LONDON - Author Rowan Somerville won literature's little-coveted Bad Sex in Fiction Prize Monday for the use of unsettling insect imagery in his novel "The Shape of Her."
Judges of the annual literary award said they were especially impressed by a passage comparing lovemaking to "a lepidopterist mounting a tough-skinned insect.

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Part of the reason why I can't join the rampant Gaga squee is that she comes off to me as a very blatant ripoff of Maddonna (I have a nostalgic connection there). I had inklings of that in the "Love Game" vid, but once I heard "Alejandro" my immediate reaction was WUT? GTFO.

ETA: I think it was karenjeane who mentioned the copy of a copy thing? On the ( Read more... )

I don't watch kdramas. I barely watch jdramas. But if I were to watch kdramas "You're Beautiful" would be at the top of my list.

Why? You ask. Well, let's take a look at the plot, shall we:

She's a crossdressing nun who joins a boyband. They're the mostly-hetero members with more eyeliner than sense. Together, hijinks and gender confusion, and ( Read more... )

I AM OFFICIALLY MOTHERFUCKIN' ABD (ALL BUT DISSERTATION). THAT IS SOME LUDICROUS SHIT, YOU GUYS.


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After London's smallish Obama on My Mind and Kenya's amateurish Obama: The Musical, Germany has finally created a true Barack Obama musical extravaganza with HOPE: Einer Neuen Generation. Palin has skanky back-up dancers and Reverend Wright sings angry gospel.

Awesome. I don't even.

May I suggest HOPE's producers focus on a Sarah Palin bio- ( Read more... )

You can imagine my state of mind when I see this and think OMG I need a post modernist reading of this nao:

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Usually I don't think Japanese rap works because the language has so many similar endings that rhyme doesn't work the same way, but this song is chill. I think internal rhyme (assonance) works well, an example of this is the classical poem attributed to Hitomaru in the Kokinshu collection (compiled 905 ( Read more... )

But I am kinda proud of the job I did with the bird. So for the 'pics or it didn't happen' contingent Shhhh, we're pretending it exists--


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Dammit! I knew it was too good to be true.

( WOE I TELL YOU--spoilers obvs. )