Yesterday over at Slate, six-year editor David Plotz said goodbye. He’s being replaced by Julia Turner, who for all intents and purposes has a similar mindset. You can view Slate in a lot of different contextual ways, but it’s near and dear to my heart… Continue Reading
Sorry, Montell Jordan (dated reference, eh?), but this is how you do it: get put on camera at the World Cup and parlay that into a modeling contract with L’Oreal. It happened for Axelle Despiegelaere of Belgium, even though Belgium lost in the… Continue Reading
Family dynamics and social media = always potentially dicey. Continue Reading
If you haven’t been up on the Erin Corwin case, here’s some backstory. She’s from Oak Ridge, TN — as is her husband, who’s in the Marines — and currently, they’re living in Twentynine Palms, CA. She went missing last week… Continue Reading
I’d like to say this is a sign that I’m older and more mature, but it’s probably not: I haven’t watched a lot of this World Cup in bars. Most of it has been in my living room, with the… Continue Reading
I haven’t seen any of the Transformers movies since maybe the first one — and I’m unclear honestly if I even saw that one — but regardless, the reviews for the fourth one have been kind of terrible. It’s got an 18 percent on… Continue Reading
Admittedly, life would be better if every weekend was a three-day weekend, which is seemingly possible (and more possible in the summer). But when you think about the entire work year, can you conceive of a day worse than the Monday… Continue Reading
Just learned this today: Amazon has an entire landing page for “not on Netflix.” A shot across the bow? Perhaps. It’s kind of interesting broadly, though: five-six years ago, you would maybe kinda view Amazon and Netflix as business rivals — Netflix primarily… Continue Reading