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- Meme Alert: ‘Stocking’ Is Better Than Planking
- Miley’s Rebellious Brother Trace Cyrus Impregnated Squeaky-Clean Disney Star Brenda Song
- Spoiler Alert: 9 Movies with Shameless Last-Minute Deaths
- The Daily WTF: The Dog Formerly Known as Prince
- Russell Armstrong Reportedly Beat Wife Taylor Before Committing Suicide
- Camp Week Art Crush: The Best John Waters Fan Art
- Good Going, NYU: Students Can Now Access Celebrity Students/Professors’ E-Mail Addresses
- James Franco Is Making A Documentary On The Porn Industry
- The Hunger Games Teaser Trailer Will Premiere at the MTV VMAs
- Video: Watch Dave Franco Romance Then Have Sex with Himself
| Meme Alert: ‘Stocking’ Is Better Than Planking Posted: 24 Aug 2011 11:43 AM PDT
No, not stalking. Stalking has been a thing online for quite some time already. Stocking. I’m pretty sure the above photo explains it pretty well, but “stocking” is the process by which an individual recreates a stock photo, then posts the two side by side for comparison. Here are a couple more examples:
This is a lot cooler than planking/horsemaning/etc. in my opinion, because those things basically contain one joke that gets old fast. Stocking, on the other hand, has a ton of potential for variation. The world of stock photos is vast and strange, and the juxtapositions of stock vs. original photos can be hilarious. Some show how absurd a certain pose would look if people actually tried it in real life, while others highlight the strangeness of a world staffed entirely by people who look like professional models. I mean, that is one sexy IT department. I encourage anyone who is currently super bored to try out some “stocking” of your own and send them to submissions@crushable.com. Here are some ideas to get you started:
Happy stocking. (Via Buzzfeed and Stocking Is The New Planking) Related posts: Post from: Crushable |
| Miley’s Rebellious Brother Trace Cyrus Impregnated Squeaky-Clean Disney Star Brenda Song Posted: 24 Aug 2011 11:25 AM PDT
Brenda and Miley appeared together on the triple-crossover special Wizards on Deck with Hannah Montana in 2009. Around the same time, Trace was still ragging on Disney kids: He had a weird two-month Twitter romance (and break-up) with Demi Lovato and claimed that he doesn’t need to keep up some fake clean persona like the Jonas brothers with their purity rings. It’s especially hilarious, then, that he ended up dating and knocking up Brenda, who’s been Disney’s faithful representative even when Hilary up and left and Miley forced her way out with bad behavior. Going by her public persona, she’s so straight-laced that it’s bizarre that she and Trace have been going out for at least a year. The one rebellious thing about their relationship is that this happened out of wedlock. (There’s no word if Disney or Billy Ray Cyrus are going to force them to get hitched.) Neither Trace nor Miley have commented on the news yet; Brenda (if @therealbrendas is actually her handle) hasn’t updated her Twitter since 2010. The best reaction so far came from a Justin Bieber fan Twitter account: Selena better not be next. I’m not even kidding. And yes, Twitter users have again announced that their childhoods are over. Related posts: Post from: Crushable |
| Spoiler Alert: 9 Movies with Shameless Last-Minute Deaths Posted: 24 Aug 2011 10:58 AM PDT One Day, the Anne Hathaway/Jim Sturgess will-they-or-won't-they think piece, hit theaters this weekend. While it made a respectable showing at the box office, it bombed with the critics. Besides looking like found footage from Reality Bites, I think the movie's surprise sad ending might have been the real nail in the coffin. Movies pulling the old one-two emotional punch at the end is nothing new, but sometimes a character dies and you're less "Boohoo" than "WTF?" Or at first you're like "Boohoo," but then later you're like "Wait, seriously WTF?" Usually it's because a character's death seems not only sudden, but also totally unearned. In an instant, a movie becomes a sucker punch. Shame on you, Hollywood. You lazy sadists, you. Here are nine moves that pull the last-minute death trick. (And seriously, these are spoilers.) Post from: Crushable |
| The Daily WTF: The Dog Formerly Known as Prince Posted: 24 Aug 2011 10:29 AM PDT
“I never meant to cause you any sorrow/I never meant to cause you any pain/I only wanted to one time see you laughing/laughing at the purple dog.” People of the world: we must stop dyeing our pets! We must stop dressing them in sweaters and we must stop putting ribbons in their hair. We mustn’t require them to wear shoes on their paws and we can’t get them anymore pet jewelry. For they are living creatures and they’re entitled to a little bit of dignity. “It’s such a shame our friendship had to end.” (via) Post from: Crushable |
| Russell Armstrong Reportedly Beat Wife Taylor Before Committing Suicide Posted: 24 Aug 2011 10:04 AM PDT
Today, in things too sad to joke about: reports have been coming in that Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Russell Armstrong beat his estranged wife Taylor very badly before taking his own life on August 14. According to RadarOnline, Armstrong hit her during an argument about their uncertain financial situation before hanging himself in a friend’s Mulholland Drive mansion. Via RadarOnline:
This is obviously very sad, and also brings up questions of how the show’s producers are going to deal with it in the upcoming season. I’m sure a lot of people are going to blame the intentional drama-stoking of a reality show for Armstrong’s emotional deterioration, and while it seems like his problems pre-dated being on television, I’m sure it didn’t help. The show’s producers have delayed its September premiere date “by at least one week,” during which time I’m guessing they’ll re-edit their footage out of respect for his family. If there’s anything I know about reality TV contracts, it’s that they can do pretty much anything they want to you even after you’re dead, so I’m glad they are going a classier route than “SEE RUSSELL ARMSTRONG’S SENSATIONAL UNRAVELING!” But I’m guessing they’re still going to include it in their story arc. Whether or not an intentionally ridiculous reality show can successfully treat a man’s death with dignity remains to be seen. Related posts: Post from: Crushable |
| Camp Week Art Crush: The Best John Waters Fan Art Posted: 24 Aug 2011 10:02 AM PDT What kind of a Camp Week would we be running over here if we didn’t put up some kind of tribute to John Waters? The Baltimore filmmaker is often imitated and alluded to, and here are some drawings done in his honor. Pink flamingos for everyone! Post from: Crushable |
| Good Going, NYU: Students Can Now Access Celebrity Students/Professors’ E-Mail Addresses Posted: 24 Aug 2011 10:01 AM PDT
That’s right: NYU Mail’s much-necessary switch over to Gmail has left a few holes in the university’s e-mail system. When composing an e-mail, all I have to do is type in the name of a celebrity who has attended or taught at the university, and his/her NYU e-mail address comes up. Student publication NYU Local noticed this first as part of a larger article about student privacy, and again this month when they confirmed that Dakota was part of Gallatin’s class of 2015. (The accompanying photo comes from that post.) There are two factors here: a) Gmail’s fondness for auto-fill, and b) what I can only assume is the university’s desire that all students be able to find each other without trouble. The thing is, any privacy settings have to be input by the student/professor; you can easily hide your information, but you have to do it.
