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Eliot Glazer
I write with a cyber quill, I eat like a very spoiled bunny rabbit, and I have trouble talking to people under age eight. I like public transportation, frozen yogurt, big dogs, synthesizers, and imagining what it’s like to “go clubbing.”
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Savoir Adore
Music Buzz The boy-girl self-described “fantasy rock” duo is quietly making a name for themselves on the East Coast as they continue to draw comparisons to Postal Service and Broken Social Scene. Alongside labelmates MGMT, Savoir Adore is continuing in Brooklyn’s tireless fight to conquer the iTunes library of the skinny-jeans-and-bedhead set.
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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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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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F**k Buttons
Music Buzz Meet the newest, hippest purveyors of “noise music.” Although such categorization may sound like a torture method straight out of Gitmo, the kids are loving it.
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Green Porno
Movie Buzz Now playing at film festivals worldwide, writer/actress/producer/crazy lady Isabella Rossellini’s bizarre, entertaining series of short films for the Sundance Channel focuses on the sex life of insects. Thanks to Green Porno, you no longer have to feel guilty about imagining what you could do with eight legs and six eyes.
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Comet
Culture Buzz The world’s most intelligent goldfish can play soccer, basketball, and do the limbo! The next time you’re contemplating whether or not to go to the gym, think of Comet. If you’re less active than a goldfish, you might want to put down the Doritos and get on the treadmill.
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Lindsay Lohan And The Mink Coat
Celebrity Buzz Ah, Young Hollywood. It’s stories like this that make us long for the days when troubled starlets were at least classy about their problems. You know the old story: some chick at a nightclub wore an $11,000 mink coat handed down to her from her grandmother, and before she knew it, it as gone! Then she saw pictures of Lindsay Lohan wearing the coat in a tabloid, thus realizing that she had to have stolen it because, in fact, she was sitting next to her in the club that very same evening. After contacting Lindsay’s lawyers, the coat was promptly returned to her apartment reeking of booze and cigarettes.
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I Love Money
TV Buzz And it all comes full circle as VH1 rounds up contestants fromFlavor Of Love, I Love New York, and Rock of Love to compete for $250,000. Between all the contestants, the amount of collagen, silicone and eyeliner might officially make the set of I Love Money a toxic wasteland (in every sense of the word).
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Absolut Ads
Culture Buzz Absolut commissioned comedians Zach Galifianakis and Tim and Eric to create ads however they saw fit. The two-part result is a delightfully twisted take on friendship that surely left the suits baffled. But at the end of the day, what drives the craving for a dirty martini more than men with bouffants and misshapen genitals?
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Sometimesdaily
Tech Buzz After a series of recent career stumbles, Amanda Congdon, the former Rocketboom hostess is back with an interactive variety show. See what happens when you get too big for your britches? You come crawling back to the stinkin’ Internet. It’s not so bad around here after all, is it, Congdon?
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The Story of Stuff
Science Buzz This online video - also available for download (beware: it’s 50mb!) - tackles the consequences of American hyper-consumption in a refreshingly irreverent manner. Seriously, shut down your computer, unplug your iPod, turn off your PDA, cap your water bottle, take off your sunglasses, and learn how to make a difference. Don’t worry - it’s only 20 minutes long, so you can get back to texting shortly.
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Freeze-Dried Pets
Culture Buzz Um, the dog pictured here is dead. And freeze-dried. Because, apparently, people do that. Finally, crazy cat ladies have a way to hoard felines without getting arrested! Because they’re all dead!
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Mariah Gets Married
Celebrity Buzz Rumors quickly swirled about Mariah Carey’s engagement to actor Nick Cannon, but apparently they’ve since been married at her home in the Bahamas. Twelve years Carey’s junior, Nick is excited to be gaining both a wife and — perhaps in enough time — a MILF.
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Newspaper Blackout Poems
Culture Buzz Texan cartoonist Austin Kleon blacks out the majority of text in newspaper articles, revealing new poems made from the leftovers. Well, if the Internet is, indeed, killing newspapers, at least it will leave in its wake a very cool art form. That’s something, right?
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This American Life Live
TV Buzz It started on radio, moved to television, and now it’s going live: Tonight, This American Life will be broadcast live from a New York stage to movie screens across the country. If we know Ira Glass (and we do), there are going to be a lot of panties thrown on-stage at this show. Flannel-clad hipster chicks have, indeed, found their Elvis.
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Teyana Taylor
Music Buzz A fiery little thing, the self-proclaimed “princess of Harlem” - whose album is slated to drop later this year - is the irresistibly cute and colorful protege of hip hop phenom Pharrell Williams. She’s already choreographed a video for Beyonce, and is allegedly a pioneer of the Chicken Noodle Soup dance. How can you not love this girl? She’s like Kelis with a sense of humor!
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Lesbos
Culture Buzz All the residents of this Greek island want is to be called “Lesbians” without being considered homosexual women. Is that so much to ask? Yes, Lesbos may be the birthplace of ancient poet Sappho — whose work argubly defined lesbian ideology — but it’s not like Nebraska changed its name to Etheridgetown after Melissa beckoned you to her window.
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The Billy Letters
Culture Buzz Posing as a 10-year-old boy, pop culture historian Bill Geerhart wrote letters to iconic politicians and murderers, and they all wrote back including Charles Manson and Dick Cheney. It’s like Dear Mr. Henshaw for the cold-blooded set.
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Penis Theft
Culture Buzz You may want to return that one-way ticket to the Congo, as sorcerers of black magic have been making penises shrink or - worse - disappear. Having lead to violent outbreaks and lynchings, this bit of odd news isn’t to be taken lightly. However, if someone can simply find a sorcerer whose magic touch will reverse the spell, won’t that make everyone happy?
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Judy Blume
Culture Buzz The queen of YA fiction is celebrated by devoted fans as she hits 70. Hey, not every prepubescent boy read Matt Christopher. Even if they didn’t necessarily understand what Margaret was talking about, some little boys found Blume’s blunt, descriptive language undeniably intriguing. We’re just sayin’, okay?
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