On Friday, Scientific American announced that the editor of their blogs Bora Zivkovic had resigned. This wasn't related to that snafu they'd encountered a week prior, when they'd chosen to delete a post written by Danielle N. Lee
If tired CBS sitcoms and hacky comedians are to be believed, ladies on they periods be crazy (chocolate & cats & wine & crying & Lifetime Original Movies & blanket clutching!). Now, thanks to the publication of the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistics Manuel (the DSM V, for those of us who hate typing/pronouncing syllables), that trope is backed by mainstream psychology; premenstrual dysphoric disorder — or PMDD, again, for the syllabically averse — is now officially classified as a mental disorder. And while that might seem like a positive development for women who suffer emotionally debilitating hormonal states in the lead up to their monthly bloodletting, something about this change in PMDD's status seems... off.
Both Hasbro and Mattel have reported a growth in sales this month due to profits from products that skew pink. For Hasbro
Diablo Cody, who is coming off her directorial debut with Paradise
Variety show heavy weight and Important Lady of Comedy Carol Burnett was honored at the Kennedy Center this past Sunday where she was awarded the coveted Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Yes! Give Carol Burnett all of the awards! Every last one of them!
Not to brag, but I've spent years of my life with various Unemployed Boyfriends. None of them were lazy (well one of them was lazy); they'd just been dealt a shitty hand or were trying to make it in an industry that just wasn't that into them. The good news is that, as far as I'm (intermittent Facebook stalk) aware, they're okay now, working jobs that don't make them feel bad about themselves and making comfortable amounts of money, which they probably spend taking nice ladies out to dinner and various date-type jaunts.
If you're part of the small subset of people who pay attention to both Delaware and the law community in Delaware, I won't need to remind you who Brian Zulberti is. For the rest of you, Brian Zulberti
The black market
Hell Houses — wack-ass haunted houses where instead of awesome ghouls and goblins attacking you with chainsaws, you are subjected to scenes depicting abortion and teen suicide intended to "lure people to Jesus" — are extremely dumb. In response, Toronto artist Allyson Mitchell created Kill Joy’s Castle, a lesbian…
BREAKING: Christie administration withdraws appeal of gay marriage ruling
— Bloomberg TV (@BloombergTV) October 21, 2013
Do you watch Sleepy Hollow? Great, neither do I. But I might now. Seeing as an absolute gem of a young actress — Amandla Stenberg, who played Rue in The Hunger Games' and made me cry forever when she died COME BACK RUE I WAS ALWAYS ROOTING FOR YOU — is joining the cast.
Anna Wintour wants Lena Dunham for the cover of Vogue, according to a "well-placed magazine source" (a business crop top? An oversized pink coat for the autumn season?).
We call this look the "Half-Beetlejuice" — and I dig it.
Tom Hiddleston's impression of Owen Wilson playing Loki
You can actually see the hate in his eyes. Oh, and you can BUY THIS. God speed, cats.
If you can't enjoy a pun-based dessert in this life, what can you enjoy? (Although, I'm worried my boobs are starting to resemble these without the aid of any sort of mammogram machine or chocolate graham crackers.)
And a good one, too. 1915 ladies rock.
The most asked question at @RAINN01 at the moment is: "Is date rape illegal?" -@irin #nerdland
— Elizabeth Plank (@feministabulous) October 20, 2013
He'd still be alive today. With an anxious eye to the impending Halloween festivities, let's celebrate Bela Lugosi's almost perfectly-timed birthday. Lugosi would have been 130 today, and is best remembered for his role as Dracula in 1931. The cult status of Tim Burton's Ed Wood has probably made it cool for…
You've got to hand it Chris Koo — he's really got that hair flip down. And he's limber. It looks like his elbows are elastic, which also leads me to believe that Chris Koo is secretly Reed Richards. "Crazy in Love" is about a decade old, but that just makes this dance tribute more nostalgic and endearing.
The Chloë Moretz Carrie remake made a healthy $17 million this weekend, but failed to dislodge Sandra Bullock's movie about Murphy's Law from the top box office spot.
Remember way back when Vanilla Ice and Madonna were dating? Vanilla Ice sure does, and he was kind enough to publicly reminisce about all that time he and his former best gal spent going to movies disguised as old people.
A recent survey of 12,000 people aged 18+ in eight countries sings a very familiar refrain: 70 percent of people say that technology enhances their personal relationships, but 60 percent believe that it can be dehumanizing. This is a theme that's been revisited and rehashed and commented upon until it's been flattened into a pulp of a concept; upon that pulp, someone rested an iPad and posted a plaintive and soul-searching Facebook status.
LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 20: Actors Colin Farrell and Emma Thompson attend the press conference for 'Saving Mr Banks' during the 57th BFI London Film Festival at The Dorchester on October 20, 2013 in London, England. (Photo by Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images)
