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17 Annoying Things People Get Wrong About Country Music

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It ain’t all about boot-scootin’ cowboys.

First of all, country lyrics actually have substance. The joke that every song is about a tractor, beer, or cowboys gets so old.

First of all, country lyrics actually have substance. The joke that every song is about a tractor, beer, or cowboys gets so old.

-- Emilia Grillo, Facebook

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Fact: Country fans aren't "dumb redneck inbreds."

Fact: Country fans aren't "dumb redneck inbreds."

-- Emmie Mae Mattson, Facebook

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Charlize Theron Adopted A Baby Girl

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Welcome to the fam, August.

Charlize Theron, Oscar-winner and actress who should be in every action movie ever, has adopted a baby girl!

Charlize Theron, Oscar-winner and actress who should be in every action movie ever, has adopted a baby girl!

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Well Furiosa would have made a kickass name but August is gorgeous too!

Well Furiosa would have made a kickass name but August is gorgeous too!

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Charlize recently made headlines for her split from Sean Penn.

Charlize recently made headlines for her split from Sean Penn.

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31 Delicious Things You Need To Cook In August

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All food is bikini-friendly if you eat it while wearing a bikini.

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Caprese Grilled Cheese with Arugula Pesto

Caprese Grilled Cheese with Arugula Pesto

Recipe here.

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Crispy Grilled Pork Belly with Tangy Vinegar BBQ Sauce

Crispy Grilled Pork Belly with Tangy Vinegar BBQ Sauce

If steak and bacon had a love child, it would be grilled pork belly. Recipe here.

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How Ving Rhames Lived Through The "Mission: Impossible" Franchise

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Ving Rhames in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.

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The only actor besides Tom Cruise who has been in all five of the Mission: Impossible movies since the first film debuted in 1996 is Ving Rhames. But according to the 56-year-old actor, his stylish and formidable computer hacker character Luther Stickell was initially only supposed to last for the first 15 minutes of the first movie — until he made a pointed comment to that film’s director, Brian De Palma.

"I remember saying to him, 'Look, why is it that the black man dies 15 pages into the [script]?'" Rhames recently told BuzzFeed News in a phone interview. "I said that kind of jokingly, but it was the truth in many films. As a matter of fact, saying it nicely, [in] all these action movies, you are fortunate if there is one African-American or one woman. You know what I'm saying? So then they changed the script, and I lived."

Ving Rhames in 1996's Mission: Impossible, 2000's Mission: Impossible II, 2006's Mission: Impossible III, 2011's Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, and 2015's Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation.

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Rhames has continued to be a part of the multibillion-dollar franchise for the past 19 years, with the fifth film, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, opening worldwide this weekend. That would be a rare achievement for any actor, and Rhames is clear that it is pretty much unprecedented for a black man in Hollywood. "I feel very blessed and very fortunate," he said. "I don't know if an actor of African-American descent has been a part of a franchise as long as I have. Well, maybe [Lethal Weapon star] Danny Glover, but I don't think they did it over a 20-year period."

During his conversation with BuzzFeed News, Rhames looked back on his experience with the Mission: Impossible movies, including how it all started with a chance encounter with Cruise in a bathroom.

Mission: Impossible (1996)

Mission: Impossible (1996)

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Rhames, who graduated from Juilliard, had worked steadily as a character actor since since the 1980s, but his first breakout role was as gangster Marcellus Wallace in 1994’s Pulp Fiction. And that role is what led him to Mission: Impossible.

"In New York City, in Central Park, at the premiere of Pulp Fiction, I'm in the bathroom, and either Tom Cruise walked in, or he was in the bathroom, and I walked in," he said. "Of course, I know who he is; he doesn't really know who I am. He says something. And then I say, ‘Well, you know, I'm in this film.’ And then he says to me [that] he'll tell me what he thinks about the film after the film. Now I'm thinking, There's hundreds of people there. But after the film, he runs up and jumps on me and gives me a big hug, like he knows me."

He laughed before adding, "Anyway. Tom and I have a good chemistry. We're on a similar level, on a spiritual level, as far as how we talk and how we think about life and what have you.”

