Illegal Art debuts in NYC, Chicago, and online. It comes to NYC Nov. 13 - Dec. 6, and Chicago Jan. 25 - Feb. 21. According to a description on www.illegal-art.org, the show "will celebrate what is rapidly becoming the 'degenerate art' of a corporate age: art and ideas on the legal fringes of intellectual property. Some of the pieces in the show have eluded lawyers; others have had to appear in court." Check the audio page for 21 full-length, shamelessly illegit MP3 downloads. While you can. [Boing Boing Blog]

A heartbroken woman is selling off the detritus of a disastrous relationship on eBay. She's looking for $4400 -- $1400 for the money he owes her and $3000 for the debt she incurred during the affair:

• CDs given to me by him or those that that I can no longer listen to because of the painful memories associated with them
• His mail that continues to be delivered to my house after my repeated requests for him to change his address
• Photographs that break my heart to view
• E-mail correspondence that fully captures how love can go bad … really bad
• Dried flowers from the many he sent trying to assuage his guilt and seek my forgiveness
• One hot pink Marilyn Monroe style dress given to me as a gift, but which holds too much meaning to continue to hang in my closet and depress my other clothes
• Miscellaneous memorabilia which includes travel stubs, holiday lights, ungiven gifts, walkie talkies, etc.
• NEW ADDITION: Personal testimony from friends and loved ones thanking you for your purchase. They too have grown weary from the weight of my emotional baggage and would like to relieve themselves of its burden as well.

[Boing Boing Blog]

Novels and poetry printed on toilet paper in Germany. Klo-Verlag [Toilet Publishers], a German company, has introduced toilet paper with novels and poems printed on the sheets. "We want our books to be used. That's our philosophy," said Georges Hemmerstoffer, head of the Klo-Verlag which publishes the toilet paper literature. [Exploding Cigar]

• Toilet Publishers home page translated into English

JC Penney is marketing a modified Barbie Dream House as a GI Joe "Forward Command Post." Little boys can play house, so long as the house in question is part of an overall street-by-street urban combat scenario. [Boing Boing Blog]