It’s often the case that the simplest answers are often the most likely. It’s bright outside because of the sun. It’s dark at night because there’s no sun. Porsches are so damn expensive because the profit margins are outrageous.

So says a report from Germany’s Welt an Sonntag newspaper, which claims the average Porsche profit is $28,000.

$28,000! Audi and BMW both manage with less than $5000 per unit while Volkswagen and Chrysler net less than a grand for each car sold!

Report: Porsche profits $28,000 per car [Left lane news via New Launches]

One of our favorite annual prizes has just been announced – the Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction award, to (dis)honor “unconvincing, perfunctory, embarrzssing or redundant passages of a sexual nature in otherwise sound literary novels”.

Presented with the award by Courtney Love in a lavish London reception, first time author Iain Hollingshead seemed delighted with the act of penance, claiming the prize was “a much better guide to a good read than those purveyors of powerful sleeping drugs, the Booker, the Pulitzer, the Goncourt et al”.

For the record, the passage in his otherwise well-received novel Twenty Something: the quarter-life crisis of Jack Lancaster, included the following scene:

Oh Jack, she was moaning now, her curves pushed up against me, her crotch taut against my bulging trousers, her hands gripping fistfuls of my hair. She reaches for my belt. I groan too, in expectation. And then I’m inside her, and everything is pure white as we’re lost in a commotion of grunts and squeaks, flashing unconnected images and explosions of a million little particles.

Bulging trousers? Ouch.

Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Awards [via Reuters]

Ah, Al Swearengen. What comes out of his mouth should be embroidered, framed, and put in courthouses everywhere (ten commandments? What ten commandments?) for all to see. In this case, we’ve got a shirt featuring none other than Al’s mug ordering you, Johnny, to “Open the fuckin’ canned peaches”. Well, get to it, you fuckin’ cocksucker!

Open the fuckin’ canned peaches [The Feed Store via Uncrate]

Mile High Comics has a lengthy interview with V For Vendetta comic creator Alan Moore. If you haven’t heard the name, the story follows an anarchist in a futuristic, Orwellian nightmare society. The film adaptation, set to premiere soon, stars Natalie Portman and Matrix bad guy/Lord of the Rings good guy Hugo Weaving.

…what I was trying to do was take these two extremes of the human political spectrum and set them against each other in a kind of little moral drama, just to see what works and what happened. I tried to be as fair about it as possible. I mean, yes, politically I’m an anarchist; at the same time I didn’t want to stick to just moral blacks and whites. I wanted a number of the fascists I portrayed to be real rounded characters. They’ve got reasons for what they do.

Alan Moore Interview [Boing Boing]

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