For the major Gilmore Girls fans who have been stockpiling Pop-Tarts in anticipation of the confirmed Netflix revival, there's some unfortunate casting news. While all three generations of Gilmore girls are confirmed, plus major players like Scott Patterson, it looks like Lorelai will have no overlooked BFF. Melissa McCarthy, who is now a fancy-schmany movie star, tweeted that no one even bothered to talk to her about reprising her role as Sookie in the revival.
Cold. Or practical. Gilmore Girls mastermind Amy Sherman-Palladino told TVLine that scheduling with McCarthy "simply would've been impossible… But if her people called me up and said she’s free on these particular days or would love to drop by and just be in one scene, we would put her right in." That better happen. The show would not be the same without the friend Lorelai treats like crap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq7-A9v4EJ4
At least there are these supporting characters to look forward to.
Plus, Sherman-Palladino is trying to bring back Rory's old flames, though Rory herself is unattached at the moment. She's probably too busy being a doe-eyed journalist.
Donald Trump sent a series of tweets Wednesday morning accusing Ted Cruz of stealing the Iowa caucus. He alleged that only dirty tactics could explain Cruz's victory in Iowa. Trump kicked things off by simply saying Cruz illegally stole the caucus, but then deleted and edited that tweet. Here's a screen grab of the original tweet:
Trump then tweeted two accusations of specific shady dealings, and according to some sources, they may have merit. The first dealt with rumors that candidate Ben Carson might drop out of the race:
Salon reports that this is true. The Cruz campaign cited a story that Carson might be dropping out, even though the Carson campaign quickly refuted the rumor. However, there's no evidence that this cost Carson votes or gained any for Cruz.
The second accusation referred to mailers sent to voters by the Cruz campaign:
The New Yorker reports that this is also true. The Cruz campaign sent misleading "voter violation" mailers to Iowa voters, which have been shown to increase voter turnout. The mailers give voters a fictitious "voter grade," and also list the names of their neighbors with accompanying grades. They are used to leverage social pressure to turn out more voters (by making people want to be ahead of their neighbors). Additionally, there is no such thing as a "voter violation." Here's a picture of the mailer:
Trump can throw all the shade he wants, because while the tactics employed by Cruz were shady, they were not illegal. Trump's final request will not come true:
For those keeping score at home, Trump is OK with saying whatever is necessary to win, unless someone else does it and he loses. He should shift his focus from Iowa to finding new rally songs for New Hampshire, as musicians keep refusing to allow him to use their music.
It seems like the purpose of most weight loss ads (and ads in general) are to make women feel insecure about themselves so they will buy something to feel better. This technique is used with everything from diet pills to lipstick, but now the UK is pulling the plug on commercials that go too far in promoting negative body image. Mashable reports that an ad for XLS-Medical Max Strength slimming pills has been banned by the UK's Advertising Standards Authority for promoting an "irresponsible approach to body image and confidence."
Still a better text than, "You up?"
Hundreds of people complained that the ads, featuring a thin girl gushing with jealousy over an even-thinner girl, promoted an unhealthy body image. The fact that these women are, at the most, in their early 20s raised even more concern about how this would affect young girls and teens. The ASA agreed.
Here's the banned commercial, but don't let it make you feel bad about yourself, because you are beautiful just as you are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CI1yNsiKJo
Of course, this is in the UK. If they pulled ads that made women feel bad like this in the US, Superbowl commercials would be nothing but Budweiser puppies. Actually, that would be pretty great.
WSMV's I-Team spent two months investigating the spending of Davidson County Election Commission members in Tennessee. After finding a number of curiously expensive receipts for meals and office decorations, reporter Alanna Autler confronted Chairman Ron Buchanan. In the local news report, Autler states that Buchanan had agreed to make a statement on camera. When the time came, however, he was less than amiable. Skip to :45 to watch Buchanan trash Autler.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7fh6JyPU0g
"That's exactly the kind of bitch I thought you would be," Buchanan said after Autler tried to ask him about a $600 picture frame.
Buchanan resigned a few days after this generally embarrassing interview took place. In his resignation letter, Buchanan said that "90% of the adult men would have used the same term to describe the reporter's conduct if they have been present, or a similar word would have been used by women to describe the conduct if it had been a male reporter."
“I said it. I meant it. I still mean it,” he said. “I should not have used that terminology, but as the media has the freedom of press, individuals have the freedom of speech. And I can tell her what I think about her." Autler—and everybody else—definitely got Buchanan's message.
Hey, look, we all get rejected. Particularly those of us who consider ourselves artists. It's all part of the hustle—publishers, record labels, and agents pass up rising or obvious talent for any number of reasons, if only to provide us—years later—with inspirational online content like this.
1. No Thanks, Mr. Hewson (or "Bono," or whatever).
Pop notwithstanding, U2 went on to do pretty good for themselves.
