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Marilyn Monroe Sex Tape? As if!

nobody@vox.com(valsadie) — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:57:43 -0500

Hollywood's The Erotic Museum may now be gone, but through Archive.org, it lives on! Part of The Erotic Museum's permanent collection was a grainy clip from a black-and-white film that supposedly showed Marilyn Monroe engaged in intimate relation...

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What's Missing from Both Lipstick Jungle and Cashmere Mafia

nobody@vox.com(valsadie) — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 12:13:46 -0600

I wrote a letter to Time magazine in response to their article on ABC's Cashmere Mafia and NBC's Lipstick Jungle, Becoming Ms. Big, by James Poniewozik (for which there's also a Tuned In blog entry and an iTunes podcast, Women in Power, and TV) an...

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Things mumble-stumbling 'round the ol' brain... (also at LJ)

nobody@vox.com(valsadie) — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:51:05 -0600

WGA Writers Strike. The AMPTP's willful, decades-long myopia about the importance of writers in Hollywood now seems rooted in a maleficent as well as artificial view of the world, bent on blind, arrogant self-destruction. I don't see what's so imp...

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Barack Obama at Google!

nobody@vox.com(valsadie) — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:10:53 -0600

Google is hosting the candidates for talks at the company--and we get to see them, too! See Candidates@Google: Barack Obama via YouTube:

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Dr. James Cone on PBS Bill Moyers Journal

nobody@vox.com(valsadie) — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:25:47 -0600

(cross-posted) Dr. James H. Cone of Union Theological Seminary expressed some brilliant teachings on Bill Moyers Journal this week, describing Whites and Blacks in America by linking the beliefs of the Christian cross with the reality of the lync...

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Barack Obama Live Chat on Monday, October 29 at 1:30 pm ET/10:30 am PT

nobody@vox.com(valsadie) — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:01:23 -0500

From MySpace - U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-Illinois; www.myspace.com/barackobama) will be the next participant in the MySpace/MTV Presidential Dialogue series. The Dialogue with Sen. Obama will take place October 29 at 1:30 pm ET/10:30 am PT on...

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Barack on Harry Potter!

nobody@vox.com(valsadie) — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 00:42:42 -0500

Because everyone wants to know, it seems, and Barack and his daughters are no exception--!

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Barack Obama Headquarters in Second Life

nobody@vox.com(valsadie) — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:50:53 -0500

I had posted this elsewhere, but it works here, too :>! FYI: There is a Grassroots Barack Obama HQ in Second Life on Blacktail Ridge Island (24, 135, 148). You can see my avatar visiting the Obama HQ over on my Flickr account. You can pick up a f...

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The best Depeche Mode song they never did?

nobody@vox.com(valsadie) — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 20:23:55 -0500

It's ridiculous how much I like this song... even the bridge, when Diddy tries (and fails spectacularly!) to sing--!

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"Stony Island" Movie?

nobody@vox.com(valsadie) — Sat, 19 May 2007 13:06:04 -0500

I tried to get into next week's free screening of the forgotten late 1970s Chicago film, "Stony Island," at the University of Chicago but it's completely full. Anybody out there old enough to remember this movie--and have seen it?? It is not ou...

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