Music Buzz Just look at all the fucks former grunge dreamboat Evan Dando could give. (via youngmanhattanite.tumblr.com)
Culture Buzz Some ideas are recession-proof. Found on Lake St. in Chicago.
A 20-year-old Irish guy was arrested by Brazilian Feds at Congonhas airport in Sao Paulo after an X-ray revealed that he'd swallowed almost a kilo of coke. YUMMY! (via photoblog.msnbc.msn.com)
Celebrity Buzz The new tell-all from Joe McGinniss—The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin—isn't even out yet, but the skeeziest bits are already oozing into the media septic tank. Here are the tabloidiest allegations leveled at Sarah and Todd Palin from The National Enquirer's report on the book.
Culture Buzz Wait. I don't remember Phoebe Cates doing blow in the original … (via.)
Politics Buzz Classy Republican Ann Coulter went on Fox News to drag Barack Obama into a fight between Republican Rick Perry and Republican Ron Paul's suporters. (via mediamatters.org)
Screw it. Just write a personal check for $2 million worth of blow with “Cocaine” in the memo field.
If you're looking for cocaine, Great Britain seems to be the place to go while you should stay far away from Norway. This chart comes from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. (via economist.com)
Culture Buzz An outbreak of flesh-eating disease in Los Angeles and New York has been linked to cocaine that's been cut with levamisole, a veterinary medicine used to deworm livestock. Levamisole is known to rot off human skin, especially—as these photos illustrate—around the ears and nose. The Russians don't get to have all the flesh-eating narcotics fun. More at ABC News. WARNING: Gross.
Cocaine is super hot on the BuzzFeed Network right now. Here's all the best viral buzz on Cocaine.
A Dutch farmer watched in disbelief as a driver under the influence of cocaine drove a slalom course through his corn field. Here's an aerial picture of the corn field taken from a helicopter. You can't make this stuff up.
Footage from TMZ that allegedly depicts the beginning of the bender that led to Charlie Sheen's hospitalization. Charlie's cutting a rug shortly after cutting some lines.
Culture Buzz A new study by Wired of the New York sex industry has yielded some fascinating insights into the career of a high tech hooker. For example, prostitutes prefer BlackBerrys over iPhones. Also, hand jobs in the Bronx cost $75 plus a shot of liquor. Reams more data over at Wired (although a ream costs extra).
Celebrity Buzz Perpetually in and out of rehab, or as he'd put it “re-winning,” Charlie Sheen's career seems to be as much about his personal vices as it is about being an actor.
Culture Buzz A menagerie of internet animals who enjoy massive amounts of cocaine. But seriously, kids, don't do drugs (with animals).
This video has been making the rounds, but it's hard to tell if it's actually Demi Lovato's much ballyhooed drug tape. Regardless, that's one massive rail of booger sugar.