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Savage Love
by Dan Savage
How do I tell my girlfriend that I'm pregnant? /advice/
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The Five Sexiest Apocalypse Movies
by Phil Nugent
Perfect for curling up with the last man (or woman) on earth. /entertainment/
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Pop Culture We're Thankful For
by the Nerve Editors
Toasts from around the Nerve family table. /entertainment/
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Five TV Families to Avoid on Thanksgiving
by Scott Von Doviak
These clans will make you appreciate your own. /entertainment/
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My First Time
by You
"I remember the zip of the door, and our naked dash across the dark campground to his tent..."
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Things Drunk People Say
by Kathleen Go
"Get the duct tape. You have dropped your last beer."
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Culture Wars: Will James Cameron's Avatar live up to the hype?
by Andrew Osborne and Scott Von Doviak
Worthy successor to Aliens, or the world's most expensive Smurfs movie?
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Miss Information
by Erin Bradley
So many women, so few decision-making skills. /advice/
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Hosting Your Own Hedonistic Thanksgiving
by Ben Reininga
Drinking, smoking, and gorging with your friends: this can be the best holiday of the year.
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The Confessies
by You
The Robert Pattinson Award for Twilight Devotion
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Platinum Goddess
by Kim Weston
Forget gold: these women are striking in silver, and not much else.
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Sex Advice From . . . Dungeons and Dragons Players
by Eric Larnick
Q. What has D&D taught you about dating? A. Some days you're the knight, some days you're the dragon. /advice/
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Nerve Made Me Do It: New Moon Midnight Screening
by Jack Harrison
We send a professor of medieval literature to face 1,000 screaming Twilight fans.
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Mutual of Omaha
by Rachel Shukert
In my Jewish Nebraskan youth group, they taught more than Hebrew.
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Planet 51
by Scott Von Doviak
The premise is Pixar-caliber; the execution is strictly terrestrial. /entertainment/
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Everything I Know About Love I Learned From... Pedro Almodovar
by Phil Nugent
Five lessons on romance from Penelope Cruz's favorite director. /entertainment/
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Talking to Strangers
by Sean McGurn and Meghan Pleticha
Nerve asks deeply personal questions to people we just met.
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Awesome Advice, Way to Go!
by Erin Bradley
Always pepper your column with a healthy dose of slut-shaming. /advice/
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Celebrity Look-alikes
by Glenn Glasser
Who's that girl? We hit the streets to find famous doppelgangers.
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True Stories: Three-Year Drought
by Mia Agnello
Last time made me a mom. This time made me panic.
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Savage Love
by Dan Savage
Why do single women find married men such a turn-on? /advice/
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Date DVD #5: Paranoia Agent |
Sometimes, it's best to stop hiding your inner
geek and flaunt it instead. Face it, if you're an anime lover, your date's
going to find your stash eventually: it's as hard to hide as porn. So skip the
dismal, more-depressing-than-titillating A Home at
the End of the World (also out this week) and treat your date to the utterly
unromantic but brilliant Paranoia Agent instead. You know you want it.
Creator Satoshi Kon is a kind of golden god of Japanese anime, adored for Perfect
Blue, and rightly admired for expanding into the increasingly mature narratives
(no, not porn) of his last two features. In his glitzy spectacle Millennium
Actress, Kon composed a stylized riff on the future of celebrity, and in
his Almodovar-esque melodrama Tokyo Godfathers, he tracked a homeless
transvestite and her runaway pals as they took care of an abandoned baby on Christmas
Eve. The first four episodes of new series Paranoia Agent, collected on
a new DVD, are just as confounding. The series operates with a kind of Six
Feet Under structure: In each episode, a character gets whacked.
In this case, each one gets bumped by the dented baseball bat of Lil' Slugger, a maybe-mythical kid who glides on golden in-line skates and thunks people on the head. The episodes begin with the most absurd theme song imaginable, then settle into eerie tales about a prostitute, a corrupt businessman, a tutor, and a goodie-goodie kid. Each character is missing something — they're either jealous or angry or sick or hopeless — so it's impossible to tell if Lil' Slugger is a serial thumper or just a magical, masochistic figment of the collective imagination. Either way, the animation is so stunning, the tales so odd, and the mood so strangely muted, that the series is a minor marvel. It's so unusual, your date might even forget about anime's stereotypical, big-boobed, robotic sex machines — you can slip those in later. |
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