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Morning Coffee
Always there to make horrible things look beautiful, Big Picture has your newest oil spill photo-recap. Turning weather into art (is something we are in favor of). Speaking of awesome…
THE BLURB #17: The Poet Never Affirmeth
Are there rules that govern the representation of the “real world” in fiction? How much should fiction writers be allowed to misrepresent history before being called out for it?
SEX BOOK THROWDOWN #1:
Battle of the Blowjobs
Masterclass: Blow-Jobs vs. Sex Tips for Straight Women From a Gay Man One book is concise and British, complete with allegedly helpful pictures of female mouths on penises. The other,…
Cash Money Tweets
“In cases where Twitter content is the basis (in whole or in part) of the advertising sale, we require you to compensate us (recoupable against any fees payable to Twitter…
Shya Scanlon: The Last Book I Loved, Shoot the Buffalo
The death of a little girl. The Vietnam War. Drug abuse and sexual misconduct. A boy coming of age. Matt Briggs packs together enough “big themes” in Shoot the Buffalo…
Swinging Modern Sounds #23: The Tragedy of Consciousness
Recently, I’ve been digging again through the wilds of the CD Baby site, where no print run is too small and no approach to music is too individual, and in…
Do You Know Where Your Towel Is?
“Towel Day events are taking place around the world, and include a pub lunch in Brisbane, flashmobs in Brazil and Berlin, a picnic in Budapest, a Vogon poetry slam in…
Tune of the Day
Artists: Gil Scott Heron (Featuring Mos Def) Song: “New York Is Killing Me” Previously: Gil Scott-Heron (Featuring Nas)
“Big man wanted for long, deep, throbbing bone worship.”
“I wished it was a joke. An exception. Something. But oh so unfortunately, there were a lot of somethings. Turns out there were many people who wanted to engage in…
Happy Birthday Scout
To Kill a Mockingbird turns 50 this year, and a lot of people are celebrating.