Rhames joined a cast that included Emmanuelle Béart (as the love interest), Henry Czerny (as the boss), and Jon Voight (as the villain). And he immediately stood out, in part because, in the '90s, there was a clear stereotype for what a computer hacker character was supposed to look like, and as Rhames said with a laugh, “It wasn’t me.” But that has never stopped him from taking roles that challenged expectations.

"First of all, I don't allow myself to be stereotyped, and I don't give the industry or anyone the power to stereotype me," he said. "You can feel I am whatever you want to feel I am. God knows who I am, and I know who I am. In this industry, very few actors can control their career. So when a black man gets offered a role of a computer geek or what have you, I look at that as something beyond my control, and god, the universe, whatever, was working in a certain way for this to happen."

Mission: Impossible II (2000)

Mission: Impossible II (2000)

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This sequel, directed by John Woo, cleared out all of the first film's cast except for Cruise and Rhames. The largely Australia-set movie instead co-starred Thandie Newton (as the love interest), Anthony Hopkins (as the boss), and Dougray Scott (as the villain).

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Rhames spent most of his time in the film parked in front of a laptop, frantically tapping in commands to support Cruise’s dashing secret agent Ethan Hunt. In order to keep that interesting, Rhames basically had to keep it real.

“What I try to do is replicate what I would do at my computer," he said. "I try to make it as natural as possible. I always try to give whatever the situation of that scene is. It's 6 a.m. in the morning. Ethan has one hour before he has to leave this location. If I don't do this, they would murder Ethan. So then I use that.”

Mission: Impossible III (2006)

Mission: Impossible III (2006)

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Yet again, every element of the cast for the film changed save for Cruise and Rhames, with Michelle Monaghan (as the love interest), Laurence Fishburne (as the boss), and the late Philip Seymour Hoffman (as the villain) joining the cast — along with Simon Pegg, who had a small role as an excitable tech geek.

Cruise also made headlines when, as the franchise's main producer, he gave the director's chair to J.J. Abrams. The onetime actor (in 1993’s Six Degrees of Separation) was already famous for creating beloved TV series like Felicity, Alias, and Lost, but he had not yet directed a feature film.

“For me, that is my favorite one [of the Mission: Impossible movies]. J.J., I don't know if he's still acting, but he has a very good rapport with actors. I think it really helps the director if they have acted before," Rhames said. "I think it will help actors if they've directed before with working with directors. So J.J., there was something very calm and peaceful about him. Every [Mission: Impossible] cast I've ever been a part of, the chemistry was always very good. And god bless Philip Seymour Hoffman. Hell of an actor, man. Larry Fishburne I think was in that one. We've always been able to attract very good actors, and in general, they were all trained actors. So J.J. was a good conductor of this orchestra that they put together."

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)

Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)

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In keeping with tradition, all of the cast from the previous film were scuttled for the fourth M:I film, directed by Brad Bird, save for Cruise…and Pegg, who largely took on the role of the computer expert that Rhames had played in the previous three films. Instead, Rhames showed up for only a single scene at the very end of the film that required just two days of work. But the sudden demotion scarcely bothered Rhames.

“Honestly, I look at it this way, brother: Things I really have no control over, I don't give it much energy. So I don't think about, Well, why am I not in this more?" he said. "Basically, I just say, 'Look, I've been very blessed.' I graduated college in 1983, so that's 32 years, and all I've done for a living is act or commercials or voiceovers. So I have nothing to complain about it. I've never had another job since I graduated the Juilliard School. It's all good. It's all gravy, [whether] I worked two days on it or six months."

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015)

Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015)

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Breaking with M:I movie tradition, not only has Rhames returned for a full supporting role in the fifth Mission: Impossible movie — directed by Christopher McQuarrie — but so have Pegg and Jeremy Renner, who first joined the franchise as a by-the-book agent in M:I4. And instead of a full-fledged love interest, Rebecca Ferguson plays a highly capable character who is many ways a platonic equal to Cruise’s Ethan Hunt. (Alec Baldwin, meanwhile, plays the boss, and Sean Harris plays the villain.)

