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Happy Little Ugly People

from The Daily Beast via Yahoo! News Sex, Deceit, and Scandal: The Ugly War Over Bob Ross’ Ghost by Alston Ramsay Bob Ross is everywhere these days: bobbleheads, Chia Pets, waffle makers, underwear emblazoned with his shining face, even energy drinks “packed with the joy and positivity of Bob Ross!” Whatever merchandising opportunity is out […]

Grodin Gone

RW GTA

from AP Street racing surges across US amid coronavirus pandemic By ANDREW SELSKY Jaye Sanford, a 52-year-old mother of two, was driving home in suburban Atlanta on Nov. 21 when a man in a Dodge Challenger muscle car who was allegedly street racing crashed into her head-on, killing her. She is one of the many […]

Picasso 103

from France 24 Picasso painting sells for $103 mn in New York: auction house Pablo Picasso’s “Woman sitting by a window (Marie-Therese)” sold Thursday for $103.4 million at Christie’s in New York, the auction house said. The painting, completed in 1932, was sold for $90 million, which rose to $103.4 million when fees and commissions […]

Super Cat

Einstein Gone Wild

from Study Finds Newly discovered letter reveals Albert Einstein’s views on birds, bees, and physics by John Anderer MELBOURNE, Australia — No single individual may be more synonymous with the term “genius” than Albert Einstein. Born in Germany, but forced to flee Europe during the Nazi occupation, Einstein ended up becoming one of the greatest physicists […]

The Flynt File

from VICE ‘Fuck This Court’: We Obtained Larry Flynt’s FBI File and It’s Pretty Wild The 322-page file contains a litany of events from John DeLorean’s cocaine bust to an alleged effort by Flynt to blow himself up in front of the Supreme Court. By Irving Alpert When Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt died on Feb. […]

Cerne Abbas

from The New Yorker The Mysterious Origins of the Cerne Abbas Giant On a hillside ages ago, people inscribed a naked man with a twenty-six-foot-long erect penis. Why did they do it? By Rebecca Mead The sun was still low in the sky on the spring morning last year when Martin Papworth, an archeologist for the National Trust, […]

Next Up

from France 24 The music festival refusing to bow to Covid Belgrade (AFP) Pulsating crowds, booming open-air sound systems, megastars lapping up the adoration of thousands — music festivals are fast receding into distant memory thanks to Covid, but one event in Serbia is refusing to yield. The Exit Festival — one of Europe’s biggest […]

Barbershop

from SPIN Seventh Heaven Barbershop quartets are more than meets the ear by Jonathan Rowe  Don’t let a century’s worth of pop culture fool you — the best of the best barbershop quartets have five voices. Sure, four striped-shirt, straw-hatted, bow-tied bodies — but five voices. The second tenor sets the stage with a lead melody line, […]