You may have noticed that the game recently changed, with respect to feminism. But how? When? Who? Aha: "Emma Watson Delivers Game-Changing Speech on Feminism for the U.N.,"a VanityFair.com headline reports.
"The Equalizer" is a new gangster movie set in Boston. "Boston is a city of venerable neighborhoods, rich cultural history and academic distinction... So how did the meditative crime drama become the most consistent motif for Boston in the movies?" Probably because of boring wack people.
At the End of the Day, Here Is a Love & Hip Hop Atlanta Supercut
At the end of the day, Love & Hip Hop Atlanta's third season finale aired this week. At the end of the day, the people on this show say, "At the end of the day" a lot. At the end of the day, I counted over 140 utterances. At the end of the day, "at the end of the day" is supposed to notate definitive statements and…
Don Draper Weighs in on Ferguson: "Bad Situation"
Jon Hamm, perhaps the most famous graduate of the The Olde St. Louie Dinner Theater Academy of Dramatic Arts, returned to his hometown last night to throw out the first pitch at a Cardinals game (it was also Bobblehead night).
Here's Basically Every Pro-Gun Cliché That Exists On The Internet
Steel yourself for the inevitable, intractable exchanges with America's least-subtle Second Amendment Men using this "Arguing With Gun Nuts on Twitter" bingo card, via writer and seasoned Twitter troll Bobby Big Wheel.
56 Things Writers Have Predicted 2014 Will Be "the Year of"
Happy new year! Now that 2013 is out of the way, it's time to get cracking on deciding the what next year is. The Year of the Winter Olympics? The Year of World Peace? Or maybe one of these 56 other options, predicted by writers all over?
61 Things 2013 Was "the Year of"
As another year comes to a close, we must determine how it will be remembered by all of the generations who will come after us. Will 2013 be commemorated, as we predicted last year, as the Year of Meh? Far from it. We found at least 61 better options.
All 226 Clichés Uttered by Katy Perry on Her New Album, Listed
Katy Perry is one of the most bankable contemporary pop singers—"Roar," the first single from her new album Prism, became her eighth No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in August. Prism is expected to sell about 300,000 copies its first week in stores. It is a dreadful album, way too concerned with preserving Perry's star…
Vanity Fair Is as Relevant as Ever
We'll give you one guess who's on the new Vanity Fair cover. ONE GUESS. [Ghost Monthly.]
50 Things 2013 Will Be 'the Year of'
The new year is upon us, and now that we've determined that 2012 was the year of "meh" (or was it the year of the slug?), we need to figure out where we're going next. What will 2013 be the year of — peace? Justice? Mobile social marketing? Here, 50 articles make the case for 2013 being the year of...
58 Things 2012 Was 'the Year of'
As 2012 draws to a close, it's very important to figure out what, exactly, 2012 was the year of. The dragon? The election? The Olympics? New practical thermoelectric power generators? To help figure it out we've assembled 58 articles explaining why 2012 was the year of...
Hero Portlanders Live to Tell of Journey Through America's Savage South
Remember how last week we were talking about the "post-pointless" era of journalism, in which any and all experiences no matter how banal can be packaged as journeys of discovery and wonder, and sold to superficially pop-intellectual sites like Slate and Salon as something that appears just meaningful enough for a…
Bill Keller Writes Provocative Media Column From 1997
When we learned that New York Times editor Bill Keller was getting his very own column in the New York Times Magazine, our keen media instinct—honed by years of reading the Twitter and writing juvenile jokes on the internet while never doing any "real reporting"—told us that sooner or later, this column would become…
Another Alleged Russian Spy Caught, Deported from US
The Russian spy story continues: A mid-twenties software tester at Microsoft, Alexey Karetnikov, has been deported on immigration charges and is said to be the 12th member of the spy ring. Last chance for reporters to overuse Cold War clichés!
Five and a Half Cliches in 121 Words
The Daily Beast appears to have published the most mixed metaphor of all time.
The New York Times' on The Ultimate Brooklyn Cliches: Banned from the Co-op
The New York Times ran a piece in this weekend's Metropolitan containing every awesome, incredibly true cliche about BoBo Brooklyn. It will stand as a definitive document of Our Era in Kings. It's about someone getting banned from the Co-Op.
L.E.S. Celebudogs in Twee Clash
Let's say an angry pit bull has a Menace Factor of 10. But make it a Japanese DJ's dog facing off against a "Celebrity facialist's" Yorkie on the L.E.S., and the Menace is, like, three.
British Geraldo Meets British Tony Soprano
Can there ever be too many British gangster movies? The answer is no. So we fully support the new documentary A Very British Gangster, which is being released in the US today. Not only has the filmmaker, Donal McIntyre, been described as "the British answer to Geraldo Rivera," but the subject of the film, Manchester…
The Wind Beneath Our Wings: Poetry Clichés Will Get You Published
August literary magazine Virginia Quarterly Review's blog did a survey, discovering that cliché-ridden poetry submissions get published more often than not. They thought they were above that, avoiding clichés like the plague, but alas: "This was supposed to be a blog entry about how authors submit poetry to us…
