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• Family of faggot fans fly the flag – “A West Midlands family is playing a central role in the quest to raise the profile of a forgotten British dish – faggots. The Doody family from Wolverhampton has been crowned The Faggot Family in a national competition, and to kick off their reign they will launch National Faggot Week.” For those not in the know, faggots are a kind of meatball. Via The House Next Door.
• Your moment of Mr. Sparklepants

Bonus photo: one half of Andrew Andrew spotted in the wild:

Found Art (Soho): Unmonumental 58 by Joy Garnett

• New York City has the largest high-tech workforce in the nation.
• Fascinating article by Ben Rosen at Huffington Post about the Metropolitan Opera’s financial health and marketing strategies.
• MTV, for the first time in its history, will accept political advertising.

• Art Fag City interviews Nayland Blake. Related: Nayland Blake products at CafePress.com.
• Hrag Vartanian gives us a chart of star architect projects in totalitarian countries.
• And I Am Not Lying brings us photos of a Fight Club in Union Square.

Aurora Robson, photo by Hrag Vartanian

• Hrag Vartanian braved the heat to visit many of the Bushwick Open Studios last weekend and put up a massive flickr set.

• The New York Yankees have decided that $940 million in (legally dicey) tax-exempt bonds they have been given already are insufficient and now want an additional $350 million. Nice priorities, public sector! $2 billion a year in public subsidies for sports team isn’t quite enough? Meanwhile, the New York City Housing Authority is raising rents and cutting back programs due to falling tax revenues.

• Happy Loving Day to everyone! quote: “Mrs. Loving stopped giving interviews, but last year issued a statement on the 40th anniversary of the announcement of the Supreme Court ruling, urging that gay men and lesbians be allowed to marry.”

• U.S. seeking 58 bases in Iraq, Shiite lawmakers say
  58 bases, total control of airspace, and immunity from prosecution – sounds imperial to me
  tags: usa iraq occupation war