The Duchovny-Leoni-Thornton Love Triangle, Or The End of the Internet
Oct. 27 2008, Published 7:07 a.m. ET
THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE Billy Bob There's a movement afoot with a pretty simple premise: people should try getting off the Internet because it's making them crazy. We hadn't given too much thought to the idea—not least because its successful implementation would leave us without a job—until we checked our inbox this morning and found the following e-mail. As with most we get, it's nominally about frivolous celebrities—this time it was Billy Bob Thornton and Tea Leoni and David Duchovny—though the names aren't really important. What's important is where it led us after: down a bottomless rabbit hole that neatly encapsulates everything that is wrong and unholy and soul-crushing about the Web, yes, but also the times we live in.
- Tragic One Direction Singer Liam Payne Dead Aged 31 After Horror Hotel Balcony Plunge: Celeb Tributes Pour In as Images Emerge of Smashed Up Hotel Room Strewn With White Powder and 'Drugs Foil'
- Family of Menendez Brothers Beg for Convicted Killers' Freedom in Press Conference Three Decades After Brutal Murders: 'They Were Failed By Their Parents!'
- BREAKING: Jailed 'Sex Beast' Sean 'Diddy' Combs Hit With Another Wave of Horrific Lawsuits — Rapper Accused of Drugging, Raping, Sodomizing and Threatening to Murder Multiple New Victims
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Take a (long) trip to the dark side, after the jump.