Sounds like a Freudian slipped-in.

Switching staffs... Think you just found the next big trend.

Power trip?

When the second option follows a shapely mermaid out to sea, you get the sixth option.

Ice cream in freezer, no need to order. Clearly not making friends, as there's no way I'll be sharing said ice cream.

I think it might be more accurate to say that most show run out of solid original (or semi-original) content, and that the shows most able to overcome this are either character driven X of the week (CSI type shows dominate most-watched TV) or adapted to using repetition or repetition with slight change for effect…

I'm not sure I want to see Bieber-Buddha, but I'll always be optimistic about human nature. Just call me Candide I guess.

I think I’d say addict, rather than sociopath. In the beginning, fame and adulation gave him enjoyment and self worth (which would probably be true for most people), but by now that’s gone and all he’s left with is a big jolt of dopamine telling him to get up on that stage.

When you’re the only normal person among a bunch of special people, it makes you special. This trope should be readily apparent from the supernatural romance genre where every fairy prince and vampire lord is positively obsessed with some average girl from the ‘burbs. Or any story about a guy stuck in a video…

Well based on the above thinking, nothing could really go wrong, so sure. I'll even buy the first round.

Its funny, because a common thing I have heard expressed is that the dominatrix archetype exists purely as a male fantasy, yet here we have a woman saying that posing as about as close to the male fetish figure as it gets is empowering for her.

I agree with you, but I don’t think the article is necessarily a screed against doing good deeds for selfish reasons. After all, the author is still doing social justice work, and probably still has selfish reasons.

I think the end of the story was “after the village came to help the man pick up starfish, the suddenly massive starfish population destroyed the local sea urchin population, as well as the population of the bivalves the town depended on for food and trade. Without food the starfish starved, and without its source of…

I feel like Checkers is the cutting edge of fast food menu/pricing innovation, honestly. All the various 2 for 2/2 for 4/3 for 5 deals that appear outside the local McD’s/BK are ones that were up at Checkers three months before. Plus I’m pretty sure they were pushing hot dogs/mozzarella sticks a while before other…

I think that part of it, maybe, is guilt. I’ll bet a lot of people don’t want to acknowledge receiving help because they don’t want to acknowledge it to themselves. There’s definitely an element of self esteem and security in self that comes from having a job and paying your expenses. Maintaining a sense of self-worth…

Payday loans when the month is longer than the money definitely help make borrowing a little bit of money from your parents till the next paycheck look pretty good.

May your words someday be translated into hundreds of languages and read by billions across the world. This was fantastic- writing, pacing, characterization through perfect anecdotes, and more nuanced than anything heretofore published on Gawker.

With the way (at least the way I've heard) mobile gaming is eating into more... traditional I guess? types of gaming in Japan, wouldn't be surprised if this becomes a thing. Someone figures out a decently predictive relationship between pre-orders and post release sales, and if pre-orders aren't looking good, the game…

I think you just found Aflack’s new late night commercial spokesperson.

Also, he did end up taking college courses as a student after she started typing for him, if I remember correctly. His knowledge and interest were, suprisingly, almost a mirror of her own.