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Links we love today: Cover songs and collabos, TV writers on Twitter, anOlympian horse and more
Assistant Editor Samantha Pitchel reads everything so you don’t have to. Here are the links she (and we) loved today:
Thirteen facts about Friday the 13th (also fact: there are two more in the next 13 weeks! The Mayans were right.)
Flaming Lips to release ridiculously cameo-heavy new album; expect collabs with Bon Iver, Yoko Ono, Nick Cave, Ke$ha, Lykke Li, Erykah Badu and more on the April album.
SOPA's Texan sponsor gets home state pushback.
Presented without comment: Paula Deen has diabetes.
Ashton invests in German travel start-up Gidsy; stunning informatic-inspired works by Korean artist Minjeong An.
Why you shouldn’t leave your phone charging all night (it slowly kills the battery); why I’m single (British man buries wife alive).
Margaret Cho takes to Twitter to call out fat-shamers.
Diablo Cody is working on a Sweet Valley High musical; Fred Durst is Tumbl-ing about his 60-day juice cleanse; Lana del Rey’s Russian Vogue cover is beautiful / creepy / beautiful.
W. Kamau Bell on why comedians keep dying; also in "dying comedy" news — Rob got THREE TIMES more viewers than Parks and Rec.
Caitlin Fuller writes about the allure and legacy of Joan Didion:
“Women who encountered Joan Didion when they were young received from her a way of being female and being writers that no one else could give them.”
Pitchfork Reviews Reviews is back with “Interviewing Lil Wayne at a skateboarding apparel launch party.”
Occupy protestors and poetry come together in this video from DJ Dolack; homeless Long Island teen is Intel competition semifinalist.
Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner covers Patsy Cline; five people, one guitar; 20 great songs ruined by commercials.
Splitsider’s comprehensive guide to TV writers on Twitter.
You birth control is totally safe — or, at least, the FDA knows the dudes who make it, so it’s totally cool.
“You can say things in jest and have a little fun and deliver it a little different, and it seems to get more attention,” he said. “Dad’s been vetted pretty hard. If it takes a kid to draw some attention to some things, then so be it.”
"In Soviet Russia..." of the day: Russian finds 79 Kalashnikovs in firewood crates.
Kids say the darndest things about love.
“Fire survivor and a possible Olympian: A horse named Neville.”
Could you deal with this? Pippa Middleton photographed over 400 times a day.
Frugalo organizes all your daily deal subscriptions on one site; this 3-in-1 retro breakfast station is only $50 (and my birthday is in September).
The Story Prize announces 2011 shortlist; GOOD names Maker Challenge winner: photo collective They Shoot Film.
Recommended reading: on Faulkner and the black arts movement.
In the wake of I Want My MTV, original network VJs plan tell-all book.
SNL’s Stefon has a Yelp page. Read on for gems like:
Located in the middle of the fountain in Washington Square Park, this pan-sexual portauthoriparty is the creation of Italian club owner Tranny Hall.
A day after the announcement that the first three eps will screen at SXSW, HBO announces premiere date for Lena Dunham’s Girls (it’s April 15). Watch the teaser, below:
And finally, Jimmy fallon is: Tebowie:
