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Extra, Extra: Any Ladies Want To Fart On A Cake For $50?
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Ben Yakas
Published Feb 1, 2013
Modified Feb 1, 2013
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- Joe Sexton, outgoing sports editors of the New York Times, talked to Daily Intel about moving on: “If you are not asking yourself every couple of years how to once more scare yourself to death, then you are living something of the coward’s life,” he says. “Ain’t no room for cowards in journalism at this moment in time.”
- Katie Couric says Larry King once "lunged" at her on what could only have been a very sexy date.
- Morrissey clears up confusion about his health problems, proves he's still got it by signing off letter with, "pause at my headstone."
- East Village man offers $50 for someone to fart on his friend's birthday cake, "just for jokes."
- Good news Radiohead fans: the band will start work on their 9th studio album in September. Which means we should hear it by 2016!
- These parents give their 11-year-old medical marijuana to treat his autism.
- Get teased as HBO releases first photo and scream-filled trailer for their Al Pacino-as-Phil Spector movie.
- A man tried with go through Newark airport scanners with a loaded gun in his bag, and surprisingly was caught.
- R. Kelly, Bjork and Belle and Sebastian are the headlines at this year's Pitchfork Festival, and that is an awesome lineup.
- No happy ending for the Ikea monkey yet as court rules it has to stay in animal sanctuary.
- And finally, this cat feels the same way about dominoes as we do:
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