Marc and Sara Schiller (founders/editors of Wooster Collective) teamed up with Paper magazine senior editor Carlo McCormick and over 150 featured artists (including Shepard Fairey, Blu, and Bansky — who wrote the preface) to fashion a book that “certainly includes street art and graffiti, but goes beyond that to also address performance, protest, sculpture… and the whole goal of the book was to really look at the context of street art in a much larger historical perspective.”

Here they are talking about the book:

There is this website Three-DD and the premise of the site was simple: 3d boobs. After two years of work Henry Hargreaves is finally finished with Three DD The Book. It’s got big boobs, small boobs, saucer nipples, pin nipples, body paint, girl-on-girl, and just about everything else you could possibly want from boobs that you can’t actually put your hands on. While we can’t in good conscience support motorboating a book (for fear of paper cuts), it has to be better than the risk of electrical shock from a computer monitor. It’s a coffee table book of 3d boobs that comes with the glasses. Do you need any more encouragement?

You can buy the book here for $29.99 (Note: website is NSFW obviously)

Last summer, KFC ran a test campaign to see how people reacted to their meat and cheese monster called “The Double Down.” we even featured it in one of our previous articles entitles “America This Is Why Your Fat”. Yesterday, KFC announced The Double Down will be a reality starting on April 12th. (This is your fault, Internet.)

The Valedictorians is a book that very much encompasses the Zoot Lifestyle.  Based in Boston, a freshly graduated 20-something year old struggles with adjusting to cube life as his College glory days become a distant past.  The book is filled with chapters of hilarious memories and awkward moments, while the protagonist takes on a deeper internal struggle with life, loss, career and where he sees his future.  If you are one of those people that struggles daily with the meaning of life or what your true calling is, this book could be the thing that finally compels you to GET OFF YOUR ASS.

"The Valedictorians" is an unflinching look at a jaded generation desperately seeking direction.

Even if you are perfectly satisfied with your measly existence, it is easy to find common ground.  Whether you have slept with a colleague, enjoy playing hoops, made some great tales in college or dealt with a serious hangover in the corporate world.  I know I felt for him.

(http://www.amazon.com/Valedictorians-Mitch-Cote-Crosskill/dp/1936107368)

Grant Lingel is a man to be jealous of and maybe even to admire. In 2006, after completing one semester as a super-senior in balmy Buffalo, NY, Grant decided to take a risk many of us have thought about, but never had the courage to do. Uninspired by the path laid in front of him (degree, job, corporate ladder, settle down, etc.), he dropped out of school only a few credits shy of a degree. Then he bought a one-way ticket to Cancun and took off with $300.00 to his name.

Imagine is Grant’s memoir of the odyssey that follows that plane flight south of the border. Working at resorts and doing odd jobs along the way, his trip takes him from Playa Del Carmen through Central America and back again. Along the way, he meets some interesting people and fellow travelers never to be forgotten. Whether he is escaping from reality or escaping to a better reality depends on your perspective. Either way, Grant’s writing transports you along in stream of consciousness on a voyage that you’ll wish you’d had the guts to take. Maybe it will even inspire you to do your own vagabonding.

You were probably thinking Mario weren’t you?  Well you would be wrong my friend.  Guinness has put out it’s 2010 “Book of World Records Gamers Edition” and surprisely Mario is not the most well known video game character in America.   Only the man who eats ghosts and chases babes with pink bows could take that title.  Good old PAC-MAN took the title for the Most Recognizable Video Game Character. The book drops today.  I am really happy to see NBA JAM has a spot in this book, “IS IT THE SHOES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Here’s some of the other highlights noted by gameinformer.com

Biggest Selling Video Game of All Time: Wii Sports, with over 46 million sold

Highest Grossing Video Arcade of All Time: NBA Jam, making $1 billion in its first year

According to Norris, he was asked repeatedly over the past few years by various publishers to write about his favorite Chuck Norris Facts, those hyperbolic and mythical sayings about the nature of Chuck Norris that have made him an Internet and superhero sensation. (I’m certain picking 101 favorites was not easy for him, being that there are literally tens of thousands.)

Under each of Chuck’s 101 favorite Facts in the book is a related short story (titled “Let’s Be Honest”), a related quote from contemporaries to classic figures (titled “They Said It”), and a final section summarizing a life principle that is based upon what he just wrote (titled “Chuck’s Code”). Examples of a few are: “If you work in an office with Chuck Norris, don’t ask him for his three-hole punch”; “Chuck Norris was born in a cabin that he built with his bare hands”; “Sweating bullets is literally what happens when Chuck Norris gets too hot”; and “Chuck Norris can gargle peanut butter and blow bubbles with beef jerky.”
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Andy Kaufman was a little before my time, but from what I saw of him on the re runs of Taxi he was seriously out there. It was hard to tell where the line was drawn, as he regularly blurred the line of seriousness with his ground breaking form of comedy. Famous for his role as Latka Gravas on television’s Taxi and for his appearances on Saturday Night Live and his own variety show, the legendary eccentric performer Andy Kaufman provoked a national outrage in 1977 by taunting the women of America and challenging them to wrestle him live on television. Taking on an aggressive and ridiculous personality based upon the characters invented by professional wrestlers, he offered a $1,000 reward to any woman who could pin him.Thousands of fired-up females (and a few males) responded to the call, and Kaufman received a torrent of impassioned challenges, hate mail, and love letters from would-be wrestling contenders.
These fascinating and sometimes bizarre handwritten letters, photographs, and illustrations from would-be contenders are here assembled into a great book titled “Dear Andy Kaufman, I Hate Your Guts!”

Kaufman’s girlfriend at the time of his death, Lynne Margulies, provides an introduction. Bob Zmuda, Kaufman’s cohort and longtime friend, writes the foreword.

To honor the grizzled, alcoholic author Charles Bukowski on the 20th anniversary of his death, a literary tour operator thought it was time for a commemorative stamp–and they launched an online petition to show how serious they are. The USPS is not likely to embrace the idea, but it’s actually a smart one. Bukowski is one of my favorite authors so I would love to see this idea become a reality. Besides his expertise in whiskey and women, Bukowski was also postal worker until age 49–he even wrote what is perhaps the most famous book about a post office, Post Office.

Let’s be honest, this idea is not likely to see the light of day, and Buk needs all the help he can get, but how great would it be send a letter to your grandma, and put a Broads, Beer, Books, stamp on the letter.

If you like this idea, and would love to see some Bukowski stamps in circulation, check out the online petition page