CULTURE BUZZ: A museum in Boston dedicated to art “too bad to be ignored.” While the curators only collect found originals, we’re pushing for them to open a wing that pays tribute to the “original gangsta” of bad art, Anne Geddes . Because, really, nothing beats a naked sleeping baby in a flower .

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The Best Links:

1. MOBA: The Collection
2. Art That’s “Creepy, Odd, and Just Plain Bad?” Now THAT’S Worth a Trip to Boston.
3. I’ll See Your MOMA, and Raise You 2 MOBA’s
4. Listen to One Dude’s Visit to MOBA
5. Masterpieces Can, Indeed, Be Found in “Trash Heaps and Garbage Cans”

TV BUZZ: A tumblr blog that collects fictional lost artifacts from the infamous show, like IMs and handwritten love letters. Here’s a must-read if you’re a Gossip Girl addict. Sometimes fictional characters get a little too real, though, like the times I used to have creepy dreams that I was Mulder and Scully’s third wheel.

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The Best Links:

1. all the sad young gossip girls - home
2. To the Creator of This Blog: Please Show Your Face
3. This Should Tide You Over til The Next Season

CULTURE BUZZ: Cigarette machines are redesigned to dispense little pieces of art. The only way this invention could get any cuter would be if it were operated exclusively by puppies in sombreros.

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The Best Links:

1. Art-o-Mat: The Official Page
2. The Art-O-Mat Pool On Flickr
3. Video: Dawn Visits a Art-o-Mat in Madison, Wisconsin
4. The Art-o-Mat At the Chambers Hotel In Minneapolis Dispenses “Person Passion Puppets”
5. SO MUCH TINY ART!
6. ABC News Covers Art-o-Mats
7. Rachael Ray Is Down With Art-o-Mats
8. Art-o-mat Merch!?
9. If You Can’t Get to an Art-o-Mat, You Can Fill Out a Questionnaire and Get Random Tiny Art in the Mail!

TECH BUZZ: A glitch in the Verizon text-messaging system brings Leila Sales at least one misdirected text message a day, and she blogs the best of them. In the vein of Overhead in New York and Found Magazine, the Leila Texts are captivating for the brief, mysterious glances they provide into the lives of text-happy, LOLspeak-using strangers.

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The Best Links:

1. Text L-E-I-L-A and a Copy Goes to Her
2. The Story Behind Leila Sales and Her Bizarre Texts
3. “Omg r u kiddin me?”
4. “Yeah that was real cute”
5. Got to Love That Unintended Voyeurism