I know Chrissy Teigen is sick of her tweets becoming articles. Understandable. But Chrissy, while I love you, I am not writing this for you. I am writing this for a gorgeous snail.

In an Instagram story that was apparently viewed by 3 million people, Teigen documented a snail’s slow glide across a wooden deck. (Spoiler, in case you don’t like horror films: he made it to the other side.) The snail, with its pleasant chartreuse shell, looked like a little banana pepper, and moved at a slow, fairly steady pace. 

Aspirational!

Reader, I was unbelievably transfixed by the snail. When the snail reached safety, I whispered, “Great job.” I briefly understood the appeal of televised sports. I wished the Homeward Bound music was playing. All surefire signs of a good film. Read more…

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In the immortal words of BMO: Sometimes life is scary and dark. That is why we must find the light.

After 10 seasons, the Adventure Time finale is upon us. And Rebecca Sugar, one of its Emmy-nominated directors, artists, and composers returned from her work as the creator of Steven Universe to sing her final piece for it.

“Time Adventure” focuses on the time-stopping, everlasting power of friendship — a perfect send off for the show and its tight-knit family. Sugar performed the song at San Diego Comic-Con (now viewable in a newly shared video from Cartoon Network), leaving no dry eyes on stage and in the audience. Read more…

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Rumors that Idris Elba will be the next James Bond have been flying for, well, about a decade. 

But the actor fueled the latest batch of them — then dashed our hopes, maybe? — with a series of cryptic tweets on Sunday morning.

“My name’s Elba, Idris Elba,” he tweeted early on Sunday. Alongside this mysterious message: an art-filtered selfie that only Idris Elba could get away with.

If you were online at 4:02 a.m ET, congratulations. I envy the unfettered excitement you must have felt. Because less than five hours later, Elba tweeted a photo of Public Enemy, then this: Read more…

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Omarosa Manigault shared one of her much-talked-about White House recordings with Meet the Press viewers on Sunday and it raises some terrifying possibilities.

When Manigault was fired from her White House post in Dec. 2017, she recorded her sitdown with Gen. John Kelly, Donald Trump’s chief of staff, who broke the news. The meeting happened in the White House Situation Room, located in the West Wing’s basement.

Manigault claims to have made multiple recordings during her time in the White House — transcripts of which appear in her upcoming book, Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House. This Kelly recording is the first one she’s actually shared publicly. Read more…

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Kanye West appeared to be rendered speechless when Jimmy Kimmel asked him whether Donald Trump cared about black people. But he’d like to clarify that, no, he was just giving it some thought!

West’s Thursday interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live concluded somewhat strangely after Kimmel posed the question: West did not answer, then Kimmel abruptly announced a commercial break. (Trump was into it, though. Always a great sign.)

So on Saturday night, West attempted to clear the air with a few tweets.

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“I was in our Nation’s Capital and there’s only one place to eat when you’re in our Nation’s Capital. But they were closed.”

Jerry Seinfeld is currently in pop culture’s good graces thanks to his excellent web-turned-Netflix series, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. And now, to help spread the word, he’s started leaving restaurant reviews on Google Maps based on the establishments his visits with his guests.

The reviews started to surface in the first week of August, and only four have been posted so far (compared to more than 70 episodes overall, and the 12 since the show became a Netflix production). It’s a nifty bit of promotion further enhanced by Seinfeld’s comedic sensibilities. Read more…

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What if they really are out to get you. 

If you spend enough time walking the Las Vegas casino floors, you’re sure to come across some unique sights. But scores of people sporting all shapes and sizes of literal tin-foil hats? Welcome to DEF CON.

The annual hacker convention currently underway in the Nevada desert draws a diverse crowd of professional and hobbyist security researchers from around the world. And, for the most part, they all share one defining characteristic: the desire to stick it to The Man. 

Which, well, that specific proclivity just might end up making you a target. Read more…

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Hella excited.

Fans of Issa Rae’s Insecure have been left wondering about the fates of best friends Issa and Molly and their crushingly cute but infuriating love interests for almost a year. Now, the end of the wait is nighInsecure comes back for its third season on Sunday, August 12.

Insecure is one of those rare shows that can make you choke on your laughter while tears are streaming down your face. It depicts the sometimes messy but always real story of a group of friends in Los Angeles. 

Creator Issa Rae has said that it’s a show “about regular black people being basic.” Yet the show has still been hailed as revolutionary precisely because it treats the experience of being black amongst friends, in the corporate world, and in gentrifying neighborhoods, as a given, personal experience, and not a political statement.  Read more…

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Which member of The Beatles wrote “In My Life,” from the 1965 album Rubber Soul? It turns out that math has the answer.

Debates have long raged across pop culture about who wrote which Beatles song, both before and after the internet was born. The melody from “In My Life” in particular has been one of the bigger sources of consternation among fans.

John Lennon said in a 1980 interview with Playboy that it was his, even singling it out as “the first song I wrote that was consciously about my life.” He did say McCartney helped with part of the song, the “middle-eight,” he said.  Read more…

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Belching human smokestack Alex Jones is scrubbing his Twitter accounts of their most overt violations of Twitter’s Terms of Service. 

On Thursday, CNN published a list of InfoWars and Jones tweets that contained fun content like individual harassment and degradation on the basis of religion and gender identity. These are behaviors that a reasonable reading of Twitter’s updated 2017 Terms of Service would seem to prohibit.

The news network sent the list to Twitter, after executives repeatedly said that Twitter was allowing Jones and InfoWars to remain on the platform because the accounts had not violated Twitter’s Terms of Service. Jack Dorsey has pledged to “enforce” Twitter’s own rules if Jones ever violates them. Read more…

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