disasters
Online
Google Office Fire Digitially Captured From Like, 432 Different Angles
3:53AM Ryan Tate | Google’s London office building briefly caught on fire, and there’s a very good chance you heard about it, because internet geeks are great at instantly broadcasting images of flames, globally. If only they were as good at igniting grills. More »
Music
Michael Jackson’s Famous Hair Fire: The Video
2:00AM Richard Lawson | Oh, holy god. Remember when Michael Jackson’s hair caught on fire while filming a Pepsi commercial in 1984? Well Us Weekly got the harrowing footage and claims the injury spurred his terrible painkiller addiction. His head just… catches on fire. More »
Small Screen
Please Get Heidi And Spencer Outta There
1:35AM Richard Lawson | Well, that didn’t go well at all. One episode and several crying jags/smacking-water-bottles-out-of-Frangela’s-hands later, Heidi and Spencer from The Hills have quit the disastrous reality series I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Outta Here!. Mostly because it’s “not a nice show” and Heidi got bug bites. More »
People
New Bust Caps Banner Year For Druggy O’Neal Family
7:28AM Ryan Tate | Redmond O’Neal was just busted for trying to sneak drugs into a prison. We can hardly think of a better way to cap off a year of O’Neal-related druggy hijinks. More »
Small Screen
American Idol Crashes into Grain Silo, Millions Killed
4:37AM Defamer Hollywood | The show that has entertained millions for so long has finally died, in this its eighth year. We mourn those who’ve been killed in this tragedy, and celebrate those who managed to escape it. More »
Everyone But John Cusack Dies, and Other Key Revelations From New ‘2012′ Teaser
3:10AM STV | Sony yesterday released the new teaser for the apocalyptic epic 2012, sort of a Groundhog Day meets The Day After Tomorrow in which Earth’s inhabitants wake up one morning to find director Roland Emmerich once again destroying everything in sight. There’s little on hand to illuminate the plot that star John Cusack so vigorously protected earlier this year in a chat with Defamer, but here’s what we can suss from a couple viewings so far: More »
