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Viral VideoDecember 19, 2016 When hitting a golf ball off a frozen pond goes wrong react-text: 243 /react-text Who would have guessed the viral video of the year would be delivered on December 19? Winter has engulfed most of the country with subfreezing temperatures, but that hasn’t stopped ardent golfers from hitting the course. In…
THE NEW PYRO MINI – Less bulk. More fire. Shoot balls of fire from your empty hands for under $150 The viral smash-hit of 2014 has been transformed into a smaller, sleeker and sexier MUST-HAVE. Based on the original Pyro, we’ve refined the mini to make it easier to use, while packing…
Content Header “This is the face of Dunkin’ Donuts right here.” /content-header Content Byline /content-byline Content Text Casey Affleck might be resistant to playing local stereotypes, but it certainly didn’t show last night as the host of Saturday Night Live. In what must be one of the most New England sketches in recent SNL history,…
GIF The year 2016 has been an ice cream sundae of realized horrors, topped off by a human that actually looks like a cherry if that cherry was radioactive and run over by a convertible. A lot of fears that used to feel outlandish suddenly seem pretty plausible: apocalyptic climate change, nuclear war, fascism, close-up…
Overwatch’s holiday event, Winter Wonderland, started yesterday, and with it came new character skins and emotes. Widowmaker’s addition is a highlight intro in which she holds mistletoe over her head, then punches the viewer in the throat and steps on them. The fandom is having a moment with this. Widowmaker is a character based around…
Photo: Getty Normally a glitch is a bad thing. Maybe it means your video game character gets stuck in a wall or maybe a glitch gets you wrongfully arrested. For an Australian man named Luke Moore, a simple bank glitch meant that he was able to blow $1.3 million on cars, travel, strippers and drugs…
Illustration: Jim Cooke, Screenshot: HBO HBO’s Westworld, the haunting tale of what can happen when cowboy sex robots go awry, spent its first season unwrapping many of the mysteries that so captivated its audience—save, that is, the question that has tormented fans most of all. And that’s apparently exactly how HBO wants it. Several days…
Image: Jim Cooke I was on the Jersey Turnpike when I saw it. I was driving my family to New York for Thanksgiving and there, along the shittiest stretch of road in the shittiest state in America, I saw the Williams-Sonoma fulfillment center: a vast hangar that seemed to stretch a mile long, with shipping…
“Slap the bag” — the ancient coming-of-age game involving slapping a bag of wine (usually Franzia) while drinking directly out of its plastic spigot — is a college staple. As is drinking Fireball. So, it was only a matter of time before the two converged in alcoholic matrimony to create the perfect party vessel: boxed…
A hideous rubber mask holds up a Halloween costume. Photo via AP My doves. My lambs. My exhausted little baby angels, bruised as though we’d all fallen down a ladder stretching from Heaven into the lowest fetid depths of Hell itself. What a terrible, terrible journey we’ve taken together, from the moment in June 2015…