With almost nine years between making M:I3 and M:I5, Rhames said he’s noticed another marked change in the franchise. "Tom's really grown as a producer," he said. "I was really shocked. Because I didn't work much on 4. But on 5, he really took the reins. What Tom really brings to this is a certain humanity. For instance, 5 is more about friendship, honestly, and what are you willing to do for your friends? That's a universal issue, but it's cloaked in action. It brings a little more emotion to the film. For me, seeing how Tom’s grown as an artist, a producer, as a man, as a quote-unquote writer — that's been kind of special to me."

Making Mission: Impossible movies over the past two decades has undoubtedly made a mark on Rhames' career — and will likely continue to well into the future. "Any actor will tell you if you're on a film that makes hundreds of millions of dollars, it does increase your Q [score], especially internationally," he said. "You see there are things you can do now internationally, especially for an African-American actor, that maybe they didn't look at you before for. I'm the spokesman for ADT, and ADT, brother, pays better than most actors make on film."

Rhames chuckled. "And also, tomorrow is not promised," he added. "My mother, she's 87. She just went through a mild stroke. Thank god, she's pretty much OK now. But my thing is really that I look at life a bit differently. With me, being a part of this for a 20-year period, that's something special. Before I leave this planet, that's part of my legacy. We'll see how this one does at the box office. But I would not be surprised in the least if there's another."

What I Did On My Wet Hot American Summer Vacation

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It would have been my first kiss. I was nervous about it and I hadn't even gone on the audition yet, let alone scored the part.

In the spring of 2000, when I was in sixth grade, a script popped out of my parents’ fax machine for a movie called Wet Hot American Summer. All I knew was that it was written by the guys behind something called The State, and that it would star a bunch of actors I’d never heard of, like Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler, and Bradley Cooper. What was clear, even after reading just a handful of pages, was that the plot was unbelievably strange — no moment stranger than the scene in which my character, Aaron, a precocious kid who falls in love with his camp arts and crafts counselor, consummates his crush with a full-blown kiss.

I’d once pecked my fifth-grade girlfriend on the cheek 23 times in a single day — my friends declared it a New York Public School 6 record — but I’d never put my lips on another person’s. So the prospect of having my first real kiss be with Molly Shannon, the wild lady on Saturday Night Live, and having that kiss take place in front a film crew and my mother, weighed heavy on my 12-year-old mind.

But I was a “professional.” I took some strange pride in getting called that on sets. When you’re a kid actor, the adults, especially those in charge, tend to treat you like a priceless vase that just may spontaneously shatter. I relished the moments when the crew expected me to complain or get cranky and I could prove them wrong, showing I wasn’t some prima donna Humpty Dumpty. I wanted to be recognized as a team player — a professional.

So, while I didn’t want to kiss Molly Shannon, part of me wanted to get cast in a role that would require me to do something like that. I think that my parents, who were both lovingly supportive and appropriately trepidatious when it came to my career, actually worried about the kiss more than I did. When they sat me down to talk about it, I said, with nonchalance, “It’s no big deal,” but they weren’t convinced. Then I said, with all the adultish seriousness I could muster, “Guys, it’s just acting.”

We called my agent and confirmed my appointment.

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This one time, under the hot lights of a commercial set made to look like an Olive Garden, an actor playing my grandfather asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. We had been talking all day in between takes — sports, girls, school, books — which made me feel pretty cool. Here was this veteran of the business, the kind of guy who had hazy stories about a fistfight with De Niro, treating me like I was just another actor putting in a solid day’s work. Sure, we were both fresh out of the hair-and-makeup chair, but we quickly established a kind of masculine camaraderie that I thought formed only between firefighters, or maybe bricklayers in the same labor union.

So I felt a little pressure to answer his inquiry with an enthusiastic “This!” — I gestured to the fake Olive Garden — “Acting.”

But with that, his mood changed. Long gone was that sense that we were two comrades working in the well-catered trenches of Silvercup Studios.

The director asked us if we were ready to start filming again. We both nodded. I expected my fictional grandfather to ease the tension with a joke or a smile. Instead, just before shooting another scene, one in which we would both take a hearty bite out of cold fettuccine Alfredo (“It looks creamier when cold,” someone from the ad agency explained), he caught my eye and whispered with muzzled intensity, “Don’t act. Do something else.”

