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		<title>Cee Lo Green &#8211; Fuck You</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, this awesome song just out yesterday from Cee Lo Green, &#8220;Fuck You.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Fred Holland Day:  Photographer, Aesthete, Trust-Fund Child, Pleasure-Seeker, Eccentric</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This last June, after Sebastian Horsley died in Soho at the age of 47 from a heroin overdose, I began thinking about this genre of rich wastrel louches. We in the white, waking world are fascinated by stories of Edies and Huntington Hartfords who have it all and waste it all. Of Horsley, The Guardian put it best: Despite his louche self-destruction&#8211;Horsley attempted his own crucifixion in 2000 in the Philippines&#8211;for the past two years he had got up at 7 am to plough up and down the local swimming pool. &#8230;A quote that, to this day, makes me laugh:  &#8220;Oh, and by the way, he attempted a self-crucifixion.  But!  Now about his swimming routine!&#8221; I was struck by the similarities between him and someone else, another rich-boy aesthete with queer artistic tendencies:  Fred Holland Day. I first became acquainted with Fred Holland Day&#8217;s photography on a hot day in East Africa&#8211;Kisumu, right on the fetid, humid shores of Lake Victoria&#8211;in the British Council Library.  The British Council was a quiet, blessed island of relief from the bush. Paging through a retrospective of early 20th century photographers, my jaw dropped when I first saw F. Holland Day&#8217;s crucifixion series, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Candwich&#8217;s Even Darker Side:  &#8220;Product&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t read this article.  You think it&#8217;s going to be about Candwich, the &#8220;sandwich in a can&#8221; that has been ripping up the Internet tubes with memes-of-fire? More so, it&#8217;s an exploration of the dark side of language and how a certain word has lobotomized all of us consumers: Product. Candwich is a sandwich product, as they state.  Why?  Well, I&#8217;ll tell you why, and you&#8217;re going to sit there and like it. A Short History of the Misuse of &#8220;Product&#8221; The word product has enjoyed despicable notoriety since around the early 2000s as being overused and unnecessary.  Now, everything has this product suffix slapped on. Product is used in 2 main ways: Because the Thing is Essentially Fake: Orange juice product.  It&#8217;s 12% juice; 86% high fructose corn syrup; and 2% Fuck-You-Consumer. To Make the Intangible Appear Tangible:  Mortgage loan product.  It&#8217;s mysterious shit we&#8217;re doing for you, Mr. and Ms. Homebuyer&#8211;more a service than anything&#8211;but we&#8217;ll call it a product so you feel like you&#8217;re getting something you can hold in your hands. In the case of Candwich, it&#8217;s already a laughable concept.  Oh &#8211; and it doesn&#8217;t exist, either. Their site tells us:  &#8220;Check Back Soon for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China Miéville:  &#8220;The Scar&#8221; Opened the Top of My Head</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first encountered China Miéville via his stunning third novel, The Scar. What I find amazing about this interview with Miéville about his latest novel, Kraken, in The Onion&#8217;s AV Club is that The Scar isn&#8217;t mentioned at all.  Yet so many of the commenters echo my amazement with The Scar. Words like &#8220;stunning&#8221; are cheap and too easy to toss out.  But even then, around 2002 when the novel was published, I was in my late thirties and had tons and tons of books under my belt (as a reader), and you&#8217;d think I&#8217;d be sufficiently world-weary. But I hadn&#8217;t been there, done that&#8211;to use a phrase popular around the turn of the millennium&#8211;enough to be fully prepared for Miéville&#8217;s dark, twisted, baroque worlds of Bas-Lag and New Crobuzon in The Scar and Perdido Street Station.]]></description>
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		<title>Top 3 Cars of Supercilious Grouchy Old Bastards</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being somewhat in the market for a new car and being somewhat of a guy who is getting (snort!) older, I figured the first order of business was to determine which cars I should not buy. That compelled me to reflect on the class of cars that I call Cantankerous Old Bastard Cars.  First, let&#8217;s define Cantankerous Old Bastard: The Old Bastard is pushing sixty, divorced, and monied.  He is&#8211;as he likes to tell people often&#8211;successful.  Two kids, grown, out of the house.  Often he is a lawyer, a word which he pronounces in a gravely, Jilly Rizzo-type East Coast voice as:  loyah. Reading glasses perched on the end of his nose and white-collared dress shirts help complete the picture. Now that Cadillacs no longer define the crusty old man, what kind of vehicle are we looking at? 3. Jaguar XJ Series Jaguars have famously been absolute mechanical pieces-of-shit.  Where else can you spend $73,000 for the privilege of owning a car that leaves you stranded in the broiling heat near Wendover, Utah?  Jaguar, of course!  Even Jaguar itself admits that its &#8220;old reputation for having spotty quality lingers from long ago and hurts us.&#8221; But if you&#8217;re an Old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hidden Cell Phone Towers?  Try To Beat This One.