Watch An Adult Eat Cheesecake For the First Time
In the final video of this historic series, I eat cheesecake. It was... kinda salty?
Watch An Adult Eat Jam For the First Time
This one is embarrassing, I admit.
Watch An Adult Eat Applesauce For the First Time
I don’t ever remember eating applesauce, which looks and tastes disgusting, so, at the age of 27, I tried it.
Watch An Adult Eat Jell-O For the First Time
Well, okay, I have done Jell-O shots before. Obviously! But this is my first time ever eating plain Jell-O, and, quite frankly, it will probably be my last.
Watch An Adult Eat a Pineapple For the First Time
In this video, at the age of 27, I eat a pineapple for the very first time. I actually kinda liked it!
Watch an Adult Eat a Fig Newton For the First Time
Last week, I ate a raisin, which I hated. Guess what I thought of a Fig Newton!
Watch An Adult Eat a Raisin For the First Time
This is the third in a series of videos in which I, at the age of 27, try a bunch of foods I have never eaten before. It might have been the worst one.
Watch An Adult Eat Apple Pie For the First Time
This is the second in a series of videos in which I, at the age of 27, try a bunch of foods I have never eaten before.
MTV Shines Light On Dating While HIV Positive and Stigma
Last night, MTV’s True Life featured two people in their 20's who are HIV positive and dating. The picture was at once bleak and hopeful—both Jonahs, 22, and Lexi, 24, are undetectable and yet face other people’s reservations (if not outright bigotry) regarding their status. And still they persevere. In the clip above…
Watch An Adult Eat a Banana For the First Time
And that adult is me. This is the first in a series of videos in which I, at the age of 27, try a bunch of foods I have never eaten before, including pineapple, cheesecake, apple pie and raisins.
Here Are the Meds a Straight Guy Needs To Take In Order To Perform in Gay Porn
Luke (aka Vadim Black) and Ben (aka Sean Cody’s Sean) (links NSFW) are two straight-identified guys who make their living by doing gay porn. They were both profiled on last night’s True Life: I’m a Gay for Pay Porn Star. They were both extremely firm on their heterosexual orientation (no doubt because their line of…
Prime of Life: The Story of My 20s, as Told in Amazon Purchases
Amazon turns 20 today, which means it’s nearly the same age I was when I graduated college, moved across the country, and started living alone. The world has changed, and Amazon has its own transition period to undergo. But if it’s anything like me, it can manage these growing pains easily—with an overflowing digital…
Embarrassing True Life Will Make You Never Want To Do Molly Again
Do you "do" molly? Are you not necessarily addicted to the ecstasy replacement drug, but you can't have fun without it? When the molly kicks in, do you really feel like you become one with the music? Is this basically what you've been doing for the past three years? Are you hallucinating on the ceiling? Do you keep…
MTV has announced a casting call for a host of new True Life episodes. Among them: "My Parents Like Their Weed," "I'm Being Slut Shamed," and "I'm Addicted to Molly." It's a great time to be alive and in slightly complicated situations.
Man Terrorizes Wife With Unruly Beard: A Modern American Tragedy
"When I met Taylor and when we got married, he looked like a Backstreet Boy," said Kim, 28, a marketing director at a local airport near Fredericksburg, VA. She meant that as a compliment. You see, her relationship has since been hijacked by her husband Taylor's barbecue-sauce trap of a beard that he grew, "fell in…
MTV Airs Young Woman's Excruciating, Depressing Coming Out to Family
A 20-year-old Savannah State University student and cheerleader named Desiree was profiled on last night's episode of MTV's True Life, which was titled "I'm a Gay Athlete." In it, Desiree ostensibly came out to her mom Michelle and aunt Deena over lunch. It did not go well. This is about as worst-case scenario as it…
In-between prestige drama like The Americans and the perfection that is Nashville–which we'll be talking about tomorrow–tonight MTV's got the Catfish season premiere and True Life: I'm A Gay Athlete. Join us at over at Morning After as we learn the truth about some things and the lies about some other things.
Here's Footage of a Star Trek-Themed Beauty Pageant
More goodness from this weekend's True Life mini-marathon: "I Want To Be an Obscure Pageant Queen" profiled 27-year-old Adrienne, who competed in the Miss Star Trek Universe beauty pageant. Adrienne dressed as an Andorian, sassily answered a question in which she was compared to a Smurf, and sang a song that she…
Watch a Juggalo Wedding Ceremony
This weekend, MTV ran a mini-marathon of three episodes of its best show (possibly ever), True Life. Though the episode title "I Want Respect for My Sect"4 seemed to hint at a portrait of militant Mormon fundamentalists, the actual show was even more off the wall (as if that seemed possible before it aired). Instead,…
The Plight of the Instagram Celebrity
"A lot of people follow me because they like my attitude, and a lot of girls think I'm cute," says 16-year-old Brady, who was profiled on an episode of MTV's True Life this weekend called "I'm Famous Online." Brady, you see, is suffering from the affliction of thousands of Instagram followers (at the time of taping,…
