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Home Away from Home for the Stone-Cold Heel Fetishist
Designers and high heel enthusiasts INSA and Ben Rousseau spent three weeks carving a room at the legendary Ice Hotel in Sweden. (via Juxtapoz)
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Music Matters: Random Music Links
After stumbling across a treasure on the web, I’m often haunted by the realization that it would have totally escaped me but for chance. I’m left asking:
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Letter from Paris, Part 8: Nazis in the Catacombs
The water isn’t as cold as I’d imagined, and it isn’t dirty.
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BAD MOMMY: Watching The Bachelor with my Daughter
“What is this show about?” my four-year-old daughter asks. “Are they going to dance?” “In a way,” I say. “A mating dance. It’s a game. See, these girls compete to marry the boy. In each episode they have to impress…
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Why I Write Fiction
by RABIH ALAMEDDINE When I was about to publish my first novel, a writer tried to prepare me for what was to come. It doesn’t matter what novel you write, she said, you will be asked how true it is.
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Curator of Oddities
Lena Reynoso’s website is a museum of the artist-and-academic’s original work, including portraits of forty-four presidents and a collection of found treasures, ephemera, research and illustrations that reflect her fascination with sideshows, circuses, science and other curiosities.
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Fiction Used to Justify Real Torture
Jack Bauer, that torturing hunk of manliness whose bad days involve more nuclear weapons and sexy double agents than hangovers and parking tickets is back
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Bettie Page: Bangs, Bondage and Beyond
How One Accidental Pin-Up Changed the Face of Feminism Forever
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Poetry Shakedown
Kay Ryan’s tarot cards, the return of the rhyme, Mennonite matriarchs, Mao’s poems, Women’s Work, and Blago’s versification
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Fade to Orange: Michelle Orange’s Film Link Happening
I don’t know what to tell you about The Golden Globes, I missed them because I was out celebrating with a friend. We went to see Godard’s rarely screened Made in USA, mainly because
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Companion Links to Ariel Levy’s Article on The Joy of Sex
“If you are a child of the seventies and were raised on The Joy of Sex, you are not likely to have forgotten the illustrations.”
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High Tea = High Noon
Yvonne Lee Schultz knows that among fine manners and fine china, one must pack tasteful heat.