A popular Bulgarian journalist who had reported on an investigation into alleged corruption involving European Union funds was raped and beaten to death, authorities said.
Shared for the adorable pug and also this study is stupid
Dogs are great pals, loyal and frequently hilarious, especially when you talk to them in a high pitched baby voice and they cock their heads to the side like huuuuh??? But they are, alas, apparently not that smart.
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Location: Oceanside, California
Price: $629,000
If you love the midcentury style but don’t want to undertake a large renovation project, check out this recently restored gem in Southern California. With three bedrooms and two bathrooms, the house boasts a post-and-beam interior and open floor plan.
Designed by seminal mid-century Los Angeles architect A. Quincy Jones, the house boasts the expansive interior spaces and indoor-outdoor integration often associated with Jones. At 1,528 square feet, the home may not be as large as Jones’s more famous designs—like the Brody House—but the more modest “Lido” model still boasts the flat planes, angular roof, and clerestory windows so popular in the early 1960s.
Floor-to-ceiling windows open up to a patio off of the living and dining room area, and the 6,400-square-foot lot is flat and usable space. The bedrooms are compact, but functional spaces like a laundry room add to the home’s functionality.
If you’re interested in an affordable midcentury modern house with a starchitect’s pedigree, 3410 Las Vegas Drive is on the market now for $629,000.
This past weekend, during Limp Bizkit’s performance at the Rock Allegiance Festival in Camden, New Jersey, Shaggy 2 Dope of Insane Clown Posse fame stormed the stage and made a valiant attempt to dropkick lead singer Fred Durst in the back of the head. Fortunately for Durst, the rapping clown fell short of his goal in…
Our Shark is insanely good at demolishing even the most embedded dog fur.
As any pet owner (I have a cat) knows, even if you own a good vacuum (I have two of our picks, a Miele canister and a cordless Dyson V7), there still always seems to be some pet hair around. So instead of asking what’s the best vacuum for pet hair, we asked ourselves something more to the point: What’s the best way to keep pet hair to a minimum in your home?
Christine Blasey Ford still cannot move back home due to the “unending” death threats she’s received since she came forward with her allegations that Brett Kavanaugh assaulted her as a teenager, according to one of her attorneys.
Oh FUCK her. Victims remember. We remember EXACTLY who did this shit to us.
Sen. Susan Collins said she had doubts about the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh after Christine Blasey Ford accused him of attempted rape when they were in high school.
She told CNN's State of the Union that after hearing Ford's testimony that she thought "Oh my goodness" and wondered...
A limousine blew a stop sign at the end of a highway and slammed into an SUV parked outside a store, killing all 18 people in the limo and two pedestrians.
by Michael Harriot on The Root, shared by Melissa Kirsch to Lifehacker
iPhone users have created shortcuts that allow Apple’s flagship product to automatically record video, text a location to an emergency contact, and even stop police from entering the phone—just in case the iPhone owner has an interaction with a law enforcement officer.
Old racist white men: Still in control, still pretending they're the real victims of something
On Saturday, Republicans did the thing they set out to do after Justice Kennedy announced his retirement: confirm Donald Trump’s nominee, no matter how ill-tempered or dishonest, no matter what the cost to the American public for generations to come.
Jenner Tomaska, the executive chef of Next, is out at the Fulton Market restaurant. The story was first published by Eater.
Co-owner Nick Kokonas issued the following statement: “The Alinea Group and Jenner have parted ways.” He declined to comment further. Tomaska, reached by text message, would...
Police have charged a Colorado woman with harassment after she confronted two women in a supermarket, demanding they speak English while shopping. ABC News' Maggie Rulli reports.
On Tuesday, Adam Baron, a reporter and visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relation, tweeted images from an interview with Drew Barrymore that appears in the current issue of EgyptAir’s in-flight magazine Horus. The validity of the profile was immediately called into question, considering the feature’s…
A 57-year-old grandma in Maine might be the greatest bullshit —er, moose shit—artist in the world. Somerville resident Mary Winchenbach has spent the last 15 years selling people shit. They order it online from as far away as Russia. Hundreds of pounds of moose shit flows through her house, where she dries it, waterproofs it, paints it, and packages it for her eager customers.