I tried my own tension-diffusing smile, scanning the room as if to draw a laugh from my would-be audience. He followed my eyes, possibly to make sure my mother wasn’t listening, and then turned back to me: “Do. Anything. Else.”

Maybe this shouldn’t have surprised me. Nor should it surprise me that when I tell people I acted when I was young, their first question is often something like “Are you...OK?” And my gut reaction is to say something like “I didn’t act that much.”

Like the “high school quarterback,” the “child actor” is a stock cultural character with an implied rise and fall: early promise squandered by bad influences and even worse parents. You don’t need a subscription to Us Weekly to know details of Lindsay Lohan’s arrests and relapses. “Where Are They Now” tales like Gary Coleman’s — highlights include bankruptcy, divorce, and suicide attempts — have become common knowledge.

Of course, there are examples of child stars who managed to avoid the pitfalls and become successful adult actors. Jodie Foster went from being TV’s Coppertone girl to an award-winning actor and director, even if she once said, “It was very clear to me at a young age that I had to fight for my life and that if I didn't, my life would get gobbled up and taken away from me.” And, of course, there are also examples of child actors who have gone on to enjoy happy and healthy lives outside the business. Mara Wilson, who likely still gets called Matilda when she walks down the street, is a budding writer, another twentysomething, like me, building a career in a creative field.

But, in the great attention arms race, we just don’t hear many of those stories — NASCAR fans tune in for the wrecks, after all. And even if we do hear them, they don’t take root in our cultural consciousness — the cliché remains intact. This makes the fall of a child star always simultaneously tragic and satisfying: There is a fundamental gratification to be had in “seeing it coming,” even if the “it” is pretty goddamn brutal.

This isn’t a bad thing or mean thing. It’s just a human thing.

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I got out of school early in order to make it to the Wet Hot American Summer audition on time.

We had a system: My mom would ring the main office once she was parked outside in our family minivan; the office secretary would figure out what classroom I was in and call that room’s phone; when I heard the ring, I’d sneak away without ceremony and walk down a corridor that avoided the principal's office, as it was pretty clear that she thought my career, and the charades it sometimes required, were total bullshit.

We established this protocol in part so that my regular early departures didn’t disrupt educational activities. Moreover, I desperately didn’t want anyone to know where I was going or that I’d even left. I lived a double life of sorts. My friends found out that I had spent a summer in South Africa filming Home Alone 4 only because they stumbled upon it on TV later that year.

I had no grand ambitions for my career, didn’t idolize the greats, never saw the whole thing as anything more than a hobby. No matter how much work I was doing, I simply never identified as an actor and, frankly, didn’t like most of the kids who did.

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So walking into my audition for Wet Hot American Summer, I wasn’t the slightest bit nervous — the stakes were lower than low. For most of my competitors, some of whom had driven hundreds of miles for five minutes in a room with the director-writer team of David Wain and Michael Showalter, this audition was a pressure-packed event. For me, it was weightless. It’s possible that my lack of investment in acting may have been my greatest asset as an actor. How little I wanted or needed success was my secret to it.

I read the sides, quickly realizing that the more seriously I played the scenes, the more laughs I was getting. So I switched my approach, trying to act with the sort of earnestness I’d normally bring into an audition for Law & Order: SVU. David and Michael gave me notes for adjustments I had no problem incorporating, and later that night we got a call letting us know that I got the part. I was, of course, excited and grateful, but I had homework due the next day.

Far more worrisome: My first kiss was now scheduled, written into a production calendar. We were weeks away from my shoot dates, but I remember hitting the pillow and feeling, for the very first time that day, nervous.

It’s possible that the look of wide-eyed concern strangers give me when I tell them I acted as a kid has more to do with their assumptions about my parents than anything else. It’s a concern that goes all the way back to early 20th-century child star Jackie Coogan.

Fourteen years before Shirley Temple tap-danced with Bojangles, Coogan was America’s "it" prodigy — the original wearer of that anvil-heavy cultural crown. He was discovered by Charlie Chaplin, who cast him as the kid in the 1921 box office hit The Kid, the role that launched Coogan’s meteoric rise to stardom. MGM signed Coogan to an enormous contract, and with film after film, he truly became that kid for an entire country.

Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan in the 1921 film The Kid.

