Boy does Google have a treat in store for you word nerds, bookworms and history buffs! Meet the Google Ngram Viewer, a way to search hundreds of years of the written word, or at least 4% of published books from 1500-2008. Not only that, but you can chart words and trends against each other instantly. Be right back, I’ve gotta play with this for 100+ hours.
The 2-minute moment you’ve been waiting for: Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis attend a very psychedelic clambake.
“I think I have too many feelings to participate.”
Belmont University soccer coach Lisa Howe had to resign because she told her team she was a lesbian. Then the students revolted. Then the donors revolted. Then the government revolted. REVOLT NASHVILLE REVOLT!
Eight holiday drinks! One for each night of Hanukkah! Which is already over but don’t let that stop you from celebrating. Later on we can hunt for Easter eggs. What? I don’t know. Aren’t excerpts fun? I learned how to say ‘cheers’ in German!
It’s [day of the week]. We thought we’d share this.
Some very lucky people are going to be bestowed giant awards of great import. Who will win “Best World Cup Anthem” or “Most Ridiculous Moment on Ke$ha’s Debut Album”? These people include Janelle Monae, Girl Talk, Lil Wayne and the entire country of Canada.
why don’t we do it in the bathtub?
Did you think it might turn out to have been not real the next day? GUESS WHAT. IT STILL HAPPENED. Also other stuff! Like Tegan and Sara and a new It Gets Better video and an interview with that cast of Skins and SUBWAY FEMINISM.
WE WON A THING
Advice time! Time for advice! We need you to give all of these girls advice! We trust you and think you’re all very wise, so.
You asked for it, so here it is – the second meeting of the Audiostraddle Record Club. Crystal really wants to discuss Holly Miranda’s ‘The Magician’s Private Library’.
This intern needs an intern to write her excerpts.
“I managed to convince her that it was the wad of $20s I had from selling books in my front left pocket (I dress left), and she radioed back that the “object had been identified” and let me go, but my hands did not stop shaking for a couple of hours.”
Kevin Spacey refuses to declare his homosexy, John Travolta’s outing is now up for grabs on Joy Behar, Rosie O’Donnell talks about her show on the Oprah Winfrey Network and Glambert is back in our lives.
Someone poured urine over nearly 40 LGBT books in a library in Harvard. First it was classified as a hate crime, then it was classified as an accident, and either way, it’s weird.
Where the hell had Courtney Trouble been all my life?
suck it, john mccain
“My second husband committed suicide, and I did suicide jokes. You laugh to get through it. I started thinking about jokes while I was walking uptown on 9/11.”
“My breakdown was a result of a cumulative array of stressors but there is no doubt that the composite betrayals felt on Thursday, by elected leaders and gay organizations as well as many who have exploited my name for their marketing purposes have added to the result. I am certain my experience is not an isolated incident within the gay veteran community.”