Mixtapes for Hookers

You should not hire a hooker to tease your husband and see if he is going to sleep with her.  This is a fact because Julianne Moore says so and she is brilliant and also has amazing hair.

People are finally willing to admit that sexting is not the same as child porn.  Surprisingly, it was Floridians that decided we maybe shouldn’t be treating teenagers as lifetime sex offenders.

Full-body airport scanners have been in UK airports for a month and already airport employees are being reprimanded for misusing them.  There’s a lot going on here–the idea that airport scans are sexual is sort of insane to begin with, but it’s also odd that the public is subjected to them without question and an airport employee snapped going through one feels so violated that she can’t return to work.

I somehow missed that there’s an interview with Billy Miller in the new-ish issue of Unzipped.  Billy’s the editor of Straight To Hell, and he also did No Milk Today and When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again, all of which are really cool publications.  I’ve actually met him briefly a couple of times now and he seems pretty nice, too, although I don’t think he ended up using the filthy story I sent him for Straight To Hell that one time (hmmph).

The Foundation for Intellectual Diversity–the website with the tagline Ideas Without Labels–has discovered Brown’s Sex Week and decided to behave like Bill O’Reilly about it.  A little further probing reveals that the Foundation for Intellectual Diversity is mostly just one angry Brown grad who attends a lot of events at Brown and then complains about them afterwards.  Still, there’s some kind of “advisory board” which includes Providence’s current Republican candidate for mayor, so, I don’t know, make of that what you will.

Imagine if every essay about Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” video was about a different video instead?  Like the new Cate Le Bon video with the horse skull wrapped in bacon?  Or maybe the one for Xiu Xiu’s “Dear God, I Hate Myself,” where Angela Seo throws up a lot and Jamie Stewart manages to come off as even more of a hateful prat than usual?

Providence is the third-craziest metropolitan area in the US, and this Providence Journal writer would like to do his part to demonstrate that.  (Dude. Calm down. East Providence is part of the Providence metropolitan area.)

Rhode Island representative Patrick Kennedy left a note on his dad Ted Kennedy’s grave saying “Dad, the business is done.”  At first I thought that meant maybe he had somebody killed and thrown in a river, because that’s what phrases like “the business is done” sound like to me, but I guess he was talking about the health care bill.  Whoops!

Something something something, using stock photos to make broad generalizations and get lots of pageviews, I don’t know.

This article about Twitter and Yelp and the death of criticism makes me wonder once again whether anyone realizes that people have always trusted the opinions of their friends.  And that if you’re in a new city and looking for somewhere to eat, of course you’re going to ask the internet rather than dredging up old newspaper reviews.  And people that read what critics thought before are still reading what critics think; they just have a choice of critics to choose from.

Are we lost in personal freedom with no norms to cling to or rebel against?  I’m inclined to say no, that makes no sense, but this is sort of worth reading, anyway, maybe.