A Nighttime Visit to LA's Notorious Los Feliz Murder Mansion

Los Angeles has a few of America's best murder houses. The house where the unsolved murder of Bugsy Siegel took place is still there, as is the lavish and supposedly haunted palace where actor Ramon Novarro was tortured to death (with a silver dildo, they say).

-Vice

Buried under a Bridge in Paris: The Misfit Mausoleums of Montmartre

At the foot of Montmartre under a heavy wrought-iron bridge that skims the tips of blackened mausoleums, forgotten souls are spending their after lives in perpetual darkness– not exactly what they might have had in mind when they reserved the best plots in the house for their final curtain call…

-Messy Nessy Chic

You Can Tell a Story Without Fucking, But You Can’t Talk About Fucking Without a Story

I’ve lain on my back as a boyfriend poured maple syrup across my breasts, down my abdomen, and over my genitals, and then licked it off (it was in Vermont, so it was topical). I have given fellatio with grapes in my mouth. In a bed and breakfast on Cape Cod, a young man made real his fantasy of eating ice cream off of my ass — it was, if memory serves, chocolate. Both ginger and ice have seen the inside of my ass.


-Medium

The Importance of Sharing Experiences

Two new studies suggest that extraordinary adventures are overrated—unless you have them with someone else.


-The Atlantic

Swinging in Tango City

The joke goes, I’m not a sex tourist, but I play one on vacation.
I’m in a cab in Buenos Aires, on business. The driver is a young kid with a shaved head and wire-rim glasses — not the typical paunch-bellied porteño cabbie. After a dinner of pork intestines and Quilmes beer, I’m just buzzed enough to forget that my girlfriend Kyona is sitting next to me. Before I know it, I’ve asked about the zona roja. The driver takes us around the block to a cobblestone street in Jorge Luis Borges’s old neighborhood. But tonight there are no transvestite hookers, just policemen at every corner. The driver offers to take us to the strip of actual niñas instead; he sounds like a waiter sorry to have run out of the house special.

-Nerve

Fantastically Wrong: The Murderous, Sometimes Sexy History of the Mermaid

Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid is a heartwarming tale of a mermaid falling in love, battling evil to be with her love, and living happily ever after as a human. Just kidding. That’s the Disney version. In Andersen’s, the young mermaid has her tongue cut out, gets burned hard by the prince when he chooses another woman, and eventually dissolves into sea foam instead of saving her own life by ritualistically stabbing said prince through the heart and bathing in his blood. Seriously.

-Wired

Murder And Manifest Destiny On The Mosquito Coast

Fifteen years ago, a mysterious Greek entrepreneur bought and resold a series of tiny islands off the coast of Nicaragua, setting off a bizarre and tragic chain of events that included a reality-TV sensation and allegations of an insidious murder plot. The ensuing chaos brought to light a centuries-old question: Who does land really belong to?


-BuzzFeed

OK, So I'm Doing Something About My Drinking Problem

It’s 1 AM on a Saturday and I’m sober. I definitely don’t want to be, but I am. Sobriety at this hour is completely alien to me, as bizarre as the idea of being drunk at 8 AM, which is something, I shit you not, I’ve never done—despite the fact that everyone and my mother now sees me as the world’s largest lush.


-Vice

Icehotel: Sweden's Annual, Ephemeral Palace of Ice

Icehotel is an annual collection of buildings and sculptures made entirely of snow and ice. Every year since 1990, Jukkasjärvi—which ordinarily has a population of 1100 humans and 1000 dogs—has hosted tens of thousands of visitors at the hotel and its bar, restaurant, and church.

-Slate

Here Are Weeklong Catcall Diaries from 10 Women in Eight Countries

“It’s Impossible to Prevent Someone From Eyefucking You.” We asked 10 women in eight countries to record every instance of street harassment—every catcall, every ass-ogle, every creepy look—for an entire week. The results? A strong argument for just becoming a shut-in.

-Medium

The Adultery Arms Race

Jay’s wife, Ann, was supposed to be out of town on business. It was a Tuesday evening in August 2013, and Jay, a 36-year-old IT manager, was at home in Indiana with their 5-year-old daughter and 9-year-old son when he made a jarring discovery. Their daughter had misplaced her iPad, so Jay used the app Find My iPhone to search for it. The app found the missing tablet right away, but it also located all the other devices on the family’s plan. What was Ann’s phone doing at a hotel five miles from their home?

-The Atlantic

Amours, délices et hugs

Elles font de l’autofiction — certains diraient de l’autofriction —, puisent dans leurs ébats ou leur célibat pour nourrir leurs créations sur scène, au petit et au grand écran ou dans les pages d’un livre ou d’une bédé. La plus jeune, et la plus connue, se nomme Lena Dunham, idéatrice, scénariste, réalisatrice, productrice et actrice de la série Girls. Elle vient de publier Not That Kind of Girl, un récit très attendu de ses errances frictionnelles, ce qu’on appelle du clit-lit, celles-là mêmes qui ont nourri les trois premières saisons de la série cul-te.

-Le Devoir