Thank you for submitting your tape of 'U2' to RSO, we have listened with careful consideration, but feel it is not suitable for us at present.
We wish you luck with your future career.
2. Disney Books rejecting a storybook by a young Tim Burton.
Yeah, what does Tim Burton know about visual style?
It may, however, be too derivative of the Seuss works to be marketable -- I just don't know. But I definitely enjoyed reading it.
3. An in-house publishing company memo about Animal Farm.
You also said George Orwell's Animal Farm was stupid when you read it in the ninth grade.
Stupid and pointless fable in which the animals take over a farm and run it, and their society takes about the course of the Soviet Union as seen by Westbrook Fegler. it all goes to show that a parallel carried out to the last detail is boring and obvious.
4. The Museum of Modern Art to the inventor of Modern Art.
Andy Warhol went on to show us that anything can be art. Except this letter, because screw those guys.
Our Committee…had a chance to study your drawing entitled Shoe which you so generously offered as a gift to the Museum. I regret that I must report to you that the Committee decided, after careful consideration, that they ought not to accept it for our Collection.
5. A record company in regards to Madonna.
The comment about lacking "material" was what inspired Madonna to write "Material Girl" (okay probably not).
6. A publisher to Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Burroughs went on to create Tarzan, the first Vine star LOLOLOLOL.
We have given the work careful consideration and while interesting we find it does not fit in with our plans for the present year.
7. Marvel Comics to Todd McFarlane.
Instead he went on to create Spawn and really ran Marvel out of business in the '90s.
8. An editor to Vladimir Nabokov's agent, rejecting Lolita.
This letter rejecting Lolita is almost as beautiful and unsettling as Lolita.
9. An editor to science-fiction icon Ursula K. Le Guin's agent.
Breakups can be bittersweet—as bittersweet as a surprise bouquet of flowers with a note calling you the C-word. An English lad named Ally dumped his girlfriend with the ultimate "Shock and Awe" approach. Ally put flowers on his now ex-girlfriend's doorstep, only for her to discover that the flowers were a Trojan Horse for one of the meanest breakup letters ever. A friend named Gigi posted the whole thing on Twitter:
Step One: The bouquet.Step 2: The instructions.Step 3: The offensive.
It reads:
We were never meant to be, there is no way you would ever be my forever. Your a bit of a c*** and I hope you find someone who can love you for it.
Don't try to message me because your number is blocked.
Ally x
P.S. You were a sh*t shag.
The note really went there, calling the dumpee both "a bit of a c*nt" AND "a sh*t shag." While this might seem ridiculously cold, the tweeter Gigi defended her friend Ally on Twitter:
On Tuesday, Sony Pictures released new production stills of characters from the upcoming Ghostbusters reboot, showing them in their "street gear" rather than the iconic uniforms. With all the controversy surrounding the female-led Ghostbusters, one of the big questions was how they'd turn Chris Hemsworth into an analog of Janine Melnitz, the Ghostbusters' nerdy secretary, originally played by Annie Potts. Of course, it's not like you'd kick Melnitz out of bed for eating crackers either:
But it might be even harder to turn Chris Hemsworth into a nerd when he looks like this:
Oh, hello. What's this? Just the Minnesota Zoo's little river otter sliding down a snowy hill on its little otter belly, and then turning around and racing right back up to the top to do it again. His body language is practically screaming, "HEY GUYS, HAVE YOU CHECKED OUT THIS DRY WATER STUFF YET? IT'S PRETTY FUN!"
The otter decided to try its little hand at extreme sports this morning after the Twin Cities was dealt a record-breaking amount of snow. The video was taken by the zoo's Tropics Trail supervisor Tom.
The zoo posted the video of the otter on their Facebook page, along with the caption "When life gives you snow, go sledding!" And if you can't go sledding, just go otter-watching—it's got to be almost as fun.
People on reddit shared the worst, most awkward conversations they ever had with their parents, and, surprise, most involve sex. They may not be as hard to read as the list of cruelest things people have ever done to their exes, but you'll probably feel more embarrassed. After all, just because you came out of your mother's vagina doesn't mean you want to think about the kind of activities that got you in there to begin with.
1. Wait... what do they call it?
2. It sounds so innocent.
3. A mother always knows.
4. How did he guess?
5. Wait, is THIS what gay people do for sex?
6. The first time he ever made his dad proud.
7. He's just trying to support the troops.
8. It would have been more awkward if he had said "yes, please help."
Reddit user omGoddard posted a photo Tuesday of the ring his buddy wears to indicate that he's taken, or "married," as they say. On the inside is an inscription, ordered by the man's wife, that not-so-subtly reminds him not to cheat on her. It's either making people LOL or type furious screeds about controlling women in the comments.
"Put it back on."
