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Vox Writing About Music Seemed Like a Good Idea. It Wasn't.
Dayna Evans · 09/24/14 01:42PM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/di2g9toqqn9uneasitwm/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.png)
Vox.com, a website run by fans of real rap, lashed out this afternoon against an Iggy Azalea Twitter account that had claimed the whitebread rapper and her gingerbread friend Macklemore were the king and queens of rap. Only problem: the Vox writer believed the account belonged to the real Iggy Azalea.
Watch Embarrassing Commercials Celebrities Made Before They Were Famous
Gabrielle Bluestone · 08/29/14 03:30PMBack before Bryan Cranston was winning Emmys and making out with Julia Louis Dreyfus, he was hawking hemorrhoid cream. Brad Pitt once tried his hardest to make eating Pringles look like a sexy, fun thing to do. Now you can watch those auspicious debuts and more in this "Before They Were Famous" supercut.
Salman Rushdie's Facebook Seduction and Break-Up with a Crazed Reality Star
Maureen O'Connor · 12/02/11 01:20PM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/18k1de5l2tjaqjpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg)
Last week, CW reality star and Maxim UK pin-up Devorah Rose tweeted a suggestive message about Salman Rushdie. Asked about his relationship with Devorah, Rushdie told Page Six that he was "mortified" to be connected to her. When Devorah heard that, she went nuclear and gave copies of her Facebook interactions with Rushdie to several gossip outlets.
Rick Perry Is Not Going to Let Being Rick Perry Destroy His Campaign
Lauri Apple · 11/10/11 09:28AMRick Perry: 'I Stepped In It'
Seth Abramovitch · 11/10/11 02:46AMWatch Rick Perry's Campaign Explode in an Excruciating Brain Fart
Max Read · 11/09/11 09:45PMHere's Texas Governor Rick Perry, distinguishing himself once again at Wednesday night's CNBC debate:
13 More Embarrassing Things That Can Happen During Sex
Maureen O'Connor · 11/08/11 02:25PMTom Cruise Does 'The Worm' at a Wedding
Maureen O'Connor · 10/06/11 03:11PMFilthy rich Hollywood power players, they're just like us: totally embarrassing dancers at weddings.
Prince Harry Hammer Dances on a Banquette, Falls Off
Maureen O'Connor · 09/01/11 12:55PM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/18k1m56uocjjrjpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg)
Your crush on Prince Harry is about to end. At a nightclub in Croatia, he was videotaped climbing onto a banquette and performing a catastrophic sideways shuffle dance, culminating in a loss of balance and a dive into the swimming pool behind him. Then he gets up, pulls the ol' "I totally meant to do that," dances his way to shore and climbs out, saggy denim butt dripping all the way. Apparently if he were not a prince of England, Harry would be an overgrown frat boy in the Meatpacking district. Good to know.
Why You Shouldn't Steal Computers From Nerds
Max Read · 03/23/11 12:37AMDon't steal laptops! And if you do steal a laptop, don't use its built-in camera to record yourself dancing to "Make It Rain," the way the fellow dancing to "Make It Rain" in the video above did.
This Woman Caught Dancing in an HMV Represents All of Us
Matt Cherette · 03/04/11 12:24AMRemember when, before iPods, et al. became ubiquitous, record stores—like the Virgin Megastore in Chicago, for example—had those cool listening stations that allowed you to jam out to your favorite tune in public? Those were the days.
Middle-Aged Guy Loses it After Skater Wrecks His Bush
Christopher Han · 11/11/10 10:54AMLike a drill sergeant wearing down a soldier (or a poor schlep on Maury Povich), this man completely dresses down a 20-year-old kid who has been skating on his store front and destroying his bushes. Get off my lawn!
Watch a New SNL Cast Member's Mortifying Local Dating Service Video
Whitney Jefferson · 10/28/10 09:13PMVanessa Bayer is one of Saturday Night Live's new faces this season — and easily one of the most likable newbies in some time. This is why we're surprised to see this awkward "Dating on Demand" video featuring the comedian.
Watch 5 Minutes of Audrina Patridge's Mother Drunkenly Ranting
Whitney Jefferson · 10/28/10 09:50AMGirl Caught Eating Her Boogers During News Broadcast
Liz Day · 09/27/10 03:46PMIn the background of a live newsroom shot, this worker bee looks right at the camera... and decides to pick her nose. As if that wasn't bad enough, she then decides to eat the booger! Watch the embarrassing video inside.
Donald Trump's Distracting Boner Cut Out of Wall Street 2
Brian Moylan · 09/20/10 01:17PMOn The Simple Life, Ke$ha Played a Nashville Hick
Maureen O'Connor · 01/18/10 05:17AMPolitician's Husband Shows Up at Gay Bar to Drunkenly Heckle Opponent
Maureen O'Connor · 12/21/09 03:32AMRolling Stone Writer Tells Off National Review Writer On Crash
Ryan Tate · 10/14/08 11:02PM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/18s4ztprgeziyjpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg)
New York magazine's daily online chats about the election are usually just mildly interesting, since the journalists involved tend to be overly polite to one another, because who knows who you're going to be sending a job application to someday? Even Gawker Media veterans and that Daily Kos maniac act all pleasant. But Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi has never been one for such fraternal niceties, and when nymag.com threw him a sparring partner from National Review, the predictably caustic lefty went to work with his fangs, at one point typing, "tell me you're not ashamed." It was awesome and just really uncomfortable at the same time. Highlights: