The Benefits of Parasocial Relationships

 Posted on August 13, 2024  |  10 minutes  |  2102 words  |  Tandra Barner

I’ve been juggling parasocial relationships for most of my life. As a newly online kid in the 1990s, I downloaded programs that helped me make fan art featuring my favorite bands: Dashboard Confessional, Something Corporate, and Blink-182. Now, a couple decades later, I refer to these artists by their first names (Chris, Andrew, Mark) to my friends and family and passionately defend them on internet forums. Thanks to TikTok and Instagram, I can tell you with authority what their kitchens look like, what their dogs are named, and what they put in their morning smoothies. [Read More]

The CEO behind Applebee's reveals how the Dollarita played an essential role in the chain's turnarou

 Posted on August 13, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  277 words  |  Patria Henriques

Applebee's Dollarita provided the struggling chain with the key to a massive turnaround. Dine Brands CEO Steve Joyce told Business Insider in an interview last week that the Dollarita was key to kicking off Applebee's turnaround in October 2017, soon after Joyce took over as the top executive at Applebee's and IHOP's parent company. "Dollarita turned everything around," Joyce said. "It was a 13-point swing between September and October in Applebee's performance. [Read More]

The Man With the Million Dollar Balls

 Posted on August 13, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  897 words  |  Tandra Barner

Back in 1998, It seemed crazy when Todd McFarlane — a brilliant but eccentric comic-book artist turned action-figure mogul — paid $3 million for the ball Mark McGwire hit for his then record-breaking 70th home run. It seemed even crazier when he paid about $500,000 for Barry Bonds's record-breaking 73rd home run ball in 2003. Steroids scandals were by then casting shadows over home run records, and McFarlane was riding the memorabilia market down. [Read More]

The photos of a woman's botched butt injections will make you think twice before getting plastic sur

 Posted on August 13, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  918 words  |  Martina Birk

"You're looking for something that's going to make you happy and you don't know what it is so you're just grasping for anything to see what's going to fill that void,"Butler told INSIDER. ADVERTISEMENT It didn't help that her fiancé at the time was working at a popular strip club in Atlanta where he was surrounded by beautiful women. Butler couldn't help but notice how her body differed from the women at the club. [Read More]

The Press: Children's Tabloid | TIME

 Posted on August 13, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  130 words  |  Patria Henriques

TIME September 2, 1940 12:00 AM GMT-4 Unlike most other juvenile journals, Young America, published by a slick-haired, rich young man named Stuart Scheftel, is sold only to boys and girls in junior-high and elementary schools, at 25¢ for a term of 18 weeks. It looks like a dignified, grownup, twelve-page tabloid newspaper, with plenty of pictures, cartoons, maps, charts. Young America, with 296,000 circulation, is the fourth biggest children’s magazine in the U. [Read More]

Trials: Another Day in Dallas

 Posted on August 13, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1262 words  |  Kelle Repass

The events flowing from the assassination of John F. Kennedy have been so bizarre that they could be criticized as bad fiction. Not the least of these was the assassination of the assassin in full view of several million televiewers. And last week, during the trial of the man who shot Lee Harvey Oswald, came another Dallasian episode. Seven prisoners, lodged in an upstairs cell block of the Dallas County Courthouse, overpowered a guard and started a dramatic getaway. [Read More]

Watch Dr. Pimple Popper Remove a Lipoma That Looks Like Patrick from 'SpongeBob'

 Posted on August 13, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  153 words  |  Kelle Repass

In the clip, Dr. Lee makes a large incision across the length of the growth to expose the lipoma. She then uses her hands and fingers to pop out the massive growth, revealing the pink-colored jiggly mass. And this blob has legs! The growth's lobes make it look like this lipoma is ready to walk away. One the lipoma is popped out, Dr. Lee uses surgical scissors to free the growth from internal structures. [Read More]

What to Know About Ruth Handler, the Creator of Barbie

 Posted on August 13, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1240 words  |  Tandra Barner

When Greta Gerwig embarked upon her journey to create a story about a doll with no personality or inner life, she turned to Barbie’s history for inspiration. Mattel, Barbie’s parent company, led the filmmaker through an “immersion” experience—or Barbie bootcamp—that outlined the iconic doll’s long history, from her debut at the Toy Fair in New York City in 1959 to her status as the world’s most recognizable toy with over a billion dolls sold. [Read More]

Who wore it best? Cardi B, Quinta, Tems and Nana wear the same sculptured gowns

 Posted on August 13, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  141 words  |  Kelle Repass

Nana Akua In 2020, Nana wore a Gaurav Gupta gown to the AMVCA that was quite similar to what was worn by Cardi B in 2023. ADVERTISEMENT Cardi B For the 2023 Grammy Awards, Cardi wore a blue version of Nana’s outfit made by the same designer. I think blue was a really great colour for Cardi. Quinta Brunson ADVERTISEMENT The creator of the award-winning show 'Abbott elementary' was also spotted in the same dress by the same designer in nude colour. [Read More]