The great New York magazine oral history of the Beastie Boys makes it sound like Luscious Jackson's Kate ­Schellenbach was pushed out of the group by Rick Rubin before they hit it big.

According to a New York profile, she embroidered a pillow that says: "DON’T EXPECT PRAISE WITHOUT ENVY UNTIL YOU ARE DEAD."

Who wouldn't initially be drawn into a bottomless barrel of consequence-free interactions with random oddballs?

How we're taking the beast out of our pets.