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- Donald Trump Jr. is the least self-aware person on the planet.
- But his father had a rare moment of self-awareness when he spoke yesterday about meeting Steve Scalise’s wife after he was shot: “[She] cried her eyes out when I met her at the hospital that fateful day… I mean not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.”
- Okay, which one of you stole Sarah Jessica Parker's pumpkins???
- This week marks the five year anniversary of surrealist masterpiece Too Many Cooks.
- Here's a roundup of the creepiest haunted houses for sale around New York... but some of them are just where people, like Ric Ocasek, died?
- Read the untold story of the Halloween icon Dancing Pumpkin Man.
- While searching for the person who grifted her in Chicago, Vice writer Allie Conti discovered just how easy it is for Airbnb users to get exploited.
- Here's some more background info on why Benioff and Weiss parted ways with Star Wars—including the detail that they were allegedly interested in “exploring how the Jedi came to exist."
- What are the celebrities dressing up as for Halloween this year?
- Deerhunter released a 13-minute-long song called "Timebends" as a special Halloween single
- A Labrador Retriever named Hatty was sworn into her new job at the state’s attorney’s office in Chicago and SHE PUT HER PAW ON THE LAW BOOK AND EVERYTHING.
- There's an "alternative" version of the alphabet song, and it sucks.
- And finally, do you thing king:
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