This guy, Chris Sawey, has been living in his car for over a year and has gotten really good at it. He graduated college in 2013, only to have his car broken into and his laptop stolen, which contained all of his resumes and professional portfolios. According to Chris:

With no real way to prove my work to employers, finding work was proving to be, well…challenging. Despite my circumstances, life continued and the bills and rent kept coming. I was burnt out, exhausted, and depression was taking over like you would not believe.

Instead of re-writing his resume or checking his cloud storage, he decided to start living out of his car, using some of the skills he learned growing up in foster homes.

He utilized the space of his car (a Prius) to accommodate all of his needs. He only spent money on essentials.

It was only supposed last for a month, but he ended up doing it for a year, taking random restaurant jobs and showering in gyms to support his lifestyle.

What a savvy dude. Quit your job and follow his example. Right now. Do it!

Has anyone ever told Blake Lively that she has magnetic star power? Probably. A newly unearthed (yes, as in, pulled out of the ground by rugged archeologists) video shows Lively's audition for the role of Serena van der Woodsen on Gossip Girl. Watching it now will make you feel like a perceptive casting director who has just found the perfect actress to play a girl to be gossiped about.

This is especially interesting after the recent revelation that the CW originally thought Lively was too much of "a sunny California girl" to play the Upper East Sider. What do you think? That you can do every person's job better than them and what is anyone even doing? Understandable.

Welcome to "Mezzanine Seating," a new concept just patented by commercial aircraft manufacturer Airbus, perhaps as a threat to the sky-going population that we complain too much about planes and it could always be worse. Amazingly, this may be worse than when airline seat manufacturers menaced us with honey-combed face-to-face seating.

Although some are saying that the geometry of this plan would actually improve legroom while increasing the carrying capacity of the plane, in our guts we look at this and we know it is bad. Call us old-fashioned, but putting a line of butts in front of a line of faces is just not the start to a pleasant journey.

There are several possible variations, of course, because nothing teaches you that humanity comes in 2-3 distinct and separated flavors better than air travel. The business class stacks unfurl all the way, allowing business travelers to pretend they are back at business camp, whispering to each other after the flight attendant turns out the lights.

In the hot, sweaty hive that is coach, drones crawl over each other to enter their honeycomb chamber. The hive designs have a hanging foot gap that begs passengers on the upper level to trip and fall into the aisle, which can unfold into a deck-chair shape for sleeping fliers to fall from.

The diagram shows no more than two next to each other but one should know better than to trust airlines to leave space between seats. Chairs do not recline fully in coach.

Oh well, at least they didn't also patent a version where you have to face other passengers, right?

Fortunately, we can also trust Airbus to probably not do this. It files about 600 patents a year to "protect its intellectual property" aka "stop anyone else from inventing plane-related stuff." So, as long as we don't complain too much about the gigantic A380 or any of Airbus's other planes, we can probably rest assured that Mezzanine Seating remains, like nuclear weapons, merely a threat.

An officer in Providence, Rhode Island, walked into a Dunkin' Donuts on Friday hoping to get a cup of coffee. What he came out with was indeed a cup of coffee, but it had a message written on the side: "#blacklivesmatter," a reference to the social justice campaign fighting police brutality against people of color. 

The officer was horrified. He wanted to wake up, not wake up. In a caffeine-less fog—perhaps not entirely aware what the consequences of his actions might be—the officer's co-worker decided to post a pic of the coffee cup to Facebook.

William O'Donnell, who shared the pic, suggested his coworker better not drink it and should just go to Starbucks instead. Good call. Who knows what was in that cup—decaf? The Dunkin' Donuts incident came on the heels of another, where an employee yelled "we don't serve cops here" at a police officer in West Hartford, Connecticut (though the employee apologized immediately and claims she was joking). Dunkin' Donuts issued a powdered-sugar-covered statement on Tuesday, saying:

While these particular incidents are isolated to two restaurants, we see this as an opportunity to work closely with all of our franchisees and their crew members across the country to reinforce our obligation to serve all of our guests with dignity and respect, and to demonstrate our sincere appreciation and gratitude to everyone who makes Dunkin' Donuts part of their daily lives.

