A History Of Wood

from VICE The Untold Story of Wood, the Well-Endowed Man From Those Coronavirus Texts Through interviews with his loved ones, we dug deeper into the fascinating life of Wardy Joubert III, the real man behind the memes. By Alex Zaragoza WARDY LOVED THIS PHOTO OF...

Monolith Returned

from artnet A Mysterious Steel Monolith Was Discovered in the Utah Desert. Is It a Work of Art—or the Work of Aliens? Theories about who or what is behind the object have started circulating online. Cue Also sprach Zarathustra.  A mysterious steel monolith has been...

Kid Groupie

from Vulture Our ‘Lost’ Weekend With Van Halen A couple college dudes won an MTV contest to tour with Van Halen. Then all hell broke loose. By Chris Lee On an overcast morning in the spring of 1984, Kurt Jefferis and Tom Winnick, a couple of college-age bros of no...

United States of A-holes

from The Daily Beast The new documentary “Assholes: A Theory” examines the assholing of America, a nation ruled by the biggest asshole of them all: Donald J. Trump. by Nick Schager As U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) famously opined on Justified, “You run...

Go Schmidt!

from Yahoo! Finance Former Google CEO Calls Social Networks ‘Amplifiers for Idiots’ by Gerrit De Vynck (Bloomberg) — Former Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt said the “excesses” of social media are likely to result in greater regulation of internet...