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This month’s Vogue Italia has gone for a sex and war spread; Ugly couches; French and Saunders parody ANTM; Barmaid serves Pine-O-Clean shot; Aerial shots of a rapidly growing Dubai; Gay Last Supper causes controversy; Great story about the relative happiness of men and women; And a clip of suggestive doodles…

Pat Condell’s humorous video monologues address subjects like Islam in Europe, atheism, racism, Catholic morality and politics. In his latest one, he responds to the many angry Christians who have contacted him via comments and email. Will he burn in hell?

If you’re on Facebook you should read Virtual Friendship and the New Narcissism; Visit an expo for the prison food industry; Old school Space Invaders rules; Boy survives flight to Moscow hanging onto wing; Upside to marijuana; Why most of us believe that exercise makes us thinner (wrong!); Never kiss your opponent; Longest flight ever measured; And a clip of giraffe neck-fighting…

The reality of trying to paint John Key as a man of the people encounters the same PR hurdles as trying to paint Helen Clark as Mother Earth. Undeterred by the difficulty of the task, Hollow Man Productions, who look like they know a thing or two about good satire, followed John Key and his entourage (photographers and TV crew) around the Porirua markets…

Die Hard director gets four month prison sentence; Motorhead adds second New Plymouth show; More Supergroove dates; Top ten movie drunkards; Samuel L. Jackson and Bernie Mac play soul men; Early reports on Southland Tales; MGM Channel holding Grindhouse poster art competition; and out of it bass lessons with Rick Danko…