Last week, in response to the booking of Milo Yiannopoulos on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, Jeremy Scahill, one of the founders of The Intercept, cancelled his scheduled appearance on the show. A regular guest since 2007, Scahill […]
BPOFD PODCAST EPISODE #22: OSCARS 2016 WITH WILLIAM GLICK
In Episode #22 of the BPoFD podcast, managing editor Carmen Petaccio sits down with playwright and Oscars historian William Glick to discuss the 2017 Academy Awards. Highlights include predictions for all the major categories, another round of impossible […]
A Review of Lincoln in the Bardo, In The Style of Lincoln in the Bardo
Lovers of George Saunders, your long national nightmare is finally over. After 25 years of publishing his signature brand of off-the-wall short fiction, this master of the short story has delivered unto his fans “Lincoln in the Bardo,” […]
Bannon Fest Teaser
Over the coming weeks, I’ll be organizing a series of screenings and discussions on the films of Steve Bannon, the scabies-infested Jimmy Buffet roadie who currently serves as the White House Chief of Staff. If […]
Sardoni Selects 2: An Exhaustive Email Exchange: Part 3
(Editor’s Note: Three years ago, Carmen Petaccio and Taylor Sardoni exchanged 15,000 words of email correspondence about the ten most notable films of 2013. No one was ever able to determine why, and now they’re […]
LEAKED: PERFORMANCE LINEUP FOR HILLARY’S INAUGURATION
(A Note from the Editors: Late last night, the investigatory team at BPoFD received what appears to be a leaked copy of the official itinerary for Hillary Clinton’s presidential inauguration ceremony. The encrypted document was pasted into an […]
A Preemptive Review of Milo Yiannopoulis’s New Book
(Editor’s Note: Yesterday, Simon & Schuster paid a reported $250,000 to acquire the publishing rights to Dangerous, a book about “free speech” by Milo Yiannopoulis, a mentally ill Lance Bass impersonator. Having already read Mien Kampf twice, I have no […]
Everyone Who Should Have Died in 2016 But Didn’t, Ranked
2016 was a banner year for death. David Bowie died, as did other less important people. Here are the Top 50 people who deserved to die this year but didn’t, ranked by how much they […]
Sardoni Selects 2: An Exhaustive Email Exchange: Part Two
(Editor’s Note: Three years ago, Carmen Petaccio and Taylor Sardoni exchanged 15,000 words of email correspondence about the ten most notable films of 2013. No one was ever able to determine why, and now they’re […]
baby pictures of famous dictators 