Archive for December, 2006

“As if the only thing a chick writer has to offer is why, after her fortieth degrading blowjob in the bathroom at CBGB, she had, ‘like, a revelation.’” (Thanks, #1. And see, e.g.)

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Production is underway on the film version of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.

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Of 1000 at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, there are 6 fluent Arabic speakers, and 27 who aren’t fluent. (But thank God the military axed those 55 fluent queers.)

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“I’ve got a so-so body with a go-go mind,” said the librarian who amassed a spectacular African American history collection in her garage. (Via.)

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A.L. Kennedy recommends James Carroll’s American Requiem, subtitled “God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us,” at The Scotsman. (Via.)

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