“Sugar Chile” Robinson
THE POWER OF SIX: Chapter Two
The Final Testament on Plum TV
Drunk Chick Showers Sheriffs With Breast Milk
Woman Arrested After Allegedly Spraying Deputies With Breast Milk
Monday, June 27, 2011 5:48 AM
DELAWARE, Ohio — A woman faces several charges after she allegedly sprayed deputies with breast milk as they tried to detain her over the weekend.
The incident occurred early Saturday morning near the Bridgewater Banquet & Conference Center on Sawmill Parkway.
According to the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office, deputies were called to the area after receiving calls about a domestic dispute. When they arrived, a man told them that he had been attending a wedding at the facility with his wife, who had gotten drunk and struck him several times before locking herself in a car.
Delaware County Sheriff Walter L. Davis III said deputies tried to talk with the woman, who was identified as Stephanie Robinette, 30, of Westerville, but she refused to cooperate.
“When deputies attempted to remove Robinette from the vehicle, she advised the deputies that she was a breast feeding mother and proceeded to remove her right breast from her dress and began spraying deputies and the vehicle with her breast milk,” Davis said.
Spanking Stewardesses
McDonald’s Recruiting Video Uses Green Day to Pit Teens Against Parents and Peers
BOOKHAMPTON WELCOMES AUTHOR JAMES FREY – Saturday, June 25
BOOKHAMPTON WELCOMES AUTHOR JAMES FREY
WHEN:
Sat, Jun 25, 2011
8:00 PM-9:00 PM
WHERE:
BookHampton
41 Main Street
East Hampton
DETAILS:
James Frey will read from and sign his new book, “The Final Testament of the Holy Bible.”
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Any bookseller bookhampton@bookhampton.com
631 324-4939
Columbo Gone
Columbo Star Peter Falk Dead at 83
NBCU Photo Bank via AP Images
Peter Falk, the legendary actor who graced both big screen and small over a 50-year career but will perhaps best be remembered for his Emmy-winning role as the shabby-dressed, wisecracking homicide detective on TV’s Columbo, has died. He was 83.
Falk’s family confirmed to CBS News the two-time Academy Award nominee passed away last night, though no cause of death has been announced.
As the cigar-chomping, seemingly slow-witted lieutenant Columbo, Falk was the epitome of cool as he went about solving some of TV’s most perplexing mysteries with the classic catchprase, “Just One More Thing.” Episodes aired regularly from 1971 to 1978 on NBC, before appearing sporadically as made-for-TV movies on both the Peacock net and ABC in subsequent years. The lastColumbo episode was broadcast in 2003 and the iconic part nabbed the thesp four Emmy Awards (the fifth came in 1962 for the Dick Powell TV drama The Price of Tomatoes).
Ed Templeton @ Half Gallery
JAMES FREY PREVIEWING ED TEMPLETON’S HALF GALLERY SHOW
Barcodes Gussied Up
Art in Aisle 5: Barcodes Enter Expressionist Period
By SARAH NASSAUER
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Design Barcodes Inc. (man, skyline); Vanity Barcodes LLC (3)
Some proposed barcode designs, from left, depict a hand mixer, jelly beans, skyline, school bus and trousers.
Package design has become so artful, it has come to this: Even the barcode, the style runt of product labeling, is getting gussied up.
Beer, granola, juice and olives are sporting barcodes that integrate famous buildings, blades of wheat and bubbles into the ubiquitous black and white rectangle of lines and numbers. Consumer-goods companies hope these vanity barcodes will better connect with customers.
The trend is popular with smaller companies, and even one of the world’s largest food companies, Nestle SA, is trying out vanity barcodes on its smaller brands.
When Sixpoint Brewery planned to launch a line of canned beer this year, the Brooklyn, N.Y., company set out to fashion the perfect can design. It soon realized, “you need this big, ugly barcode so people can scan them,” says Shane Welch, president of Mad Scientists Brewing Partners LLC, which owns Sixpoint. “I thought, why can’t we do our own custom barcode?” Launched last month, the silver cans bear a barcode that integrates the Statue of Liberty and skyscrapers.
A handful of companies that specialize in making vanity barcodes have cropped up in recent years, though some companies create them in-house.
