Brad Garrett remembers ‘vibrant’ Doris Roberts; Jimmy and Robin Slonina ‘a Las Vegas weirdo power couple’

Edit Las Vegas Sun 19 Apr 2016
Brad Garrett is in a bittersweet mood this week, celebrating the fourth anniversary of his club at MGM Grand Underground while feeling the loss of his friend and “Everybody Loves Raymond” co-star Doris Roberts ... ....

you'll be "a lightning rod for slut shaming"

Edit Vox 19 Apr 2016
Interviewing celebrities is tough. The most famous ones in particular have armies of publicists, communications strategists, and the like hired to keep them on message and prevent them from saying anything off brand ... Credit must also go to Swift, who loosens up her everybody's-best-friend image and displays an admirable and hilarious willingness to come across as a sarcastic, jaded weirdo/business maven ... "The movie The Martian." ... ....

Toronto Punks Weaves Are Headed To Europe And You Don’t Wanna Miss Them

Edit NME 19 Apr 2016
Rarely does a band excite us the way Toronto’s Weaves have in recent years. First off, early track ‘Motorcycle’ was a total blast of post punk weirdo brilliance – all X-Ray Spex jitteriness and an infectious chorus that sounded like a drunk and deranged Dilly Dally ... See Weaves live....

Eight things not to say to someone facing online abuse

Edit The Guardian 19 Apr 2016
Laura Bates. The standard advice – ‘don’t feed the trolls’, ‘it’s just a spotty teenager’ – is often well-meaning, but it normalises harassment and isn’t too helpful. So, what do you do? ... Related. How can we improve the Guardian comments? Share your views ... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... 7 ... What’s harder, but necessary, to confront is that many of those who abuse online are people within our communities and friendship groups, not just “weirdos” or outcasts. 8 ... ....

How Tom Hiddleston Makes Psycho Sexy

Edit Rollingstone 19 Apr 2016
But then there's the unpredictable, borderline weirdo version of Hiddleston, the one who does impromptu weather reports at local news stations as his Avengers character Loki, impulsively re-creates the Robert De Niro/Al Pacino diner scene from Heat on a talk show while sitting on a couch with De Niro – "I remember thinking, 'Why the hell ......

Bestsellers: Sylvia Day's finale to the raunchy Crossfire series hits the spot

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 18 Apr 2016
Top 10 Bestsellers. 1 One with You SYLVIA DAY, PENGUIN,  $22.99 The steamy Crossfire series comes to a smouldering end. 2 Crazy Weird. WeirDo ANH DO, SCHOLASTIC,  $14.99 How is Weirdo going to manage with braces on his teeth? ... Advertisement ...     ... ....

Zoe Coombs Marr wins top Comedy Festival Award

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 17 Apr 2016
It's been a big couple of nights for comedian Zoe Coombs Marr ... The performer, who received a 4½-star review for her show in The Age, said it was great to see the festival "celebrating the weirdos". Coombs Marr thanked fellow weirdo and last year's Barry Award winner Sam Simmons, who presented the award via Skype. Advertisement ... ....

There are some distinct advantages to feeling like a total fraud

Edit Business Insider 16 Apr 2016
The actress Maisie Williams recently garnered headlines for saying, “We should stop calling feminists ‘feminists’ and just start calling people who aren’t feminist ‘sexist.’ ” Similarly, maybe we should stop calling people who experience impostor syndrome “people who experience impostor syndrome” and start calling people who don’t experience impostor syndrome “overconfident weirdos.” ... Read the original article on Slate. Copyright 2016....

Hong Kong TV debuts: Christian Slater explains Generation X; Morgan Freeman explores The Story of God

Edit South China Morning Post 16 Apr 2016
Born in 1973, I have, naturally, watched The Breakfast Club, Reality Bites and Ferris Bueller's Day Off many, many times. I remember when Beck first professed to being a "loser" and a blond Thom Yorke sang about being a "creep" and a "weirdo". I had a major crush on Winona Ryder, a minor one on Ethan Hawke, and the news of Kurt Cobain's death was as heartbreaking as John Lennon's was to my parents ... I am a Gen-Xer! ... Here we are now ... ....

Tribeca Film Review: ‘Nerdland’

Edit IMDb 15 Apr 2016
From garbage-strewn apartments to billboards covered in bird crap and overpasses populated by puking weirdos, “Nerdland” imagines L.A. as a festering sore overrun by star-seeking cretins ... - Nick Schager. ....

DJ Haus’s favourite tracks

Edit The Guardian 15 Apr 2016
The London based producer and Unknown To The Unknown label boss empties the contents of his psychic record box. @katehutchinson. email. The track I’ll be opening my next DJ set with. Mall Grab. I’ve Always Liked Grime. It’s nice to start with a bang. When you’ve just arrived at a club and you’re trying to gauge what mood the crowd is in, sometimes it’s fun to whack on a proto-grime house banger ... Throne Keen has such a weirdo freakout vibe ... ....

Having a Newborn Baby Is Hard

Edit Huffington Post 15 Apr 2016
Yesterday the doorbell rang. My kids answer it before I can. I can hear a woman's voice asking "Is Mummy home?". From the tone of her voice I can tell she thinks she's stumbled upon some kind of home alone situation ... 'Yes', I mutter' ... "Why yes ... Oh, and if you do manage to leave, because it's o.k to take a break isn't it, just a small one? Prepare to walk around town feeling like a complete weirdo, hoping not to bump in to anyone you know ... ....

A Stowaway, a Black Sheep, and a Wedding

Edit Huffington Post 15 Apr 2016
We're at a family wedding. Not immediate family. Extended family. The worst kind. The judgiest ones in the bunch ... I'm the black sheep of our family, one of a handful, and so they've seated us at the "loser's" table. I actually overheard someone at the wedding call it that. It really is the loser's table ... And cake ... As much as I loved Catholic school (especially the uniform, see, I told you, weirdo), the dogma never made sense to me ... "Huh ... xox ... ....
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