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The Data Yodeler is a twisting tale of five mid-career uber-geeks exploring the potential of a voyeuristic existence, and making that dream into a reality. It is a story about the meaning and purpose of art, a story about the value identity, and a story of coming to terms with an uncontrollable maelstrom of information. “Meet Russ.” “Russ . . .
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Servicing the Pole is the portrait of a New York stripper—a battle-worn misfit slogging her way through the city’s roughest clubs, watching as the job replaces her personal life, and secretly harbouring rock star ambitions. As the fast-paced night life’s deceptive promises of easy money gradually give way to the harsher realities of addiction and prostitution, Emily must decide—is . . .
The Data Yodeler is a well-written—though ultimately lack-lustre—story of a fictional experiment in web-celebrity. It’s a postmortem, in effect, of how the experiment came about, and "what went wrong".
Russ decides to put his life on display, 18 hours a day, via blogging, twitter, photos, and video. He finds a sponser—the [more . . .]
I like grey and gritty stories, and this is an excellent one. Lauri describes the life of an exotic dancer, with honesty, no self-pity, and with a strange detachment which I recognize from having had acquaintances who were sex workers. It explores with eyes wide open the fine line between pole/lap dancing and prostitution in the mind of the [more . . .]