Weirdest TV Show: NBC is developing a dramedy inspired by Wendy Davis, the former Texas state senator who became a bit of a political celebrity after taking a public stand in favor of abortion rights in the state. It's certainly a different kind of bio-TV show than one based on, say, Nicki Minaj's life, but maybe there will be some crossovers? -- Eric ThurmWe are releasing our 6th full length LP on October 16th!!! It's called Thank Your Lucky Stars. More info soon.....
-- Beach House (@BeaccchHoussse) October 7, 2015Best Abrupt Album Announcement: Beach House, who announced a forthcoming album just a couple of months after their last, Depression Cherry. It's a pretty inspiring turnaround, and will double the dream for anyone already hungering for another hit of the band's hyper-defined sound. -- ET
Quvenzhané Wallis has signed a four-book deal with Simon & Schuster. pic.twitter.com/DXFVGR4tAT
-- Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) October 7, 2015Best Celebrity Book Deal: Because Quvenzhané Wallis is the best. (If you haven't seen Beasts of the Southern Wild, get your shit together.) -- ET
Best Way to Spend Two Hours: Watching this interview with Kanye West -- you might have seen some highlights in other places around the internet, but trust me, it's actually quite different than sitting through the whole thing, which is a super interesting and relatively intimate portrayal of where the artist is at now. -- ET
Best Soundcloud Study Guide: Not a Pitchfork contributor with an encyclopedic knowledge of every electronically-engineered Internet microgenre to emerge in the past five years? Well, Fader's got you just in case you were wondering what the fuck shitgaze was. -- Sandra Song
not mad at fader's editing at all but here's the original ending to my "conversation" with Carles (4 the heads) pic.twitter.com/9zqApCbvEJ
-- Ezra Koenig (@arzE) October 9, 2015Most Self-Consciously Reflexive Interview: Speaking of the Fader 100, they also published this equal parts amazing and cringe-inducing conversation about quote-unquote indie between Hipster Runoff's Carles and Vampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig. -- SS
#alldayallday#since1955#backtobackpic.twitter.com/xDif9Uk9Tr
-- Waffle House (@WaffleHouse) October 6, 2015Most Likely To Fire All Their Social Media Interns: In yet another attempt to pander to cool, hip #Internet teens, breakfast-y brands à la IHOP, Waffle House and Denny's have been ganging up on McDonald's #AllDayBreakfast tag -- to very lame results. -- SS
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Most Horrifying Reaction to Justin Bieber's Leaked Nude Photos:His father, Jeremy Bieber's. Bieber Sr. tweeted "@justinbieber what do you feed that thing. #proud daddy." asljkdf;kjf -- AS
Most Horrifying Reaction to Justin Bieber's Leaked Nude Photos:His father, Jeremy Bieber's. Bieber Sr. tweeted "@justinbieber what do you feed that thing. #proud daddy." asljkdf;kjf -- AS
Most Straightforward Men's Specialty Product: Did you know there's a site selling toilet paper wipes for dudes? Called DudeProducts? No? Well you can make sure your manly butt is super clean for the low-low price of $6.99! -- SS
Civic News of the Week: Boston's Mayor Marty Walsh declared October 10th "Patti Smith Day." -- AS