One commenter said everything that needed to be said with this one illustrative gif:
A reminder to not cheat on your wife is very helpful! It did, however, leave a lot of people wondering exactly what kind of relationship the married couple has. Turns out, it's great:
She likes dick jokes too? Don't mess this up, dude.
"It's bruises, bitch," is what Britney Spears probably said to herself after she snapped this picture of her black and blue legs on Monday. Thankfully, our national treasure is safe. Brit Brit's bruises are merely the marks of hard work practicing her dance moves for her newest Las Vegas residency show at Planet Hollywood. You'd think the pop star would've been more careful after the first bruise, but every time she hit her leg, she was probably like, "Oops, I Did It Again." Because she's "Crazy" about choreography.
Someone jokingly asked me what the hell I did yesterday... check out my bruises that's what I did! Working hard on the new show! Get ready!!
The "Piece of Me" show returns to Vegas on February 13. Until then, you'll just have to get your Britney fix through her epic Instagram account, which is the best thing on the Internet right now (besides Someecards, of course):
This satisfyingly short documentary by INSIDER food about Brooklyn bagel-maker Scot Rossillo, who's been slinging circles for twenty years, is the perfect combo of soothing visuals and an inspiring message. Rossillo invented these famously lovely "rainbow bagels," and watching them get made is absolutely hypnotic. To start with, you get to see a guy slice through layers of neon dough like a hot knife through LSD butter:
This is your brain on drugs (this video).
You also get to hear from Rossillo and his bagel-smiths about how much they enjoy creating the product, and how happy customers are to see it. Says Rossillo, "It's an absolute labor of passion and art... A tremendous amount of discipline is needed to make the world's most beautiful bagel."
Basically, the rainbow bagel is the carbohydrate manifestation of that old adage, "The man who loves his job never works a day in his life." Though it is hard work, actually:
The coldly anticipated McDonald's kale salads have finally arrived in the forgiving test markets of Canada. So if you wanted to start a diet but you're deeply hypnotized by the stench emitting from those two golden arches, you could try the delightfully named"Keep Calm, Caesar On" salad or the "I'm Greek-ing Out" option. Just be careful not to add dressing if your diet doesn't allow a Caesar salad to have "more calories, fat, and sodium than a Double Big Mac." Because that's exactly what you're digging your plastic fork into according to Canada's CBC News.
Compared to a normal Big Mac's 540calories, the Greek salad has 280 calories and the Caesar has 520 calories before dressing. Now look at the numbers after dressing:
...once you plop the accompanying Asiago Caesar dressing on the 'crispy chicken' version, the salad's nutritional profile doesn't look so good. According to McDonald's own numbers, the salad tops up at 730 calories, 53 grams of fat, and 1,400 milligrams of salt.
Combined with the Greek Feta Dressing, the 'I'm Greek-ing Out' salad with grilled chicken amounts to: 420 calories, 26 grams of fat, and 1,080 milligrams of sodium.
Now, the Double Big Mac is a monstrosity reserved only for Canadians, presumably because they hunt moose and are used to that sort of thing. But even the Double Big Mac has only 680 calories. Meaning while the "Greek-ing Out" salad is slightly less caloric intake than that beast; and if you opt for the Caesar, you may as well just indulge in a cheesy beef patty instead—as far as your caloric balance is concerned.
Painted rainbow freckles were all the rage like, a day ago, but Instagram moves fast. Since people have been putting glitter everywhere lately, it's pretty obvious where it would lead. Yes, glitter freckles are the new bad idea:
Like most of these trends, glitter freckles seem to be created expressly for Instagram photos, since any attempt to actually wear this look out on the town would certainly lead to lots of questions, and folks avoiding kissing you. Which is not what anyone wants from a night out on the town. It looks pretty cool in a filtered social media post though:
Since David Bowie's passing, fans have been paying tribute to the icon with many touching memorials. A freshly painted colorful Bowie mural in Sheffield, England, however, is not getting the "brilliant" reception BBC Radio Sheffield hoped it would.
While the mural may not have looked like David Bowie, it did look familiar to many people. Here are a few more Someecards created for good measure:
Eddie Redmayne is that you?Or Tilda Swinton?Possibly a young Zack Morris?1980s David Lee Roth, maybe?The "Barbie and the Rockers" Ken Doll is damn close.Oh, here it is!
The artist of the mural fired back on Facebook saying, "All the haters, thank you, keep hating."
18-year-old gymnast Marisa Dick created a new gymnastics move that now bears her name—one you shouldn't attempt it if you ever want children. It's a jump from the floor to a balance beam, landing in a split. And it looks like this:
Ouch.
The move is now named after her in the sport's official Code of Points, which contains rules for judging how successfully the move was performed (you've got to assume points are taken away every time someone winces).
By the way, yes, it seems that Dick has a sense of humor about this pubic-bone-crushing trick. She even posted a video on Instagram showing times she failed at the move, which somehow even looks more painful:
