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Canada Is Pervy About Business Attire

February 1, 2009 By Robert Lanham

From the Canadian wire (Canwest News Service):

Business suits are the new shorthand for sexy, according to a survey released Thursday indicating Canadian men and women alike fantasize more about white-collar workers than such perennial objects of desire as firefighters, rock stars and models.
“Given the global financial crisis, suits and business attire are the new hot uniforms, since they remind us of what really turns us on: employment,” says Robert Lanham, a humorist who has written three books on North American idiosyncrasies.
“When fantasy becomes dull, we begin to long for the real thing. So it makes perfect sense that the corporate uniforms we wear and see every day would become the new fetish.”

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Maxim’s Guide to Surviving the Apocalypse

January 16, 2009 By Robert Lanham

Not that anyone is going to make it past the bikinis, but I have a feature in the new Maxim (February 2009).

Here’s the link to the magazine, and here are the jpgs:
View image 1 | View image 2. Update: looks like it’s online now.

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“The City” A Little Too Close To Home

January 2, 2009 By Robert Lanham

A little ditty by me about “The City” over at FREEwilliamsburg.

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My Top Picks of 2008

December 21, 2008 By Robert Lanham

We’re getting reading to post our year end music list over at FREEwilliamsburg. Here’s my black jack list of music for 2008. I can’t defend the inclusion of Kanye West, but I have been loving his 808s and Heartbreak, fully knowing that autotune is the dorkiest thing to take over pop music since Peter Frampton. Oh well, I liked him too. Overall, it was a pretty good year for music, despite all the beards…

21. FENNESZ
Black Sea


20. The Eagles of Death Metal
Heart On


19. TV ON THE RADIO
Dear Science


18. Department of Eagles
In Ear Park


17. The Tallest Man on Earth
Shallow Grave


16. HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR
Hercules and Love Affair


15. GZA
Pro Tools


14. KANYE WEST
808s & Heartbreak


13. JAY REATARD
Singles 06-07


12. EL GUINCHO
Alegranzo


11. DEERHUNTER
Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.


10. THE WALKMEN
You & Me


9. JOLIE HOLLAND
The Living And The Dead


8. JOHANN JOHANNSSON
Fordlandia


7. SHE & HIM
Volume One


6. BON IVER
For Emma, Forever Ago


5. JASON COLLETT
Here’s to Being Here


4. FLEET FOXES
Fleet Foxes


3. BEACH HOUSE
Devotion


2. VAMPIRE WEEKEND
Vampire Weekend


1. SANTOGOLD
Santogold

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Rick Warren’s Non-Negotiable Worldview

December 20, 2008 By Robert Lanham

Here’s a taste:

Rick Warren routinely claims to not be a part of the Evangelical Right when speaking to secular elitists at the New York Times, but he’s playing both sides of the fence. Warren has gone on record calming that he’s “firmly a cultural conservative.” He also believes opposing abortion, gay rights, stem cell research, human cloning, and euthanasia are “non-negotiable” and “not even debatable” for people of values. He called the Terry Schiavo debacle “an atrocity worthy of Nazism” and according to ABC news, compared gay intimacy to sex with a horse. Prior to the 2004 election, Warren set-up voter registration booths on Saddleback’s church patio. Most tellingly, he sent letters to 150,000 pastors insisting they encourage their congregations to vote for Bush.
In light of the passing of Proposition 8–an issue Obama has yet to show leadership on–choosing Warren for the invocation is a slap in the face to homosexuals and Obama’s liberal base. As PFAW points out, Warren has “compared marriage by loving and committed same-sex couples to incest and pedophilia.” Sorry Rick, giving donuts to Prop 8 protestors doesn’t make your positions any more palatable.

Read it all at the Huffington Post.

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