It’s from his first music album in 20 years, titled 9, and it isn’t terrible. The actor and comedian also joined Twitter specifically to plug the song, so you can take a look at that, too, if it’s you’re thing.
While viewers unfamiliar with “twerking” found Miley Cyrus’s Sunday VMA performance shocking or distasteful, viewers with professional twerking expertise–such as Freddie Ross, aka Big Freedia–found it lackluster. Big Freedia, a New Orleans hip-hop artist known for popularizing the twerk-heavy “bounce”
Mere days after Miley Cyrus’s attempt at twerking set the U.S. aghast, music producer Diplo hopes to organize a twerking event so big the whole world will notice. Tentatively titled “Butts Around the World,” the dance and reggae hitmaker (pictured, right)
I’m sure someone somewhere could consider this mildly spoilerish, so consider that disclaimed. Of all the memes and mashups I’ve seen born of Sunday’s intergenerational twerking calamity, this one wins everything. Side note: I wrote a post nitpicking the premiere
Oscar-winning Argo director Ben Affleck will play Batman in Warner Brothers’ followup to Superman flick Man of Steel, according to Variety. Predictably, hordes of nerds and fair-weather nerds who deem superhero casting decisions sacred are outraged. I have but one thing
I don’t want to talk about it. I was just trying to confirm something people were talking about on Twitter. I really don’t want to talk about it. But I already went this far. Okay, here it is. Deep breath.
Fans have heaped lavish praise on Sunday night’s Breaking Bad premiere–and with good reason. One of the greatest television dramas of all time continued to toy with audience expectations, dishing out the catnip of great moments from beloved characters and
Film director Spike Lee says he has resolved the situation caused by his retweet of a Florida family’s address thought to belong to George Zimmerman, the man since acquitted in the self-defense shooting of teen Trayvon Martin. In a Reddit
The Conversation was a little sparse yesterday, so here’s some inspiration to start the week off right. To all the parents out there, I urge you to learn a valuable lesson from this music video: always take your kids dancing
Ever since their debut single “You Know You Like It” in 2011, AlunaGeorge has been an arresting artist, standing out with bleeding-edge R&B production from George Reid and acrobatic vocals from Aluna Francis. As more songs came, they showed again
Nik Richie of TheDirty.com, the blog that broke the latest sexting allegations against Anthony Weiner, says the young woman who gave him this story claims Weiner wasn’t a satisfying lover over the phone. Richie reveals on HuffPostLive that his source
BuzzFeed Politics claimed an exclusive find as the top story on the site’s homepage Tuesday evening–the presumed identity of the young woman caught up in Anthony Weiner’s latest sexting scandal. Note: the images of the woman’s face are uncensored at
I’ve been combing through enough videos from local news teams recently to see that leaving children (or pigs) in parked cars during heat waves is enough of a problem to merit a PSA. And that is far more depressing than
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has offered asylum to NSA leaker Edward Snowden, according to Reuters. Snowden is reportedly hiding out in Moscow as he awaits word from countries on whether they would extradite him to the United States. The U.S.
