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Someone Knew You Were Waiting for a Reality Show Called, “All My Babies’ Mamas”

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Since we haven’t Honey Boo Booed ourselves into a coma yet, something called “All My Babies’ Mamas” is reportedly on its way to the Oxygen network. This sounds like a recipe for disaster heretofore unmatched by the television gods who keep the airwaves full of noxious human beings who have developed their own niche of “Agog Viewership.” Yup, if you’ve gone about your daily lives never contemplating some crazy random thing’s potential abhorrent ripeness for television fodder — believe that someone else has. Continue reading

The Cure for Lena Dunham’s Race Problem is Donald Glover

Oh, mercy. Remember all that hubbub about Dunham’s hit Girls not having many, if any, people of color on the show? The answer to all of those concerns, you know, about non-whites solely being considered just a part of NYC’s eclectic backdrop, is to throw Donald Glover, Childish Gambino to his friends (Troy to his lovers) onto the show as a “handsome Republican named Sandy” whom it’s believed will be dating Dunham’s character in season 2. Continue reading

Learning to Cover a Tragedy

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Every December 3rd, around 6:13pm, I stop for a minute and remember the Worcester 6.

On December 3rd, 1999, two homeless people named Thomas Levesque and Julie Ann Barnes were living inside the Worcester Cold Storage Warehouse. The building was abandoned. It was a relic of another age, six stories tall, so close to the elevated Interstate 290 that, if you wanted to, you could reach from the side of the highway and almost touch the façade of the building. Continue reading

Project Runway All-Stars Season 2 Episode 8 Liveblog

project-runway-all-stars-1 Greetings, fellow Project Runway fans! Well, this season’s been a bit of a letdown, hasn’t it? I mean, the fashions have hardly been awe-inspiring, the judges have been lackluster, and there’s hardly been any drama between the designers! Last week, we bid adieu to Casanova, whose design was a loser amongst a sea of horrid designs in a horrid Unconventional Materials challenge involving the (mis)use of Christmas decorations. Uli deservedly won, as her design was the least offensive to the eyes. Continue reading

The Hollywood Caller: Zac Efron is Not a Hobbit, but Probably JFK, Go Figure

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We’re so kidding. There’s no way anyone would cast Zac Efron as JFK, would they? Jimmy Kimmel wants to play Freddy to Leno’s Jason; X-Men be Damned! Bryan Singer to television; Just Jack gets Back in NBC’s Pack (Rhymes we gots them); Catfish to continue making people squirm in all their Pinocchio-ness; Ben Affleck backs out of K-Stew web. Continue reading