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TL;DR: For a limited time, you’ll receive a $50 gift card when you order select Dyson hair tools through Amazon.

With this year’s holiday shopping season finally mercifully over, chances are there’s little room in your budget for a pre-New Year’s trip to your stylist. It’s not that your tresses don’t deserve a little TLC after the frenzy of all of your holiday festivities — or that you shouldn’t ring in 2020 looking fresh as all get-out — it’s just that you probably can’t justify dropping hundreds of dollars on some fancy-ass blowout, mask, or gloss after putting your wallet through the wringer for the past month or so. Read more…

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Oh! Spoilers are occurring in this post. Read on at your peril. 

Gavin and Stacey came home for Christmas this year. And we’re so very glad they did. 

It’s been a while — 10 years, in fact — since the Shipmans and Wests graced our screens, but it was well worth the wait. 

Not all Christmas specials are made equal, but Gavin and Stacey‘s 2019 Christmas special is one of my favourite episodes to date. It is, in equal measure, belly-achingly hilarious and heart-meltingly soppy. 

From her very first “oh ma Christ,” queen of the one liners, Pam Shipman (played by the inimitable Alison Steadman) is on top comedy form, culminating in a truly excellent moment that sees Pam and Mick smoking a spliff and dancing around the living room to 10cc’s “Dreadlock Holiday.” Of course, she misplaces the Christmas pudding (it’ll happen when you’re stoned) and declares that she can “see them in my mind’s aisle.” After much ado about suddenly-missing Christmas puddings, the family ends up enjoying a feast of Calippos, yoghurts, and choc ices for pudding.  Read more…

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Guy Fieri has absolutely mastered the art of bringing his own personal flavor to Twitter.

In 2019, the Mayor of Flavortown really found his groove on social media. When he isn’t promoting his various Food Network shows, he’s taken to sharing hilarious Photoshop creations and timely memes about himself with his 3.4 million Twitter followers.

Does he make these memes himself? Do his sons take creative control? Who is Guy Fieri’s social media manager? We have so many questions.

While we await a dream interview with the mastermind behind Guy’s memes, we thought we’d take some time to celebrate his flamin’ hot online presence. Here are 27 of Fieri’s best 2019 tweets. Read more…

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Happy one-year anniversary, you.

That is, happy one year since most of us binged the heck out of Lifetime’s YOU when it hit Netflix, making us all hide under the covers and hit play after Amazon Prime-ing some thick new window curtains.

The twisted drama returns for Season 2 on Dec. 26, picking up once again with Penn Badgley’s menacing Joe daring to enter into a new relationship.

But as we steel ourselves for Season 2 (and truly, we cannot steel enough), let’s look back on that honestly batshit first season, all the horrible things Joe did, and everything that might come back to haunt us.

Here’s everything you need to remember about YOU Season 1. Read more…

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If we had to make any predictions about the state of your home’s cleanliness at the moment, we’d guess that it’s probably in a somewhat dismal state, with wrapping paper, greeting cards, and half-eaten holiday cookies strewn everywhere. 

At least, that’s probably what your home looks like if you belong to the average American household, a cohort that dumps an additional one million tons of waste per week in landfills during the holiday season, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. In the weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, the EPA estimates that the waste produced by American households increases by more than 25 percent.   Read more…

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To celebrate reaching the end of this year, we asked our reporters to look back on 2019 and pick one thing they thought stood out from the rest of the cultural chaos and cursed images. You can find the complete selection of our choices here.

2019 was the year “cancel culture” lost all meaning. 

Though the various scandals this year — influencer drama, blatant racism, botched makeup launches – ended in countless Notes App apologies and comment sections filled with fancams, few had lasting consequences. Sure, 2019 gifted us with plenty of public outrage, but in the end it’s the cancel culture discourse that’s more memorable than any canceling itself.   Read more…

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The Rise of Skywalker might be here, but Star Wars isn’t over over. There’s still plenty of money for Disney to wring out of it.

In case you hadn’t heard (lol), Dec. 20 brings us the final chapter in the Skywalker Saga. That’s the name we use now to refer to the three separate trilogies tracking the exploits of the characters and lineages first introduced in 1977’s original Star Wars.

With The Rise of Skywalker bringing the original story to a close, what’s a Star Wars fan to do for new stories? We’ve got you covered. Star Wars the franchise has been bigger than that set of movies since pretty much its earliest days. Name a popular entertainment medium, and you can bet the series has gone there — and it’s still going. Read more…

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We all love giving and receiving tech gifts for the holidays, because tech is fun. When it works, it’s like magic. When it doesn’t work, it’s the most maddening thing in the entire world. 

Maybe your new MacBook isn’t powering up or your new Chromecast is, well, being a Chromecast. One minor blessing about the world we live in, though, is that confusing or malfunctioning holiday gifts don’t have to ruin your life. There are tons of resources out there for people who need a little extra help to get their new toys up and running.

However, these solutions aren’t perfect and can be costly. Exhausting all your options first is important, just to make sure you don’t have to spend hundreds of dollars for assistance. If you’re having trouble with a new holiday gadget, here are some of the steps you should take. Read more…

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Tired: influencers. Wired: pigfluencers.

Forget cats and their “can haz cheeseburger” antics. The pig may not be the most well-known or beloved internet animal celebrity, but it’s the pinkest cutie around.

More wholesome than the cat, smarter and as emotionally sensitive as the dog, the pig is perfect for web culture. They’re cute, chonky, loving, loungers with rabid appetites — embodying a #mood we can all relate to.

So this holiday season, enjoy serving the Christmas ham on your feed rather than a platter. Because every time you unfollow an Instagram model to follow a pigfluener instead, you’re doing a radical act of self-care. (But please admire these cuties from afar. Having a pig as a pet is a big responsibility that isn’t for everyone.) Read more…

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“Remove everything that has no relevance to the story,” wrote Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. “It’s wrong to make promises you don’t mean to keep.” You may know this principle as Chekhov’s Gun: If you see a rifle on the wall in the first act, it should go off by the end of the play. 

Or to put it in The Rise of Skywalker terms: If Finn (John Boyega) has something to tell Rey as they sink into what seems to be a quicksand-style death on the planet of Pasaana in the first act, we should damn well know what it is by the end of the movie. 

But the silence on this front is so deafening, so antithetical to the laws of good drama, that even casual moviegoers — the ones who don’t care about the Emperor’s hyper-convenient return or Rey’s trilogy-bending Palpatine reveal — leave the theater scratching their heads. Was Finn going to say he loved her, or what? Read more…

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