Damon Lindelof is done with Watchmen after tonight’s finale. Unless he isn’t. Lindelof has long been not only one of television’s most audacious writers, but perhaps its most anxious. When Lost became an instant hit right after his co-creator J.J. Abrams left to make movies, Lindelof desperately wanted to quit …
Read More »What Do We Do With the Afghanistan Papers?
I am the son of a Vietnam veteran. Though I wasn’t alive in 1971 whenthePentagon Papers emerged, the very mention of them makes my blood boil. It is one thing to know that the most important man in your life, the one who helped later give it to you, volunteered …
Read More »Mayor Pete to Lizzo: 'I'm 100 Percent That Nominee'
Lizzo and Pete Buttigieg found themselves breathing the same air during an appearance on CBS This Morning Thursday, during which the Democratic presidential hopeful partook in the time-honored tradition of politicians awkwardly quoting pop songs. When host Gayle King prompted Buttigieg with the question of whether or not he’d recently …
Read More »Def Leppard Post Behind-the-Scenes Video of Tour Announcement With Poison, Mötley Crüe
Def Leppard, Mötley Crüe and Poison came together at SiriusXM’s Los Angeles headquarters last week to announce The Stadium Tour, which will take them all across North America in the summer of 2020. It was a rare union of three of the most popular groups from the Eighties hard rock …
Read More »New Order, Duran Duran Docs to Premiere on Showtime
New documentaries on New Order and Duran Duran will premiere back-to-back on Showtime December 27th, with New Order: Decades airing at 7:30 p.m. ET/PT and Duran Duran: There’s Something You Should Know at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Showtime also unveiled trailers for both documentaries. Directed by Mike Christie, New Order: Decades …
Read More »Watch Pussycat Dolls Reunite for First Performance in Nearly 10 Years
Days after announcing their reunion, the Pussycat Dolls appeared onstage together for the first time in nearly a decade as the girl group performed on the finale of the U.K.’s The X Factor. The quintet – Nicole Scherzinger, Carmit Bachar, Ashley Roberts, Jessica Sutta and Kimberly Wyatt, all members of …
Read More »Two K-Pop Singers Sentenced to Prison After Conviction on Rape Charges
Two K-pop singers were sentenced to prison after a South Korean court found them guilty on charges that they sexually assaulted women too drunk to give consent and then shared secretly filmed videos of those rapes with friends in a private online chat. Jung Joon-youngand Choi Jong-hoon, both 30 years …
Read More »Pete Buttigieg Was An OG Bernie Bro: Read His Y2K Praise of His Current Rival
Pete Buttigieg has recently sought to distance himself from Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren — in particular on the issue of Medicare For All. Buttigieg recently asserted he “never believed” in mandating single payer healthcare. “Only in the last few months did it become the case that Medicare for All …
Read More »All the Evidence of Trump's Ukraine Quid Pro Quo, Together in One Place
House Democrats’ impeachment case hinges on whether the Trump administration pursued a quid pro quo with Ukraine, withholding military aid and a White House invitation in order to extort new President Volodymyr Zelensky into investigating Joe Biden and the 2016 election. If President Trump did engage in such a quid …
Read More »How a New Meme Exposes the Far-Right Roots of #NoNutNovember
If you spend a lot of time in certain Extremely Online corners of the internet ecosystem, you’ve likely stumbled onto #NoNutNovember, or just #NNN for short. An annual challenge encouraging men to refrain from masturbating (or even, for many, having any sex) for the month, No Nut November was initially …
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