Culture Buzz Via his Twitter, John Hodgman (yes, that “PC guy”) takes a stand against “meh” — calling it “…almost universally seems to signal: I am just interested enough to make one last joyless, nitpicky swipe and then disappear.” An official “meh” backlash? Is “meh” the new FAIL? How many joyless Twitterers do we think responded: “@hodgman meh”?
TV Buzz (No that's not a typo): Jimmy Fallon's much-maligned web show is getting a second chance. Or maybe the internet is self-correcting for the first chance that Fallon never got, because he used to laugh during sketches at SNL. Laughing is in this year.
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The New York Times has joined the Gladwell backlash with a review calling his new book: “glib, poorly reasoned and thoroughly unconvincing”.
Culture Buzz With his third book — Outliers — about to come out, the critics have sharpened their knives for the New Yorker staffer and his enormous afro. Has the superhero + free lunch model of success run its course for Gladwell? He says his new book is definitely not a self-help book.
Celebrity Buzz It seems the tide of public opinion around the ‘Queen of Quirk’ has changed and the inevitable backlash has begun. I think the think the tipping point may have been the ukelele. Oh Zooey, I will always remember you as you were in The Good Girl.
Food Buzz The brewing discontent of the cupcake-haters. We’ve already seen them banned in schools. Will the expansion of Crumbs, a cupcake place that’s growing at a Krispy Kreme-like pace, turn more people against the lowly cupcake?
Sports Buzz After 8 golds, the internet begins wondering: Is Michael Phelps a douchebag? All he does is eat, sleep, and swim, but he still leaves just a little bit of time to be a douche.
Music Buzz Bloggers and indie bands agree: They don’t love Radiohead’s music. Is this just the usual crowing of the less-talented, or the voice of the silent, Radiohead-hating majority?
Tech Buzz Julia Allison’s NonSociety project has inspired a wide variety of satire. The launch of the project — timed perfectly with Allison’s appearance on the cover of Wired — has stirred up the inevitable backlash from bloggers, who’re already tired of Allison’s particularly noxious strain of ubiquity (of course, they could always just not look).
Celebrity Buzz With falling ratings for her show and declining circulation numbers for her magazine, is the Oprah Empire entering its sunset phase? The New York Times reports on the fissures starting to show in the Queen of All Media’s façade.
Culture Buzz Enough with the brass tubes already! There’s a rising backlash against the sci-fi inspired, Victorian-flavored subculture and its love of all things Jules Verne.
Celebrity Buzz Everybody loves Tina Fey. Or do they? Yes, they do, mostly. Despite the delicious Schadenfreude a Tina Fey backlash might produce, one just doesn’t appear to be materializing, even though her new movie, Baby Mama, has been getting tepid early reviews. She’s still got that one funny show
Politics Buzz Angry journalists are circulating a petition calling out ABC’s George Stephanopoulos and Charles Gibson for the crappy job they did at the last debate. Stephanopoulos was “somewhat taken aback” at first by the sustained furor sent his way. We can understand: We take a lot of email heat any time we post anything having to do with animals being harmed. We just report the facts, people!
Tech Buzz The introduction of Flickr video has unintended consequences: Angry Flickrites. Citing site slowdowns and a fear of an YouTuber influx, many long-time Flickr users are up in arms about the addition of Flickr Video. By up in arms, we mean they’ve started petitions and angry-sounding Flickr groups.
Movie Buzz Much disliked horror auteur Uwe Boll throws down the gauntlet: If 1 million people sign the petition against him, maybe he’ll quit. The director behind such stinkers as Bloodrayne and House of the Dead has dared the internet to end his career. Anti-Boll Blogs are trying to grow the cause: As of now, the signatures have jumped to over 53,000.
Culture Buzz Maxim gets flack for placing Sarah Jessica Parker at the top of the “unsexiest women” list, also for having an “unsexiest women” list in the first place, and also for generally being lame and shallow. Even the dudes we know who are the totally dudest of dudes don’t read this magazine. So why do we care?
Movie Buzz Daniel Day-Lewis may have just won his second Oscar for There Will Be Blood, but some have already begun challenging the praise he’s received for his scenery-chewing performance. They say that Day-Lewis’ motivations are unclear, that his acting is gimmicky, and that his histrionics take the viewer out of the action. In other words, they think he’s a ham. Of course, hamming it up has always been a pretty good way to win yourself a gold statue.
Movie Buzz New York sketch group Olde English pairs with comedienne Jackie Clarke to take us “behind the scenes” of surprise hit Juno with its attention-grabbing screenwriter. Hey, did you know Diablo Cody used to be a stripper? Seriously, she was a real, live stripper - naked and everything!
Culture Buzz “Eat, Pray, Love” is now tops on everybody’s list of books to bash. What’s with all the hate? Are people upset about the book’s self-absorbed cultural appropriation? Or are they mad because a female author is so successful? We’ll let the blogosphere attempt to figure it out.
Politics Buzz A viral, homemade campaign ad goes bad. There’s no doubt the song in this video is catchy. But that doesn’t make it good.
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