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explicitly-awesome-chris-brown-cds-get-man-beats-woman-warning-sticker_top.jpg1. Someone has been putting stickers on Chris Brown's albums in HMV stores in London that read: "Warning -- Do not buy this album! This man beats women." [DailySwarm]

Screen shot 2012-09-14 at 6.24.11 PM.png2. The NYT has fascinating images from Drum magazine, a South African apartheid-era black lifestyle magazine which launched in the 1950s and was based off American magazines like Life. Drum photos are included in the International Center of Photography's new exhibit, Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life.  [NYT]

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3. Mitt Romney said some really weird things about Snooki during a taping of Live With Kelly and Michael airing next week. Not only does Romney say he's a fan of Snooki, he also marveled at how quickly she's lost her baby weight. "Look how tiny's she's gotten. She's lost weight. She's energetic. Just her spark-plug personality is kind of fun." Shudder. [NYMag; image via MTV]

londongreatdane.jpg4. A Great Dane was spotted riding the Tube in London. [Gawker]



Screen shot 2012-09-14 at 6.13.30 PM.png5. Mulberry Street salon Fox & Boy are offering free braids and hair chalk services during the San Gennaro festival in Little Italy, which goes through September 23rd. Hair chalk is kind of like sidewalk chalk, except it goes on wet and acts as a temporary dye. [Racked


yk-44-d-2_lores.jpg6. Ooh, '50s-era Yayoi Kusama drawings are on display at D'Amelio Gallery in Chelsea Through October 20th. (The Whitney's Kusama retrospective closes Sept. 30th). [Gallerist]


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7. The director of the incendiary anti-Islam film that has sparked spreading anti-American rallies in the Middle East, is, it turns out, a softcore porn director. His titles include such works as The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood and Young Lady Chatterly. [Gawker]

Screen shot 2012-09-14 at 7.13.17 PM.png8. Woody Allen and Groucho Marx were pen pals. [Letters of Note via Flavorwire]

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