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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 NYC art installations, No Man’s Land is one of the…
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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?
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SEX BOOK THROWDOWN #1:
Battle of the BlowjobsMasterclass: 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, a chatty manual that uses phrases like “Mr. Softee” and…
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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 for data licensing).” Twitter has released new terms of service,…
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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 for several novels. Yet he does so with such attention…
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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 this regard I have found a lot of great work…
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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 Portland, Oregon, a beer party in Zagreb and a ‘nice…
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Tune of the Day
Artists: Gil Scott Heron (Featuring Mos Def) Song: “New York Is Killing Me” Previously: Gil Scott-Heron (Featuring Nas)
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“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 bone worship, and not the cross cultural, Iranian-American, funny-poignant, coming-of-age…
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Happy Birthday Scout
To Kill a Mockingbird turns 50 this year, and a lot of people are celebrating.