common-people

Report: Jarvis Cocker Took Greek Finance Minister's Wife to Supermarket

Taylor Berman · 05/12/15 06:11AM

Last week, Greek paper Athens Voice published a story claiming that Danae Stratou, a former student of sculpture at St. Martin’s College and the current wife of Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, was the inspiration for Pulp’s 1995 anthem, “Common People.” While Startou hasn’t commented yet about the allegations, her husband spoke to the BBC about her possibly historic past.

World's Saddest Millionaire Quits Internet

Pareene · 06/26/08 12:19PM

Jakob Lodwick, the entrepreneur who still takes Ayn Rand seriously even though he presumably graduated high school, is off the net because of you. He half-quit once before, back in February, when he was concerned that people were being mean to him because he over-shared too much personal information. Now people are being mean to him because he's patently ridiculous, which means he has to scale back his internet presence even more. All because he wanted to learn about China! Lodwick, who is famous because the streaming video site he founded before YouTube failed to become as popular or successful, says, "I may be a millionaire but I this sort of thing still hurts." Like Molly the Bear, Lodwick cannot understand anyone's hostility toward him. After the jump, the 2 a.m. email your day editor received from the 15-year-old girl who took over the 25-year-old tech entrepreneur's body.