This isn't the first time a major coffee chain has caused controversy over issues of racism. As you may recall, Starbucks actually wanted their employees to start conversations about race by writing "race together" on the side of customers' cups, so that customers would know they were welcome to back away slowly without saying a damn thing.

Obviously, this is a huge marketing problem for Dunkin' Donuts with a core group of customers. Are police going to start getting their morning coffee at 7-11, whose motto is "Let's All Just Agree To Never, Ever Talk About Race"? 

Luckily, Connecticut State Police know where their donut is buttered:

See? Everyone in that photo is getting along great. 

Jimmy Fallon, who has the energy and optimism of an un-jaded young child, brought actual children onto The Tonight Show last night.

In an adorable advertising move, Fallon invited child inventors onto his show (thus introducing the portmanteau Fallonventions), showing off their innovations and even rewarding them with the traditional big check. The adorable Mark Leschinsky (and his sister Barbara) presented the Eat Corder, a recorder you can blow into through your nose, allowing you to eat and make music at the same time.

(Aside: did the notes they played remind anyone else of the song "So Nice So Smart" from the Juno soundtrack?)

He also introduced us to the eDrink:

and the Back Scratcher 2.0.

Children are our future. These ones specifically.

After seeing these pictures of random people voluntarily posing naked in the shape of a raw chicken, we had some pressing questions, like "What?" and "Why?" and "Is this the end? Is this where the Internet ends?" So far, there are no answers. Look, we're not prudes or anything and we've seen our fair share of horrifying trends. But this "Frozen Chook" thing is not only unsettling, it's inconvenient as hell. You have to take off all your clothes in public! That is time consuming and very, very risky. 

The "trend" started on a private Facebook page that has since gone horribly public. So, yes, you too can contribute your image to this nightmare concept. But what does it mean? That we shouldn't eat meat? That we should? That we're all plucked and vulnerable under the sky? Or...CONSPIRACY?!

We're posting more below for inspiration. Consider yourself NSFWarned: there will be hints of balls.

Okay, this is obviously more of a prank between a bunch of friends who are very comfortable with their bodies than an actually popular behavior, but that's how memes start. Get in early on the #FrozenChook train, if you dare. Hopefully you can run pretty fast with your pants around your ankles.

Fake weddings are all the rage in Argentina. A company called Falsa Boda has decided to specialize in organizing these events, in which the bride, groom, and officiant are actors, and the guests are there to party rather than celebrate a new marriage. Each event has a fake backstory for the bride and groom, which sometimes results in an intentionally dramatic ceremony (such as one of them being left at the fake altar). The parties have become so popular that they are often sold out, and the company even hosted a party in Russia.

Everything about these parties looks exactly like a real wedding. There's a roaming photographer and some sort of video slideshow about the lucky couple:

Posing with friends after too much cheap champagne: 

Crazy pictures with sunglasses for some reason: 

There's even wasted people on a dance floor and a catering staff cruising around with appetizers:

And guests can grab a quick picture with the bride towards the end of the night when she's exhausted:

The only way this could be more authentic is if there were an actor walking around playing the drunk aunt who nearly falls through a table. Also notably absent from fake Argentinian wedding pictures are shots of all the groomsmen or bridesmaids jumping in the air at the same time.

The reigning Jeopardy! king just happens to also be a hilarious dude. His name is Matt Jackson, and he has racked up $230,000 over his last eight days as a contestant on Jeopardy! He's know for his slow, creepy smile:

He has a knack for interrupting Trebek:

He also has a signature catchphrase:

Which has, of course, been remixed:

Jeopardy! is cool again! Move over, Ken Jennings!

