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Digging for Dirt: The Life and Death of ODB by Jaime Lowe

“A nigga don’t come out of jail and get his toes done,” ODB is quoted in a new biography, as he pointed out the earth-tones and the feng-shui waterfall in a manicure parlor. “How are the kids gonna feel about this?”

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The Shorty Q&A With The Twisted Monk

The Twisted Monk is the information-packed online rope store catering to both the elite shibari master and the bumbling couple tying each other up for the first time. With instructional…

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Blogs

FUNNY AMERICA: 5 Presidents

It is the wackiest photo-op since Sarah Palin went herself a-turkey-farming. Three ex-presidents, the current president and the future president all kicking it old school, chilling in the Oval Office…

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Blogs

BITCHCRAFT: In Addition to Rewriting the Words of Kurt Vonnegut I Have Been Working on the Dominatrix Dress Made out of Bin Bags

Word So, well, how’s that for slow blogging? I have, as is obvious, been cross stitching lately. My heart got broken over Xmas and you’d be unsurprised how little cross…

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That’s One Hypnotic Monster Truck Rally

Australian artist Keith Loutit uses tilt-shift and time-lapse video techniques to make real life look like a lilliputian dream.

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Other

Waste Time Better: Random Alternative Self-Help Links by Ainsley Drew

Read The Secret online? Subscribe to daily affirmations and meditate for fifteen minutes a day? Or pay $90 for The Sedona Method? You’re nuts to think that stuff like that…

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Blogs

Letters from Paris, Part 7: Goodbye to Sex in the Catacombs

We walk the Parisian streets until we reach Kay’s car, parked on a residential corner near the fence we’ll be climbing.

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Art
Other

Schmo, Redux

The hapless, plank-toothed, rubberband men of Jeff Ladoucer‘s art are beaten by clouds, tangled in knots, burned, and carried away by an elephant in Do The Apocalypse, his latest exhibit.

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Politics

Barack Obama: Those Johnny Cakes’ll getcha

Obama moonlights as a food critic on Chicago’s WTTW. He plugs the Dixie Kitchen for its Southern Sampler (perfect, he says, for the indecisive),

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Features & Reviews

Psycho Dwarf

British parents are eschewing traditional fairy tales because of their “un-PC” and “frightening” tone. With Hannah Montana and the cast

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Other

Letters from Paris, Part 6: We Won’t Be Entering via Manholes Tonight

Oh well. C’est La Vie, I say brightly, always thrilled to remember something French.

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Features & Reviews

The Book of Kings

The Shahnama, a Persian literary masterpiece, tells the story of Greater Iran from the creation of the world until the Islamic conquest of Iran in the 7th century. Princeton University…

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