Religion, God and Death on Strombo
Salmon and Chipotle Burgers With Citrus Avocado Guacamole
Oprah and James Frey Prepare for Their Interview
Oprah and James Frey Prepare for Their Interview
Tag along on the morning of Oprah’s final sit-down with James Frey. Watch how they both prepare for their first on-camera conversation since the infamous 2006 interview. More from this show
It’s gettin’ real in the Whole Foods Parking lot….
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Canucked In The Nuts With A Stun Grenade
Gagosian iPad App
Gagosian Gallery’s iPad App, Designed by Award-Winning Firm @radical.media, Launches Today Taking Users on an In-Depth Journey With Gagosian’s Artists and Exhibitions
NEW YORK, June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Gagosian Gallery announces the launch of an application for the iPad, available as a free download from the iTunes store, beginning today. The app will be updated four times per year, providing content that features recent, current, and future Gagosian artists, exhibitions, and projects. The artists presented in edition #1 include Richard Avedon, Cecily Brown, John Currin, Vera Lutter, Kazimir Malevich, Elizabeth Peyton, Pablo Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Prince, and Rudolf Stingel.
Admirers of John Currin‘s opulent portraiture will revel in the app’s gigapixel digital expose of a recent painting, as well as a 2010 lecture by the artist. Other projects include an interview with writer James Frey about his 2011 novel, The Final Testament of the Holy Bible, published by Gagosian Gallery. The app also offers excerpts from scholar Aleksandra Shatskikh‘s catalogue essay for the historic exhibition “Malevich and the American Legacy” (March 3–April 30, 2011, New York).
Viewers can relive a key moment in art history by watching archival footage of Rauschenberg’s
1966 performance, Open Score; or follow a tour by curator Francesco Bonami of “Rudolf Stingel” (March 4 – April 16, 2011, New York).
Family Dog Abuses Toddler
m_f: Top 10 Literary Smack-downs
The Quick 10: 10 Literary Smack-Downs, Quips, and Squabblesby – June 14, 2011 – 10:21 PM
There’s an adage they give you when you receive your name badge at the door of Writer Land: “You only compete with yourself.” While most authors hold true to this (at least in public), there are those who make time to spend bashing their fellow wordslingers. Here are ten cringe-worthy examples.
1. Mark Twain vs. Ambrose Bierce
When they asked Samuel Clemens to read and review long-time friend Ambrose Bierce’s not-so-bestseller, Nuggets and Dust Panned Out in California by Dod Grile, publishers Chatto & Windus had no idea they’d get such a scathing report back. Twain calls Nuggets and Dust “the vilest book that exists in print” and ends with what might be the most simultaneously hilarious and hurtful review of all time:
“There is humor in Dod Grile, but for every laugh that is in his book there are five blushes, ten shudders and a vomit. The laugh is too expensive.”
2. James Frey vs. Dave Eggers
Before his tearful apology on Oprah for passing off as a memoir his best-selling tale of addiction and redemption, and even before the book had been released, James Frey took aim at Dave Eggers and his much-hailed A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Here’s what Frey said in an interview in New York Observer:
“The Eggers book pissed me off. Because a book that I thought was mediocre was being hailed as the best book written by the best writer of my generation. F**k that. And f**k him and f**k anybody who says that.”
3. Ernest Hemingway vs. Ford Madox Ford.
In a letter sent to Ezra Pound in 1925, Papa Hemingway compares contemporary Ford Madox Ford to a bull in a less-than-complimentary tirade:
“Bulls at least are not the greatest stylists in English – no bull has ever been a political exile. Bulls don’t run reviews. Bulls of 25 don’t marry old women of 55 and expect to be invited to dinner… Bulls do not borrow money… Bulls are edible after they have been killed.”
Isaac Asimov on Libraries
Quotation of the Day
Forty-Year-Old Wisdom About Libraries
“[A library] isn’t just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you–and most of all, a gateway, to a better and happier and more useful life.”
–Isaac Asimov in a March 16, 1971, letter to children at the newly opened Troy, Mich., public library, as posted on lettersofnote.com.
Dogs In Fiction
Dogs in fiction – quiz
Can you sniff out the right answers in our jaw-gnashingly difficult canine quiz? Test your knowledge of tails in tales and find out if you’re top dog in the pack
For $95 Million I Might Let My Boss Masturbate On Me As Well
St. Louis woman awarded $95 million after former boss allegedly masturbated on her
A St. Louis woman who said she was hit on the head with her boss’ genitals was awarded what her attorneys believe is the largest payout ever in an American sexual harassment lawsuit.
