To the Bat Closet

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Harper’s has this very cool list of homosexual comic-book characters and their fates. The list was compiled by Perry Moore, author of Hero, a young-adult novel about a gay teenage superhero.

Indexed

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The New York Times blog Freakonomics points out this interesting Indexed site. Apparently, a book is due in February. Cool stuff.

Awful Plastic Surgery

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Just came across this page and dug it. It’s a bunch of silly before and after shots of stars. I guess it’s only fair to look at the good ones, as well.

Voicing the Pain

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BOOKS & AUTHORS Banned Book Week It’s Banned Book Week, and what better way to celebrate it than with P.O.W. poetry? Join Magers and Quinn tonight — along with bookstores across the country — for readings from the University of Iowa’s Poems From Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak. This collection brings together 22 poems — originally … Read more

Sunglasses so geek-chic

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In July 2006 The Rake published an excellent essay by my good friend Peter Schilling in which he enthused about his SolarShield Fits-Overs – these, in essence, are some cheap and ugly-ass sunglasses that fit right over existing eyewear. Well, Mr. Schilling wrote today to inform he’s not the only male, Minneapolis-based media figure rocking … Read more

Brian Lambert, Reader's Rep?

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One of our correspondents the other day bemoaned our Strib coverage as appealing to “about 500 readers” and asked that we please write about something else. I hear you, brother (though I think the 500 number is WAY too high). I left the Strib because I didn’t want to think about it all the time … Read more

Please Can I Cancel my Subscription Now?

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They not only wrote the story, they actually ran an AP photo of the men’s room, just in case you ladies don’t know what one looks like. (This cutline corrected from original.) We’ve been having a debate around my house for several months now…since about the time Par (Mr. Ethics) Ridder took over at the … Read more