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Afternoon Links: Unexpected Journeys to Denny’s, Unexpected Cowell-Electra Alliances, and More
- Two brave souls take the Denny’s Hobbit-themed menu for a spin, finding that its items “tasted good in a way that only the worst food can.”
- Carmen Electra and Simon Cowell find each other “adorable.” They have some things in common, I guess.
- The Internet lies to you about eagles taking children for joyrides (nooo!), Morgan Freeman’s media-shaming missive, Brooklyn couples using chamber pots, and ants in your brain.
- It also, according to writers from The Daily Show, SNL, and Conan, takes your late-night show’s jokes and gargles lustily with them before handing them back to you like, “Hey, you still want this?” Sometimes you do (“Jokes that rely on a performance element or a long wordy setup are lost in translation when tweeted”), and other times you don’t (“sometimes you write a joke you really like and then you nervously scan Twitter all day, hoping you don’t see it”). Did Internet kill the late-night star? I heard it did. #RIPlatenightstar
- If these vintage-inspired Homeland jazz album covers are the last thing you see before they lock you up in the mental ward, it could be worse.
- Oh, cool: a new drug that immediately treats depression is like ketamine without (so far) all of the bummer side effects such as schizophrenic-like hallucinations! One question: Does it make it easier to have sex with a ghost, or no? IF NO, I’M NOT INTERESTED AND WOULD RATHER BE DEPRESSED.
- Hey and also, Corey Taylor from Slipknot is penning a book on his “one-on-one encounters with ghosts.” Wink wink.
- Voice-over, Memory: Here is the trailer for Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder.
- Pics or you didn’t break your penis: An MMA fighter tells of a particularly harrowing injury outside the Octagon.
- College admissions just got a little more OKCupidy, with questions and writing prompts like “celebrate your nerdy side” and “A package arrives at your door. After seeing the contents you know it’s going to be the best day of your life. What’s inside and how do you spend your day?”
- It’s end-of-the-year fever! Looking back on a year in music, hockey bloopers, Canadian food searches, other searches, impressive animals, and horrible baby names.