Now that we’ve had a while to digest the Cubs’ World Series triumph, we’ll consider what the team should do next season. I suggest they change uniforms. To understand why, let’s take a look at some baseball history. We sometimes hear talk that sports has become too ego-driven and rude—sort of like the general culture. […]
At first I was like, this is stupid. But now after a half hour.... if you need me, I'll be on Jackson Hole livefeed.
The town of Jackson in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, has a population of around 9,800 people, a total area of 2.95 square miles, and a YouTube livestream that has piqued the interest of many. Jackson began streaming live footage of its town square on July 20, 2016, and since then the continuous livestream has developed its own small but mighty internet subculture. (For instance, at the time of writing, there are over 1,300 people watching the “Jackson Hole Town Square” stream on YouTube.)
To be clear, nothing particularly exciting happens in the livestream. It’s mostly just cars and people passing through a busy intersection in a small town. Nevertheless, the chat feature updates at a furious pace usually reserved for political events and award shows. Most of the comments simply reference whatever happens to appear on screen, from unusual looking cars to people walking their dogs. There ...
At this point, expecting to go on Facebook and feel good about your emotional state—whatever it may be—is a fool’s errand. If you’re angry, you’ll see people being happy and it’ll make you angrier. If you’re happy, you’ll see people whining about something and it’ll make you less happy. Throw in the fact that we’re in the middle of a highly contentious presidential election, and it’s a wonder why people go on Facebook at all. However, while those issues are all caused by having friends, it turns out that Facebook itself is actually pretty good at making you feel better about your life.
At least that’s the experience a guy named Josh Gibson recently had when Facebook took one of his most traumatic memories and automatically put an aggressively positive spin on it with a personalized slideshow. As ...
This is important to say, and even more important to feel and believe, right now. It also happens to be true. It’s easy to observe the GOP Convention, with its parade of speakers basking in rapturous cheers when they call for the presumptive Democratic nominee in the race for president to be imprisoned and feel that
Their press release says they are going to march from Spaulding to Humboldt. Thats is like two blocks, not really gonna TAKE OVER
Activists dedicated to fighting gentrification in Chicago's lower income communities are taking their calls for more affordable housing to The 606 Tuesday evening. [ more › ]
The internet is often a hive for villainy and scum, a space where anonymous folks spew their hatred and negativity toward whatever topic has gotten them in an uproar. Be it politics, DC Comics films, video games—all are reasons for people to unfurl their vilest selves unto others. But every now and then, something breaks through that shows not just the possibility of the medium, but reaffirms a faith in humanity as well.
Enter Speechless With Carly Fleischmann, a brand new talk show on YouTube hosted by previously unknown talent Carly Fleischmann. The host is a 21-year-old nonverbal autistic woman, but her charm proves too winning to be held back by any challenges she faces. In the premiere episode, she meets and interviews confirmed heartthrob Channing Tatum and seemingly effortlessly disarms the Hollywood A-lister by her ability to be playful, funny, and unabashedly flirt with Magic Mike. Fleischmann recalls ...
“no, let me really prove it to you that i can’t do this anymore. and let me know the next time you go out, i can prove it again to be sure. who’s got the next round”
how did BOTH of those headlines make it past an editor?
The Phillies’ pitchers this year are mowing down batters at a ridiculous clip. The staff averaged more than 10 strikeouts per nine innings through April, the first time that’s happened in Major League history. I know this because I checked out the coverage over at philly.com because of this facepalm of a headline:
I had a lot of fun with this on twitter, so I just kept on going with it. But you know, I'm always kind of touched by how strongly fans support their favourite characters, and there is a lot of love for Cloak and Dagger, and you can see why because there are some pretty great things about that pair. But that costume, come on, it's a big old slice of tit window pie. They don't always dress Dagger like that, but yeah they mostly do! But they probably won't on the tv show!
I didn't dwell on Cloak very much in a comic about tit windows, but, here's something. I tweeted this essay a while ago when I read it, but Cloak's lack of a body really brought it to mind again, and you should totally read it, though mostly it is about the character Cyborg, it is relevant here too:
Since its founding by a former Ku Klux Klan leader in 1996, Stormfront has been the internet’s number-one watering hole for white nationalists and neo-nazis. Its users’ brand of hate has sunk politicians, inspired documentaries, and even spawned its own media arm, The Daily Stormer. But there’s something you may not know about these ultra-racist, ultra-conservative keyboard warriors: They love to write poetry.
"As a businessman and as a politician, Cap Anson was one helluva baseball player."
His life sounded like the plot of a dime novel from the turn of the 20th Century. He was born in a log cabin in Iowa in 1852, and grew up in a little farm settlement called Marshalltown. At 19 he set out for the big city to earn his fortune. He worked hard at […]
The 2016 election cycle is one of the most divisive, ugliest elections in recent memory. It’s been going on for over a year-and-a-half now, and won’t wrap up for another eight months, providing Americans more neoliberalism, total unpreparedness, and actual insanity.
Thankfully, it’s also provided Chuck Tingle with fodder for some of his best material to date. For those of you who aren’t familiar, Tingle is an alarmingly prolific writer of erotic, gay short stories, which he sells on Amazon. But these aren’t just any gay, erotic short stories. First of all, they almost always have the word “boner” or “butt” in the title. Secondly, they usually involve a man being penetrated by something weird, like his own butt, or his linear concept of time, or T. rex lawyers. Over the last few months, Tingle has turned his attention to the presidential race, churning out ...
DALLAS—Following the pro golfer’s historic collapse during the final holes of the Masters Tournament, Jordan Spieth’s family members confirmed Monday that they will probably wait a few days before asking him what the fuck happened. “It’s been a rough 24 hours for Jordan, so we’ll give him his space for a while before bringing up how badly he just shit the bed,” said Spieth’s mother, Christine, suggesting that the family’s Friday night dinner might be the most appropriate time to finally ask the 22-year-old how he managed such a mind-boggling choke job. “We’ll just have to dance around the fact that he really screwed the pooch for the next few days. There will be plenty of time to ask him what the hell he was doing out there. Right now, he needs to decompress and be alone with his thoughts.” Family members ...
Wicker Park was ground zero when it came to establishing indie rock in the early '90s; watch a short video documentary examining that time period. [ more › ]
Activists dedicated to fighting gentrification in Chicago's lower income communities are taking their calls for more affordable housing to The 606 Tuesday evening. [ more › ]
If you’re at PAX this weekend, check out my table in Bandland and all my PAX-related comings and goings! Hope to see you there!
I'm learning so much from my new friends pic.twitter.com/fr14UXt0fq
Tweens know good TV though so I feel good about the future pic.twitter.com/3OEtM9ddew
This is great. Now they've added Les Miles to the conversation pic.twitter.com/i7qsSrKX4X
.@Snowden these teens need to get to know you pic.twitter.com/Ns5dHkWrem
The teens are not feeling the Warriors pic.twitter.com/ppLsJPPoZG
Teens on hot dogs as sandwiches pic.twitter.com/GquxwHIiBC
Teens on OJ are the smartest takes yet pic.twitter.com/gi5TCFpTnA
You know what else teens get that you old squares don't? They were on a break. pic.twitter.com/INwtV5rybj
Teens and voicemail don't mix pic.twitter.com/mu31PJOAM1
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Wicker Park was ground zero when it came to establishing indie rock in the early '90s; watch a short video documentary examining that time period. [ more › ]