This isn’t the end of the world, since celebrities will probably soon figure out that they can opt out of the list, and we’ll lose our limited means of contact forever. Also, it’s not as if their NYU addresses are a direct line to the stars. There’s a good chance that they, like the rest of us, hardly ever check our school e-mail. Related posts: Post from: Crushable |
| James Franco Is Making A Documentary On The Porn Industry Posted: 24 Aug 2011 09:02 AM PDT
Artist. Writer. Filmmaker. Masturbator. James Franco is a man of many talents. And now, it would seem that he’s combining two of those talents to make a documentary about the porn industry. Apparently, after making a sex tape with his girlfriend that was not up to his high standards, he realized there’s actually quite a bit of craft that goes into making convincing pornography, and decided he wanted to get up close and personal with how his jerk off sausage gets made. "I actually am very interested in pornography,” he told Conan O’Brien during a recent appearance. “I mean, I watch it, who doesn't? I guess nobody's going to raise their hand, but there are a lot of people here who watch pornography. It's just a fact. So, I'm interested in it. I'm making a documentary about pornography. There's this amazing facility in San Francisco, it's at this old armory. They do everything in house, they build their props in house, it’s an incredible place, so I'm making a documentary about that.” Armory? Was he talking about Kink.com? Unless there’s another small porn company that’s housed in an armory in San Francisco, that would be the one. TMZ confirmed on Monday that he had, indeed, visited the facilities. For those not in the know, Kink.com is the craziness. They specialize in various types of hardcore BDSM, stuff that would probably make even James Franco blush. They’re also known in the industry to be a decently good place to work for, which is important to a lot of people who want to explore their kinks in a responsible way. Kink.com is a flagship business for one of the most unfairly maligned and misunderstood communities in the world, and I think a behind-the-scenes documentary could certainly go a long way towards demystifying BDSM for people. It’s not known whether Kink.com will be the sole focus of the documentary, but either way, good on James Franco for including it. But do we think he actually patronizes it? I’m guessing his tastes are embarrassingly vanilla (embarrassing for James Franco, that is). I realize I will probably never be able to prove this, but I have a hunch James Franco is a tender and cuddly lover. Related posts: Post from: Crushable |
| The Hunger Games Teaser Trailer Will Premiere at the MTV VMAs Posted: 24 Aug 2011 08:45 AM PDT Yesterday we learned that MTV is going to debut the first official footage from The Hunger Games at the VMAs this Sunday. We started to make our guesses as to which scene we’d get to see — Capitol, District 12, the Arena itself — but now it turns out there’s a good chance we’ll see all of the above. The Hunger Games‘ official Facebook page has announced in more than one status update that what we’ll see on Sunday is the first teaser trailer! Bonus: Even if you don’t have a TV/cable, you won’t miss out. MTV News just reported that the trailer will be available on MTV.com immediately following its world premiere. Make sure you still vote in our poll — since a teaser could have one or many scenes, the choices still apply. And if you haven’t seen it yet, here’s Lionsgate’s official synopsis for the movie:
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| Video: Watch Dave Franco Romance Then Have Sex with Himself Posted: 24 Aug 2011 10:57 AM PDT Remember that NY Times video of James Franco making out with himself? Well, little brother Dave has taken things a step further in a new Funny or Die vid. Told by a woman to “go fuck himself,” Dave proceeds to do just that. But, because he’s a gentleman, he engages in a full and proper courting ritual first. FYI, it gets a bit NSFW around the two-minute mark. Post from: Crushable |
Turns out Hilary Duff‘s not the only 23-year-old Disney star with a baby on the way! E! News just confirmed that Brenda Song, who stars on Disney’s The Suite Life on Deck, 
I’m really bummed that the semester after I graduated, NYU will have both James Franco and Nicolas Cage teaching film classes. Plus, Dakota Fanning will be a Gallatin (my alma mater) freshman! But even though I won’t have the chance to bump into these celebrities on campus, I can still e-mail them.
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