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I Am A Zombie Filled With Love

Before you bash their brains in, or shotgun them in the face, remember that zombies were once people too. A short story that inspired a full novel that will soon inspire a movie. Read the original here.

Akira The Don uploads his 25th mixtape

The prolific producer and rapper Akira The Don has been hard at work in recent days constructing another one of his famous mixtapes. ATD25 For The Ultimate Victory it is called (also, the silver anniversary mixtape), and like all good things it is free for your listening and downloading pleasure. You can buy it, if you feel the man deserves it (I assure you, he does), but don’t spend all your money just yet: his second full length LP is slated for an April release, it is called The Life Equation, and it will be indubitably awesome.

It’s time to play ‘Sheen, Beck, or Qaddafi?’ — Who said what crazy thing in February? “To demonstrate just what a struggle it is to distinguish between the mad ramblings of an entertainer, a despot, and a newsman another entertainer, we’ve put together this quiz.”

@MayorEmanuel Revealed

The man behind the incredible @MayorEmanuel stunt is revealed.

JR’s street art going up in LA

French street artist JR blankets LA with his work — but not just LA. He has put photographs of people on the houses, walls, trains, and roofs of countries all over the world. “In Kenya, for example, I used vinyl on the rooftops so that it would protect them from the rain. In each place, the people had to find their own interest in the project,” JR says in the video.

Libyan rebels prepare to defend Zawiya from Gadhafi offensive

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“Reading usually precedes writing and the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.”

Susan Sontag

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