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• Commented on Damien Hirst installation owner charges teen art-rival with theft of £500,000 for removing box of pencils from installation
  @Alan: Exactly! There's a confusion about which Readymade urinal is the original, so who cares? At least the Dadaists had a sense of humor, unlike Hirst....
• Commented on Kerry Tribe's H.M.
  H.M. recently passed away, which makes this piece even more poignant. Hope it comes to DC....
• Commented on BB Exclusive: John Waters on the Origins of Teabagging.
  They used to show this short before the feature at the River Oaks in Houston. Thanks for finding it!...
• Commented on Terrifying, Gory Workplace Safety PSA Horror-Video
  I love this far too much for my own good. Though it did bring my household accident back in blade-spinning glory. Chopping nuts with a hand-held Braun mixer/chopper. Stuck my finger in it and somehow turned it back on while...
• Commented on Snoop Dogg's Live Webshow on Ustream
  @dulberson: The intern held up two different containers of medical marijuana at one point last night in response to a "what are you smoking" question. It's prescribed, it's California. I happen to think Snoop is a shrewd man....
• Commented on Snoop Dogg's Live Webshow on Ustream
  It's midnight my time and they are still going. There is something meta meta here. Snoop is not a gay fish....
• Favorited BBtv: Human USB Hack / Very Simple Motor on Boing Boing
• Commented on The comic art of Lucy Knisley
  To me, the guy looks proud-feigning-ignorance. Just like a real guy with "masterful" peeing. Which has always creeped me out. Please do not tell my husband....
• Commented on Doctors force patients to sign gag orders forbidding online reviews
  I am a lawyer for doctors. When one of our docs got a negative rating on a "rate-a-doc" website, she went nuts. She wanted to sue, blah, blah, blah. Of course, the negative rating was about her personality/bedside manner, not...
• Commented on Super Weird Ad for MAC Hello Kitty cosmetics
  Alice follows a black cat into a vagina. So she loses her virginity to herself, I guess. Which makes her all content and well made-up. I love it!...
• Commented on Sushi Cake
  Fabulous! I was suckered until the vinegar part, too, although the woman's face as she poured the beer and the reference to lower-income people made me terribly suspicious....
• Commented on Rush's YYZ with 13-year-old on drums
  To-to-totes fab. And some people think we XX's don't even listen to Rush....
• Commented on Thai artist creates gruesome body parts in bread
  I will not make a religious joke....
• Commented on Bruce Conner, filmmaker, Beat artist (RIP)
  He's with Thomas Disch now....
• Commented on Tattooed living zombie
  We all wear costumes, permanent or not. Sometimes, the impermanent become permanent through repeated use. I would not, however, be on board with hiring someone with a facial tat or visible facial piercing in my office. Different costume required....
• Commented on EUROPEANS! You have until MONDAY to contact your MEP and save the EU from a three-strikes copyright rule!
  @5, I'm an attorney, so I grasp the basics but was trying to use general terminology. Although I will admit that constitutional law (US) and medico-legal issues are more my speed....
• Commented on EUROPEANS! You have until MONDAY to contact your MEP and save the EU from a three-strikes copyright rule!
  3 accusations? Not 3 "convictions?"...
• Commented on Tattooed living zombie
  @ Shannon: Great to see you and I'm glad you chimed in. Can't imagine many folks with as much pure knowledge and insight as you. The fact that Zombie guy is an asshat as well as tattooed is pure coincidence....
• Commented on Kids' furniture shaped like giant books
  I want an adult-sized one with my favorite book titles on it. Excellent juxtaposition in my libe at home with the antique desk. And you're truly famous now, Cory. Love the A.V. Club bit....
• Commented on Google News from a better world
  While I am happy that meditation is such a wonder cure for so many ills, I find that that hasn't worked on my impatience....
• Commented on Is the government compiling a secret list of citizens to detain under martial law?
  I am a liberal and I'm taking your guns because I want them all for myself....
• Commented on The story of Erased de Kooning Drawing
  Didn't the Dadaists do all this before and better than Rauschenberg?...
• Commented on DIY Passover remixes
  Fabulous! Hag sameach, all!...
• Commented on Armchair made from rucked-up felt
  I cannot stand Joseph Beuys. Not one bit. So this chair is not for me....
• Commented on Teenager hacks public train control system
  But a damn fine excuse for being late to work......
• Commented on Stephen Fry on Electric Toothbrushes
  I'm off gadgets since I stuck my finger in the blade attachment of my Braun handblender...while it was on. I'm a bit leery of my electric toothbrush, but unless I stick it in my eye, I think I'm ok....
• Commented on Fudge Daleks
  I made a Stonehenge cake for a friend who was born on the Summer Solstice. Grey buttercream icing does not improve Twinkies....
• Commented on Texas evacuees subject to criminal checks
  I'm a Texan, too, living on the Gulf Coast, and went through the horrific evacuation for Hurricane Rita. My co-worker's mother died in that. This is a press release for propaganda purposes, and that's an end to it. It ain't...
• Commented on 10 Habits of Highly Successful Brains
  My brain is more like a tag cloud....
• Commented on UK party leader hires Brian Eno as youth adviser
  Hmmm. Who do we have who can do things like, "Baby's On Fire" and "Music for Airports?" Moby? His brain is much smaller than Eno's....