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But his story doesn’t become Hollywood fable until months before his 21st birthday, when his father died in a car accident while on vacation in Mexico. Coogan’s widowed mother quickly married the family lawyer. Then, in dramatic, tabloid-fodder fashion, the newlyweds publicly declared, “The law is on our side, and Jackie Coogan will not get a cent from his past earnings.” The pair proceeded to squander the boy’s fortune in a manner that sounds as if it would be best illustrated by a cartoonish montage full of minks and diamonds, cars, booze, and villainous laughs.

Finally, at the age of 24, Coogan sued his mother and stepfather for his earnings. The trial was a pricey spectacle, and when all was said and done, Coogan received just about half of what was left — a sum that represented approximately 3% of his estimated fortune. With all the attention the legal battle garnered, a year later, the California Child Actor’s Bill was passed, requiring studios to place 15% of a minor’s wages into a type of untouchable trust that is, to this day, referred to as a “Coogan account.”

Every contract my parents and I ever signed, including the one for Wet Hot American Summer, had a little section where Coogan’s name appeared, not just as a legal stipulation to set some funds aside for later, but also as a cautionary marker, a strike against my parents before I even stepped on set. Call it the last of a long string of robberies: We’ve taken Coogan’s name and made it about us.

My mom and I arrived at Camp Towanda in Pennsylvania — called Camp Firewood in the film — and were set up with a bedroom in the infirmary. This lodging situation was one of many quirks that reflected what a low-budget, labor-of-love production we’d just jumped into. I was totally unfazed, though: There was a basketball court directly outside the infirmary and a ridiculously cute blonde actress, around my age, Whitney, bunked next door. Things were looking up.

I was killing some time that first afternoon, shooting hoops, when I saw Molly Shannon walking over to introduce herself. I think I must have just shook her hand and then resumed playing, because she ended up chatting with my mom for a while. But eventually she joined me on the court, taking a couple shots herself and asking me questions about my life. Something about the interaction had me convinced that, for her, the scheduled touching of our mouths was, in fact, not a big deal. And, somehow, that made me a bit more confident that maybe, for me, it would be the same.

When the day of the big scene finally arrived, I woke up resolute to smooch her good. I told myself, as I’d told my parents weeks before, that it was “just acting.” And throughout the day, in the moments when I could feel panic creeping in, I’d chase it into a corner of my mind, like you would a mouse too fast to catch, just stupid enough to be contained.

We rehearsed the scene, going through all the dialogue and blocking but leaving out the kiss. I suspected that David and Michael were worried about wasting it on a bad take. I thought that maybe they knew that I might have only a handful of kisses in the tank.

It was only with lights up and the camera good to roll that I realized I just couldn’t do it. It was only when cast and crew were ready for the “real thing” that I noticed that the fear I’d held captive all day had escaped and was now running furious victory laps inside the walls of my brain. It didn’t matter that I had fought admirably — the battle was over. The problem was that I was the only one who knew it.

But just then, as the scene was about to get underway, my mom told David and Michael that she wanted to talk with me privately for a minute. She walked me outside and we found a bench. She told me “You don’t have to kiss her” in a voice that said a whole lot more: Not only did I not have to kiss Molly, but we could actually go home right now if I wanted to because this whole thing was worth continuing only if it remained fun. We could hop in the car and return to our real life, where 12-year-olds generally experience their first kisses in dark movie theaters with other 12-year-olds.

We walked back to the set together and told the the crew that I couldn’t kiss Molly. Everyone understood completely, and we quickly got back to work, filming the scene without the big consummatory finale. Instead of the kiss, I simply brushed Molly’s hair behind her ear. Over the years, as the movie's reputation snowballed from critical and commercial bust to reverently worshipped cult classic, I’ve been told by a few people that this understated romantic gesture is one of their favorite little moments.

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I am probably not the ideal test case for why some child actors crash and burn while others live reasonably happy and healthy lives. I say this because I left the business pretty early in order to go to college and study anything but acting. I almost dipped a toe back in when David offered me a cameo in the Wet Hot American Summer prequel series that's just launching on Netflix, but that ended up not working out: They were almost done filming, and I had a full-time job as a creative director at a photo agency in New York. I was disappointed, but also relieved — I’m not an actor, and in some ways, never was. I don't know if I'll feel weird because I always feel weird watching stuff I'm in (or in this case, almost in).

