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Celebrity Coming Out Cards For the Closet Case in Your Life

Brian Moylan · 10/11/11 01:09PM

We all know a closet case or two who everyone knows is gay, but just needs to finally come out of the closet. On this National Coming Out Day, give them a little nudge by dropping off one of these celebrity National Coming Out Day Cards.

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: These Foolish Games

Richard Lawson · 10/11/11 01:02PM

Last night's episode of They Shoot Housewives, Don't They? was one of those off-the-rails corkers that only comes around once in a blue moon on these shows, so naturally they're splitting it up into two installments.

Reddit's Child Porn Scandal

Adrian Chen · 10/11/11 12:11PM

It appears a user of the popular message board Reddit has been caught distributing child pornography on a section of the site dedicated to sharing sexualized images of underaged girls. What a shock.

Enlightened: A New Age of Comedy

Richard Lawson & Brian Moylan · 10/11/11 11:41AM

Because it loves nothing more than it loves a challenge, HBO's newest show Enlightened takes on the complicated world of self-help and recovery. So, what did we make of Laura Dern and screenwriter Mike White's character study?

Protesters Lay Siege to Senate Office Building

Jim Newell · 10/11/11 11:06AM

The Occupy DC protesters are quite a spunky bunch, as a group of them is currently trying to occupy the Hart Senate Office Building. Lock up your "good" staffers, senators, and send the crappy interns to the front line!

Demi and Ashton Reunite, Freak Out, on Yom Kippur Camping Trip

Maureen O'Connor · 10/11/11 10:55AM

Demi and Ashton go camping and yell at a photographer. After occupying Wall Street, Kanye West went shopping. Jessica Simpson rubs her possibly-pregnant belly. Paz de la Huerta considers herself "one of the rare artists that are left." Tuesday gossip atones.

The Avengers: A Special Kind of Club

Richard Lawson · 10/11/11 10:14AM

Here's a first trailer for the big Marvel mashup The Avengers, which puts together all the superheroes you've seen at the movies in the past few years and, well, the orgy begins.

Which Famous Director Proposed to a Real Housewife?

Brian Moylan · 10/11/11 10:00AM

This Oscar-winning auteur popped the question to a Real Housewife, even though they're both already married. This singer is trying to start a scandal. And another musician is such a drunk she sleeps with a baby monitor so she won't die in her sleep. Sounds like a story a great director could turn into a movie.

Say Goodbye to College Radio?

Lauri Apple · 10/11/11 09:46AM

Today people across North America are celebrating College Radio Day—a brand-new holiday founded by two enthusiasts of college radio's typically "unique and fearless programming." On college radio, DJs can play Birthday Party songs before bluegrass songs and after Miles Davis songs, but also play Ke$ha songs if they want. On college radio, DJs can go "um" and "uhhhh" and it's okay, nobody fires them.

Who Broke the Speaking Rules at the New York Times?

Hamilton Nolan · 10/11/11 08:54AM

New York Times ethics cop Phil Corbett just sent out the following memo to the newsroom, reminding them about the paper's rules for paid speaking engagements. (Thomas Friedman, among others, has had trouble with this in the past.) An NYT source says "they don't send these reminders out unless someone breaks the rules or screws up." So who was it? Email me if you know.

Do Not Forbid the Stutterer in Your Class From Speaking

Hamilton Nolan · 10/11/11 08:21AM

Sometimes, the very most basic facts of a story are all that's necessary to see the colossal outpouring of public rage that is sure to follow. As in this case! College professors: do not order a student in your class who stutters not to speak in class, ever.

Condom Store's Latest Product Is 'Occupy Wall Street'-Themed

Lauri Apple · 10/11/11 07:02AM

Given that Occupy Wall Street's HQ has turned into a revolutionary sex-fest that would make Caligula blush (h/t Smiths), you might be worried that protesters will reproduce awful things like sexually transmitted diseases and tiny socialist babies. To help you rest better—and to make a little money—the Condomania condom store has begun selling protest-themed protective devices.

Porn-Making Gang Keeps Trying to Kidnap Saddam Hussein Lookalike

Lauri Apple · 10/11/11 06:24AM

Mohamed Bishr not only has to deal with people on the street harassing him for looking like Saddam Hussein—he also has to evade the Iraqi gang that's trying to kidnap him and force him to star in their porn movies. And you thought you had problems.

World's Most Notoriously Unfinished Hotel Finally Opening (Supposedly)

Lauri Apple · 10/11/11 05:16AM

A big, tentative congrats to North Korea, whose infamous Ryugyong Hotel (aka the "Hotel of Doom") is slated to open its doors in April 2012—only 24 years after its groundbreaking, and just in time for the 100th birthday celebration of O.G. Most Glorious Leader on High Kim Il-sung. Sadly, he won't be doing the ribbon-cutting because he died in 1994. But his ghost is expected to haunt and place bugs in some of the rooms.

Can Your Homemade Rockets Do This?

Lauri Apple · 10/11/11 04:47AM

Everybody say hi to Qu8k ("quake"): An artisanal rocket made by Derek Deville that zoomed 121,000 feet above the surface of Planet Earth in only 92 seconds. Deville launched Qu8k on September 30 from Nevada's Black Rock Desert (the same spot where the Burning Man Festival of the One Percent takes place). The 14-foot rocket weighs 320 pounds, yet looks so skinny. Must be muscle mass.

Man Won't Let Cops or Fires Stop Him From Eating His Taco Bell

Lauri Apple · 10/11/11 03:52AM

After drinking enough to allegedly register a .227 on a blood alcohol content test, Florida person Matthew Falkner went to a Jensen Beach Taco Bell, ordered some tacos, then passed out in his pick-up truck while waiting in the drive-thru—just like you sometimes do! Taco Bell drive-thrus are comforting.

Even Antelopes Hate Bicyclists

Matt Cherette · 10/11/11 03:13AM

Have you ever been waiting patiently to cross the street, then when it's finally your turn, there's some jerk riding a bike down the middle of the road and you wish you could just run out there and ram right into him but you don't, of course, because then you'd be injured and/or in trouble? Well, this South African Red Hartebeest (let's call him Buck Norris) knows nothing about this "timidity" of which you speak. [via Doobybrain]