If you’re on social media, you may have seen videos of slightly excessive police force. I, for one, can’t seem to escape these torrid tales, sandwiched betwixt the endearing dancing dogs and graphic motivational quotes that help exacerbate my online-life induced schizophrenia. But could a cameras-on-cops requirement be the answer? There’s been interest in this – especially after the Ferguson case happened and arguments split between “he shouldn’t have been.. Read More
Are these Death Valley rocks moving on their own?
Why were rocks in Death Valley moving around of their own volition? Especially when there were no human tracks, hurricanes, or tornadoes whipping through? I didn’t even need to read the “we solved it!” story to know the truth behind this rhetorical headline. It was painfully obvious to me that there was a battle for a babe with a power going on in the Labyrinth. And that giant bipedal shih-tzu.. Read More
Fire challenge = gene pool cleaning up itself
Listen, everyone… I was kidding when I said let’s do a “Melt Your Face Off With Fire Challenge”. But before we get to the scorched meat and potatoes of world star hip hop, first some world-culture-context: One sunny day, not long ago, I sat perched in a waiting room and half-read this super sad article. It was about these teens who immolate themselves ($5 word! It means “set yourself on.. Read More
Stick with cooking, not crooking (if you can’t do it right).
Some people just aren’t bout that crime life. Usually, these people are the ones who aren’t very good at it. Like some New York Taco Bell supervisors who tried to think outside the funny money formula of the crooks who’d come before them… and failed miserably. And when they got caught, it was by their own 17-year-old employee who knew the difference between real money and Monopoly money and wanted.. Read More
Welcome to poltergeist park!
With fall forthcoming, what better way to festively celebrate the seasonal change than by… …dancing on the graves of Native Americans? Who also killed settlers for coming there?! (#MetaDeath) That’s right. A Halloween twofer! Not far away from me, yonder in West Virginia, there’s this creepy old amusement park with a quaint bit of entertaining history…. … Bought in the 20’s, Lake Shawnee Amusement Park was built on the burial.. Read More
Incendiary dreams come true
When I was little, I remember hearing about prime time tales of microwave murder. Small animals and babies were the quick-shock stories, while the slow-death of “standing too close” to the buzzing magic machine were more cautionary for those of us with the “watched pot never boils” syndrome. Even so, we were willing to wait and gain tumors, so long as that “never” held the sweet promise of a majestically.. Read More
Root for the villain: The Joker (and Ledger)
For our next RFTV, let’s give Heath Ledger’s “Joker” a round of applause. This character was one to root for two fold because the story had legs to it. And those legs were rooted in a sad reality, even though we see the final product of a fantastical classic narrative – which also has layers: a comic hero (Bale’s Batman, “The Dark Knight”) and his nemesis played to perfection by.. Read More
Pain-gover versus hangover
I woke up with a demon’s claws in my eyes and neck this morning. It was the kind of neck pain that makes you go all bleary eyed as your dead relatives beckon you from the end of a bright white hallway. For me, it was just an ickier than usual one of my morning pains that awakens me like a spasmodic rooster crow whose vocal cords are my nociceptors… Read More
Unnecessary Zen headband, anyone?
Ahh, so that’s what those hippie crowns are for! Here I thought it was an accessory, but it’s really been attached to a brain scanner that lets you know how to be more calm, focused, and serene when your chaotic thought neurons start firing off. Ah, wait – okay. Nope. Sorry. Re-reading the article, it’s only this newer Muse headband some chick called Ariel Garten came up with that’ll do.. Read More
Gone with the moniker
Back in elementary school, we had those “how’d your parents name you?” discussions. I remember hating these convos because my own moniker was inspired by a fictional man in a classic movie called Gone With the Wind. In an act of defiance against being named in such an insulting and unsexy way (not only was he a dude but one who kinda looks like Kenneth from 30 Rock), I vowed.. Read More