Ashley Alford was awarded $95 million in compensation from The Aaron’s Inc., a large rent-to-own furniture chain after she said the store failed to act after a manager allegedly assaulted her twice in one day, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Alford claimed that the store’s then-manager, Richard Moore, gave her inappropriate nicknames and touched her inappropriately when she first began working there in 2005. Nearly a year after she was hired, she claimed, he came up to her in the stock room and whacked her on the head with his penis. Then, later that day, he lifted her shirt and masturbated over her as he held her down, she said.
He did not return to work after those incidents.
Old-Fashioned Egg Sandwich
Vingt-et-un with Glenn O’Brien
GLENN O’BRIEN
Glenn O’Brien playing blackjack with fellow author James Frey
Glenn O’Brien is the author of “How to Be A Man” and for years wrote a great column at ArtForum called “Like Art.” He was previously the editorial director at Interview magazine and once hosted a cult classic tv show, “TV Party.”
First piece of art you ever bought or were gifted?
When I was in college I bought a set of Les Levine’s “disposable” sculptures from Max Protech at his gallery in Washington.
Artist quote to live by?
“I don’t mess around with my subconscious.” -Robert Rauschenberg
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A Visual Glossary Of Religious Symbols
Indalo (Mojacar Man)
Indalo is an ancient Andalusian symbol. The original image,dating from Neolithic times, can still be seen in the “Cave of the Signboards” at Almeria, in Southern Spain. He appears as the figure of a man carrying a rainbow between his hands, alongside figures of animals, horned men, and a number of odd symbols.
The name Indalo is derived from the latin phrase “Indal Eccius,” or “Messenger of the Gods.”
Indalo’s original meaning and purpose has been lost, but it most likely represents a Shaman or a God figure.Today, the figure is closely associated with the village of Mojacar, and is used there as a symbol of luck and good fortune, and to ward off evil. Like the Native American Kokopelli, he is often emblazoned on businesses, homes, and souvenirs for tourists.
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The Believing Brain
The Believing Brain: From Ghosts To Gods To Politics And Conspiracies — How We Construct Beliefs And Reinforce Them As Truths
By Michael Shermer, hardcover, 400 pages, Times Books, list price: $28
“Beliefs come first, explanations for beliefs follow.” That’s the argument professional skeptic Michael Shermer makes in The Believing Brain, a book that fuses neuroscience, sociology and the author’s own biographical stories into a compelling and sometimes deeply personal read — even if you don’t agree with him on everything. And you won’t.
Shermer, a former evangelical Christian who became an agnostic in college, now dedicates his sprawling career to debunking what he sees as superstitions and failures of logic, from religion to alien abduction to Sept. 11 conspiracy theories.
The Art-Vandal Underground
A Chronicler of the Art-Vandal Underground
Piotr Redlinski for The New York Times
Mr. Seelie, center with camera, shooting Lightning Bolt, a punk band, in April.
by ALAN FEUER
In the windy darkness of a recent spring morning, 30 people of an arty, mostly Brooklynite persuasion gathered after midnight for an illicit get-together in a maintenance shed, high atop the Williamsburg Bridge. Billed as the “Third-Annual NYC Undercover, You-Might-Be-Arrested, Clandestine Errantry Trespassing Adventure Party,” the event attracted members of a distinct, risk-taking subset of the New York art world — heights-loving writers, courageous painters, a devil-may-care guitarist, a guy lugging bongos and the Williamsburg photographer, Tod Seelie — all of whom had been quietly invited to the late-night affair by its pseudonymous organizers, Agent Verde and Agent Rojo.
After scrambling over a 10-foot-high security fence, the partygoers climbed a steel staircase — the lights of Manhattan glimmering below — as part of a vertiginous, invigorating trip that culminated in a catwalk, a ladder and finally a narrow hatchway, leading up to a low-ceilinged room of riveted metal plates. There, for more than an hour, the group made music and unauthorized public art. Light was provided by votive candles and flashlights. Mr. Seelie, a bald man sporting tattoos and a Fu Manchu mustache, camera at his eye, stood taking pictures in the middle of the room.
“When a trip takes this much effort,” he said, “there’s usually something worthwhile at the end.”
Elvis’ Favorite Sandwich
Graeme Wood describes Elvis’ all-time favorite sandwich, the 8,000-calorie Fool’s Gold Loaf. We’re looking for the most ridiculous sandwiches out there.
