Koa has a book deal (aka, What Is Life?, Pt II)
And a Harvard Kennedy School fellowship. And the corniest, most insufferable fellowship photo ever captured.
When your blind date thinks it's gone OK, but you have other thoughts...
The student paper at Newcastle University published a Blind Date feature, much like The Guardian does, in which two volunteers are set up on a blind date and interviewed about their thoughts.
Serial Season 3: What do you think?
Are you listening? The podcast that launched a whole new true-crime boom is back with a...baseline? Season 3 is a mannered study over a full year in the Cleveland criminal court system. Rather than looking intensely at one case, it looks at several “normal” day-to-day cases and occurrences inside the Cleveland…
Oh my god, small violin
This is some centering shit. Also, “didn’t speak Paris”? If it’s so hard being blonde, maybe don’t give us ammo to feed the airheaded stereotype.
Taika Waititi is Kiwi Bae
Clashtalkers, I don’t think Keanu would mind if we shared some love (and lust) with the Antipodeans.
More Keanu for you voracious readers
For the ever-hungry Club Keanu, two pieces of odd news.
Firstly, Keanu is now an arthouse publisher, at the helm of the sincere and rather serious imprint X Artists’ Books.
Paging Hokes...
I thought perhaps this would be an article scrapping the CDC method for the more rigorous WHO method, but no. It’s yet another post informing us people don’t know how to wash their damn hands and need to be briefed on the procedure again.
Hannah Gadsby's Nanette
At the risk of being the umpteenth person to tell you this, do watch Nanette, Tasmanian comic Hannah Gadsby’s superlative comedy special on Netflix.
Because GMG seems to have surprisingly slept on this, I am crediting Lainey Gossip (which seriously deserves its own shout-out post for being a more fitting Gawker…
Brian Butterfield Break
I recently listened to an episode of Bullseye with the incomparable Peter Serafinowicz, where he took some time to explain the inspiration behind his absurdly incompetent Brian Butterfield character.
The Donald charms on SNL (Glover, that is)
Following a cameo-filled opener (Martin Short, Jimmy and his cartoonish Jared voice [which may as well be the real thing], Stormy Daniels herself!), this weekend’s Donald Glover-hosted SNL was the sort of treat that reminds you what the format is capable of being—and what an imaginative charmer Glover is.