While the poll results for the republican primary keep shifting, one thing is certainly winning in this race: overt misogyny. Like Donald Trump yelling "Go back to Univision" to a Latino reporter, turning a network into a slur, Ohio Governor John Kasich had a cool, public way to dismiss someone. Speaking at a campaign stop at the University of Richmond, the school newspaper The Collegian highlights multiple moments where Kasich was creepy and rude to female students:

While calling on sophomore Kayla Solsbak, who was nearly jumping out of her seat to get noticed, Kasich said with a laugh, “I’m sorry, I don’t have any Taylor Swift tickets.”

Kasich also said at one point, “I’m sure you get invited to all of the parties,” to one of the female students sitting in the front row of raised seats.

 Kayla Solsback wrote a follow-up op-ed in the paper titled, "No, John Kasich, I don't want Taylor Swift tickets," calling him out for his rude dismissal of female students.

Kasich barreled through a Planned Parenthood question, dismissing the young woman who posed it, and derided me when I had the audacity to raise my hand. Kasich came to Richmond to pander to retired Republicans. He could gain points by belittling me and my peers, so that's what he did.

What continues to strike me is the hypocrisy of his condescension. He touted his ambitious energy as an 18-year-old man, but as soon as I, an 18-year-old woman, exhibited ambition, I became the target of his joke. The same passion that drove Kasich to speak with President Nixon drove me to ask the candidate a question I care deeply about. In a way, I was taking the governor's advice: "Always ask."

She concludes with, "I didn't go to a town hall forum for Taylor Swift tickets, Gov. Kasich. I went because it's my civic duty to be an informed voter. Please start treating me like one."

Here's hoping the Kasich campaign goes down in flames. (That was a Taylor Swift joke, in case you're old enough to be pandered to by Kasich.)

If we're being honest, most of us don't put much effort into our Halloween jack-o'-lanterns beyond "triangle eyes, triangle nose, mouth with one tooth." It's boring, it's lazy, and it's why 13-year-olds kick them to pieces the first chance they get. Luckily, there are people out there with more disposable free time and much less sanity who are willing to go above and beyond the call of conventional gourd sculpture. Let us take a moment to honor all the carvers out there with the uncanny ability to make pumpkins look even more disgusting than the stringy orange stuff inside them.

1. This pumpkin that will rip your skull out.

2. This drunk af pumpkin.

3. This Death Star pumpkin.

4. This Human Centipede pumpkin.

5. This pumpkin person crawling out of a pumpkin.

6. This pumpkin alien.

7. This suicidal pumpkin.

8. This electric chair pumpkin.

9. These drowning pumpkins.

10. This pumpkin who knows how to use a saw.

11. This fellatio pumpkin.

12. These pumpkins acting out 2 Girls 1 Cup.

13. This brain-eating pumpkin.

Thanks again to all these dedicated nutjobs for pumpkin spicing up our Fall, oh god we're so sorry.

The Facebook dislike button has been revealed! But, in fact, it's not a dislike button at all! Rather, Facebook users will be able to choose between six emoticon reactions: Love, Haha, Yay, Wow, Sad, and Angry (video below).

So now, instead of 357 acquaintances "liking" your post about your grandmother's death, you'll now have 356 sad faces and probably 1 inappropriate angry face from a childhood friend who has unresolved issues with god. 

As you can see in the post above, the new response options are first rolling out in Spain and Ireland, which we assume is because people in those countries have more emotional highs and lows than the rest of us. Based on how the new options work there, Facebook might adjust the offerings. I'm hoping for an "everlasting melancholy" emoji. 

Good news: It's World Octopus Day! Bad news: they're taking over. Get your affairs in order, hug your kids, smoke a cigarette (jk, don't) and watch the octopus army roll up onto the beach. Maybe you've always loved the octopus, but that won't save you from our Underwater Overlords. Prepare yourself mentally for the takeover with these videos that outline their strategies and techniques. If you start to get freaked out, just remember: somewhere in that mass of muscular suction cup arms is a sharp little beak looking to bite you.

