tv quote

"i'm not exotic i'm asian. statistically there are more of us than there are of you, so you're the exotic one."

from better off ted

lip gloss

speaking of the BET awards, nymag has a slideshow of some of the showstopping fashions. beyonce is there in (stunning) balmain. ciara, cassie, kanye, and the real housewives (black ones) were there too. one look in particular really caught my attention.

i present to you, Lil Mama.

1) why is she standing like that,

2) hair?

new musuem says hell yes

they are going to keep their whimsical sign for a while longer. the ugo rondinone piece was supposed to come down this year, but someone over there realized that the little button brightened the neighborhood and the otherwise severe building. good for them. its so cute.

thanks nytimes graphics

have you ever wondered about the political / religious hierarchy in iran?

me too. thankfully the new york times has put together a handy graphic to tell us who reports to who and other stuff. they should do more stuff like this instead of that paper...

aw.

All she wanted to do was get her poor little puking pug dog out of her tote bag on the L train. But then the cops arrived. And they were mean. (gawker)

thx g.

"we dont go to the movies just to never tell anyone"

last night i saw transformers 2: revenge of the fallen.

it was a loud mess of robot parts, megan fox's boobs, sand, and lens flares. the action was fast, and the camera was always moving, making it difficult to get too clear a read on anything that was going on. the good news is that the story is paper thin and full of holes, so the less attention you paid the better off you were. there were incredible errors in geography and common sense and continuity. robots that we thought were dead aren't dead, AND... its racist. two of the new robots are twins that speak in a sort of jive/ebonics, claim not to read too much, and one has a gold tooth. apparently minstrelsy isn't limited to southern frat houses.

don't go see it. don't put it in your queue. just forget it ever happened.

0 biscuits.

go away chris brown

when i heard that BET was retooling their annual awards show as an impromptu michael jackson memorial, i thought... oh how sweet. then i thought, oh... i bet chris brown is going to do some moonwalking like he did at the mtv video music awards a couple years ago.

apparently chris brown had the same idea, but jay z shot him down by promising to pull his act if the producers let brown on. good job hova.

shucks

remember how excited i was when rihanna was thinking about being in that remake of the bodyguard?

well, hannah montana is trying to ruin my life it seems. there is a movie in development with hugh jackman that is supposed to be a family friendly take on the bodyguard story with miley cyrus as the female lead. i wouldnt want ri ri baby in that family friendly trash anyway.

67 days....

jicyww.

ceeeeYUTE!

brace yourself.

thx g.

it's official!

after a 7-month-long battle for a minnesota senate seat, the state supreme court has unamiously ruled al franken as the big winner.

artificial snowstorm

Midsummer Snow Storm is an installation by British artist Peter Liversidge for Jupiter Artland, a contemporary sculpture garden in the grounds of Bonnington House near Edinburgh. The artificial snowstorm was proposal number 3 of 134 proposals submitted by Liversidge for the sculpture garden. The installation took place on 21st June earlier this week. (dezeen)

twosie tuesday : part 2

this man's d-spot

print ads for Davidoff cigars

people are ridiculous: McMansions Out of Favor, For Now

A new study out Monday by the American Institute of Architects shows that Americans have fallen out of love with McMansions. The 500 residential architects surveyed said that only 4% of their clients wanted more square footage in their homes this year, compared to 16% last year.

This desire isn't surprising, given both the recession and the fact that the most recent U.S. Census shows that there are 77 million people in the "empty-nester" phase of life, from ages 45 to 64, and 61 million in the first-time buyer category, from 20 to 34.

-WSJ

w2g, b!

speaking of gossip girl, check out leighton meester singing AND acting in the new video from rob's favorite band, cobra starship.

nErD aLeRt!

rumors are flying that rem's 23 east 22nd street cantilevered freakshow might be getting the now-all-too-common height reduction. some reports say it could get taken down to as little as 11 stories, aka barely anything. too bad.

who's that?!

who is that blonde girl and what have you done with serena?

the apocalypse

i wish celebs would quit dying and planes would stop crashing, please.

PARIS — Teams searching the Indian Ocean for survivors of the crash of a Yemeni passenger jet early Tuesday have rescued a child, officials there said, as air safety authorities in Europe raised questions about the plane that went down near the island nation of Comoros with 153 people on board. (nytimes)

remember?

