My awesome friend Lydia published a new e-novella, Everybody's Baby. It's about a couple who crowd source having a baby. Buy it now!
"Jenna and Billy are in love. He's an app developer, a hyper-plugged-in citizen of the internet, with a big Scottish family and winning smile. She is a yoga teacher, tuned in to the vibes of the spiritual universe, who was abandoned by her mother as an infant and orphaned by her father's recent death. When they meet, it's electric, and it is no time before they are married and eager to start their own family. But when they can't get pregnant, Billy devises a plan: they would raise funds for their in vitro fertilization on Kickstarter, offering donor perks like cutting the cord, naming the baby, and catching the baby when it takes its first steps."
[Amazon]
"You two would likely make a formidable if unsettling team, moving forward together like a pair of beautiful sharks." -- Prudie
"But trigger warnings have come in for criticism and mockery even on the left. Jarvie concludes her piece with this sensible observation: 'Bending the world to accommodate our personal frailties does not help us overcome them.' She reports that the feminist website Jezebel, 'which does not issue trigger warnings, raised hackles in August by using the term as a headline joke: "It's Time To Talk About Bug Infestations [TRIGGER WARNING]."' And Susannah Breslin provoked outrage in 2010 when she 'wrote in True/Slant that feminists were applying the term "like a Southern cook applies Pam cooking spray to an overused nonstick frying pan."'" -- WSJ
"As the term grew increasingly ubiquitous online, it also began to acquire critics. In 2010, writer Susannah Breslin wrote that feminists applied the phrase 'like a Southern cook applies Pam cooking spray to an overused nonstick frying pan' and that 'the whole world is a trigger warning,' to which Feministing responded that she was a 'certifiable asshole,' and Jezebel, a site that has never used trigger warnings, claimed that the debate over the term 'been totally clouded by ridiculous inflammatory rhetoric.'" -- How the Trigger Warning Took Over the Internet
"1. And this temple of mine as been alive for over 28 years so far, lots of highs and few lows, lows like being beat up by father with a belt which only made me stronger, I self-intoxicated its body of mine for quite few years, so, now days is looking and feeling better then ever." -- Eyeshot
In studio, Joe Ellenberger stops by to talk about his upcoming debut at UFC 172 and shares some of Jakes more embarrassing moments growing up. Also the very beautiful, Amber Nicole Miller, the UFC’s first Octagon girl discusses how she was discovered and her current relationship with MMA legend, Tito Ortiz.
"Pop hits these days usually have at least two or three writers, and the choruses are generally celebratory — 'victim to victory,' as Furler put it. For some, this process can still be soul-wrenching and endless, but Furler has no patience for that. In recent years, she has become a one-woman hit factory, working with Kurstin and others to write songs for artists like Christina Aguilera and Beyoncé. And her hits — including Flo Rida’s 'Wild Ones' and Eminem’s 'Beautiful Pain' — seem to roll off something of a pop-music assembly line. Furler wrote Rihanna’s 'Diamonds' in 14 minutes. After the D.J. David Guetta invited her to write the melody and lyrics for one of his songs, she futzed around on the Internet and pumped out 'Titanium' in 40 minutes. (It has since been downloaded more than 3.7 million times.) After 45 minutes in the Silver Lake studio, Furler finished 'Living Out Loud' and declared it perfect for Brooke Candy, a new singer-slash-rapper she described as a 'feminista glam alien.'" -- "The Socially Phobic Pop Star"
"There is a jar of white liquid. Written on the jar are the words, 'POZ CUM.' The contents are poured directly into one of porn star Blue Bailey’s orifices — an orifice that is not his mouth." -- "When HIV Is a Turn-On"
"Every Friday night, her husband would go to the gangbang club. She would sit at home. Alone. And bored. It made her angry. Why did he get to go to the gangbang club, and she had to sit at home? Alone. And bored." -- "Gangbang Tango"
My friend Lydia Netzer has an amazing opportunity: Name the baby in her next novel.
"Sounds cool, right? In keeping with the crowdsourcing theme of the story, Lydia Netzer decided to let readers name Jenna and Billy’s baby. So here’s what’s happening: you suggest a name for the Kickstarted baby, and we’ll select 10 finalist for readers to vote on. If the name you suggest is selected as a finalist, you’ll win copies of Everybody’s Baby and How to Tell Toledo From the Night Sky. If the name you suggest is voted the winner, you’ll get the books AND a shiny new 16GB iPad Mini Retina Display with WiFi-only connectivity."
[Book Riot]
