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For those alive during the era of “11 cassette tapes for a penny,” you may be surprised to hear that Columbia House is relaunching its mail order business. Instead of offering tapes and CDs, the new service will involve vinyl records.

Hellcat’s new comic isn’t just for fans of Patsy “Trish” Walker’s awesome appearance in Jessica Jones . It’s not even particularly for long term fans of Patsy as a character. Patsy Walker, AKA Hellcat! joins a rare breed in the mainstream comic world: It’s a book that’s genuinely for everyone, and a delight to read.

As uncharacteristically warm weather on Christmas Day breaks records across the eastern portion of the United States, it’s bringing along other strange phenomenon: flowers are blooming way too early.

1997 doesn’t seem like so long ago. At least—not until you stare deep into this assortment of gifts from the holidays of 1997, all of which are fucking gold. Gold, gold, gold!

Much of television is written by people who grew up, or at least who have lived the majority of their lives, in a big city—often New York or Los Angeles. For that reason, characters who are culturally not from one of those places are at risk of getting written in broad strokes, becoming caricatures of whatever culture they represent.

Look no further: the best Christmas story of the year has been found.

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Quentin Tarantino is apparently a “huge fan” of Jennifer Lawrence. The director met with Lawrence to discuss the possibility of her portraying Daisy Domergue in his new film, The Hateful Eight. “She was just doing me a courtesy to see me, I think. She was doing Joy. She had to do all this publicity on the Hunger Games movies. There was just no fucking way in the world that she was available.”

Amazon’s celebrating Christmas Day with huge discounts on a variety of downloadable movies, albums, Kindle books, and Android apps. I broke out a few of my favorites below, but let us know in the comments what you bought. [Amazon Christmas Digital Sale]

Happy night before Christmas, everyone! Gather ‘round this thread to discuss what pranks you’ll be playing on your relatives and friends, what holiday film classics your eyeballs will be enjoying this evening and what you hope will appear in your stocking tomorrow morning. I’m sure mine will be filled with copies of The National Enquirer, oranges and deodorant, as it is every year. Jezebel will be around tomorrow, so you’ll be able to report your pranks’ success ratings then.

In today’s Tweet Beat, Taylor Swift makes a horrible pun, Gucci Mane is rich and Gigi Hadid has a balanced breakfast.

In September, a relatively unknown comedian named Nicole Arbour gained notoriety after uploading a controversial fat-shaming video titled, “Dear Fat People,” in which she went on a six-minute rant against obesity. “Fat-shaming is not a thing,” Arbour said in the video. “Fat people made that up. It’s like the race card, with no race.” Not long after its debut, the video went viral. YouTube had removed Arbour’s channel, but it was later reinstated. Since then, it has been watched almost nine million times. Читать дальше...

We’re getting closer and closer to the release of Fuller House, the reboot of the beloved ‘80s and ‘90s sitcom, Full House. With it comes another remake — “Everywhere You Look,” the show’s catchy theme song, is getting a makeover, and it will be sung by none other than Carly Rae Jepsen.

A cafeteria worker in Pennsylvania surprised a room full of normally unimpressed teens this week with her stirring rendition of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.”

In Siberia, under the auspices of a strange new public weight-loss program, a woman named Yelena Salnikova has been rewarded for losing weight with the wonderful gift of coal. This is not a weird kind of Santa-goes-to-Siberia punishment, but a resource to warm her home through the incredibly cold Russian winter. Motivation comes in all forms, you know?

It’s December 24, which means families around the world are coming together to celebrate with food, drinks, gifts, and their favorite Christmas movies. Many of them will gather round the TV to watch Love Actually, a film beloved by all, but did you ever notice that it’s actually bad? If not, you’re in for a world of fucking pain, because I have some news about that movie you’re wrongly obsessed with.