Новости за 07.11.2020

Donald Trump got his ass booted out of the White House today. (No matter how many times Rudy Giuliani tries to shush away the truth.) And look: We could go into a whole thing here, talking about the ways celebrity culture serves as a shorthand for our processing of major world events. Or we could get into a big long…

Our long national nightmare is finally at an end this morning, as authoritative sources from across the country—i.e., those people who follow the Twitter account of video game developer BioWare—are making the call: The Mass Effect trilogy of space-based action-RPGS/alien boning simulators is finally getting a…

America was asked a very simple question: “Can you possibly sustain four more years of this monumental, unyielding mess?” Dead-eyed and thoroughly broken, the country gesticulated wildly and responded, “We might actually be tired of this!” Though political analysts predicted that the race would be excruciatingly close…

Appearing for some intra-network election talk, former political strategist and current disheveled political reporter and host George Stephanopoulos took some time out from his schedule of telling everybody “it’s too close to call” by telling Jimmy Kimmel on Friday that—it’s too close to call. Granted, the Jimmy…

Look: There are very few, bordering on zero, instances in which it’s morally good or proper to prank call the people stuck operating the ongoing, slogging hell of a public phone line. But if there were (we’re saying if), said phone line would probably be Rudy Giuliani’s bullshit voter fraud reporting hotline, and the…

This election has been a throbbing, incurable headache for all of us, but it has to have been especially blinding for Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello, a man who has spent his life doing basically two things: making music (and movements) that supports things like feeding the poor, equality, and the opposition of…

Johnny Kevorkian has died. The British filmmaker behind two interesting indie horror films with strong cult followings—2008's The Disappeared, and 2018's Await Further Instructions—Kevorkian died this week of what’s been reported as a possible heart attack. According to Dread Central, he was 48.

Rachel Maddow has announced that she’s entering quarantine this week, after the MSNBC host revealed on social media today that she’s been exposed to someone who’s tested positive for COVID-19. Maddow made it clear that she herself has not been diagnosed with the disease, but is taking all the usual precautions to…

Turkey. Family. Traveling. Squabbling. Taboo romance. The farewell concert by an era-defining band. Any or all of these are the ingredients of a great Thanksgiving movie—a section of the cinematic holiday canon that’s a little thinner than others, if only because its celebration is mostly confined to North America.…

We’ll confess to a certain nostalgia, now that the general volume of topics of national or life-and-death importance has reached the level of “actual clusterfuck cacophony,” for the days of truly meaningless pop culture screaming. You know the stuff: A lot of it was centered on things like Adult Swim’s Rick And Morty,…

King Von, the Chicago-born, Atlanta-based rapper who just released his debut album last week, has died. Per Pitchfork, a spokesperson for the Atlanta Police Department confirmed that the still-nascent artist was fatally wounded in a shooting that took place outside of an Atlanta nightclub early Friday morning. The…

Greeting, weary traveler of the internet. Welcome to the Oh This Is So Nice Inn. Would you like to rest here? Our normal bed will cost you 20 rupees. Our blissful water bed is 80 rupees. Simply setting your weary self down for a spell and watching this endearing video of a dad building a frankly incredible playhouse…

Last week’s season premiere of The Mandalorian had some serious space Western vibes. But although it picks up shortly after last week’s adventure, with Mando and The Child still on Tatooine, “The Caretaker” foregrounds a different, but equally essential, ingredient in the Star Wars recipe book: Puppeteering and…