1. The Explorer: He's testing the "waters."

2. The Land Walker: Think there's nothing to be afraid of if you stay on land? THINK AGAIN.

3. The Crab Eater: We said, THINK AGAIN.

4. The Great Escaper: Even if you capture the enemy, you can't hold him.

5. The Illusionist: Oh, good, no octopus here-AIGHH!

6. Secret Ops: All these octopus attacks are stressing me out. I'm just gonna kick back with a beer-AIGHH!

7. The Defense: Yes, they use tools.

8. The Pugilist: Ever been punched in the face by eight fists at once?

9. The Silencer: No one can hear you scream...under the sea...if you're being strangled by an octopus.

About 7 years ago, Dan Maurer started to notice something pretty crazy: he had a giant scrotum and it was getting more giant all the time. While it beats having no penis, having a super-sized scrotum eventually became such a drag that Maurer went to see a doctor, who told him he just needed to lose weight. Then one day, Maurer caught a TLC special, The Man With the 132lb. Scrotum, starring Wesley Warren, Jr. Eureka! Maurer realized he was experiencing the same condition as Warren, which is called scrotal lymphedema and is a form of elephantitis. And he's finally had it removed!!!!!

The process will soon be aired on his very own special for TLC, and Maurer has written about his public exposure on a GoFundMe page to cover the huge costs of his operation:

"since I found out what I had from a guy that was brave enough to share his to help change my life forever. If my story helps just 1 person it will have been worth it after the show airs I will post pics and more current info.

just know with out your love and support none of this would have been possible. My wife and I will forever be in your debt. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts and god bless."

Great! Helping people is great. But you know what his operation also means? Dan Maurer gets to sex his wife again! Mindy has stood by him for ten years, though she confesses they haven't had sex since 2009, which is about the last time Dan saw his penis. Now that he's recovered, it's game on. In addition to the swollen scrotum, they removed a significant amount of fat, leaving him about 150 pounds lighter overall. There's a photo below that shows what a huge difference the operation made on Maurer's body. It's definitely NSFW, but paints a vivid picture of his transformation. 

Super big congratulations to the Maurer's and best of luck to Dan on his plan to "surprise" his wife again.

Photoshop is a powerful tool if you're a lingerie company like Victoria's Secret, because you can ensure that your models look exactly how you want them to in your underwear. That's true even if the look you're going for is "woman so perfectly proportioned that she couldn't ever actually exist." But with great power comes great responsibility. Specifically, the responsibility when you're Photoshopping a woman's butt to make sure you digitally alter both sides so she's not left as some cheek-less mutant. That is, however, exactly what Vicky S (that's what I call them; we're friends) did in this photo that they posted to their Facebook account. The caption on it was "Truly. Madly. Cheekly." and they must be truly mad not to have noticed they deleted a cheek:

Aren't butts in? Did Vicky S not hear about that? Maybe they just refuse to give in to peer pressure when it comes to appreciating the bodies they sell clothing for.

Kourtney Kardashian bared her backside for an artistic series called "Metallic Life" by photographer Brian Bowen Smith. The photos are printed on metallic paper and are on display at the De Re Gallery in Los Angeles through November 19. She's not the first Kardashian to do a professional nude photo shoot, or even an amateur one shot by Kylie on Snapchat. However, Kourtney's picture seems to be all about the art instead of the publicity.

Well, a Kardashian can't get naked without creating a little publicity, especially if it's from their estranged lover. Kourtney's ex Scott Disick caused a bit of a stir when he weighed in on the photo on Instagram:

Scott has been under the watchful eye of the paparazzi following his split with Kourtney. Mostly because he's reportedly doing some heavy partying and womanizing. There's no better way to patch things up than by calling the mother of your children "hot mama." While we should be focusing on the tasteful and brave picture for which Kourtney posed, let's also take a minute to note that Scott's Instagram handle is "letthelordbewithyou" because he purchased a phony lordship title on a trip to the U.K. Hope you're OK, Scott. Kourtney, you seem to be doing fine.

