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The Mongolian Cow Sour Yogurt Super Girl
Contest, China's answer to American Idol, has made Zhang Hanyun a household name. Although she was only the second runner
up, she has given hope to reality TV runners-up everywhere by eclipsing the actual
winner to become the spokeswoman for Mongolian Cow Sour Yogurt. "As soon as I learnt the concept of a star, I wanted to be one," she's been quoted as saying. And for that, she is our crush of the week. Sarah Crichton
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| Quotes of the Week |
Guy: "We men don't know our place in society anymore."
Girl: "Oh, so that's the problem?"
Guy: "Yeah, but if we did know what we were doing . . ."
Girl: "Watch out?"
Guy: "Exactly." A majorly flirtatious exchange we just witnessed between two strangers at a magazine store on Spring Street. |
| "I did it and I'd do it again!" What seventy-eight-year-old Lena Driskell reportedly yelled at officers while waving an antique handgun she'd just fired at her eighty-five-year-old ex-boyfriend. |
Q: "Have you thought of doing a record called The Praying Mantis Keeper?"
A: "It's scary, because as a woman, number one, I don't see myself killing my mate, or chopping his head off after sex. You follow me?"
Q: "I think so. You're basically saying you would never really kill anyone unless you sorta had to, as a songwriter."
A: "As a lioness force. As a lioness who's protecting her cubs." It's the rare Tori Amos interview in which you can actually hear the reporter's eyes rolling. |
| From Our Inbox |
"I'm writing a 'what women want' story today based on a Playgirl magazine survey that found many women prefer average Joes (aka love handles
and chest hair). I would really like to get your expert opinion
on the issue. Can you get back
to me ASAP?"
Sometimes we get the feeling that at every hour of
every day, someone, somewhere, is writing a "what women want" story. |
| In The News |
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Turns out Romeo and Juliet, the swans in Boston's Public Garden, are lesbians. |
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Crispin Glover will do the voice of Grendel in an upcoming
Zemeckis film of Beowulf, in which Angelina Jolie will
be the voice of Grendel's mother. Here's a picture of
Grendel apprarently drawn by Napoleon Dynamite. Intern Sarah adds
that grendel should not be confused with grundle, which is slang for
the region between the genitals and the anus. |
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| In addition to books, the library in Sweden is now loaning out gay people and members of other minorities as part of a program called "Borrow a Bias." The idea is you go get one of whatever group you're biased against and confront the prejudice in a forty-five minute session. In addition to a gay man and a gay woman, you can rent an imam, a Muslim woman, a Gypsy, and animal-rights advocate and . . . a journalist. |
| The film site GreenCine is starting a spin-off site that will focus on arthouse porn. |
| The uncensored new video for tATu takes a while to load, so here's the gist: If you're streetwalking and pick up a john then suddenly get out of bed during sex and flip him off and he tries to beat you up, it's handy if (a) you have access to a high-caliber handgun and (b) the other half of your faux-lesbian Russian pop group just happens to be cruising around singing about you at the exact moment that you need a getaway car. |
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