Winchenbach runs a store called “Tirdy Works,” which has been cruising the Northeastern American craft fair circuit for a decade and a half. [A note on spelling: Winchenbach firmly believes "tird" should be spelled with an "i," not a "u," and intends to contact Webster's Dictionary about it. For our purposes here, we've gone with the traditional spelling.] After a recent, adorable segment about her on a local NBC affiliate, she moved her store online and has been fielding thousands of orders for tchotchkes made from scavenged and processed moose turds collected from the woods around her home.
She rattles off her products with the speed and energy of an auctioneer or a used car salesman: “The first thing that we have is instead of a cuckoo clock is a poo poo clock and we crammed the turds in between the numbers so it would be one turdy, two turdy, three turdy. Now, like any high-quality shirt with the extra buttons on the tail, we provide four extra turds on the back with explicit turd attachment instructions. In addition to that, we're working on incorporating the machines so when it strikes the hour it's gonna go [fart noise].”
It’s a professional and well-practiced bit Winchenbach compares to stand-up comedy. “I get excited about my turds," she tells me on the phone. "And when I talk about it I feed off the laughter. The more people laugh, the faster I'll go.” You get a taste of her routine in the NBC segment...
What the video doesn’t quite capture is Winchenbach's branding genius. She has turned her whole life to shit, and turned that shit into gold. The email address listed on her Facebook page is holycrap[at]midcoast[dot]com. In her off hours, she and a staff of five shoot the shit, come up with shitty products, and then crank shit out to sell on her shitty online store. “I've been blessed with shit for brains,” she says. No shit!
It’s a maxim that a great salesman can sell a glass of water to a drowning man. But Winchenbach, whose day job is at an area fertilizer testing lab, can sell literal bullshit to an international audience. She recalls one particularly stunning sale at a craft fair a few years back. “I took a great big piece of cow poop, stuck it on a platter, and set it off the table amongst all the moose turds. I never talked about it all week. Finally some guy says, ‘Well, what's that?’ I said, 'That's bullshit.' He gives me $5 for it.”
Winchenbach would earn the good leads from Glengarry Glen Ross without breaking a sweat. She is a closer.
It’s not just raw marketing talent that drives the engine that powers her growing business. It’s hard work. She’s filled five notebooks with “shitty ideas.” Some that have made it to market include fecal people ("Depending on the shape of the middle turds there, we can do them with big boobs or guts or butts or long legs or short legs, see, cuz there are no two turds that are ever alike" she told NBC), a poo poo platter (literally a platter made of poo), a shitty eye deer (a drawing of a deer with turds for eyes, pronounced “shitty idea”), Moose-l Toe for the holidays, a roach clip with a moose shit handle, and, for the truly daring, moose turd earrings.
Her operation includes a shit-drying station, a trade secret organic shit-sealing agent that keeps the turds from stinking, and so much shipping and handling the local post office sends people to help out. Since the NBC segment, Tirdy Works is growing almost too fast for Winchenbach to handle.
“I have shit from one end of this house to the other, trying to get these orders out and processing these turds,” she said. “I'm running out of space. I got shit all over the kitchen table.”
Business has grown so big and so fast, in fact, Winchenbach is taking a leave of absence from her fertilizer gig to handle the more than two thousand orders that have been filling her house with shit. She may need to expand even more ambitiously to keep up. “You know what I need?” she asks. “I need a shit shack.”
Right now she’s focused on getting out from under the pile of shit in her house, but has big ideas for her art. I brought up the Viennese art collective Gelatin, which famously displayed four giant piles of fake excrement at a gallery in Rotterdam.
“You know what? I think they have to get my shit down there in that gallery," she says. "I would like to promote my turds because this is some good shit.”
Oh man I love deadlifts. They are my absolute favorite lift. I need to pump myself up to bench press but I am ALL about the deadlift.
We’re deadlifting this month, and I’d love to hear how it’s going for everyone so far. (I did one workout already, and will try to get in two next week.) But if you’re new to this, or if you find the move intimidating, we have some suggestions for how to prepare.
