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tabloids Royal Scandals: Drugs, Divorce, and Free Booze for Life, in this week’s royally dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

art Liartown, USA leaves Tumblr over NSFW-ban; announces new 544-page Crap Hound book "devoted to images notable for their lack of positivity" Cory Doctorow

music THE BUREAU: Part Three, "Assessing Others" — with a Metasonix D-2000 Vacuum Tube Drum Machine Ethan Persoff

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art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

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