I don't mean to make fun of a bunch of people who committed suicide, people who believed they would shed their "earthly bodies" and be transported in a spacecraft traveling behind the Hale-Bopp coment, but if you have time today, please, for the love of God, read the story I wrote about the Heaven's Gate cult mass suicide that occurred on this day in 1997. Make sure you watch the videos I included, too. If you are at all feeling at all like the world is a boring place, I promise this story will remind you that it isn't. Not in the slightest.

"A Unified Theory of The Hills," on Slate

Troy Patterson can make fun of One of The Best Shows on Television, Ever, because he is very, very funny: "When The Hills left off, Heidi‚Äîwho now resembles an actress in a big-budget romantic comedy, not the cuddly lead but the uptight rival or the workaholic sidekick‚Äîhad called off plans for her wedding to Spencer, presumably because his narcissistic shiftiness renders him absolutely unmarriageable. The show picked back up with her jaunting to her family's house in Crested Butte, Colo., where she put matters into perspective during apr?®s-ski heart-to-hearts with her mother. Spencer arrived unannounced at the ancestral home. Heidi's stepfather cast skeptical glances‚Äîeyes brimming with wariness, baffled stares garnished with pity‚Äîat the poor boy. Spencer played with his phone. They all went out to dinner. Heidi told Spencer off. Crested Butte looked like a very dull town."

You can read the full story here.