Due to the popularity of a certain sock puppet in the 80s, lamb chops seem to be the cut of young sheep that gets the most play. Lamb steaks, however, are definitely worth your time and, when cooked sous-vide, pretty much impossible to mess up.
Every single Christmas my family gathers around to watch Will Vinton's "Claymation Christmas". We know it by heart and reference it often. Its one of the most beloved traditions in my family. He was a visionary and brought my family a lot of joy.
You might not know the name Will Vinton. But if you grew up watching TV in the 1980s and 90s, you definitely know his work. Vinton was the genius behind claymation characters like the California Raisins, the Domino’s Noid, and the M&M’s before they were taken over by CGI. Vinton died yesterday of cancer after a…
In an appearance on Hot Ones—“the show with hot questions and even hotter wings”—on Thursday, Chrissy Teigen beamed warmth and patience at some of her hornier fans.
The time is nigh to score 30 Rock set pieces—popular auction site Screenbid just put hundreds of props for sale, and bidding stays open for the next two weeks. This is the same place where props from The Office, Mad Men and Parks and Rec were finally set loose into the world, like setting a ship (and by ship, I mean beloved television show) to burn heroically after a glorious run. Or whatever happens to ships.
The Sketchtron 6000 would make a great Halloween costume, as would Jenna Maroney's unfortunate Smurfette costume. Or, if you're trying to look a little younger, Pete Hornberger's leather jacket is up for grabs. And if these pieces are a little too unusual for you, why not cop one of Liz Lemon's many beloved plaid shirts? It's likely the closest you'll ever get to hugging Tina Fey.
The auction closes on October 19, so make sure you get your bids in before someone else snatches D'fwan D'Fwine's throwing wine (by the way, there is no liquid in there) or Jack's terrible Donaghy Estates wine. And if you aren't a dedicated fan of 30 Rock, there's an auction happening right now, until October 18, for set pieces from House—including more than 20 different prop canes.
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This is going to be an interesting weekend in Chicago. The Marathon always has upped police presence; no big changes there. That's standard. The Van Dyke trial is deliberating this weekend and the results of that may cause a lot of unrest, depending on the outcome. I know how I feel about it.
Note the mention of the "Rogers Park" initiative though. Haven't seen too much in the news about it but in the past 2 days, two people were randomly shot to death by a masked man who appears to be targeting people at random. One was an older man walking his dogs; the other was a young man who was very active in the RP Pokemon Go group. Neither victim is connected and the entire neighborhood is rightfully on alert.
Scary times right now.
In an e-mail obtained by Fox News, Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie T. Johnson wrote to the entire police force that “we have some long days and hours ahead of us – to that, I say officer safety is paramount. Look out for one another. Look out for you, your partner, and your police family.”
It can taste like pineapple but also like vanilla. It comes across as "tropical" but also has undertones of tomato. Researchers say its smell can be "intoxicating," but you've probably never heard of it.
oh yeah, let's believe an ex-boyfriend. Fox News is garbage.
In a letter released Tuesday, an ex-boyfriend of Christine Blasey Ford, the California professor accusing Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, seemingly contradicted her testimony under oath last week that she had never helped anyone prepare for a polygraph examination.
The trailer for Adam McKay’s upcoming movie about Dick Cheney and the Bush administration just came out this morning. The movie promises an “untold story” and the casting is kind of amazing: Christian Bale as Cheney, Steve Carell plays Donald Rumsfeld, Amy Adams plays Lynne Cheney, and Sam Rockwell is pretty spot on as George W. Bush.
VICE explores the epic story about how a bureaucratic Washington insider quietly became the most powerful man in the world as Vice-President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways that we still feel today.
I loved McKay’s The Big Short, so despite never wanting to think about any of those horrible men ever again, I am looking forward to watching this.
Now we know it was a LOT more than that but still, it wasn't a small fuckin loan
At the heart of President Donald Trump's success story is this idea: He took a small amount of money -- in the form of a loan from his father, Fred -- and turned it into billions of dollars.
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