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This American Laugh: Ira Glass’ sex tape

Em and Lo — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:00:19 +0000

If you're an NPR junkie, you're going to love this. It's an 11-minute spoof of a "This American Life" episode featuring a story about host Ira Glass making a celebrity sex tape. All the elements are there: Ira Glass's go-to phrases, input from Alex Blumberg, the clever mood music, the end credits with a shout out to WBEZ general manager Torey Malatea...

Naked News: Smoking & ED, obesity & the pill, Utah & gay marriage

Em and Lo — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:00:17 +0000

As if you needed another reason to quit, research shows that smoking drastically increases the chances of erectile dysfunction.
Obesity, on the other hand, gets a free pass in the birth control department: Contrary to what was previously thought, obesity does not lower the effectiveness of the birth control pill.

Naked Levi Johnston Is Not Alone

Michael Musto — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:38:19 +0000

Sarah Palin’s worst nightmare, Levi Johnston, just did his Playgirl shoot, flaunting some of his body parts as unselfconsciously as he tried to show the world the flaws in Palin’s family values. The ex of Palin’s daughter Bristol, Levi’s the one who earlier this year carried out a p.r. campaign labeling Palin a hypocrite and an opportunist who stepped down as Alaska Governor partly because she could make more cash on the lecture circuit. And where does Levi go from there? Making more cash on the nude magazine circuit! Tacky? Maybe, but it was an inevitable step on the road to reality shows and Seth Rogen movies. And Levi will be thrilled to know that the history of celebrity nudity and semi-nudity reveals that he’s in really good company.

Carrie Prejean: former Miss California, latest sex tape scandal.

Lux Alptraum — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:36:43 +0000

We live in hope that one day–one blessed day–we will all get over the “shock” that we all supposedly feel upon the discovery that some vaguely notable person has a sex tape…and just admit to ourselves, once and for all, that pretty much everyone has a sex tape. Or wants to have a sex tape. [...]