After nearly four years of interminable rallies, 34 felonies, one last-minute candidate switch, two assassination attempts, and several months of crippling anxiety, the national fever dream of the 2024 campaign season has reached its end. Election Day is upon us. Voters across the nation are lining up at their polling …
Read More »Terror and Bliss Coexist on Mount Eerie's 'Night Palace'
Music always carries memory – of other songs, of beats and melodies and the where-and-when of how they imprinted themselves on us. “You were singing at twilight/With your fingers moving/And I’d heard the same song in a dream,” sings Phil Elverum on “Huge Fire,” near the beginning of his epic …
Read More »'I Was Trying to Close the Loop': Jesse Eisenberg on 'A Real Pain'
Jesse Eisenberg was stuck. Then he saw four words. The actor, writer, and director had been trying to adapt “Mongolia,” a 2017 short story he’d written for Tablet Magazine, into a movie, and was, by his own admission, hitting a brick wall. A tale of two college friends — one …
Read More »Literal Neo-Nazi Leader Endorses Trump
Chris Hood, the founder of the thuggish neo-Nazi group NSC-131, has endorsed the MAGA candidate for president, calling on fellow fascists in the swing states “to vote for Donald Trump.” In a long statement on Telegram, Hood described Trump as providing a small step forward to his goal of “ultimate …
Read More »Jamie Foxx Asks Quincy Jones to 'Say Hello' to His Late Sister in Touching Tribute
Jamie Foxx has joined the likes of Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney, Toto’s Steve Lukather, and others who have paid tribute to the “peerless music producer” Quincy Jones in the wake of his death at the age of 91. In his own post, Foxx thanked the late producer for his indelible …
Read More »The Failure of Two-Party Systems: Payment Infrastructure Edition
You’ve probably heard a lot about two-party systems this election season — with most of that chatter being about our two-party political system’s failure to benefit everyday Americans while upholding the elite few. You’d probably even agree that ANY two-party system, given enough time, will always result in two powerful …
Read More »One of the Internet's Biggest Musical Mysteries Has Likely Been Solved
The most mysterious song on the internet, which thousands of devoted sleuths have been trying to identify since 2007, finally has a name. The New Wave track, originally recorded off the radio in Germany in the early Eighties, is believed to be called “Subways of Your Mind” by the band …
Read More »U.S. Politics in the Office and Its Effect on Performance: How to Navigating the Divide
Over the past few years, U.S. politics has become increasingly polarized. It’s impossible to turn on the news or log into social media without being bombarded by discussions and debates about political issues. These conversations don’t stop at the office door. In fact, political discussions have become more frequent in …
Read More »Jason Kelce Addresses 'Heated' Phone-Smashing Incident and Homophobic Slur Exchange
Over the weekend, Jason Kelce attended the Ohio State-Penn State game in Pennsylvania. Before the retired athlete, who previously played center for the Eagles, could make it inside, he found himself locked in a heated exchange with another attendee who used a homophobic slur while referencing his brother Jason Kelce‘s …
Read More »Blackpink's Rosé Wrote 'Disgustingly Vulnerable' Song About Online Hate
Rosé opened up about how reading online hate about her inspired a new song on her upcoming debut solo album, Rosie. In a new interview with Paper, Rosé admitted that she has a habit of doom-scrolling at night and reading what others say about her, both good and bad. The …
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