The 20 Most Mortifying Parts of Buzz Bissinger’s Insane Leather Fetish Essay

buzz bissingerYesterday we witnessed the greatest piece of journalism in the history of GQ. Friday Night Lights author (and frequent insane sports commenter) Buzz Bissinger gave us a personal essay that was ostensibly about his haute couture shopping addiction and $500,000 Gucci habit. But the piece was really more about Buzz’s description of a midlife crisis that evolved into a bizarre S&M leather fetish. Most men his age just buy a Corvette, but not this guy.

Buzz himself says his downward spiral came about after his three kids went off to college. Since seeing your dad write a six-page exploration of his leather fetish is basically the most embarrassing thing ever, let’s rank the various parts of his essay from least to most mortifying. Continue reading →

Anonymous Angst from the Online Journals of Your Youth – Part IV

Emo-4Reading your old LiveJournal posts is way worse than looking at that picture of yourself as a freshman with a bad perm. Your words look into the truth of your little emo heart, that perm was just a bad decision that you’ll grow out of. Collected here are the anonymous journals of your youth brought forth from the depths of LiveJournal and Xanga. Instead of mashing them all together I’m going to string them out over a few posts. Continue reading →

Your Prop 8/DOMA Open Thread Part Deux

Yesterday we heard the oral arguments for CA’s Prop 8 which audio of can be found here and a transcript here. I would write a recap, but I’ll be the first to admit that 1) I suck at translating legal jargon into actual English and 2) I don’t want to get something wrong. Continue reading →

Smash Season 2 Episode 8 “The Bells and Whistles” Liveblog

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Ok, folks. Here we go. The second-to-last Smash live blog. I love to hate watch this show, but not enough to stay home on Saturday night to watch it live. This episode is called “The Bells and Whistles.” I’m sure it’s about Gay Kyle and Jimmy Who joining a boys choir. Or begging for change on the street. Or aliens. Hell, it’s probably all three.

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Doctor Who Week: The Best Companions Who Never Were

There are two absolute truths to life lately;

1. The newest episode of Doctor Who premieres Saturday night on BBC America here in the states.

2. I’m kind of obsessed.

The Doctor has run across some pretty badass friends in his adventures. Here are some that never got to travel with him in the TARDIS, but made a major impact anyway.

Caution: Spoilers in the reply.

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Port Chicago Naval Magazine: A Civil Rights Tour

download-1Port Chicago is one of those places that you pass by often on your way to work but never stop to think about. After living in the San Francisco Bay Area for almost two decades, I decided to visit it for the first time last week. It is the site of a World War II munitions explosion that killed 320 people, mostly black sailors. The aftermath caused America to examine its racism and helped integrate the military.

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Your Prop 8/DOMA Open Thread

So today and tomorrow the Supreme Court will be hearing oral arguments on CA’s Prop 8 (Overturned in the 2010 case, Perry v. Schwarzenegger )and the U.S.’ s DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act signed into law by the Big Dog himself Bill Clinton in 1996.) Continue reading →

Anonymous Angst from the Online Journals of Your Youth – Part III

Emo-4Reading your old LiveJournal posts is way worse than looking at that picture of yourself as a freshman with a bad perm. Your words look into the truth of your little emo heart, that perm was just a bad decision that you’ll grow out of. Collected here are the anonymous journals of your youth brought forth from the depths of LiveJournal and Xanga. Instead of mashing them all together I’m going to string them out over a few posts. Continue reading →