James Frey's Blog, page 151

Don Rickles Gone

from The Hollywood Reporter Don Rickles, Legendary Comic With a Gift for the Insult, Dies at 90 by Mike Barnes , Duane Byrge “Mr. Warmth” forged a career when he turned the tables on his hecklers, going on to make fun of everyone he encountered — even Frank Sinatra. Don Rickles, the rapid-fire insult machine […]

Black Hole Soon

from New Scientist Earth-sized telescope set to snap first picture of a black hole The Event Horizon Telescope will take images of the black hole at the centre of our galaxy, and could reveal how relativity and quantum mechanics mesh By Leah Crane GET ready to peer into the unknown. This week, we will have […]

Viva Le Uwe!

from Vanity Fair Game Over, Uwe Boll The man known as the world’s worst director is now retired and running a Vancouver restaurant. But he’s still not done waiting for the world to give him his due. by DARRYN KING Photographs by GRANT HARDER In a small, cold film studio in early 2016, the man known by […]

James Rosenquist Gone

from The New York Times James Rosenquist, Pop Art Pioneer, Dies at 83 By KEN JOHNSON “F-111” (1964-5). All Rights Reserved, James Rosenquist/Licensed by VAGA, New York James Rosenquist, who helped define Pop Art in its 1960s heyday with his boldly scaled painted montages of commercial imagery, died on Friday in New York City. He was […]

LaBeoufChan

from The Washington Post A live stream of Shia LaBeouf chanting was disrupted by Nazi-themed dancing. Then things got weird. By Avi Selk On the day of President Trump’s inauguration, two poorly understood forces of the Internet collided in a sort of bizarre death lock — a struggle that has manifested in the real world as Nazi-costumed […]

Bob Ross Beats The Devil Database

from The Observer True Happiness Is Searching Through Bob Ross’ Complete ‘Joy of Painting’ Archive By Alanna Martinez These are dark days. But Bob Ross painted approximately 403 tranquil landscapes for each episode of his long-running, 21-season instructive PBS show The Joy of Painting, each peppered with babbling brooks, cloud-filled blue skies and valleys of […]

Sex With Frank

Hey where’s the party at?

from New Atlas Simulation suggests 68 percent of the universe may not actually exist by Michael Irving According to the Lambda Cold Dark Matter (Lambda-CDM) model, which is the current accepted standard for how the universe began and evolved, the ordinary matter we encounter every day only makes up around five percent of the universe’s density, […]

Blowing up a 200-ton rock. Cool.

Asteroid Chicken

from SPACE Wrong-Way, Daredevil Asteroid Plays ‘Chicken’ with Jupiter By Hanneke Weitering This image of asteroid 2015 BZ509, captured by the Large Binocular Telescope Observatory (LBTO), helped astronomers establish the object’s retrograde, co-orbital nature. Credit: LBTO Astronomers have found a bizarre asteroid orbiting the sun in the wrong direction while playing a risky game of “chicken” with […]