Scary Things

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Rightwing Think Tank is Very Afraid of Imaginary Liberalism

Political partisans tend to fall into the trap of mischaracterizing their opponents. This generally manifests itself as low-level innocuous stuff. Coastal liberals may think southerners are all gun-toting, bible thumpers or midwestern conservatives may think of city dwellers as metrosexual peaceniks. Most established, politically connected organizations would try to avoid getting tripped up by these common stereotypes. But most organizations are not the Heritage Foundation! Continue reading

The Treadwall is for People Who Think Climbing Regular Walls is Easy

…and we’d like to tell them that they’re insane. Ok. Seriously, sure, fine, we get it. Let’s do exercise! It’s good for the body and the soul. It’s all about mind over matter, friends. “You can do it!” says Chuck Norris probably. Ok. We really hate Chuck Norris. Anyway, here’s this thing that will probably make your heart exit your body and ask you if you’ve lost your goddamn mind. Continue reading

The Scariest Thing You’ll See All Day!

I thoroughly enjoy sci-fi. Seriously. Give me action and adventure, throw in some aliens and unspeakable monsters, and I’m a happy woman. I could watch this all day, every day. I could, really. However, there are exceptions to this rule and several instances where I’d like my movies and television to be singular events and not bleed into my actual real life — especially those times when you feel the most vulnerable.

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A Year’s Worth of Makeup in One Day

Ever wondered what it would be like if you put a year’s worth of makeup on in one day? No? Well, whatever, this site wants to show you. For some odd reason the Nowness website (Get it? Things that are happening immediately hence the ness attached to now. Yes, we believe this is a “Fetch” situation) thinks that you should be in awe of what they can do with seven bottles of foundation and a myriad other things they list here.

Take a gander. Continue reading