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A Children's Treasury Of Terrible Videos About Barack And Hil
Earlier today we showed you Barack O'Bollywood and invited you to send in your favorite distracting and discomfiting viral videos about the Democratic candidates. Some of you did! We've embedded some of these videos after the jump. They make for disturbing viewing, you have been warned. There is musical theater and porn and ABBA. More »
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'Blood Is The New Black' Book Party At Death And Co.
Former Travel & Leisure and CondéNet employee Valerie Stivers' first novel takes place a magazine named Tasty, the flagship of a big publishing empire called Oldham, Inc. At Tasty, editors stay up all night and keep the lights off in their offices until midmorning, and they're almost never spotted eating. Also, there's no garlic allowed in the cafeteria! It takes heroine Kate McGraw a while to clue into the fact that they're all literal bloodsucking vampires, but you know what? Who can blame her. Last night, Emily and photographer Laurel Ptak found themselves in the gothy confines of Death and Co., where a group of sallow-skinned yet not undead magazine types had gathered to fete the book.
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Taxi Driver Beset by Gun-Toting Vampire Lesbian Model Author
Really, you're just not going to see a lede better than this:A city cabby involved in an infamous tussle with the first openly lesbian Playboy Playmate warned investigators that his shapely passenger was really a vampire who threatened him with her deadly Dracula teeth.The vampire in question is Stephanie Adams — Miss November 1992 and author of a New Age tome — shown here before her lawsuit versus the NYPD for rough treatment back in June. Seems cabbie Eric Darko (no relation to Donnie), who picked her up in Chelsea, refused to take her to her door, they argued, she called the cops, and then he called the cops and told them she had a gun. Cops did their Bad Boys routine on Adams, leading to lawsuit, and then the cabbie's revelation that she might not have a gun, but she was still dangerously undead. The cabbie has been recommended for "psychiatric evaluation." Reached for comment, Adams only murmured, "Sweet, precious, heterosexual blood," before vanishing in a puff of lesbian smoke. More »
