"But the real pull of the show wasn't the promise of solving the mystery, it was seeing just how thick and convoluted the mystery became. Listening to the last episode, I found myself strangely enthralled by Don, Hae's last boyfriend, and Josh, an associate of Jay's so tenuous that his big rhetorical question is to wonder why Jay would have shared ( Read more... )

"I don't know what to do with good white people."

Zen Pencils takes on "Ozymandis."

"In fact, we have just the opposite problem: things can become feeding frenzies even if no one really wants them to be. That's because they can go viral with no central organization at all. Each individual who tweets or blogs or Facebooks their outrage thinks of this as a purely personal response. Just a quick way to kill a few idle minutes. But ( Read more... )

"My niece is a teenage Instagram celebrity."

Details emerge about HBO's Westworld series.

"A Field Guide to American Truthers"

Courtesy Wikipedia: "Göbekli Tepe is an archaeological site at the top of a mountain ridge in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey, approximately 6 km northeast of the town of Şanlıurfa. The tell has a height of 15 m and is about 300 m in diameter. It is approximately 760 m above sea level. It has been excavated by a German archaeological ( Read more... )

"Many of us have come to know the tales of Disney's princesses by heart. But put Snow White, Cinderella, Belle and Ariel aside for a moment and consider these characters: A transgender Native American, a tank commander and a Mexican revolutionary. Theirs are not the kind of stories you find in a Disney princess flick, but they're in the spotlight ( Read more... )

I had no idea how busy Robert Plant has been in the recent past, nor how diverse he's become. Highly cool.