Snoopy’s doghouse is so well-known and recognizable that even when there are no Peanuts characters in the frame, it is impossible to mistake it for anything else. The red, wooden structure has a distinctive mushroom profile, with three slats on the top and three slats on the bottom. When it burned to the ground in a…
In 1990, Bill Watterson created a Calvin and Hobbes storyline in which Calvin is bullied into playing baseball during recess. Watterson drew a relatable, cautionary tale about the dangers of cramming boys into neat little boxes. Everyone in this story wants Calvin to do something he hates, but even when he commits to…
In 2015, Mandy Bowman founded Official Black Wall Street, a website that features a global directory of black-owned businesses. Blavity reports, this week the site made it even easier to find black-owned businesses near you through a new app.
It’s time again for another imaginary car from an imaginary country, and today we’re going on a strange journey to the only absolutely, purely communist sovereign state in the entire imaginary world: the People’s Purismic Commune (PPC). In the PPC, everyone is absolutely equal, and as such there’s only one car for…
Stranger Things might be known for its Easter eggs designed for children of the 1980s, but the most interesting, significant, and impactful one of the second season has nothing to do with nostalgia, but rather its own story.
This week at VSB, we’re running a series called Albums That Changed My Life in which different writers let you in on the music that helped shape and mold them into the people they are now. Today we hear from Ashlee Haze as she tells us lessons she learned from Missy Elliott’s Supa Dupa Fly.
This morning a reader named Mustang ‘DontHitTheCrowd’ GT sent me this little video of a 1981 Saab 99's headlight wiper system in action, and I found it so strangely satisfying and delightful that I thought that perhaps you may enjoy a post of nothing but short clips of headlight wipers in action. Because that’s how…
I stormed through the second season of Stranger Things during a nine-hour flight back from a social media-free vacation, so I wasn’t around to see how people were reacting to the latest visit to the Upside Down. When I reached the seventh episode, “The Lost Sister,” I remember thinking it was all right. Not the finest…
A little backstory on how we got to the point where this is even a thing: On Nov. 17, 2016, I wrote a piece called “Queen Sugar Hits This Dad Right in the Feels.” By the end of that day, life was different; anything was possible. The piece published first thing in the morning that day. By 2 p.m., I received a call…
Louis C.K. has canceled the premiere for his new movie I Love You Daddy ahead of a reported New York Times story, in case the story is “damaging,” the Hollywood Reporter reports. The premiere was set to take place Thursday night in New York. Jezebel has confirmed that CK’s team also canceled a planned appearance on…
Well, that didn’t take long! Soon after BBC unveiled Jodie Whittaker’s new Doctor Who look, fans were eager to bring the show’s first female Doctor to life. Check out some of the amazing art below—and if you’ve created your own 13th Doctor fan art, be sure to leave it in the comments!
In an interview with the New York Times on September 11, Louis C.K. declined to discuss what the paper of record genteelly described as “unsubstantiated internet rumors of sexual misconduct with female comics.”
Aside from Charlie Brown, Peppermint Patty is the most well-thought out, deeply characterized member of the Peanuts gang. Charles Schulz told some heartbreaking stories about unrequited love, single parenthood, gender norms, and deep-seated insecurities—themes that did not normally appear on the Sunday funnies page.…
The leader of a white nationalist group associated with accused Charlottesville killer James Alex Fields Jr. served in the Marines until this year, including three years spent as a recruiter, Splinter has learned. Dillon Ulysses Hopper, the self-described “CEO” of Vanguard America, a hate group whose members were…
Singer R. Kelly claimed to have “raised” one of his teenage sexual conscripts since the age of “14 or 15,” according to a sometime member of his entourage who spoke to Jezebel about life inside the singer’s inner circle. The woman confirmed details published this week in a disturbing BuzzFeed story, telling Jezebel…
The last time my mother and I had an actual conversation was on Mother’s Day 2014, when she told me that I shouldn’t have bothered calling her. Switching between Russian and heavily accented English, she said it was insulting for me to wish her well on this holiday when I hadn’t done anything to make her a happy…
If you are reading this, I am high. Very, very high. I’m on two Xanax, one Norco, and a handful of ibuprofen I took just for taste. Today, I take this combination because my retina detached and I needed emergency surgery. One Saturday two years ago, I took it after my audition day on this website.
With Thanksgiving soon drawing to a close, you may be wondering what to do with all those pictures you took of your dinner. Now that you’ve got your five Instagram likes, won’t you share the food porn with us, too?
Let’s be real: everyone loves to fart and hates to exercise. That’s why so many of us were excited by the recent news that farting could potentially make you lose weight! “I fart all day,” we all thought, “I could be a size two by Christmas.” Too bad it was all a beautiful shit-smelling lie.
Happy Thanksgiving! Is this or is this not an accurate depiction of exactly what you look like right now, filled up on turkey and stuffing and cranberry sauce from a can? It’s okay! Just know that this meerkat totally, totally gets you.
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