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Bust Out the Doc Martens and Flowy Skirts: The Lilith Fair is Back

Emily Farris — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:21:00 GMT

Go ahead, pretend you didn't spend the better part of the nineties singing Sarah McLachlan songs in the shower, but we know better. And if you were as young and poor and uncool as we were, you may have spent the last ten years of your life regretting the fact that you never made it to the Lilith Fair to catch McLachlan, Missy Eliot, Bonnie Rait, Erykah "On and On" Badu, Lisa "You Say I Only Hear What I Want To" Loeb, Paula "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?" Cole, Meredith "Bitch" Brooks*, Meshell Ndegeocello, The Cowboy Junkies, and so many, many more amazing female performers. But, after a ten-year hiatus, the Lilith Fair is back. Well, it will be back. In 2010. Terry McBride, chief executive of Nettwerk Music Group made the announcement via Twitter over the weekend. And that's the good news.

The bad news?

So far, Billboard reports, Nettwerk has only planned a two-week tour in the U.K./Europe. (Scanner Colleen, I see an across-the-pond girl date/camping trip in our future.)

Lilithfair.com (which we assume is official) confirms the festival's return, but a basic splash page links only to its Wikipedia entry.

*Speaking of Meredith "Bitch Brooks, we recently heard that song on the radio and couldn't believe how fucking good and ::sigh:: relevant it is, still.

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[Via AfterEllen]

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FYI, Leslie Out-Nakeds the Naked Cowboy

Colleen Kane — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 19:54:00 GMT

We're calling out the Times Square-tourist-photo-fixture Naked Cowboy on false advertising. He's not naked at all; he wears tighty whiteys, a cowboy hat, and boots. He may even sport multiple pairs of tightey-whiteys at once, depending on the season. Naked Cowboy may be guilty of overexposure (so we shan't even run his photo here), but not nudity.

The Austin cross-dressing vagrant Leslie Cochran (above), on the other hand, is a lot closer to nakey.

Here's our spotting of him in his natural habitat last month.

At first glance, he appeared to be completely pantsless, but he did have on a thong.

"Oh, you saw Leslie," we were told by locals. Leslie has run for mayor twice and Wikipedia says he's "an outspoken critic for the treatment of the homeless in the downtown Austin area."

Dude likes to dress like a lady in a thong and heels, but identifies as a man, except on his MySpace page, where he's listed as female. Maybe you'll have to look for him to ask him yourself, then be sure to send him a photo of yourselves together for him to add to the profile.

In his own words:

If We Can Get The A.P.D Off Drugs; Maybe They Will Stop Acting Like Punks With Badges, Stop Harassing Me(Leslie), And Start Behaving More Like Respectful Police Officers. That Would Be A Pleasent Change.

Oh Leslie. Keep Austin weird.

For many more entertaining photos of Austin's most famous vagrant, please visit Leslie's MySpace profile, where he has nearly 10,000 friends (he has the Black Angels in his top 8!).

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dress photo: Leslie's MySpace profile

Fun With Wikipedia: Mammary Intercourse

Emily Farris — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:01:00 GMT

Sometimes, when we read Wikipedia we think to ourselves "why don't they just call a spade a spade? What's the point of mis-educating the public?" But that's what the Urban Dictionary is for we guess, and also, apparently, Wikipedia audio, which offers an enlightening tutorial on "mammary intercourse."

[Wikipedia: Mammary Intercourse]

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'Rom Coms' Can Ruin Your Love Life, Sound a Lot Dirtier Than They Are

Emily Farris — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:02:00 GMT

Ladies (and perhaps gentlemen) something you're doing on a regular or semi-regular basis could be ruining your personal life, according to a new study. It's causing you to have unrealistic expectations with it comes to love and impairing your communication with your partner. This thing is the rom com.

Just what is a rom com?

While it sounds like something along the lines of an anal probe or a high-powered vibrator, a rom com is simply a romantic comedy. And some psychologists believe that watching rom coms can affect intimate relationships in pretty significant ways.

They found that fans of films such as Runaway Bride and Hitch often fail to communicate with their partners effectively, with many holding the view that if someone is meant to be with you, then they should know what you want without you needing to tell them.

Psychologists at the Family and Personal Relationships Laboratory at Edinburgh's Heriot Watt University studied 40 top box office hits from 1995-2005.

