CULTURE BUZZ – A thank you note from Marilyn Monroe for a bottle of champagne is just one of 586 of her dearest belongings that have recently surfaced.After Marilyn’s tragic 1962, death her manager hid two filing cabinets filled with her dearest possessions. The new Marilyn artifacts were photographed by Mark Anderson and will be revealed in October’s Vanity Fair. Artifacts include bar and hotel receipts, mementos, letters, jewels, Chanel no 5, lots of prescriptions for sedatives and barbiturates, a recording of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs song “Some Day My Prince Will Come”, and her lucky green dice.

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The Best Links:

1. Check Out the Marilyn Monroe Photo Archives
2. Read the Article “The Things She Left Behind”
3. A Video Introduction to the Marilyn Archive

CULTURE BUZZ – About a year ago, Levinator25 uploaded footage of an in-game glitch allowing Tiger Woods to walk on water, and make the so-called “Jesus Shot”.Last week, EA responded with a video of their own showing Tiger Woods doing just that, claiming, “It’s not a glitch. He’s just that good.” Viral marketing, meet mainstream America. Levinator25, you just got pwned.

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1. Tiger Woods 09 - Walk On Water
2. Tiger Woods Jesus Shot
3. Might Be One of the Greatest and Most Controversial EA Sports Viral Marketing Videos Ever
4. YouTube Clip for EA Sports Responds to ‘Jesus Shot’ Video
5. You know viral marketing has gone mainstream when Tiger Woods does it.
6. Living The Chinese Cliche
7. Digg Weighs In

CULTURE BUZZ – Five years after his father’s body was initially found and cremated (without the authorities conducting an actual DNA test), one man witnessed his dad alive and well…on daytime TV!It’s quite an amazing story, especially now that John Renehan has reunited with his father, helping him piece together his past. Less amazing? An urn filled with the ashes of a stranger. That’s, like, begging for nightmares.

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The Best Links:

1. Daddy Lives!
2. See Video Here
3. Video Interview With John Renehan

CULTURE BUZZ – The Church of England may start a chain of wine bars to update their brand and attract new worshipers.The bars would be decorated with stained glass and “episcopal purple.” No word yet on whether the wine would be made out of water on site, or just, you know, purchased in bottles.

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1. In Vino’s Name
2. Cathedral Planning Wine Bar Chain
3. Cathedral Turns to Wine Bars to Woo New Business
4. Church Attendance Down? Try Installing a Wine Bar.
5. Anglican Wine Bars Set to Take Over Birmingham

CULTURE BUZZ – A resort island in Germany builds a house aptly named ‘The World Stands on Its Head.’This whimsical townhouse looks like something out of Alice in Wonderland.

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1. More Photos - Everything’s Upside Down!
2. Germany Builds a House Upside Down - See More Photos Here

CULTURE BUZZ – From a BBC public service campaign to promote condom use in India, it’s…a downloadable ringtone consisting of people repeatedly singing the word “condom.”It’s part Mozart chorale, part barbershop quartet, entirely amazing. And no, I can’t explain the parrot.

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1. Condomcondom.org
2. A Condom Ringtone to Die For

CULTURE BUZZ – People share their stories about the clothes they wore the last time they had sex.How much does your outfit affect your game? Seems like if you’re drunk enough, a pair of crocs could easily be mistaken for some sexy Louboutin pumps.

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1. Top 10 Slutty Halloween Costumes
2. The Clothes That Got Me Laid - Homepage

CULTURE BUZZ – A new exhibit at the Museum of Sex is a celebration of the “diversity of animal sexual behavior”.This statue of the Deersome is just one of many amazing animal sexual experiences that are on display at the museum. It’s like if all the humping animals I ever saw on TV crept out of my dreams, only to coalesce in one place. Naturally, that’s New York City baby.

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1. The Sex Life of Animals
2. Reviewing the Exhibit
3. Animals Get Freaky at Museum of Sex
4. Inside the Museum of Sex with curator Sarah Jacobs [Video]
5. Museum of Sex: Sex Lives of Animals
6. Kung Poo Panda
7. The Sex Lives of Animas Listing on NYMag
8. Flatworm Penis Fencing

CULTURE BUZZ – Forget the horse and buggy, dysentery, and the whole Oregon thing.Thule Trail is a modern day remake of the classic game Oregon Trail. In Thule Trail you travel from Chicago to Santa Barbara to attend the Atlantis Music Festival. Choose from a SUV or Hybrid, hunt for tacos (you really shoot packages of tacos,) and boost morale by buying magazines and CD’s. Good luck.

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The Best Links:

1. Thule Trail

CULTURE BUZZ – The president of the SF Hells Angels was killed in a gang shooting last night.I wish I could see his tattoos more clearly.

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The Best Links:

1. Hells Angels Leader in S.F. Shot Dead in Fight
2. Was it the Mongols?