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Girls Like Us
Music Buzz Sheila Weller’s book focuses on the lives of Carly Simon, Carole King, and Joni Mitchell as they helped shape the musical landscape of the sixties and seventies, eagerly asserting that the tumultuous offstage lives of its subjects didn’t necessarily bruise their canons of work (if anything, it only strengthened them). Note to Feist: Not that we doubt your tremendous talent (or your Joni Mitchell-esque cheekbones), but we’re betting that a divorce or two might make you a Grammy-winning machine!
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Crazy Old Lady Hats
Style Buzz SJP sports an outlandish hat at the Sex and the City movie premiere in London. I always assumed that Carrie Bradshaw would turn into one of those senile old ladies who hoards trash and lives with a million cats.
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Something Store
Tech Buzz For ten bucks (shipping included), this site will send you something, although you won’t know what. Past gifts have included duct tape wallets, flying alarm clocks, and belly dance costumes. In a world where birthdays can often result in getting homemade soap and gift certificates to chain restaurants, why not reach into this virtual grab bag of awesomeness? (Thanks to Hurty Elbow for the tip!)
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Slow Dancing
Culture Buzz In Argentina, a new movement to bring back slowing dancing attracted 4,000 people to an outdoor slow dance party. The revelers, who learned of the event via Facebook and mass emails, danced to hits like Peter Cetera’s “The Glory of Love,” Bryan Adams’ “(Everything I Do) I Do it For You,” and Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You.” Although the event turned out to be a marketing campaign for Doritos, please let this catch on. I would love it if 8th grade graduation-style dances were the next New Rave.
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Young Bill O’Reilly
Politics Buzz A vintage clip of a young Bill O’Reilly exploding in anger while hosting Inside Edition has surfaced. CBS has been taking the video down everywhere, but you can still watch it here.
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The “Change You Deserve”
Politics Buzz In response to Barack Obama’s calls for change, the Republican’s have unveiled their new “Change You Deserve” campaign for 2008. It turns out the slogan was also used to market the popular anti-depressant, Effexor. Sometimes those Republicans just get things so right.
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Visioneers
Movie Buzz Starring Zach Galifianakis in the strangest trailer of the year. I have no idea what this movie is really about, but it’s worth noting for two reasons. 1) Zach Galifianakis. 2) It outdoes those bizarre homemade Mike Gravel ads in terms of surreality.
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Young American Bodies
TV Buzz The third season of this web series about the sex lives of young urbanites living in Chicago has been picked up by IFC. There’s sex! And full-frontal nudity! It’s pretty much hipster porn, complete with awkward fumbling and poignant pillow talks. You’ll be aroused and cringing at the same time.
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Barack Obama = Matt Santos
Politics Buzz It seems similarities between Barack Obama and Matt Santos (the character played by Jimmy Smitts on The West Wing) are not coincidental. The writers say the character was based on Obama, then a relatively unknown senatorial candidate, but it now seems to be Obama who is following in the footsteps of the fictional presidential candidate. Like Obama, Santos was a young charismatic politician from an ethnic minority aiming to rise above race, up against a not-so-conservative Republican. Only time will tell how reality measures up to the show’s utopian vision of America.
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Mr. Big Vibrator
Culture Buzz Sex and the City fans can now buy a special edition “Mr. Big” rabbit vibrator, coinciding with the release of the movie. The Sex and the City movie is almost upon us! We’ve been hearing about it for so long now that it might take a vibrator to get us excited again.
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Kittens On Treadmills!!!
Culture Buzz Kittens + treadmills = YouTube sub-genre!! Look at the cats, so mesmerizing on their treadmills. Walk, kitty, walk!!!
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O.J. Mayo Scandal
Sports Buzz The single-season USC basketball player has allegedly been receiving gifts and cash from recruiters since high school. Mayo played one season at USC and will be heading into the NBA draft with a cloud hanging over his head. Louis Johnson, a former friend of Mayo’s, says the USC star has been receiving money and perks — like a flat-screen TV — from an L.A. promoter for several years.
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World’s Ugliest Dogs
Culture Buzz The voting is now open for the 2008 annual World’s Ugliest Dog contest. Cast your vote now! Even though he already won last year, I’m rooting for Elwood (pictured). The mohawk and lolling tongue rival the cuteness of any goldendoodle.
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Things Younger Than McCain
Politics Buzz A new website highlights things that have come into existence since the birth of John McCain. Bugs Bunny, Mount Rushmore, Alaska, plutonium and even Dick Cheney are all younger than John McCain.
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Beer Soap
Food Buzz A seller on Etsy has crafted vegan soaps made from Pabst and Guinness. This is probably the last thing you want to bathe yourself with the morning after a vomitous night of binge drinking. But for any of you who have ever looked at a keg and wished you were soaking in it, bathing with beer soap might be the next best thing.
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