Brandon Scott Gorrell

Here’s a funny one for you. Watch this killer spider induce some serious arachnophobia in a local weather man as he fumbles through his report, eventually threatening to leave the studio entirely. The Fear then proceeds to infect another news anchor in a show of hilarious panic and chaos.

Compare your significant other to someone new and feel relieved. Compare your significant other to someone new and feel regret. Have a terrible night out that convinces you there’s no way this can go on. Have a three month-long period of bliss and earnestly begin to believe that you could actually spend the rest of your life with this person.

Behavior: Avoiding eye contact. Likely to happen when: You’re talking to your crush. In confrontation. You’re talking to someone who intimidates you. You’re talking to someone you hate. Why? It’s another way of making the experience less real – of trying to trick yourself that you’re not actually in a situation that makes you feel uncomfortable.

Capitalizing on the fact that I know how to use the Internet better than old people, I hope to find a position in your company that pays me way more money than I need, will allow me to mostly ‘fake work,’ will not require face-to-face interaction with any of the company’s employees, will send me to cool places like Tokyo and Munich, allows dubious use of the expense account, forgives hangover performance, and is, in general, incredibly easy.

Wow. I was a bit nervous for him at first, but “The Situation” really stepped up the alpha to muscle man Ronnie, especially with the whole complete loss of control freak out thing. Notice that the dude actually half-drools half projectile-froths at one point.

Here’s hulky heartthrob Ryan Gosling of Blue Valentine and Lars and the Real Girl fame using his giant guns – which, as he will probably attest, are actually illegal and thus impossible to get a license for – to break up a street fight that appears to be over art, of all things.

David Foster Wallace was an American author of novels, essays and short stories. He is widely known for his novel Infinite Jest, and his final work, The Pale King, was released posthumously in 2011. Cormac McCarthy is an American novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Road, No Country For Old Men, and Blood Meridian.

Scientists have come up with another reason why aliens, if they should ever visit, may destroy the human race – global warming! I’m not even joking. The Guardian reported yesterday that “extraterrestrial beings might view changes in Earth’s atmosphere as symptomatic of a civilisation growing out of control – and take drastic action to keep us from becoming a more serious threat.”

In other words, when in conflict with someone who’s not scared of confrontation, your mind should go completely blank – you should be totally unable to form any sort of reasonable response to what’s being said. Further, as explained in the point above, you agree with what’s being said – you’re actually, temporarily convinced by the stance offered.

Director Ridley Scott has recently revealed that he’ll be directing a new Blade Runner movie. Pretty exciting, given that he directed the first one. It remains unclear whether the new film will be a prequel or a sequel to the original; the filmmakers have simply described it as a “follow up.”

Meet dude, purveyor of fine ladies’ clothing at Divine Rags, a clothing store in Memphis, Tennessee. My trolldar is going off here, albeit slightly, as I’m a little suspicious this is a joke, but the store does appear to have a website, which is perhaps just as confusing as the commercial.

There’s a class of movie that has at its center the basic idea of “character who has everything on the outside, but has just figured out that s/he has nothing on the inside.” Arguably one of the lessons of these kinds of movies is something like “Money doesn’t buy happiness,” but somehow, some films seem to glamorize both the affluence and the emptiness that may come along with such a lifestyle…