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SIFL AND OLLYWhat would you say if I told you that a few sock puppets with badditude and terrific hosting skills and crazy friends were really formatively important to me? You’d be like, “Yes me too, Sifl and Olly right?” Right.Beautiful genius Liam Lynch (whom we referenced in the first little bit of last week’s Obseshes riiiiight here) is back with his rad-dude sock puppets, of the erstwhile MTV appearances that of course live on and on and on online, but “back” only sooooort of: Sifl and Olly are now, as if out of nowhere, on the Nerdist YouTube channel, doing what I think are video-game reviews. (Is that a, as you say, thing?) Since I am turned off by sad fan culture, I will withhold my critiques of WHY DOES OLLY SOUND LIKE THAT? HE USED TO SOUND DIFFERENT! IS THIS HOW IT’S GOING TO BE? IS THIS IT? IS THIS WHAT WE GET? and instead think positively about having been given what anybody who has waited for the return of their own sock puppets to come out of retirement has hoped for.THE SORORITY EMAILHere’s a teaser trailer for the Spring Breakers-of-news that flashed on Gawker yesterday: 1. “Sorority girl” + “list-serve”; 2. Misuse of “literally” in all caps; 3. Adamant, incorrect mathematics; 4. “WEIRD at sports” (my five-star favorite); 5. Very and curiously 80s refs; 6. Casual homophobia providing the “Oh, shit” denouement moment, at least of the Gawker summary I’m looking at, because the real, whole email was basically tl;dr; and 7. The comment at the very top, which reads “Like a slutty Ari Gold.” I’m actually totally down with sororities and anything else that sanctions 24/7 pal time, pal culture, and pal responsibilities, so a long “W/EEEEEE” to everyone else getting their weekly schadenfreude units from this. Y’alls are mean.
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