CHICAGO — Here's what we're reading on this gloomy Tuesday.
Psycho Selfies: Are men who post more selfies online more likely to be psychotic? Maybe. New research reported by Dazed found men who posted more pictures of themselves online showed higher levels of anti-social traits like narcissism and psychopathy. The sample size is small, but it's the first research to show there's the possibility of any link at all between self-objectification online and psychopathy. Early research shows the same may be true of women as well.
Spelling class: Football fans may be frustrated in Chicago but — "Da" Bears, aside — evidently we know how to express our frustrations correctly, says senior editor Andrew Herrmann. According to a report in Minneapolis Star-Tribune, the online proofreading site grammarly.com checked official team websites and scoured the fan comments for grammatic errors and misspellings. Scoring best was Detroit and Green Bay. Chicago Bears fans came in at number 10. Worst were Washington Redskins fans. That said, Bears fans had six errors for every 100 words and, well, how hard is it to spell Cutler, anyway?
A Bears fan spells all the words right. [Getty Images/file photo.]
Tears of a Clown: Senior editor Lizzie Schiffman Tufano is decidedly not an Insane Clown Posse fan, but that didn't make her any less interested in Vice's recent feature on the Detroit-based horror hip-hop duo's backstory. The exhaustively researched biography includes some intereting takeaways that challenge the group's devil-may-care attitude, including details on their rehearsal and staging process ("grueling practices" where they "rehearse costume changes, choreograph dance moves, practice entrance cues, and work on their Faygo-spraying technique") and the fact that Violent J claims the idea to paint their faces like clowns was handed to him directly from God.
More than anything, it's a great excuse for us all to revisit one of Schiffman Tufano's all-time favorite DNAinfo Chicago stories, about the time that a Juggalo cover band subbed in for a Grateful Dead cover band's weekly Abbey Pub gig, confusing and terrifying fans on both sides.
The late Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead (l.) and Violent J (r.), of horrorcore duo Insane Clown Posse (Flickr/Zoomabooma and GettyImages/Michel Boutefeu)
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