They included You've Got Mail, Maid In Manhattan, The Wedding Planner and While You Were Sleeping.

Dr Bjarne Holmes said: "Marriage counsellors often see couples who believe that sex should always be perfect, and if someone is meant to be with you then they will know what you want without you needing to communicate it.

"We now have some emerging evidence that suggests popular media play a role in perpetuating these ideas in people's minds.

"The problem is that while most of us know that the idea of a perfect relationship is unrealistic, some of us are still more influenced by media portrayals than we realise."

We're not surprised (though we're more likely to believe that our iPods are playing the soundtrack to our lives), but we're still a little hung up on the term. It just sounds so.... dirty. Are we really that behind the times that we've never heard the term "rom com?" We saw "Sleepless in Seattle" at least 20 times. Maybe we're too young (we were eleven when it came out) or too old. Our old friend Scanner Bryan even threw out the term back in January but we seem to have missed it.

According to Wiktionary, the term was most likely inspired by "sitcom" or situational comedy, for those of you out there who are even younger and/or more dense than we are.

[Press Association: 'Rom coms' can ruin your love life]

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Sloppy Seconds: Hillary Clinton's Latest Theory

Brian Fairbanks — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:00:00 GMT

Women in Nigeria are walking naked in the streets to protest the questionable circumstances surrounding a monarch's death.

Two wrestlers from the University of Nebraska are under investigation after it was reported they are both gay porn stars.

Some dudes in Sweden have lodged formal complaints against pharmacies that sell sex toys, complaining that most of these shops discriminate against men with their female-focused stock. Wait, they have sex toys in pharamacies over there? Hell, you can't even buy Plan B at pharmacies in the States!

Did John McCain copy his speech today from Wikipedia?

Salma Hayek is planning a wedding reality show. Judging by how few people cared about our post about her singledom, the show should do real fine...

Selma Blair thinks Americans are deluded.

Hillary's team's 845th theory as to why they lost: the media's lack of investigation into the Edwards affair rumors when they first surfaced.

And Daniel Craig may be getting married. Although since when does a man buying champagne mean he's getting married and not a very lucky, soon-to-be-drunk friend?

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Go The Extra Yard: Join Team Schmuck

Brian Fairbanks — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:00:00 GMT

There are so many jokes that we could trot out right now (i.e. "Hell, all politicians are schmucks, why not a real Schmuck?")

A candidate for Arizona legislator is finding that his supporters are having their yard signs stolen in alarmingly high numbers. True, typical elections feature some degree of vandalism and theft, but Frank Schmuck's campaign posters are disappearing faster than he can print them...

Schmuck, a decorated Gulf War veteran and Air Force Academy graduate, wondered why people are focusing on his signs....

"You're not stealing from Frank Schmuck, you're stealing from the public," he said.

While funny, this quote from the candidate is actually true. Arizona has a public financing law that enables candidates to buy in before the primary and, in this case, spend the bulk of their windfall on lawn signs.

As one local told us: "We see his signs everywhere. It's hard to keep from laughing when driving past." Watch out, Arizona, some schmuck is causing accidents all over the place...

P.S. According to Wikipedia, in case you didn't know: "Schmuck entered English as a borrowed word from Yiddish, where it is an obscene term literally meaning a foreskin or head of a penis, and an insult."

Visit Team Schmuck online.

Scanner Highs and Lows: Finders Keepers, Finders Weepers

Brian Fairbanks — Fri, 09 May 2008 21:51:00 GMT

Oh, the things you'll learn!

HIGHS:

We found porn on Wikipedia.

We found a picture of a very sexy carrot.

We found out about... sommmmeeboddyy'sss birthdaaay!

We discovered a secret pantie run at ASU. Okay, it couldn't have been that secret if hundreds of Arizonians were ready with their cameras when it went down.

We uncovered the ancient art of the VHS tape.

We revealed the identity of Minnie Driver's baby daddy. And no, she's not "fucking Matt Damon."

We learned that homosexuality is a whopping 140 years old!

We began a new contest after finding one of the great dive bars.

LOWS:

We uncovered a Google Map pertaining to the sexual conquests of an individual unfortuantely named "Igor."

We found out that Grey's Anatomy is resorting to raunchy lesbian sex to keep its ratings up. Shame on them?

