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Ice-T Reads a Fantasy Novel, and Other News
By
Dan Piepenbring
February 7, 2014
On the Shelf
Photo: Ian Lamont, via Flickr
“This motherfucker got a sword that talks to him … Motherfuckers live in places that don’t exist, and it comes with a map. My God.”
Ice-T records a Dungeons & Dragons audiobook.
On the eve of Sochi’s Winter Olympics,
writers from around the world have signed a letter urging Putin to repeal laws limiting the freedom of expression
. “We cannot stand quietly by as we watch our fellow writers and journalists pressed into silence.” American signatories include Jeffrey Eugenides, Jonathan Franzen, and Jonathan Lethem.
“What the fuck is a selfie?” In Baltimore,
poverty precludes access to pop culture
.
Discovered in an old Motown LP:
Marvin Gaye’s passport
.
Before car commercials learned to tug at our heartstrings and abuse the classic-rock canon,
they looked like this
, and we were all probably better for it. (He said, driving off in his 1985 Isuzu Gemini.)
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