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• The Nerve Video Blog Turns Seven in Dog Years, Celebrates by Watching Ashley Alexandra Dupre Go “Wild”

  It’s the Nerve Video Blog’s one-year anniversary! Happy Birthday, you little Aries blog, you. Video blogger extraordinaire Oliver celebrates by reminiscing, quoting James Joyce, and bitching about law school. And oh, yes, and there are the videos. Check out: Bjork being Bjork-y. Barack paper scissors. Ashley Alexandra Dupre’s “Girls Gone Wild” video. The Liger: “a captive-bred super-cat!” The best (and only?) commercial for a flea market, ever. And the politics of the Universal Wank Motion, explained. Finally! Posted Mar 26 2008, 12:56 PM by Nicole Ankowski with | with no comments Filed under: Video, nerve video blog, Oliver Miller, Barack Obama, masturbation, girls gone wild, ashley alexandra dupre, bjork

• New on Nerve, 3.26.08: The Sushisexuals: StuffWhitePeopleLike.com Revealed the Depressing Truth About My Dating History

  If you haven’t already checked out StuffWhitePeopleLife.com, you might recognize yourself or certain friends in the subculture it describes. (One of my white, San Francisco (#91)-dwelling friends said, “I didn’t buy it until I got to water bottles (#76).” But for author Joey Rubin, it revealed unsettling truths about his dating history: “I drink too much bottled water (#76). I wear overpriced vintage t-shirts (#84), loved studying abroad (#72) and stand completely still at concerts (#67). I'm a fan of Michel Gondry (#68), Apple products (#40) and Stephen Colbert (#35). I've threatened to move to Canada on more than one occasion (#75). And I don't mind that StuffWhitePeopleLike.com — a blog that lampoons the over-educated yuppies and hipsters who populate the nation's trendy urban centers and mixed-use development zones — pinpoints me with such eerie accuracy, assessing my predilections like a gifted psychic reader. The site is a fairly amusing send-up of the slightly embarrassing, clearly predictable culture I'm a part of. But the fact that it also describes virtually my entire dating history — that really unnerves me. When I moved to New York, I imagined my dating repertoire would reflect the diversity of a Barack Obama rally (#8).” Read the entire essay here. Posted Mar 26 2008, 11:27 AM by Nicole Ankowski with | with no comments Filed under: dating, sex, Barack Obama, t-shirts, stephen colbert, stuffwhitepeoplelike.com, stuff white people like

• In Other Blogs: Super Tuesday Spectacular

  The Nerve Video Blog brings us porn stars discussing Super Tuesday. Yes, some of them vote! And some of them just like to spank things…we're okay with either. Also, check out the video-dream of what would happen if Super Tuesday was battled out, American Gladiators-style. Scanner and the Nerve Video Blog take a look at Will.i.am’s Obama campaign video. Reactions range from: “inspired” to “creeped out” to “Scarlett Johansson is so hot.” And Scanner brings us minute-by-minute updates of the Super Tuesday tallies. And the Screengrab reminds us that not only is today Super…it’s also Fat! Check out their list of films which celebrate all that New Orleans, pre-Fat Tuesday, has to offer. Le Bon Temps Roule! Posted Feb 05 2008, 12:49 PM by Nicole Ankowski with | with no comments Filed under: scanner, screengrab, nerve video blog, in other blogs, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Super Tuesday

• New on Nerve, 2.5.08: Obama Girl

  Alyssa Bagwell wonders if she’s voting with her heart, her head, or something else entirely this Super Tuesday... “So why am I so uncomfortable about my feelings for Obama? It may have to do with how asexual I'd previously found all politicians. My mother's knees may have buckled at JFK's square jaw and patrician good looks, but my groins deadlined for Mondale. Sexuality and politicians were like anti-matter, destroying each other on contact. (Could anybody have erotic fantasies about Jimmy Carter? About Michael Dukakis? About Joe Freaking Lieberman? Even Mrs. Lieberman is not having erotic fantasies about Joe Lieberman.) This was the kind of relationship I expected to have with lawmakers. They were like silver-haired history teachers whose bloodless libidos allowed me to concentrate on the lesson at hand. But then Obama came along, and suddenly I was hot for teacher.” Does he make you warm and tingly? Read the entire essay here. Posted Feb 05 2008, 11:13 AM by Nicole Ankowski with | with no comments Filed under: Barack Obama, Alyssa Bagwell

• New on Nerve, 2.4.08: Political Partners

  Does a candidate’s personal relationship affect whom you vote for? Do we need not only a strong leader, but one who makes us (or at least their partner) weak in the knees? Ada Calhoun takes a look at how what happens behind closed doors might affect who makes it through the White House’s doors… My mother came over the other morning and said, "Well, I'm off Hillary." This was shocking. From the first, she's been a die-hard Hillary supporter. Loved Bill, loved Hillary. Even as my father became an Obama fan, my mother stuck by the Clintons. Check out all the political partners right here. Posted Feb 04 2008, 12:37 PM by Nicole Ankowski with | with no comments Filed under: personal essay, ada calhoun, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama