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[Because I spent most of the week reading about prostitution in Rhode Island, this news update is abbreviated.]
The Village Voice called wrestling organization Ring of Honor the Best Place To See Straight Men Get All Homoerotic. Wrestling fans responded, obviously, by calling for the death of people from the Village Voice.
Grace Metalious, author of scandalous fifties bestseller novel Peyton Place, has been honored with a bobble head by the New Hampshire Historical Society. That’s pretty cool, although I’m more excited by their Old Man In The Mountain bobblehead. [via Largehearted Boy]
The Telegraph has a list of 100 cultural moments that defined the decade. It’s interesting to read British ideas of what’s culturally important, because we’re so alike and yet so not. I can’t imagine something like The Beethoven Experience capturing American hearts and breaking sales records, for instance, or any American calling “I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor” a significant cultural moment.
Finally, Asterix, the plucky French comic hero, turned 50 this week.
[image from Glory By Honor VIII: The Final Countdown]
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