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Robynn Europe - Skinbyrd Turned Bodybuilder

In the summer of 2001 I was sitting on a couch at ABC No Rio minding my own business when an angry black skinbyrd came charging down the stairs. "Who the fuck is Beverly?" she asked. Terrified, I raised my hand.
BEVERLY HAMES
9.1.11
Cliterature

Birch in the Boudoir

Birch In the Boudoir is supposed to be a classic example of French flagellation literature--a genre that the cheese-eating surrender monkeys apparently adored back in the day. Instead, this short novel is more like a rapist's handbook.
Michelle Lhooq
9.1.11
Comics!

Nick Gazin's Comic Love-In #31

I usually like to tell you about how great a week it was for comics but I don't really know what happened over the past week. In New York we had this fake hurricane sham happen and my neighborhood was evacuated.
Nick Gazin
9.1.11
Stuff

Meet the Nieratkos - Space Is Whatever

I think people stopped giving a shit about space travel right around the time that one Backstreet Boy announced he was buying a shuttle ticket.
Chris Nieratko
9.1.11
Vice Blog

Blow the Brain with Below the Brian

What are you doing this weekend? Going to an over-the-top monster block party, soaking up rum through your conscience and feeding it codfish fritters and jerk chicken so it doesn’t throw up? Great. Why not watch a film about it, too?
Greg Eggebeen
9.1.11
Motherboard Blog

PBS Explains Steampunk To Your Children So You Don't Have To

If only Richard Attenborough could have answered "this age-old question":http://brassgoggles.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=23278.0: bq. *"I see than many members of the forum have childrens they ''converted'' to steampunk. What make me wonder: What...
Videodrome
8.31.11
Music

This 16-Year-Old Is Re-shaping The Future Of Music Labels

Absent Fever co-founder Eloise Hess is a music blogger, a former web series host… and still in high school.
Kathleen Flood
8.31.11
Music

South Korea's Byul.org Will Do Just About Anything For Money

The art and design collective wears many hats, including as musicians, designers, filmmakers, and just about anything you can think of.
The Creators Project Staff
8.31.11
Motherboard Blog

Ones and Zeros: Nobody Talks on the Phone Anymore, Newspaper-Fueled Cars, An Artificial Volcano to Cool the Planet

h3. One: Justice Department says 'no way' to "AT&T-T-Mobile merger":http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/08/31/technology-mobile-telecommunications-us-at-amp-t-t-mobile_8652135.html (Forbes) h3. Zero: Apple suppliers are "destroying the planet":http...
Ones Zeros
8.31.11
Design

Instruments Of Change: 10 Pioneering Video Game Consoles

Dreamcast? Wii? Xbox? What did it for you?
Kevin Holmes
8.31.11
video

Byul.org

Art collectives and collaborative creative processes have been the driving forces behind many of the 20th century's most influential movements: from Dada to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org...
The Creators Project
8.31.11
Motherboard Blog

Project STORMFURY: The Aptly-Named Mission to Stop Hurricanes Dead in Their Tracks

_ODDITY examines strange and esoteric phenomena and events from the remote, uncanny corners of technology, science and history._ Irene may be history, but the hurricane season is just hitting its stride. We’ve got until November 30, after all, to...
Brian Anderson
8.31.11
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