lips like sugar

daily dos

mon 5/4/2009

 

FEMA has pulled a children's coloring book after receiving complaints from parents for its inclusion of tragic events like 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina.

 
 

pump your brakes

daily dos

thu 3/26/2009

 

The popular novel Where the Wild Things Are comes to life in a trailer for the film adaptation directed by Spike Jonze.

 
 

pump your brakes

daily dos

thu 3/26/2009

 

Hector Huerta Rios, a high-ranking member of the Beltran Leyva cartel, was arrested in Monterrey one day after his name appeared on Mexico's most-wanted drug traffickers list.

 
 

gossip, girl

daily dos

wed 10/15/2008

 

Gossip helps us groom each other. (via Boing Boing)

 
 

gossip, girl

daily dos

wed 10/15/2008

 

Fifteen year-old pop star Miley Cyrus has written a book about her life.

 
 

on repeat

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tue 5/13/2008

 

California's Libreria Martinez Books and Art Gallery, one of the largest Latino-themed bookstores in the U.S., may be forced to shut down after sales dropped by 50 percent in the last year. Owner Rueben Martinez: "I knew I was never going to get rich selling books. But the crowds are not what they used to be."

 
 

who's counting

daily dos

fri 4/18/2008

 

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling was described as "angry" as she accused a man in court of "stealing" her material to publish an unauthorized Harry Potter guide.

 
 

the buck stops here

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wed 4/9/2008

 

Latino author Junot Díaz won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for his first novel, "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao."