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Gang Kills Lonely Obese People, Sells Their Fat For Cosmetics

9:49PM Ravi Somaiya | In a story that can only be described as made-up-but-not, police have busted a gang in Peru who targeted fat people on “lonely roads”, killed them, extracted their fat and sold it, possibly to make anti-wrinkle treatments. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

Hit A Bitch To Stop Domestic Violence

8:38AM Hamilton Nolan | You know what would be a good way to stop domestic violence? Set up a free website called “Hit The Bitch” where you can use your computer’s mouse to simulate beating that mouthy bitch till you’re “100% Gangsta.” But then! More »
Online

People Begging Google To Be Their Stalker

8:37AM Ryan Tate | Google said it can now keep a detailed list of everywhere you go, play your trips back like movies and generate “alerts” for unusual movements. Who wants this? The CIA? Nope: ordinary modern humans are asking to be tracked. Insane. More »
People

Tom Cruise Controls Books And Bottles With His Mind

4:26AM Hamilton Nolan | Tom Cruise! He is so crazy, what with the Scientology madness. It’s been so long since we heard examples of his craziness. Thank god there is a new tell-all book! In which Tom Cruise controls inanimate objects, with brainwaves. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

Will The Nu-Vampire Trend Please Die? Tonight?

12:15PM Foster Kamer | Remember the Tarantino/Rodriguez camp-fest that was From Dusk Til’ Dawn? George Clooney killed a bunch of south-of-the-border stripper/hooker-vampires using holy water-loaded Super Soakers. That was in 1996, and it should’ve been the end of vampire-cool. Now look where we are. More »
People

Hollywood’s Stalker Week Continues: Timberlake, Seacrest, Cyrus

4:38AM Foster Kamer | Celebrities deal with all kinds of ghouls: fans, paparazzi, tabloid media (Hi!), D-Listers, agents, etc. But the spookiest? Stalkers. Certifiable crazies who can’t get enough of you. Literally. Everyone’s got one lately: JT, Ryan Seacrest and Miley Cyrus More »
Online

Desperate Fiends Paying To Have Google “Big Brother” Their Lives

7:15AM Foster Kamer | Google — Sauron of the internet, world, and soon: Middle Earth’s tech scene — will soon have your life on file, especially with the advent of Google Wave, which is still in the invite stage. People are now paying for invites. More »
Flotsam & Jetsam

Dudes Buying Fancy Beds

2:36AM Hamilton Nolan | Just trying to be a normal xenophobic man these days means constantly fighting back against The System (ladies, etc.) telling us to buy fancy shampoo and fancy underwear, so, hey fellas, do not buy more fancy crap by choice. More »
People

Bee Shaffer, The LA Corrections System, A Sparkly Chicken

6:00AM Foster Kamer | I honestly don’t know how else to caption this photo we received of Bee Shaffer—Anna Wintour’s daughter, left—and two friends, one of whom is dressed as a sparkly chicken. This looks like the most fun night ever.
Online

New Yorker Gets Great Hip Hop Story Somehow

2:52AM Hamilton Nolan | Wowza, Ta-Nehisi Coates got an entire profile of MF Doom in the New Yorker this week, something so unlikely it sounds like a dare. The best hip hop journalist profiles today’s illest MC in America’s best magazine. Mmmm, food.