LITERARY BITCH FIGHTS

When it comes to smack talking people generally think of professional wrestlers, New York cab drivers and desperate, outgoing rappers. But there's no reason we shouldn't add great writers to that list. If the great men of letters are incapable of smack talk, what hope do the rest of us have?

Luckily The Examiner has compiled a list of the 50 greatest author-versus-author put-downs from history. In it you'll find out that J.D. Salinger is "narcissistic and sentimental", Melville was "a solemn ass" and Voltaire? "King of the nincompoops".

Read it here.

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CLOWN POSSE: NO LONGER INSANE?

I realise this has been done to death but not posting this video was never an option.

So, those Insane Clown Posse guys are pretty dunderheaded, right? They're fat. Their fans rally around a collective term that has become a byword for hopeless, ugly illiterates. They make music that Fred Durst might call "lackluster". All in all they have nothing going for them.

And then this came along. No one - least of all the Posse itself - has been able to accurately describe what might be going on in Miracles. One thing's for certain, we all need to ask ourselves: "Fuckin' magnets; how do they work?"



I would honestly, honestly love to know what you made of that.

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