.C., will become "pestaurants" and serve you dead bugs to eat. The goal, Ehrlich claims, is "to promote the health benefits of an insect rich diet already enjoyed by billions across the globe."
On June 1, this past Sunday, police came to the Beijing home of the artist Guo Jian—an Australian citizen, living in Beijing with an Australian passport—and took him away. Two days before, the Financial Times had published an interview with Guo. In it, he talked about how he'd privately made an installation of a diorama of Tian'anmen Square, buried in a layer of ground pork, till the meat had rotted. Guo went on to tell the reporter about his own experience at Tianan'men in 1989: a hunger strike, tear gas, bullets, blood, "the emergency room packed with bodies."
Los Angeles law enforcement agencies have had more than their share of scandals. Still, testimony coming about about the behavior of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department is shocking.
A Florida teen and his father were driving home when they came upon a semi-truck stuck on the train tracks. When it became clear that the train was going to pulverize the truck, 15-year-old Austin Broderick did as any teen would: he took out his phone and started recording. His narration is on-point: "That was not...good."
Driving while black has apparently been expanded to include even starting a car while black. This Western New York man was the victim of an angry mom's racist tirade just for getting ready to leave a parking lot while she walked by with her kids.
Yesterday, just hours after the footage of Jonah Hill calling a paparazzo a "faggot" was posted by TMZ, the actor shared his regrets regarding the slur on Howard Stern's Sirius show. On last night's Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Hill reiterated his remorse while accepting full accountability for not just his words but their weight beyond his intention:
Before he was Tyrion Lannister—before he was even the Station Agent—Peter Dinklage was a high school kid with a kickass mullet.
A 40-year-old New York man was reportedly arrested and charged with a hate crime for allegedly attacking former L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling's ex-girlfriend V. Stiviano as she was leaving the Gansevoort Hotel in the Meatpacking District on Sunday.
