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• Swaptree: The Next Cool Free Internet Thing

  We were hoping to get our "Netflix For Books" idea off the ground for years now, but realized it was probably too expensive for us cheap hobo literary types. That's why we're secretly thrilled that Swaptree, if it works, has taken over where we gave up... Read More... Posted Nov 06 2008, 02:50 PM by Brian Fairbanks with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: movies, scanner book club, books, music, netflix, dvds, book club, free stuff, free books

• Scanner Book Club: Gays, Handjobs and Super Pokes

  During a recent foray into our local, independent bookstore, we came across a few new titles we thought you might like, and another we thought you might like to use as a weapon, perhaps in a battle against giant cockroaches?  The first, Welcome to the Gayborhood, explores the golden age of gay neighborhoods like the Castro and Chelsea/ Author Donald F. Reuter has chronicles the evolution of gay neighborhoods in twelve cities —Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Fort Lauderdale, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington DC—and looks at how gentrification affected each one. $19.95.   Read More... Posted Jun 27 2008, 09:14 AM by Emily Farris with | with no comments Filed under: scanner book club, books, gayborhood, facebook, hipsters, cockroaches, bookstores, welcome to the gayborhood, the hipster handbook, handjobs, the handjob book

• Scanner Book Club: Hiding in Hip Hop

  Terrance Dean, author of the upcoming Hiding in Hip Hop: On the Down Low in the Entertainment Industry—from Music to Hollywood, might want to watch his back come May 13 when his book hits shelves. Because if what his publicist says is true, he's about to out a bunch of closeted Hip Hop stars. And who's on the list? Read More... Posted Apr 22 2008, 12:18 PM by Emily Farris with | with no comments Filed under: gay, scanner book club, books, hip hop, sex, gay sex, terrance dean

• Drive-By Porn Recommendation: Tinto Brass

  Scanner has friends. And sometimes, we talk with those friends about our jobs. And sometimes they go, "Awwww, man, I wanna write about porn all day!" And we point out that, actually, we don't write about porn all day. We don't even WATCH porn hardly (that falls to the other two nutjobs writing this page). But anyway, they still want to write about porn, and honestly, who are we to stop them? Here at Scanner, we make dreams come true. Please allow me to introduce you to my addiction to finding porn (or really good soft-core) on Netflix. And I’m not talking about Last Tango in Paris (who hasn’t seen that shit?). I’m talking trippy “did I just see that” shit. I’m talking the kind of film that makes you check the synopsis on the DVD sleeve more than once to see who directed it. Ladies and gents, I give you Tinto Brass, the principal photographer on Caligula (and you KNOW that was freaky). Some call Tinto the Italian Russ Meyer. I just call him “sensei”. This man has done more for butts than King magazine. So if you like your soft-core a little more well-rounded, please check out 1992’s All Ladies Do It or, my favorite, 2000’s Cheeky. The man knows how to shoot some ass.— Stephen Owen Posted Nov 01 2007, 10:00 AM by sarahhepola with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: scanner book club, porn

• We Don't Endorse Dressing Like a Slut Until the Ripe Age of 8

  You know how they say you can't judge a book by its cover? Well, that's true, but the little known followup is that you can still blog about it. We have no plans to read this book--just won't do it, still slogging through Underworld and Kavalier and Clay--but that won't keep us from telling you that we wholeheartedly endorse the title of Celia Rivenbark's book, Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Slut. (By the way, we also wholeheartedly endorse the name "Celia Rivenbark." Everyone should be name with such euphony, says the blogger whose name sounds like a veneral disease.) We know a few moms out there who could use this book. Although we should add that their daughters looks smashing in that pirate whore costume. (Thanks to Kim) Posted Oct 30 2007, 09:30 AM by sarahhepola with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: scanner book club, sluts

• Scanner Book Club: "Homo Thug"

  Okay, literary types, we need your help. Anybody out there read Homo Thug by Asante Kahari? We saw it on the train this AM. We have no idea what it's about, exactly, but we can tell you that it's got a hunky gangsta behind bars and a sly, smiling sister on the cover, and it's put out by Gutter City Publishing, which only makes us love it even more. Do not mistake our enthusiasm for snark here, people. If you've read this book, we have to know all about it! Actually, we've never read anything by Zane either. She seems to be the Dan Brown-like, omnipresent master of the urban romance genre. Anyone read any of those? We are so behind. Posted Oct 19 2007, 09:15 AM by sarahhepola with | with no comments Filed under: scanner book club, homo thug