Vote For Angela Lovell to be a Sex Columnist!

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Vote for FLYMF alum Angela Lovell to become the New York Press’ sex and relationship columnist! She provides the details below:

Dearest BFFs,

If every one of you does the following, I’ll most likely be awarded The New York Press’ sex and relationship column! (You can read my entry here: http://nypress. com/21/11/news&columns/sexcolumn. cfm )

Send an email to: editorial@nypress.com

All you have to write is, “I VOTE FOR ANGELA LOVELL!”

Or just go to the right of the article under “Reader Tools” and click on “Email the Editor” to bring up a message specifically about ME.

If you help me get this, I’ll totally wash your car, walk your dog, or bake you something. NO SHIT! TRY ME! (And pass it along to friends if you’re feeling EXTRA generous!) The winner is chosen ENTIRELY on reader votes and everyone of them counts! Please send yours NOW!

Super-sized lovin’,
Angela Lovell

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Garfield Minus Garfield

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Garfield Minus Garfield is a strange, surprisingly poignant website dedicated to posting versions of the Garfield comic strip that have been edited to remove everything except for the images and text of Garfield’s owner, Jon Arbuckle.

An example from the site

As the site’s manifesto explains,

Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life? Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle. Let’s laugh and learn with him on a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness in a quiet American suburb.

As this collection of lonely expressions and single-sided conversations reveals, Garfield seems to be mining a thick vein of isolation. It’s not all about loving lasagna, hating Mondays and kicking dogs off tables. Of course, those who remember the “Garfield alone” series from 1989 know that the strip has visited dark places in the past.

South By Southwest Preview, Part 5

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SXSW 2008 Preview

To prep for the 2008 South By Southwest music festival in, I’m arming myself with an alphabetical list of the groups performing and an active Internet connection with the goal of listening to top tracks from as many bands as possible and offering my impressions here.

The reactions will be quick and dirty, reflecting my own musical taste and ignorance, but if they save me or anyone else from accidentally sitting through a performance of Hey, How’s Your News, then they will be worth it.

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Larry Gaffney Fiction in Underground Voices Magazine

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FLYMF Alum Larry Gaffney has a story, “Rat in the Ivy,” published at Underground Voices Magazine. This funny piece of short fiction sees Cheney’s one-percent doctrine applied to the egos and bluster of tenure-track academia. Waterboarding and hatemyprofs.com (sadly, a fictional site) both make welcome appearances.

Larry’s work for FLYMF includes Selected E-mails From Cabot Sinclair, Literary Agent And Really Nice Guy, Notes On Contributors, Scene From A Creative Writing Seminar Conducted By David Milch, The Lost Seinfeld Episodes, Things I Wish I Had Never Said, Christian Rock Group Days Of Fire Decides To Cover The Frank Zappa Catalogue, With A Few Changes, Writers Guidelines For The Salt Lick Review, Ill-advised Resume Objectives, A Correspondence, Larry’s Open Proposal

South By Southwest Preview, Part 4

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SXSW 2008 Preview

To prep for the 2008 South By Southwest music festival in, I’m arming myself with an alphabetical list of the groups performing and an active Internet connection with the goal of listening to top tracks from as many bands as possible and offering my impressions here.

The reactions will be quick and dirty, reflecting my own musical taste and ignorance, but if they save me or anyone else from accidentally sitting through a performance of Hey, How’s Your News, then they will be worth it.

Continue reading South By Southwest Preview, Part 4 →