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Many Happy Returns
Remember "Tron," the male masseuse who got intimate with female clients in Tango's article about happy-ending massages for women? Apparently these types of staffers are a big problem (or a great solution!) at hotels, as well. [Reuters]
Remember "Tron," the male masseuse who got intimate with female clients in Tango's article about happy-ending massages for women? Apparently these types of staffers are a big problem (or a great solution!) at hotels, as well. [Reuters]
books
Failure to Return
Seriously, who isn't returning their library books? The failure to return borrowed books is a very real, very pressing problem these days. We've brought you two jail-time examples of rogue library borrowers this week alone. Now we've received a list of various offenders from the fuzz—a Southern library is being robbed of their possession of something called The Amazing Panda Adventure! Don't worry: the police department is on the case. More »
sex wars
We Are All Whores, So Save Your Outraged Blogging for the War or Whatever
You know what's boring? Feminist outrage. But it's so easy to be strident, especially in the blogosphere. Especially when a gal writes an article like Jessica Pilot's now-infamous profile on Manhattan's so-called "Hipster Hookers" in Radar. In the piece, she profiled high-end working girls, and even met with a madam herself—although she chickened out on actually going through with a call. Fine, whatever! The members of the blogosphere—you know, when they were not busy watching porn and having casual sex—had a field day with Pilot. She's been reduced to defending herself on her Facebook page: "I AM NOT A HIPSTER WHORE." More »
books
Jail Threatened for Yet Another Rogue Library Borrower
Last week, cops in Wisconsin apprehended a 20-year-old girl who worked two jobs, cuffed her, and hauled her into jail for the failure to return two library books—one of which was an Oprah Book Club selection. This week, a Maine old lady is being threatened with jail time for refusing to return a library book: More »
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Failing to Return These Library Books Will Get You Arrested
This sweet-looking 20-year-old lady was handcuffed and arrested over two overdue library books in Wisconsin. We know you're wondering which books they were: "Janet Fitch's best-seller White Oleander (a 1999 Oprah Book Club selection) and Angels & Demons, author Dan Brown's precursor to The Da Vinci Code." Check out the incident report, via Smoking Gun: More »
magazines
Vice Demands Cooler Letters
Vice magazine is suspending its letters page for a month, in protest of the fact that they now just get stupid emails, whereas they used to get real letters with "gifts inside." The
Presented Without Comment
Gavin McInnes, co-founder of Vice magazine, videotapes himself eating the world's hottest pepper. [Fishbowl NY]
Gavin McInnes, co-founder of Vice magazine, videotapes himself eating the world's hottest pepper. [Fishbowl NY]
urban anthropology
Jailhouse Lullabies
The NYT profiled the most awesome blog ever yesterday. It's called Courthouse Confessions, and it's run by photographer Steven Hirsch. He snaps and interviews willing participants leaving the Manhattan Criminal Court at 100 Centre Street (a building close to my heart!), and they tell him about what they've done to get locked up. The results are an oddly poignant collection of what are often referred to as "bullshit charges." An excerpt from the blog: More »
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