This weekend is your last chance to vote for Crasstalk and Crassparenting for the 2013 Bloggies. Allow me to take a moment to obsequiously beg for your votes. As you know, we here at Open Thread Media have made it our mission to win the internet. We cannot do this without your support. Continue reading
While sitting in a restaurant on “date night” I couldn’t help shaking my head at a young couple in their twenties as they sat nearly motionless for much of their meal, both with their heads bent over their phones texting like crazy. Neither seemed to think there was anything wrong with sitting in each other’s company and texting away as if the other wasn’t there.
Is this the only way we communicate? Continue reading
While my NPR station was blathering on about fake Serious Person Paul Ryan and his masturbatory homage to Ayn Rand and the slightly more realistic budget coming from Sen. Patty Murray and Senate Democrats, the House Progressive Caucus quietly (in media terms) released its Back to Work Budget this week.
Contained within is a whole host of liberal red meat: Tax increases on the wealthy! Infrastructure investments! Investment income taxed like wage income! Initiatives to target climate change! It also has a healthy dose of unintended irony.
Pantone declared that this is the year of green with their color of the year being PANTONE 17-5641 Emerald. This has led to a host of articles about incorporating it into your life in some surprising ways. Especially in pants, for some reason everyone is trying to make green pants happen. And shoes. I don’t get it, but that’s me. Continue reading
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Once more unto the fashion breach!
Well, well, well. Last week, Crimes of Fashion: Teams Edition brought us an unexpected surprise in the form of a double elimination! Tu and Kate were auf’d.
However, such a surprise came at a cost. Michelle (aka Portlandia) was given the win, thus ensuring that she will be even more insufferable for at least a couple of more episodes. Continue reading
James Hetfield, of the frequently light-rock band Metallica, says “yeah” a lot. So much that when putting them all together it is a thing of intrigue. Continue reading
In a surprise move, the Catholic Church’s Cabal of Choosing has chosen British character actor Jonathan Pryce as the new Pope. Pryce chose the papal name “Francis,” as a tribute to his two entertainment-business idols: Francis the talking mule from the popular movie series, and obscure twentieth-century saloon singer Francis Albert Sinatra. Continue reading
Round and round we go. Continue reading
Another installment in our series on abandoned places in the world. Continue reading