Tara Cali, a mom in Bakersfield, California, was furious when her seventh grader was sent home with a homework assignment that required him to learn about Islam. Instead of filling in the 5 Pillars of Islam, she wrote a note loaded with triple-underlining and six seemingly unrelated bible verses. She then snapped a pic and shared it to the Facebook page of local news station KGET-TV 17. 

She writes:

My son will not be part of this in any sort of way. This is bad teaching material. He will not partake. If you have a problem with it, call our lawyer...How about Christian practices? That sheet has never came [sic] home, this year or last!

She also circled a QR code that can be scanned to "hear the call to prayer from the Blue Mosque in Istanbul" and wrote "seriously?" As in, "Seriously? But those ancient melodies are hypnotic and persuasive!" 

The post has since been removed from Facebook, but not before accruing nearly 40,000 likes and starting a conversation with almost 20,000 comments. See? We are having a national conversation about religious diversity. It's just taking place in a comment thread on a local news station's Facebook page. Next step: progress.

One commenter noted that the textbook does, in fact, include several chapters on Christianity, and included a screenshot of their child's assignments for the year:

Just a reminder: Teaching about religions (even the ones parents are scared of) in public schools is not a violation of the separation of church and state. If a public school teacher was presenting Islam as the one true religion, rather than a historically significant civilization, that would justify underlining the word "not" three times in an angry letter. As it is, there's nothing wrong with the assignment, except that QR code. Stop pandering to seventh graders, textbook people. They're not gonna get excited about history class just 'cause they get to use their phones.

Something weird happened in Congress today. Following the announcement by Rep. John Boehner that he would be resigning as Speaker of the House by the end of the month, most people assumed that the next Speaker would be Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who had said he would seek the post. Today, McCarthy announced he was abruptly abandoning his bid, at least in part due to disastrously received comments he made about the Benghazi committee's impact on Hillary Clinton's poll numbers, which he admitted "didn't help."

The surprise announcement apparently caught Republican members so off-guard, they were weeping with rage and confusion in the Capitol:

In addition to being next in line by virtue of his Majority Leader position, McCarthy was also seen as the last chance the GOP establishment had to keep control over its more radical Tea Party wing. His odds immediately took a dive after McCarthy, speaking about his accomplishments with the Benghazi committee, bragged about how it had damaged the poll numbers of the "invincible" Hillary Clinton.

Now the ball is in the air, and the very conservative Freedom Caucus has already convened its 40 members (2012) to discuss options as the establishment does the same. John Boehner has already postponed his retirement date, and some members are pressing him to stay on until 2016. 

Who could take the role next is unclear. Rep. Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney's former running mate, would likely win the spot if not for the fact that he is completely uninterested in getting yelled at by conservatives for doing anything and by the rest of the country for doing virtually nothing.

Florida Republican Daniel Webster has been nominated by the Freedom Caucus and is a favorite of the Tea Party. He is seen as possibly appealing to the general GOP caucus for his deep institutional knowledge of the House, but is still a very conservative member.

The consensus now seems to be that a "caretaker" should fill the slot—someone respected but who is unlikely to stay longer than it takes to find a more vibrant new Speaker, like the Education and Workforce Committee chairman John Kline of Minnesota, who is not running for re-election.

So why did McCarthy do this without warning today, surprising his fellow Republicans with an announcement in a room with such bad acoustics that many weren't even sure what happened until after the conference ended? There are three options: 1) The Benghazi comments really did reduce his support, to the point that (as he said in his statement) he only had 220 votes in his party, just 2 more than are needed. 2) Like Boehner himself, perhaps McCarthy realized the job is not worth the headache currently attached to it. 3) There's an as-yet-undiscovered damaging news item that McCarthy chose to avoid. It's probably a combination of 1 and 2, but politicians don't surprise people like this that often, so there's always the cynical hope (from a blogger's perspective) that it could be door #3.