Ripley’s personal life was as overstuffed as his professional one, as he compulsively filled his grand 28-room mansion with everything from African idols to medieval armor, the dried penis of a whale, and a basement grotto filled with erotica.
The promise of spring break goes way back in American culture, predating "Girls Gone Wild" and the hushed pledge that what happens in Cancun stays in Cancun.
In 2012, a new Amish romance novel appeared on the market about every four days.
At a time when the CIA is still hiding the details of its extrajuridical drone strike assassination program from the media, one would think it an awkward moment for Hollywood to confer Academy Awards on films that celebrate its secret agents.
Tim Heidecker — one half of the cult comedy team known as "Tim and Eric" —tucks his penis in between his legs off-screen. Mangina thus secured, he executes an expressive arm-flap worthy of any preening ballerina. It was about this time the Sundance audience began fleeing the theater in angry, muttering droves.
Bud Light Lime does two things: it allows me to shed the burden of sophistication, and it restores beer to what it once was, when I was young — a tart nectar that makes me happy.
When the for-profit prison industry places the iron fist of criminal justice in the invisible hands of the market and sells it as a cost-cutting measure, it is hard not to interpret as anything but the predatory capitalism of a self-perpetuating slave state.
The memoir is the trench-coated flasher in the parking lot, a dust jacket cloaking the most private and shameful parts of our internal selves.
Alfred is the guide. He’s a marine turned gangbanger turned entrepreneur. He’s cracking Inner City Jokes. His phrase. "We don’t need the windows open cuz we don’t do drive-bys."
Even among its peers, Louie is an outlier. It is a show that, more than any other, both caters to this new kind of audience — the Laptop Loners — and has, as its creator, a member of the club.
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