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It's Monday May the 28 around 6:21AM and

Buzz Dump: Let's Rename Bread!

*The most recent New Yorker had a great Paul Theroux piece "The Golden Man" on the cray-zee former leader of Turkmenistan. "Everything Tukmenbashi did seemed to indicate he was out of his mind. He'd had parliament declare him 'President for life'; it was the will of the people, his ministers had said. He'd banned beards and ballet; he'd denouced gold teeth as unhygienic. A London newspaper reported that he had renamed bread after his mother." Now that is crazy!

*I'm a little bit too into the fact that National Treasure: Book of Secrets is coming.

*They greened up Trafalgar square. (via Adrants)

*I knew it. I buy a pair of Dr. Marten's and then this happens. More from The Hater: "According to this ad, heaven is a place filled with white-robed angels walking on fluffy white clouds bathed in beautiful light, but heavy boots are required for the terrain. And since Sid Vicious is there, evidently God doesn't see alleged manslaughter as a dealbreaker."

*Here's an advertising palette cleanser. Night Drive for VW, featuring some Dylan Thomas.

*This happened last week, but still, the new Gawker blog Jezebel is pretty funny so far.

*Oh dear god. The Rambo 4 trailer. Gulp.

*Fish slapping to sell beef jerky. Love it!

*On the plane yesterday I watched the 1999 classic "Drive Me Crazy" with Melissa Joan Hart. Whatever, except for that Rob Thomas - he of creating Veronica Mars - wrote it, and the movie features a pretty cute pre-Heroes Ali Larter in black/red hair looking all broody and pretty-goth. Slightly related the preview of Gossip Girl with Veronica doing the voiceover.

*Derek & Simon: The Show - "I love you".

*Slate looks at Helvetica Hegemony.