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Breaking Bad Art Show + Tootsie Roll's Modern-Day Willy Wonka Situation = Eight Items Or Less

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Screen shot 2012-08-22 at 5.45.59 PM.png1. Who knew that the people behind Tootsie Roll candies are as secretive and mysterious as Willy Wonka? [via WSJ]

Screen shot 2012-08-22 at 5.47.42 PM.png2. Portland, Oregon's Heathman Hotel is the setting for some pretty steamy scenes in Fifty Shades of Grey (or so we hear...) and now they're finally getting savvy and cashing in on their sudden attention with a $40 hotel stay add-on called the "Inner Goddess" that includes the "beautiful white wine that Christian and Anastasia enjoy, complete with a little grey tie wrapped around the bottle neck," general manager Chris Erickson tells People.

Screen shot 2012-08-22 at 5.25.28 PM.png3. Oh no: after Todd Akin's awful remarks about "legitimate rape," someone has made "Magic Vagina Death Venom" that promises to "kill the sperm of your choice on contact" so that every rape can be "illegitmate rape." Even though it's clearly a [dark] joke, we feel still feel icky about making light of this kind of thing. [via Gothamist]   

Screen shot 2012-08-22 at 5.53.46 PM.png4. Check out some awesome Breaking Bad posters from an art show currently on display at L.A.'s Gallery1988: Melrose. [via Buzzfeed]

Screen shot 2012-08-22 at 5.52.48 PM.png5. Someone got a customer discount on their veggie bowl for having the "best butt."  [via Eater]

Screen shot 2012-08-22 at 6.09.08 PM.png6. This is crazy!  What you see above is not a photograph.  A Portuguese attorney named Samuel Silva who says he only dabbles in art made this drawing using eight different Bic ballpoint pens over the course of thirty hours. [via This Is Colossal]

Screen shot 2012-08-22 at 6.13.40 PM.png7. September in New York isn't only about Fashion Week: Gallerist has a very helpful slideshow recommending their Top 16 "Must-See" art shows opening next month.

3p6uxh.jpg8. Pitchfork polled their readers for their favorite albums from 1996-2011 (which also happens to be the e-zine's first fifteen years of existence) and, not surprisingly, the #1 and #2 spots go to Radiohead.  The bands OK Computer and Kid A take first and second place, respectively. [via Pitchfork]


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