When I first heard the name “Alison Lundergan Grimes” floated as a challenger to Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell, I thought of what any worthless, narcissistic Millennial would: hipster music. See, there’s a young artist who goes by the name Grimes
Derek Lowe, a doctor of organic chemistry with decades of pharmaceutical research experience, has published a takedown of a BuzzFeed post that went super-viral over the weekend: “Eight Foods That We Eat in The US That Are Banned in Other
From the White House that brought you “man-caused disasters,” “shared prosperity,” and “kinetic military action,” check out this new entry in the public lexicon: “Founding Founders.” That phrase made its way into the headline of a White House blog post
Cyndia Lauper won a Tony Award for Best Original Score for the musical version of “Kinky Boots” during Sunday evening’s award ceremony. She previously won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1985 and an Emmy Award in 1995
Mike Herrera, the lead singer of the punk band MxPx, has tattoos–a lot of tattoos. In fact, he’s got a giant bald eagle inked across his entire back, which means he’s sort of a fan of America. Mike’s not necessarily
Prolific graphic novelist Doug TenNapel is bringing his distinctive style back to the video game world for the first time in 14 years. TenNapel is best known for creating the video game character Earthworm Jim in the mid-1990s, and his
As President Barack Obama gave a shout-out to families affected by last week’s tornado in Monroe, Oklahoma, he was off by about 200 miles. Let he who is without gaffes cast the first stone, but the President accidentally flubbed the
St. Louis TV news station KMOV has fired Larry Conners, the news anchor who revealed the IRS shook him down after asking President Obama tough questions in an interview. The station says of his departure: Larry is certainly entitled to
Until now, I was only marginally interested in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel. The past few trailers were all familiar territory: the Kansas cornfield kid years, Supes flying faster than a speeding bullet, feeling like an outcast, magisterial score, etc. The
As if Obama’s week couldn’t get any worse, it turns out the White House got the pronunciation of “gif” wrong. In a brief NYT profile of Steve Wilhite, creator of the GIF image format, who receive a lifetime achievement award
Photo gallery: scenes of destruction caused by a series of tornadoes which hit Oklahoma on Sunday and Monday, May 19-20. Officials have estimated the body count from Monday’s storms, which primarily struck Moore, OK, at 51 people, and they expect
Not that there’s anything wrong with that, of course. Well, except for the whole employer-employee, dictator-subject relationship going on. And some death threats here and there. NBD. Even in death, the former supreme ruler of North Korea, Kim Jong Il,
Chris Christie appears to be the only Republican who’s learned anything from 2012. In this video released Tuesday, the New Jersey governor riffs on his infamous post-Sandy apparel in a star-studded, self-deprecating romp. I remember during last year’s election when
Just throwing this out there. Photo: According to armchair body-language expert Ezra Dulis, either MSNBC host Chris Matthews or MSNBC host Al Sharpton is fall-down drunk before entering the White House Correspondents Dinner (WHCD) Saturday evening. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)
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And you thought your boss was–wait for it–unpopular. Los Angeles’s KABC reports that police arrested a woman Tuesday after allegedly taking hostage the CFO of Popcornopolis, an El Segundo “gourmet popcorn” company. Authorities say the woman, armed with a handgun,
If you enjoyed The History Channel miniseries The Bible and it left you wanting more, take heart! The cable phenomenon has its own book adaptation. It’s called A Story of God and All of Us: A Novel Based on the Epic
President Barack Obama has created a minor controversy within progressive media circles by complimenting the looks of California Attorney General Kamala Harris. Obama praised Harris Thursday as “brilliant,” “dedicated,” and “tough.” He then capped off the compliment, “She also happens
Reggae singer Snoop Lion–formerly the rapper Snoop Dogg–has put up a new single from his forthcoming album “Reincarnated” titled “No Guns Allowed”: Given the highly emotional debate over guns that has raged since the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre in December
“Are you tired?” Mom asks, watching her daughter’s frown boil over into an audible whimper. “No, I just want a real live unicorn,” the young child mewls in response. Those were simpler times, those days when our imaginations were so
This AP photo from Charles Dharapak shows a “Flat Stanley” in the East Room of the White House, where President Obama held a Women’s History Month reception Monday. Flat Stanley is a common project in elementary schools today; students take
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has won the 2013 CPAC presidential straw poll, settling questions whether the junior Senator’s more mainstream libertarianism could draw the same enthusiasm as his now-retired father, perennial presidential hopeful Ron Paul. Paul edged out Florida Senator
Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) spoke at the ACU’s Conservative Political Action Conference Thursday, and this is one of three Associated Press photos chosen to represent his time in the spotlight. Scott assumed this particular pose as he acted out a
Actress and potential Senate candidate Ashley Judd’s aging pets may have been a deciding factor in her choice to part with a renovated Scottish estate worth millions, according to a 2012 interview. Judd and then-husband Dario Franchitti, a Scotland native,
In response to Murder Most Fowl: Morrissey Refuses to Share the Stage on Jimmy Kimmel with the “Serial Animal Killers” of Duck-Hunting Show “Duck Dynasty”: That’s actually not the biggest “Morrissey being obnoxious” story to come out today. From an
In response to Video game sin tax? Where’s the sin?: Every legislator who treats gamers as rageaholic psychopaths just waiting to explode has literally no idea what video games are like today. If anything, games make young men fat and docile,