We discovered the Ugly Models Agency is not really all that bad. It makes us feel ugly, in fact.

Our eyes burned after learning about anal from Spencer Pratt.

We mourned the wonderful news of Scarlett Johansson's enagement.

IN-BETWEENS:

We learned the identity of the owner of a famous third nipple. Actually, everyone cheated by reading the name of the celebrity off the title of the photo. Whoops!

And we learned about America's most sexually satisfying cities. None of them are near us, damn it.

Boobpedia: The Encyclopedia of Big Boobs

Emily Farris — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:40:00 GMT

Maybe Wikipedia has porn on it to keep up with Boobpedia, which is like Wikipedia, but for boobs, rather big boobs.

Boobpedia is a free and user-editable encyclopedia of women with big boobs. Use it to look up your favourite busty models, celebrities and porn stars, find their big tit movies and pictures, or discover new favourites you never knew about. Even amateurs with big tits can be included here. The most important feature is that all information on Boobpedia is provided by users like you, and you can edit these articles, too! Boobpedia is truly the aggregate knowledge of all fans of big breasts!

Meet Blu Velvet, who has today's featured boobs (which look pretty normal-sized to us), and see her in all her glorious boobage after the jump.

Find boobs like Blu Velvets and many, many, many more (some good, some not so good) at Boobpedia.org. And, you know, edit your own entry if you're so inclined.

[via Fleshbot]

Wikipedia's Got Porn On It?

Bryan Christian — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:12:00 GMT

Apparently people are getting pissed that Wikipedia -- the first encyclopedia composed entirely of committe-approved electronic conjecture -- has entries for things like "fluffer" and "striptease" (pictured above). Come on, folks, be reasonable. It ain't like there are entries for... um... well, how about... a-ha... well... certainly not... nope, they got that too.

Yikes. Really putting the "Oh!" in "Web 2.0," huh?

Wikipedia Blasted for Pornographic Material [AVN]

Wikipedia Dumping Story Gets Even Weirder

Brian Fairbanks — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:50:00 GMT

Jimmy Wales, the socialite co-founder of Wikipedia, dumped girlfriend, Canadian neoconservative TV personality Rachel Marsden, via Wikipedia entry. But the story just gets more and more absurd, to the point where every twist and turn is sure to be a "disputed" and possibly "removed" entry one day...

First, a quick rundown of the facts and the rumors:

1) Jimmy met Rachel via the interwebs when her Wikipedia entry became a battleground for her supporters and detractors.

2) Valleywag claims Jimmy told Rachel, via IM, that he had to finish cleaning up her page before they got naked: "Because the last thing I want to do is take a break from f***ing your brains out all night to work on your Wikipedia entry :)"

3) After their first conjugal visit, the two exchanged these gag-inducing messages:

Wales: "I am supposed to be designing a Google-killing search engine so I can buy a jet."

Marsden replied: "Yes!!! So we have something else to have sex on!"

4) They continued pursuing each other, again via IM:

“btw, i am recovered from 24 hours of marathon sex. lol.”

“When you talk about megabits and broadband, you have no idea what that does to me.”

5) Now it's weeks later and Jimmy dumps her via Wikipedia entry, now since moved to his personal blog. Traffic much? According to the Sydney Morning Herald:

Marsden told The Canadian Press that "[i]t didn't really help matters that Jimmy chose to announce the breakup to the entire world via Wikipedia."

6) A scorned woman, i.e. Rachel, posted the following e-bay auction of Jimmy's clothes:

Both of these items have been washed, twice, with Tide extra-strength liquid detergent. Otherwise, they would not be in salable condition. I took them out of GitMo style isolation from a plastic bag in my closet (where they were placed to prevent the ongoing terrorism of my olfactory senses) and washed them out for the purposes of this auction.

7) As of "press time," the sweater has a high bid of $857.47. The bidder? "s***t."

What We Learned About on Wikipedia Today: Teabagging

Nicole Pasulka — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 17:30:00 GMT

We can't tell you how many times a day people ask us for the definition and history of teabagging. When this happens, we always refer them to Wikipedia. See, it's not just for information on Jonestown or the Vietnam War. You can also read up on all manner of sexual humiliation. We don't have to tell you how important mastery of public sexual humiliation is, you learned that at your first keg party. (via Kotaku)