The Sidebar of Shame gives and gives

But I digress...

The Daily Mail’s online gossip column is nicknamed the Sidebar of Shame because of its lowest-of lowest-common-denominator addictiveness. It’s seriously, mind-numbingly dumb—maybe worse for your brain than sniffing glue—but once you’re there it’s impossible not to just keep scrolling, and scrolling. It goes on forever. Justin and Aniston and Kanye and Beckham and Miley and Ryan and Eva and Katy and George and Stacey and do you feel stupider already just reading about it?

But it’s not all gossip: sometimes the Sidebar of Shame delivers some of the best, most wacked out, crazyass pop culture bits ever. I am infinitely creeped out by this picture of two girls from Somerset who arrived at their prom encased in life-size custom-made Barbie boxes, but also very happy it exists.

Posted on July 5th, 2012 9 Comments

9 Responses

Rebecca says:

July 5, 2012 at 3:41 pm

Shantaram-
Anything by Carlos Zafon- Shadow of the Wind esp though
Carter Beats the Devil Glen David Gold
Beautiful Ruins is good for light summer reading
Light years by James Salter

muranogirl says:

July 6, 2012 at 10:26 am

Shadow of the Wind — nice read indeed!

mslewis says:

July 5, 2012 at 3:52 pm

It’s nice to know someone else is slightly addicted to The Daily Fail. It is my guilty pleasure but even I can’t log in to it more than twice a week. I mean, where else can you follow the gossip about a Guiness leaving her Goldsmith husband for an American rapper? The site it gold.

Rocky says:

July 5, 2012 at 4:08 pm

In light of this photo, I feel it my duty to share this with you: http://www.theawl.com/2011/04/when-barbie-came-to-live-with-us

Sara says:

July 5, 2012 at 7:25 pm

More Daily Fail addicts! My people! I know it’s stupid (and misspelled, and poorly fact-checked, and probably 90% made up), but I can’t stay away.

It’s like when I was a kid and always made my mom buy me the newest National Enquirer and News of the World. Well, except that those were usually spelled correctly.