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Sexually-dynamic Mustached Americans

from ABC News American Mustache Institute Pushes for Congressional Facial-Hair Caucus By Chris Good Spurred by a whiff of news that Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, wants a caucus for senators with facial hair, the American Mustache Institute is pushing King to make good on his recent comment. National Journal reported last week that King is mulling the notion [...]

Ambassador Worm Goes One-on-One with George Stephanopoulos

Detachable Missile

from SPIN The, Um, Oral History of King Missile’s ‘Detachable Penis’ by David Peisner King Missile in 1992 / Photo by Bob Berg/Getty Images The meaty truths behind a monster hit It’s easy to forget just how weird the landscape of popular music was in the early-to-mid-’90s. The success of bands like R.E.M., the Red Hot [...]

Robbery, Assault & Burrito-ry

from CBS Tampa Bay Police: Man Assaults Teen Boy With Taco Bell Burrito PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS Tampa) – Beware the burrito. Police arrest 36-year-old Erik Brown after they say he slapped a 16-year-old boy in the face with a Taco Bell burrito. According to the arrest report, the boy was having a “verbal altercation” with his [...]

Koettbullar (the Swedish word for Horseballs)

from AP IKEA WITHDRAWS MEATBALLS IN MORE THAN 20 COUNTRIES By KARL RITTER STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish furniture giant Ikea became entangled in Europe’s widening meat scandal Monday, forced to withdraw meatballs from stores across Europe amid suspicions that they contained horse meat. Stores in the U.S. and Canada were not affected, Ikea said. The company [...]

“Sip in the nectar from between the lips of your love”

from Brain Pickings The Art of Kissing: A 1936 Guide for Lovers by Maria Popova “Like a bee that settles on the fragrant pistils of a flower, and sips in the nectar for honey, so should you sip in the nectar from between the lips of your love.” Between Edison’s scandalous footage of the first kiss in [...]

Follow, Follow Reverso

from Shelf Awareness Follow Follow: A Book of Reverso Poems by Marilyn Singer, illus. by Josee Masse In Marilyn Singer’s fun, thoughtful and beautifully written collection, each of her 14 reverso poems spins a familiar fairy tale in a new direction.Singer introduced the reverso in Mirror Mirror. On one side of the page is a free-verse [...]

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Pentametron – Iambic Pentameter Tilled From Twitter

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Pre-Meditated Rage Against The Machine

Shot six months before their debut – Rage Against The Machine burning down the aisle of a Long Beach record store. Outstanding – and Bombkudos to CowProd.