November 2011
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Cynthia Plastercaster Writes Her Autobiography... →
“Cynthia Plastercaster, nee Cynthia Albritton, has earned a place for herself among the world’s most famous groupies, if not THE most famous groupie. A product of the sexual revolution, she began making plaster casts of famous rock stars’ penises in the mid-1960’s, counting Jimi Hendrix and Jello Biafra among her collection of “babies.” An iconic and legendary figure in Chicago, she has...
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John Waters is glad that people feel comfortable... →
“In a rare at-home interview, the cult director opens up about being a ‘happy neurotic’ and why he’s a capitalist now…He has mixed feelings about gay culture becoming mainstream: ‘I miss it … I’m for gay marriage. I don’t want to do it, but I certainly think people should be allowed to, and I wouldn’t vote for anybody that would be against it. But at the same time, why do we...
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Holy Shit I Made The Washington Post Lifestyle...
Pepper-spray cop works his way through art history - would have been nice to get a link or mention, but what’s a meme to do. (I’m secretly proud of Edouard Manet’s “Le Dejeuner sur l’Herbe”) thought that was a good one.
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Whoa, UC Davis Pepper Spray
Thanks to everyone who linked to my visual riff on the UC Davis Pepper Spray/Lt. John Pike incident and subsequent photoshop this meme. The offending officer appears in the pieces I mashed which are the following; Thomas Eakins, The Gross Clinic 1875, Willard’s The Spirit of 76’, 1875, Andrew Wyeth’s Christina’s World, 1948, Eakins’ Arcadia c. 1883, and finally...
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Debbie Harry, Maria Abramović, Kenneth Anger In... →
“When two protean artists face off against each other, the confrontation can be titillating. So it went last week in Los Angeles, over the Museum of Contemporary Art’s annual artist-designed fundraiser, conceived this year by Marina Abramović. “The shit has hit the fan,” Abramović said on Thursday, when the leaked draft of a letter that choreographer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer wrote, but...
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Erykah Badu Feels the Space Age Beat HD →
Erykah Badu performs on something called Black Girls Rock complete with drum pads, and a sick riff on Afrika Bambaataa/Planet Rock including a beat box version of Baduizm’s “Appletree”.
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ThinkUp Is Out of Beta and Available For Free. →
“Today, ThinkUp is out of beta and available for free. If you have a presence on Twitter, Facebook or Google+ and know how to run a PHP/MySQL app on a web server (or on EC2), you should install it and get it started now. ThinkUp will collect all of your activity across these networks and give you great analytics, search and archiving for them.”
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“What’s your art-world pet peeve?…seven-figure prices paid for...”
– 19 Questions for Art Critic and “Work of Art” Judge Jerry Saltz
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Small Demons Storyverse →
“Suppose someone took every meaningful detail from all the books you love. Every song mentioned, every person, every food or place or movie title. And what if they did that for all the books everyone else loves, too. The ones you’ve never heard of. Suddenly you’ve got a whole world of seemingly random people, places and things, all gathered in one place.”
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