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I achieved only a moderate level of industry success. While I did hundreds of commercials, I starred in just a handful of films and TV shows. The version of fame I’m most familiar with consists of strangers in the grocery store telling me that they’re certain we went to the same elementary school or, a bit closer to the mark, summer camp, even after I’ve assured them that we grew up in different parts of the country.

I don’t believe that my experience was any more developmentally significant for me than, say, chess tournaments are to a kid who devotes a large chunk of his childhood to the game. I tend to think that there are good kids and bad kids, good parents and bad parents, and that acting simply kicks whatever is already present into hyperdrive, like the hot halogen light above a petri dish.

Luckily, I had great parents. Luckily, I was pretty physically and emotionally healthy. But I’ve always had a suspicion that there was something else that saved me from living out any sort of clichéd wreckage or ruination. And I can’t help but think that it has something to do with the kiss that wasn’t.

Gideon Jacobs today.

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14 Out-Of-This-World Photos Of Friday's Blue Moon

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♬ Blue Mooooooooooooooon ♬

On Friday night, for the second time in July, there was a full moon -- a phenomenon known as a blue moon.

On Friday night, for the second time in July, there was a full moon -- a phenomenon known as a blue moon.

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It was the first blue moon since 2012 -- and the last until 2018.

It was the first blue moon since 2012 -- and the last until 2018.

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As the sun set, the moon rose slowly over New York City's iconic skyline.

As the sun set, the moon rose slowly over New York City's iconic skyline.

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It crept up next to the Statue of Liberty...

It crept up next to the Statue of Liberty...

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Have You Read All The Original "Goosebumps" Books?

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The reason you needed a nightlight.

26 Reasons To Add More Pasta Into Your Life

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Live you best life with a little spaghetti alle vongole.

Attention my fellow humans: We need to talk.

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You're hungry and pondering, "What in the whole wide world would make my tummy happiest at this moment?"

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I'm here to tell you that the answer forever and always will be, "PASTA."

No possible exceptions.

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Yes, pasta covered in a creamy alfredo sauce, sprinkled with cheese, and accented with fresh veggies will do the trick.

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How Well Do You Remember "Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason"?

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Let’s talk folded underpants.

Apparently Nicki Minaj And Meek Mill Have Broken Up

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Meek Mill and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week.

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25 Cats That Are 100% You

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These cats understand your struggle.

This cat is you when you know you're about to stuff your face.

This cat is you when you know you're about to stuff your face.

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This cat is you when you wake up and realise that it's Saturday.

This cat is you when you wake up and realise that it's Saturday.

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This cat is you when you accidentally eat the entire bowl of snacks without realising it.

This cat is you when you accidentally eat the entire bowl of snacks without realising it.

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This cat is you when you realise you've made a terrible mistake.

This cat is you when you realise you've made a terrible mistake.

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Over 50 Years Of Wedding Hairstyles In Two Minutes

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Decades of love in just a few minutes.

YouTuber and hair magician Kayley Melissa teamed up with BuzzFeedVideo to show us 50 years of jaw-droppingly gorgeous wedding hairstyles.

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Let's kick things off with the simple yet stunning '60s.

Let's kick things off with the simple yet stunning '60s.

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Before the rise of Vidal Sassoon, bouffants and beehives were the go-to 'dos, accompanied by big curls.

Before the rise of Vidal Sassoon, bouffants and beehives were the go-to 'dos, accompanied by big curls.

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10 Brilliant Things To Try In August

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Because we tried them for you in July!

The BuzzFeed Life editors are always trying new products, apps, tips, and DIY projects, and we decided it was time to start sharing the best of them with you. Each month, we'll post our recommendations for what's actually worth it. For the sake of transparency, items under "Things We Bought" and "Tricks We Learned" were purchased with our own money and/or were not the result of a PR pitch. Those under "Things We Tried" are items that were provided to us at no cost for the sake of review. (But: We didn't write about any stuff we scored for free this month!) Let us know in the comments what sorts of things you'd like us to review next month!

