The protests in Ferguson escalated again Monday night after a small group of protesters reportedly began throwing Molotov cocktails at police and firing live ammunition, prompting a heavy-handed response from law enforcement officers. At least two people were reportedly shot and multiple people arrested in the melee.
An attention-whorse named Oreo went buckwild in Manhattan yesterday, tearing through traffic and injuring three people.
So remember how Gawker became obsessed with the Montauk Monster, and everyone was like, "Ho ho ho, isn't that funny and delightful, let's laugh at the 'monster' all summer until it kills us all in our sleep, LOL'?" And then CNN did a story but even Wolf Blitzer had trouble maintaing his usual humorless melodrama because he was about to bust out laughing? Well, no one's laughing now because monsters are eating the Main Stream Media alive. The terrified reports keep coming: Newsweek, as we just reported, launched a panicked, desperate effort to claim the Montauk Monster is a Photoshop hoax. CNN aired video of a Chupacabra in Texas. And now multiple cable news networks have picked up on a Bigfoot discovery that even we laughed off initially. BUT NO ONE IS SCOFFING NOW OH NO NOT ANYMORE.
Times-man David Carr has some suggestions for a writerless-Oscars: YouTube Oscars maybe? ("Imagine Cate Blanchett doing her LonelyGirl15 thing"!) And one of his commenters recalls the disaster that was the 1991 Clio awards—we can only hope the Oscars will be that fun. On that fateful night, the caterer served as master of ceremonies—and the winner's list went missing. Oh if ONLY.