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Los Angeles Times has a photo essay about cell phone towers being cleverly disguised as palm trees. I think the best thing about Emily Shur&#8217;s photo essay is its title:  Nature Calls. But come on, I&#8217;ve got this one beat.  For years, my parents in Medford, Oregon have had a church down the street with a cross that doubles as a cell phone tower&#8230;or cell phone tower that doubles as a cross.  However you choose to view it. According to Hi-Tech Composite Structures, the company that built the cross: This cross at a church in Medford is doubling as a cell tower. Verizon Wireless approached the First Christian Church and the congregation agreed. So the church got permission from the city and built a new cross that connects people&#8217;s faith and their phone calls. The church receives a monthly stipend from Verizon, which parishioners say will allow them to do things they could not otherwise afford.]]></description>
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		<title>The Oozing Sublimity of Zuckerberg&#8217;s Flop Sweat and Hoodie Removal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 01:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I cannot get this out of my head.  I had heard about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg breaking out in a huge, visible sweat when Walter Mossberg and Kara Swisher of The Wall Street Journal asked him about privacy problems that Facebook has brought onto its users recently. Mossberg and Swisher, I should mention, did not grill Zuckerberg.  They were simply asking questions.  Yet Zuckerberg was still unable to control himself. He repeatedly says that he&#8217;s okay, and that he will not remove his famed hoodie (he supposedly never removes it).  Finally, Mossberg, as mild-mannered as ever, just says this: Mossberg:  Can you explain this personalization thing you did and why you did it and what&#8217;s the value of it to your users. Zuckerberg:  Maybe I should take off the hoodie. Swisher:  Take off the hoodie. Then about a minute of futzing while Zuckerberg removes the hoodie, complicated by the lapel mic and wires.  Mossberg and Swisher even help him with the removal. Wait, wait.  As if that&#8217;s not sublime enough, after the hoodie is off, Swisher notices a mysterious symbol on the inside-back: Swisher reads some of the words, and then: Swisher:  &#8230;this weird symbol in the middle that is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Enfant Terrible!&#8221; &#8211; Wickedly Good Diplomatic Talk From Kissinger and Bouteflika</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 01:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The diplomatic meeting is of no consequence.  It&#8217;s just a minor blip on the radar of classified documents published by Wikileaks. On December 17, 1975, in Paris, U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger met Abdelaziz Bouteflika Minister of Foreign Affairs of Algeria.  As published in a secret memorandum, the first part of the exchange sounds like something straight out of an Ian Fleming novel. Kissinger:  Enfant terrible! Kissinger:  What are the most pressing problems we have to discuss? Bouteflika:  Whatever you would like. Kissinger [to Sabbagh]:  When I met him, he was a revolutionary.  Now he is a revolutionary diplomat. Bouteflika:  It is necessary, during certain parts of one&#8217;s life, if one if off on a tangent for a bit. God, how I would love to meet up with a friend and begin with &#8220;Enfant terrible!&#8221;  And you can practically see Bouteflika smoking his cigarette underhanded. Bouteflika has been President of Algeria since 1999.]]></description>
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		<title>Why Wieden &amp; Kennedy, Old Spice, and Isaiah Mustafa Deserve To Be Crowned Emperors of The Universe</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 07:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now, the Wieden &#38; Kennedy ad campaign for Old Spice, featuring Isaiah Mustafa, is a thing of legend.  Even Advertising Age, not prone to handing out cheap praise, says that they have seen nothing like The Man Your Man Could Smell Like campaign. Oh, and it&#8217;s over, too.  Really?  You didn&#8217;t even know it happened? We&#8217;ve got 5 reasons why Wieden, Old Spice, and Isaiah absolutely rocked this campaign: Isaiah Mustafa &#8211; As the saying goes, all the women love him, all the men want to be like him.  Mustafa carried his part with just the right balance of arrogant humor.  Given the difficulty of these scripts, Mustafa had his work cut out for him. Bizarre Scripts &#8211; &#8220;&#8230;I spent my younger years in a shark dentistry practice on a distant island&#8230;&#8221; Viral Like Crazy &#8211; Wieden had Mustafa tape many short spots, each aimed specifically to influence-makers in the web- and blogosphere:  @mrskutcher, @rosemcgowan, @knitmeapony, and so on.  Mustafa was so well-integrated into the viral campaign that he was even responding to blog comments himself. Incredible Visuals &#8211; GCI or not, the Swan Dive spot takes the cake for mind-blowing visuals. Quick In, Quick Out &#8211; Old Spice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hausu:  Watch At Your Own Peril</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 06:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holy crap. Hausu (1977) is a Japanese film that blog Dangerous Minds calls &#8220;a mixtape compiled by a demented Carl Jung&#8211;immersive, repellent, hysterical and visionary.&#8221;]]></description>
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