The Most Popular Word Of 2014 Isn’t Actually A Word — It’s An Emoji
Via @brittzilla21 A quick glance around the ol’ Google will show that “smiling pile of poop” is easily the most popular emoji. Or so one would think. The word nerds at the Global Language Monitor...
View ArticleHere’s When Your Favorite Shows, Including The Final Seasons Of ‘Parks And...
FX Better start catching up on those episodes of black-ish on your 87% full DVR now, because before long, ALL the television will be back. I’ve spent the last week, a.k.a. the only days of the calender...
View ArticleWatch Kevin ‘Space Man’ Spacey Perform ‘Piano Man’ With Billy Joel
Your browser does not support iframes. You may like Kevin Spacey for his work on House of Cards, or alliance with Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, or history of dressing up like Julia Louis-Dreyfus. But...
View ArticleThere’s A McDonald’s-Themed Black Sabbath Cover Band Called Mac Sabbath
YOUTUBE The end of 2013 saw the introduction of the Pizza Underground, Macaulay Culkin’s pizza-themed Velvet Underground cover band. Not to be outdone, 2014 has chucked that idea onto humanity’s roof...
View ArticleThis Lovely Couple Thought They Were Trapped In An Unlocked Closet Filled...
Volusia County Branch Jail Some people can’t recall where their keys are when they get high. Others forget that the claustrophobic room they think they’re stuck in has been unlocked this entire time....
View ArticleSelena Gomez Angered Muslims By Showing Too Much Skin In A Mosque
Getty Image While touring Abu Dhabi, American pop chipmunk Selena Gomez visited the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque and managed to piss off a lot of people. Not as many as when Justin Bieber visited the Anne...
View ArticleEverything Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ‘The 6th Day’ Got Right (And Wrong) About...
Columbia Pictures As anyone who’s recently visited Facebook knows all too well, Back to the Future Part II takes place this year. Some of the film’s predictions of what the then-future would look like...
View ArticleMichelle Jenneke Filmed A Fun Video That Will Make You Keep Your New Year’s...
Here to make you feel bad that you already pushed aside your get-fit new year’s resolution in favor of “I’m gonna find the first restaurant that serves something endless” is Michelle Jenneke, the...
View ArticleYou Can Watch PJ Harvey Record Her Next Album In Public
ISLAND The great PJ Harvey tends to work in three-to-four year circles. 2000’s Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea was followed by Uh Huh Her in 2004, then came White Chalk in 2007. Well, it’s...
View Article‘Bob’s Burgers’ Released A Funky Music Video To Celebrate The New Year
Bob’s Burgers, UPROXX’s seventh favorite show of 2014, wasted no time in reminding us of its madcap brilliance in 2015. To celebrate the new year, the writers, animators, and voice cast came together...
View ArticleMystery Solved (Kind Of): Turns Out OSU Girl Was Probably Sitting With Her...
ESPN The Internet’s first breakout star of 2015, who we’ll forget about in three days before dimly recalling her in the final week of December in a “best memes of the year” post, is OSU Girl, who was...
View ArticleHBO Is Airing A Mysterious ‘Game Of Thrones’ Special In February
HBO Don’t bother making plans, hell, don’t even leave the house on Sunday, February 8th. That night is the midseason premieres of The Walking Dead and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, the debut of...
View ArticleThese 25 Classic Albums Are Celebrating Important Anniversaries In 2015
Arista On this day in music history, the Sex Pistols played their first concert on U.S. soil and…well, that’s about it. It’s not a particularly memorable “it was 25 years ago…” day, though I’m sure the...
View ArticleDammit Jerry: Christie Brinkley Shared More Impressive Beach Pictures
INSTAGRAM While Billy Joel was jamming with Frank Underwood, his Uptown Girl who got off at the “Dumpsville, Population: Her” stop, Christie Brinkley, was somewhere exotic, lounging on the beach with...
View ArticleWho Cares If Kids Today Don’t Know Who Paul McCartney Is?
Getty Image Imagine you’re 14 years old (if you’re actually 14 years old, GET A HAIRCUT, YA PUNK). You’ve probably never purchased a physical album your entire life. Why would you, with millions of...
View Article‘Game Of Thrones’ Casts The Younger Version Of Cersei Lannister For Its...
HBO The necessity for the flashbacks notwithstanding, Boardwalk Empire‘s casting department struck gold with the actors for Young Nucky Thompson and Younger Gillian Darmody. Now continuing HBO’s...
View ArticleThis Guy Got Women’s Phone Numbers By Playing Connect Four On Tinder
IMGUR Milton Bradley’s red-and-black Connect Four, which hit the market in 1974, might be the only board game that either isn’t already a movie or in development to become one. I’d say that’s because...
View ArticleHere’s The Clip CNN Will Show When The ‘End Of The World’ Is ‘Confirmed’
CNN/JALOPNIK That’s great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes and aeroplanes, Anderson Cooper is not afraid, because he’ll probably be the one informing us of our demise. In 1980, when CNN...
View ArticleThom Yorke Earned A Lot Of Dough By Releasing His Album On BitTorrent
Radiohead GIFs Instead of waiting until everyone grabs it for free anyway, Thom Yorke went to the source and released his latest solo album, Tomorrow’s Modern Boxes, through BitTorrent. It was...
View ArticleWatch Summer Glau Imitate Animal Memes On The Latest Episode Of ‘Speakeasy’
The entire premise of the “Speakeasy” web series is for Paul F. Tompkins to share beverages of the alcoholic variety with other famous people. But that’s a bit tough for Summer Glau — she’s eight...
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