roll call
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Leaked New Kanye Track ('All Day') Sounds Like Old Kanye
You know those people who want the old Kanye West back? Who reminisce about the days of ‘Spaceship’ and “Bush don’t care about Black people” and colorblocking Lacoste polos and dating Deltas? I am not one of those people. (Although I do love Deltas.) I do not miss the old Kanye, and I actually prefer…
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Mo'Ne Davis Is Better At What She Does Than You Are At What You Do
Sunday afternoon, 13-year-old Mo’Ne Davis — a pitcher for the Taney (Pa.) Dragons — became the first girl to throw a complete game shoutout in a Little League World Series clinching contest, throwing pitches that reached 70 mph. I also had a busy Sunday afternoon. I went to brunch, ordered extra sausage, drank a kiwi Belini,…
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Seriously, If Shaneen Allen Goes To Prison, F*ck Everybody
I first read about Shaneen Allen, the Philadelphia mother who was arrested for driving through New Jersey with a handgun, a month or so ago. It was a ridiculous story then, but I assumed common sense would prevail and Allen — who had a permit to carry and didn’t realize it didn’t apply to New Jersey…
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Beyonce Inspires Two Very Strange Women To Make Shitty Music
My expectations weren’t exactly high when waiting to listen to Lil Kim’s addition to “Flawless.” But, because I respect my elders — and because her Hardcore poster remains one of the most seminal moments of my life — I listened to it. And it made me sad. Ok. I’m lying. Kim’s very public deterioration over…
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Olivia Wilde Breastfeeds Son For Glamour Magazine. She Also Has Son Named "Otis"
I had been vaguely aware of people being bothered by public breastfeeding, but not until the advent of social media did I realize just how much of a “thing” it was. I think moments like this is why the hashtag, #onhere was created for Twitter. Because only “on there” do I see most of the debates about…
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Lil' Kim Adds Nicki Minaj Jab To Flawless Remix
The Queen Bee has put out a diss track aimed at Nicki Minaj. And by that, we mean she threw a verse on the end of the Flawless remix and put her face over Nicki’s on the album art the way you might paste your face into a picture of a girl group you admire……
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TIME Magazine Continues Series Of Odd Culture-Shocked Explications
TIME already caught itself being mocked by the internet for its breakdown of the word bae, which struck an impressive balance between educational and utterly useless, and they’re at it again. This time, they’re looking at East Asian people throwing up the peace sign in pictures and giving you a historical/anthropological/bullshit-tastical account of what might…
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Ebola Patients Cured By New Serum…Which Means We're All Going To Die
Look, as optimistic as I want to be about this new treatment for Ebola, we’ve all seen enough post-apocalyptic horror movies to know how it starts: 1. A fucked up but manageable disease kills a bunch of humans. 2. We scramble to find a cure. 3. We find a cure that “works.” 4. Except the…
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'Wire' Actor Anwan Glover Stabbed At D.C. Nightclub
In yet another incident of life imitating art for “The Wire”, (whereas the show is actually the reverse), actor Anwan Glover — known as Slim Charles on the show — was reportedly stabbed at Cafe Asia in D.C. early Sunday morning. Geez. On a Sunday morning, though?? Like Slim said to the Barksdale crew, “Ain’t enough…
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Facebook Goes Down, Eduardo Saverin Does Shmoney Dance In Celebration
Ok. This didn’t really happen. Facebook did really go down at around noon, but there’s no footage of Eduardo Saverin or the Winklevoss twins doing the Shmoney Dance in celebration. But…there’s no footage of them not doing it either. So, who knows? Still, we can dream. Roll Call is a daily collection of interesting news stories,…