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• Insider Interview: Behind the Scenes With Stuff Nobody Likes

  First there was Stuff White People Like (water bottles! New Balance tennis shoes, book deals!). Then came Stuff Educated Black People Like, Stuff Christians Like, and a plethora of copy-cat incarnations. How to follow these class acts, yet bring the whole of humanity together? Enter Stuff Nobody Likes. Scanner agreed: who has love for Anal leakage, ex-girlfriends with book deals, windowless rooms, other people's farts, the G train, or herpes? We snuck behind the scenes and interviewed on of the founder of Stuff Nobody Likes, who will go by code name “Afroblanco"...  Have there been any ideas that were revoked, because maybe one person liked the subject matter? Yeah, that's happened a few times. I wrote a post about Tootsie Rolls that got nixed, because apparently some people like to eat the disturbingly turdlike candy. Read More... Posted May 09 2008, 01:37 PM by Nicole Ankowski with | with no comments Filed under: interview, stuff white people like, behind the scenes, stuff nobody likes

• New on Nerve, 4.21.08: Behind the Scenes (and the Threeways) in “Triangulation”

  Today in this fabulous new personal essay, author (and fearless Nerve intern) Caitlin MacRae examines why she’s had way more threesomes than dates. Here in the Insider, Caitlin’s given us an inside glimpse of what’s it like to bare all to the world in essay-format (especially when your Dad reads the site!), and includes one threesome offer that didn't quite make it into the final essay. Good reads. I’ll turn it over to Caitlin: Inside “triangulation,” and the anxieties of Intern Caitlin. I am notoriously secretive. Some of my family members didn’t know I lived in New York until four months after I’d moved. I keep a blog whose existence I have shared with almost no one, which I guess defeats the purpose. Suffice it to say, my sex life isn’t something I’ve ever shared in great detail.  Read More... Posted Apr 21 2008, 04:12 PM by Nicole Ankowski with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: personal essay, dating, love, Caitlin M., sex, caitlin macrae, threesomes, behind the scenes