Tag: COURTNEY LOVE

What separates Twitter from other social networking sites has always been its trademark brevity. Restricted to 140 characters, users are forced to be concise and truncate their thoughts, opinions, or news. As is often the case, though, pithiness comes at the expense of nuance, subtlety or sarcastic intonation, leaving tweets open to wide and varied interpretation. When the tweeter has some ...

As unbelievable as it may sound, some of the Switched office's 20- and 30-somethings aren't, and never have been, Nirvana fans. Even the ambivalent among us, though, find the above video -- an excerpt from 'Guitar Hero 5' -- to be cringe-inducing, if not flat-out wrong. You're right; that's Kurt Cobain, the iconic (hair in the) face of Gen X and Y's disaffection. And, right again, he's ...

We may have bombed in the Switched NCAA tournament brackets, but we just nailed our first annual Twitter Celebrity Lawsuit pool. That's right, we picked the effusive Courtney Love, and she wasted no time in eliciting a slander lawsuit by posting rambling, profane tweets (updates on the microblog site Twitter). According to Reuters, Dawn Simorangkir, a fashion designer also known as Boudoir ...