Police officers executing a search warrant last week at the public library in Norman, Oklahoma, discovered “nine unopened Trojan condoms; three opened Trojan condom wrappers; one green penis ring; one bottle KY liquid lubricant; DVD Young as they Cum; a quilt, fitted sheet, top sheet and two pillows; a book, The Secret Lives of Girls; [...]
An asteroid has been named after the billionaire novelist, according to the U.K.’s Daily Record. Astronomer Mark Hammergren, who works at Chicago’s Adler Planetarium, discovered asteroid 43844. Having begun reading the Harry Potter series two years ago, he wanted to name his new find after the author and submitted his proposal to the proper authorities. [...]
Monica Ali’s Brick Lane was shortlisted for the 2003 Man Booker Prize and widely hailed by critics, but now residents of London’s real Brick Lane neighborhood are protesting local production of the film version, calling the novel racist, according to the Guardian. Ruby Films’ adaptation is already underway in a London studio, but a petition [...]
Buy my book! As the lines continue to blur between being famous for one thing and doing another because you’re famous for the first, we can only wonder whether publishers keep giving book deals to actors because they know they can sell books this way (probably) or because they just want a laff. “Goldie Hawn [...]
Pavel Krusanov. Hard-drinking Russians holla back at the “blue book” cherished by adherents of Alcoholics Anonymous, authored by the semianonymous father of all twelve-steppers, Bill W. The Moscow Times reports on a new anthology whose title, Sinyaya Kniga Alkogolika, translates to The Blue Book of the Alcoholic in English: “Put together by the St. Petersburg [...]
Vida Samadzai On her site Lifeofamodel.com, model and fashion commentator Kelly England invites her fellow models to report “dangerous incidents to help to make the fashion world a safer place for young women and men.” England is working on a book about how “modelling can lead to human trafficking, exploitation, eating disorders and drug dependency. [...]
Like a spider sucking away the bodily contents of its prey, Sara Jane Gutierrez stole nearly a thousand books from public libraries in Greeley, Colorado and sold them to a local secondhand store. Twenty years old and pregnant, Gutierrez pleaded guilty to theft and forgery in May and was sentenced this week to three years [...]
Byzantium is the forgotten empire. Spanning the ancient world and the new, the Byzantine Empire emerged at the fall of Rome and lasted all the way to the Renaissance. Perhaps because it thrived during the misnamed “Dark Ages,” and because it was headquartered where Europe and Asia meet (Byzantium is now called Istanbul), it is [...]
Dibs! is still wondering what Lindsay Lohan is famous for doing. But life is just too short to undertake the research into this matter on a summer day. So, crassly joining the dogpile of reporters reporting on the actions (and even planned actions) of a puzzling figure who is famous for stuff, Dibs! would like [...]
Nostalgic Berkeleyans enter Cody’s for the last time.Notice the “For Lease” sign. Dibs! saw grown men cry during the farewell ceremony today at Cody’s, a big bookstore on Berkeley, California’s famous Telegraph Avenue whose impending closure was lamented recently in the New York Times. (The Times reminisced: “Cody’s, which was founded in 1956, was considered [...]