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Persons in the Ether

Question of the Week

Passion or stability?

Mavis Drouk, emotional escrow officer

Believed to be near Harrisburg, PA

Stability. Passion is what people choose when they still believe a staircase can be made entirely of sparks. Stability may not sing outside your window, but it does remember where the insurance cards are.

Rufus Clenn, freelance thunder consultant

Last reported west of Tulsa, OK

Passion, obviously. Stability is just boredom wearing shoes with arch support. I want life to arrive late, smell faintly of lightning, and explain nothing until several lamps have been broken.

Nora Vell, deputy curator of small regrets

Possibly sheltering in Eugene, OR

Passion is useful for beginnings, stability for the paperwork afterward. I prefer both in moderation, which is another way of saying I would like to be ruined briefly and then driven home safely.

Satirical illustration of three men holding a lawsuit, broken heart, and spreadsheet while a pop star performs onstage behind them, parodying Taylor Swift breakup songs and forgotten exes.

Emotional availability does not qualify automatically for Taylor Swift breakup songs.

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Three Men Sue for Not Getting Taylor Swift Breakup Songs

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Taylor Swift breakup songs are a dime a dozen. She doles them out like participation trophies at a Little League game, but what happens to… Read More

Celebrity hotline illustration: golden labyrinth emerging from a stylized printer, set against a starry black background. The maze symbolizes a jammed printer as a cosmic trial.

Please hold while your celebrity hotline rep consults the stars… and jams your paper again.”

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Celebrity Hotline Volunteer Tech Support

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When the Wi”‘Fi flickers or the printer jams, we expect technicians to bail us out. Imagine, instead, a volunteer celebrity hotline staffed by those stars… Read More

A disheveled celebrity stands on a chaotic red carpet clutching a mugshot placard as paparazzi swarm and flashbulbs erupt amid spilled champagne and toppled ropes--a quintessential celebrity shocker scene.

"Another fine night for Hollywood’s damage-control industry."

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Celebrity Shockers: Outrageous Moments, Arrests, and Meltdowns

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Browse our ever-growing collection of scandals, gaffes, tantrums, and career-threatening brainstorms. New entries appear when another boldface name decides to goose destiny, derail common sense,… Read More

Britney Spears barefoot on a cracked CD stage, holding jeweled keys, surrounded by floating emojis and glitter in a surreal cosmic setting.

Oops, she's doing it again.

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Britney Spears Is Off the Leash Again

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The pop princess emerita is back on the loose, twirling through provocative Instagram posts and giving the culture vulture machine one more whirl of its… Read More

Image of a cartoon Jennifer Anniston in a white bikini.

When your body develops a mind of its own, suddenly the red carpet gets a lot more interesting.

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Jennifer Aniston’s New Body Confident with Jennifer Aniston

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Editor’s Note: This masterwork first dropped in 2005, back when Jennifer Aniston and her love life was a national sport and low-rise jeans were a… Read More

From Captain Kirk Actors Ranked William Shatner as Captain Kirk on a starship bridge, gold tunic tight, mid-karate-chop while holding a steaming espresso; retro painted style.

William Shatner, inventor of Captain Kirk and patron saint of dramatic pauses, slices invisible cake while balancing an espresso. Shatner Scale of Swagger™: 11/10.

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Captain Kirk Actors Ranked

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In Captain Kirk Actors Ranked we answer a question thateveryone asks, but few have answered: who is the most Captain Kirk of all the Captain… Read More

Taylor Swift wearing a bunny suit and riding a motorcycle

"Born to be mild."

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How Well Do You Know Tay-Tay?

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Welcome to the ultimate Tay-Tay gauntlet – a glitter-soaked, heartbreak-fueled, cat-adjacent test of your Swiftie knowledge, where lyrical lore meets parasocial fever dreams. This isn’t… Read More

caricature of a frumpy looking Martha Stewart, the tosser

“Crafting is fun until you accidentally glue your fingers together. Then it’s just sticky.”

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Martha Stewart, Please Sit Down

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There comes a time in every icon’s life when she ought to pause, take stock, and ask the big question: Have I become too fabulous… Read More

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The Pug Bus Breaking News

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⚡ Scholars at the Royal Institute for the Advancement of Obvious Things have concluded, after eleven years of exhaustive inquiry, that people who speak at great length in meetings do not thereby become more correct. The findings have been submitted to a committee for review.

⚡ It has been determined by authorities in several jurisdictions that the phrase "I just want to be honest with you" reliably precedes the portion of the conversation one would most prefer not to have. Legislation is pending.

⚡ The Bureau of Perpetual Reassessment has announced that this is not, in fact, the most divided the nation has ever been, a distinction that continues to belong to a prior era when the disagreements concerned rather more consequential matters and people occasionally died over them.

Adverse Effects

The following lines of prose cleverly arranged as poetry may induce brief clarity, misplaced certainty, and the sense that something has already been decided without your approval ...

By seventy you know which doors you walked past without opening,
can name the rooms you never entered,
hear the echoes anyway.

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By seventy you know which doors you walked past without opening,
can name the rooms you never entered,
hear the echoes anyway.

The years do not accuse.
They simply pile up like newspapers you meant to read,
each one carrying news that is no longer news.

You think: I should have said that differently.
I should have stayed. I should have gone.
The mind is efficient this way,
filing the same cases under the same wrong headings,
finding them again at 3 a.m. in perfect order.

What surprises is not the weight of it
but the patience —
how regret waits,
how it has nowhere else to be,
how it sits across from you at breakfast
and asks for nothing,
knowing you will offer it everything
on your own.

The body slows.
The catalog does not.
You carry the unlived lives
the way old houses carry
the smell of people who are gone —
not haunting exactly,
just present,
just there,
just refusing
the simple courtesy
of leaving.