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How to cook perfect bacon

How to cook perfect bacon

For years, every time I cooked bacon, it ended up as curly (and pleasant) as the hair in every Glamour Shots photo from the '80s...a style that's not ideal for breakfast sandwiches. It was also unevenly cooked, and each batch left a coat of grease all over my stove. After years of disappointing bacon, I finally found a way around it: taking the bacon out of the fridge about 20 minutes before I plan to cook it. I let the bacon go from chilled to something closer to room temperature, put it into a cold pan (instead of a preheated one), and cook it over medium/medium-low heat. Turns out, cold bacon + a hot pan makes the bacon sizzle, splatter, and curl up. I've been using this trick for a few months now and my breakfast sandwiches are so much better for it. —Rachel W. Miller

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Snapchat Intervention

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“All that’s left is a white ghost…”

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Can You Identify The Chocolate Bar Based On The Colour Scheme Of Its Wrapper?


This Is What Happened When I Discovered I Might Be A Hufflepuff

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Life crisis, much?

So my friend Chantel and I were texting about Harry Potter-related things when I told her to tell our friend, Ben, that he was a Hufflepuff, even though he's clearly a Gryffindor.

So my friend Chantel and I were texting about Harry Potter-related things when I told her to tell our friend, Ben, that he was a Hufflepuff, even though he's clearly a Gryffindor.

Ashly Perez

As anticipated he was PISSED. lolz

As anticipated he was PISSED. lolz

Chantel Houston

Which I thought was hilarious, until Chantel told me I was a Hufflepuff.

Which I thought was hilarious, until Chantel told me I was a Hufflepuff.

Ashly Perez

At first I thought she was kidding, but when she said she wasn't I started getting really pissed.

At first I thought she was kidding, but when she said she wasn't I started getting really pissed.

By the way, at this point it's 1:07 AM.

Ashly Perez


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This Will Actually Teach You How To Curl Your Hair In 5 Minutes

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Curly hair, don’t care.

Create a "hair bungee" and curl your hair in a ponytail.

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First, spray dry hair all over with hairspray.

First, spray dry hair all over with hairspray.

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Then, create the bungee by looping two bobby pins onto either side of a hair tie.

Then, create the bungee by looping two bobby pins onto either side of a hair tie.

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Next, gather your hair into a ponytail, stick one bobby pin into one side of the ponytail, and wrap the hair tie around a few times. Secure the second bobby pin in place.

Next, gather your hair into a ponytail, stick one bobby pin into one side of the ponytail, and wrap the hair tie around a few times. Secure the second bobby pin in place.

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33 Gifts For Anyone Who F*cking Loves Science

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May the force be equal to mass times acceleration.

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This "I Love Lucy" t-shirt because everyone who majors in anthropology has a sense of humor.

This "I Love Lucy" t-shirt because everyone who majors in anthropology has a sense of humor.

Buy it here.

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This Neil deGrasse Tyson print because he's everyone's hero.

This Neil deGrasse Tyson print because he's everyone's hero.

Available here.

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This Bill Nye prayer candle because he deserves that kind of respect.

This Bill Nye prayer candle because he deserves that kind of respect.

Buy it here.

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20 Amazing Haircuts Every Curvy Girl Will Want

A Photographer Is Taking Beautiful Photos Of Black Girls Getting Their Hair Done

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Photographer Adama Jalloh is celebrating black British girlhood via the hair salons of south London in her “Identity” project.

Adama Jalloh

Adama Jalloh recently completed a degree in photography at the Arts University Bournemouth. "I went to a uni where it was predominantly white people and most of the projects they did tended to be things I wasn't necessarily interested in," she says.

So in her second year, she started a project that was personal to her, and would shine a light on her – and other black girls' – beauty rituals. She began visiting black hair salons around Peckham in south London to find subjects, and named the project "Identity".

"I thought the way I live, and the way other black girls have lived, should be shown in that same kind of environment, and in a positive light. Because most of the time when you see images of black people, it tends to be quite negative."

Adama Jalloh

"One of the underlying questions is always: 'Is your hair part of your identity?'" says Jalloh. "And for me, it definitely is – like an extension of who I am." The Identity project showcases the versatility of black hair.

"When you are young and growing up, you kind of don't realise how versatile your hair really is – you only see it in one light."


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