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Sometimes it slips Kristin Parisi’s mind that she’s disabled. After 25 years in a wheelchair—the result of a car accident when she was 5 years old—her means of transportation no longer registers as abnormal. “It’s one of those things I forget—that I’m disabled—until someone tells me I am,” the 30-year-old public-relations executive says. That reminder…
Apple Watch pre-orders started with a bang and Apple’s initial inventory quickly sold out. Then US orders immediately fell, and have remained mostly flat since, according to analysis from Slice Intelligence, a company that tracks US consumer spending through e-commerce email receipts. Apple has taken orders for almost 2.5 million watches in the US through Monday, May 18, according to Slice’s projections,…
<br /> Marco Rubio is very confused by Chris Wallace’s Iraq questions, which are the same questions Jeb Bush continually fucked up last week, so, as a Serious Heavyweight Presidential Contender, he should have been prepared. However, whereas Jeb Bush’s face would gloss over in confusion every time he tried to answer Iraq questions, Marco…
Josh Duggar and the entire Duggar clan are Family Values People. They believe in things like Traditional Marriage and No Trannies In The Little Girls’ Room, because apparently that’s more dangerous than Josh Duggar In The Little Girls’ Room. The family’s record of open wingnuttery and anti-gay/anti-trans hate landed young Joshua a sweet position with…
Have yourself a melancholy little Christmas with Bill Murray. Netflix released a teaser on Friday for A Very Murray Christmas, which admittedly doesn’t tell us much. Murray, wearing a reindeer headpiece, stares out a window, before turning around, sighing a little and walking away. If this seems a little like Lost in Translation: The Christmas…
CreditRichard Prince. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photographs by Robert McKeever. A show at Gagosian of thirty-eight Instagrams harvested from the Internet and inkjet-printed on canvas by the cynosure of appropriation, Richard Prince, feels fated. The logic of artifying non-art images that Andy Warhol inaugurated half a century ago could hardly skip a burgeoning mass medium of…
Would you let your mother leave the house dressed like a tart on a bender? Jennifer Lopez appeared at the Billboard Music Awards show in Las Vegas Sunday nearly starkers, clad in a navel- and side-boob-baring silvery getup that looked as if she were stuffed into an aluminum can that had burst open around her. The…
Richard Prince Sucks Paddy Johnson, Tuesday, October 21, 2014 Installation view of Richard Prince, “New Portraits,” at Gagosian Photo: Paddy Johnson Richard Prince has taken over the Gagosian showroom located behind their bookstore on Madison Avenue. He’s filled the space with 38 portraits, each 65 by 48 inches, taken from his Instagram feed. It’s a…
The first trailer has arrived for Fox’s Minority Report TV show, outlining the set-up for the sci-fi spin-off which follows on from the events of Steven Spielberg’s big screen smash. The new series is set 10 years after the end of Pre-crime in DC, and follows one of the programme’s Pre-cogs attempting to lead a…
15 LinkedIn Profile Translations By 1. I’ve created innovative strategies for my company = Sometimes I say stuff in meetings 2. I’m a driven sales professional = I’m dead inside 3. I’m an experienced social marketer = I know how Facebook works 4. I’m involved in handling campaigns = I tell people to do things…