Some Angel Just Became Shifty Shellshock’s Butterfly, Sugar Baby

By Mike Redmond | Pajiba Love | June 25, 2024

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I was in college when Crazy Town blew up with “Toxic” followed by arguably their signature hit “Butterfly.” It’s a punchline now, but it didn’t rocket to the top of the charts for no reason. That’s not an easy thing to do. It’s also one of very few songs that immediately transports me back to being a 20-year-old moron in a pre-9/11 world that thought computers were going to kill everybody. Which did happen by the way, only much more slowly and with brain poison instead of internal clocks. Just so much brain poison. Anyway, RIP Shifty. (Rolling Stone)

Celebrating Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon’s enduring Hollywood love story while we worry about other couples. (Lainey Gossip)

Case in point: Jennifer Lopez glowed at the Dior show for Paris Fashion Week while Ben Affleck yelled at paps back in LA. (Celebitchy)

“Handjob Granny Lauren Boebert” is a freaking beautiful turn of phrase. My God, this site’s headlines never miss. (Wonkette)

From Dustin: Onyx, the 8-year-old daughter of Alanis Morissette, joined her mom on stage to sing “Ironic,” in case you needed a pick-me-up. (Threads)

Stan Lee really wanted to make a cameo in… Batman Returns? (Gizmodo)

From Chris: In Victorian days, vivisection parties became a thing because the idle rich of the time regarded serious endeavors like medicine as the stuff of pastimes and hobbies for them. Now, it’s dangerous exploration, I guess! (Independent)

Tesla recalls every Cybertruck. Again. (Mashable)

From Jen: Have we cheered for this speech yet? (Threads)

The Supreme Court will not be letting Josh Duggar out of jail, so it turns out there’s actually a bottom over there. Who knew? (Page Six)

From Dustin: For folks who love to read about digital media, here’s a piece about how we all lost our goddamn minds chasing Game of Thrones traffic back in the day. (The Verge)

Nart has come to the end of her Lord of the Rings trilogy read, and she has thoughts about the books versus the movies she’d like to share. “[Merry] Getting into a slap fight with Saruman over the last of the Isengard’s finest weed is something I never knew I absolutely needed.” What do you wish had been included in Peter Jackson’s adaptation? (Cannonball Read 16)

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