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The tiny, trendy Himalayan kingdom recently became the world’s first nonsmoking nation. Since Dec. 17, it has been illegal to smoke in public or sell tobacco. Violators are fined the equivalent of $232—more than two months’ salary in Bhutan.
Authorities heralded the ban by igniting a bonfire of cigarette cartons in the capital, Thimphu, and stringing banners across the main thoroughfare, exhorting people to kick the habit. As if they have a choice.
The Queer Zine Archive Project receives queer and LGBT ‘zines’ from around the U.S. The ‘zines are available to download as PDF files. Amazing.
The Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) was first launched in November 2003 in an effort to preserve queer zines and make them available to other queers, researchers, historians, punks, and anyone else who has an interest DIY publishing and underground queer communities.
This was one of the funnest covers to shoot for Q Mag. We knew we wanted a holiday theme going on, but we didn’t know who would dress up as Santa. Luckily, my room mate Dylan was around and willing to participate.
As the photoshoot evolved, the idea behind it changed too. I wanted to poke fun at the image of Santa but I felt like we were also criticizing the materialism of the holiday. A Santa figure tied down by Christmas lights, beer in hand. A reveler bound on the floor by wrapping paper, wearing a new years hat. An elf smoking a cigarette, and lifelessly staring into the television through a pair of aviators.
It was a photo treatise on the strange and vapid joy of a secular tradition, baked into our culture like the eyes of a gingerbread man.
More photos after the jump…
I loved Laguna Beach, I lovingly tolerated The Hills, and I am now freebasing episodes of The City, like it’s my job. Although there are still only straight, rich, white people living in snotty social circles and dwelling on nonsense of daily interactions, it’s still beautifully shot, captivating drivel.
This article at NyMag.com explores the curious real-not-real experience of watching The City, and crazier implications of being ON The City. Here’s a great snippet about a conversation with Whitney, the show’s “star”:
“It can be kind of weird,” she tells me. “I like to think people are friends with me because they like me, you know, and not because of what I can do for them…” She pauses for a moment, letting the thought linger. I find it impossible not to imagine a girl-power ballad starting to play in the background, quiet at first, then louder as the camera pans back to reveal a sparkling skyline, the whole effect turning her silence into a meditation on the mercurial nature of friendship and, ultimately, the realization that a young woman in the city has only herself to rely on.
MTV Brings ‘The Hills’ Spinoff ‘The City’ to New York — New York Magazine.
Outspoken animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is using the “sea kitten” name as part of its push to restrict fishing.
“Nobody would hurt a sea kitten!” the group says on its website.
“People don’t seem to like fish.
“We’re going to start by retiring the old name for good.
“When your name can also be used as a verb that means driving a hook through your head, it’s time for a serious image makeover.”
PETA’s campaign to rename fish ’sea kittens’ | National Breaking News | News.com.au.
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