More entertaining than Weed on Books and its Foucault green-stache, Better Book Titles is a blog for “people who do not have thousands of hours to read book reviews or blurbs or first sentences.” Touché. Presenting: The gists of literature’s biggest hits in the form of condensed, condescending to the under-read and occasionally un-P.C. titles. If you’ve ever wanted to read Yes, He’s Retarded by William Faulker, congrats. You just “did.”
So says a columnist for the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, based on statistics showing that 41% of local pregnancies end in abortion. Why would getting abortions become such a popular New York pastime? There’s condoms all over the place. Some of them haven’t even been used yet. Read more »
A judge demanded that Google give up the anonymous author responsible for “Skanks In NYC,” a blog with the sole purpose of defaming model Liskula Cohen’s image or as Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Joan Madden described it: “The thrust of the blog is that [Cohen] is a sexually promiscuous woman” and “ready to engage in oral sexual activity.” |NYP|
This week, art blogger CultureGrrl is trying a new monetization method: posting link dumps without the links. For $1.50 each day, you can buy a list of links to the stories she doesn’t “have the time or the strong desire to comment about.” Also, for $5 or more, she’ll email you links to new blog posts like a rudimentary RSS feed. |CultureGrrl|
Semi-relevant Hip Hop magazine Vibe published their list of the top 50 Hip Hop blogs for their June issue and while the #1 spot makes sense with eskay basically lapping the field, how did ThisIs50 not even make the cut and yet Kanye’s designy blog holds down the silver? Something’s wrong here. See the full list that might piss of a whole bunch of people after the jump.
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