MISSY ELLIOT - BITCH
by eikichi

twosie tuesday : part 1

dirty projectors video

wimbledon update

those smug brits got to show off their new operable roof today, when it rained for the first time at this year's wimbledon tournament. andy murray played the latest match in tournament history last night, which ended at 10.40pm (aka not that late). and, buzz is continuing to build about the "problem" of the women grunting too loudly.

notable still-ins: federer, murray, roddick, djokovic, and BOTH williams sisters! yay!

internet says college is a waste of time

so now what am i supposed to do?

the football games were fun, i guess...

FYI... in tv on right now news

things are not always what they seem in this place



thank you worm, that was incredibly helpful.

oops!

this photo gave me a slight bout of vertigo. a nearly completed condo building in shanghai fell right over on its side! have you ever heard of anything like it in all your life? maybe next time they should build the foundation into something other than chocolate pudding.

more photos.

breaking news

gay men and straight men can now be friends... according to the nytimes.

embassy art

here's a new york times article and slideshow reporting the history of art installations at US embassies around the world.

ugly dog competition

here is the winner... PABST.

not so ugly if you ask me. remember not very long ago when the world as graced with this beauty. long live sam!

(via)

get ready to be carpet-bombed with ceeyuteness!

here we go!
you're welcome!

keekerz speakerz

michael jackson vs. bag raiders - you are not alone (remix)
i won't lie, if i walk into one more store, bar, restaurant, etc. that is playing exclusively michael jackson, i might lose it. but this remix is pretty kewl.

RIP bernie madoff

remember how sad ruth madoff was because she had to ride the subway and the government wanted to take away all of her fine jewels.... well now shes got more to whine about.

bernie madoff gets 150 years in jail. not dead, but will be eventually. he also apologized to his wife for deceiving her. i just dont believe that she is innocent in all of this.

RIP oxy clean guy?

sorry i'm a little late on this...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Billy Mays, the burly, bearded television pitchman whose boisterous hawking of products such as Orange Glo and OxiClean made him a pop-culture icon, has died. He was 50.

Tampa police said Mays' wife found him unresponsive Sunday morning. A fire rescue crew pronounced him dead at 7:45 a.m. It was not immediately clear how he died. He said he was hit on the head when an airplane he was on made a rough landing Saturday, and his wife, Deborah Mays, told investigators he didn't feel well before he went to bed about 10 p.m. that night. (nytimes)

...i was just badmouthing him in my head this weekend when he was shouting at me from inside the television. oh well.

weekend movie round-up

relax, relax! luckily it wasn't raining all gd weekend, so i only watched 2 movies. let's jump in.


upon a g.animalz request, i netflixed this swedish vampire movie, let the right one in. it was one of the creepiest movies i've ever seen, and also one of the most beautifully shot. it's based on a swedish book of the same title, and set in a suburban area of stockholm. it's really gorgeous and super-scary and i give it 11 biscuits 4 sure!!!


we also went outside to see a movie called the hurt locker. it's about a team of 3 IED diffusers in iraq. normally, i would shy away from a movie like this, because the iraq war is soooo 2007, but this one came highly recommended, and it was excellent. it's pretty intense, and you're going to want to go to the bathroom before it starts, but very entertaining as well. AND it's directed by a lady! if you can believe that. 11 biscuits!!

did anyone else see any good movies?

twa-lat!

just finished eclipse. it was 11 biscuits oc obvi.

here's a cute article profiling 3 portland actors who were cast in the twilight movie.

all your questions answered: mammatus clouds

Remember those freaky-deaky clouds in NYC friday night? Sure you do. They were total freak shows! Turns out, they're called mammatus clouds. YOU'RE WELCOME.

"Mammatus may appear as smooth, ragged or lumpy lobes and may be opaque or semitransparent. Because mammatus occur as a grouping of lobes...A lobe can last an average of 10 minutes, but a whole cluster of mamma can range from 15 minutes to a few hours. They usually are composed of ice, but also can be a mixture of ice and liquid water or be composed of almost entirely liquid water."

also, the danger:

"In the United States, sky gazers may be most familiar with the very distinct and more common cumulonimbus mammatus. When occurring in cumulonimbus, mammatus are often indicative of a particularly strong storm or maybe even a tornadic storm...Due to the intensely sheared environment in which mammatus form, aviators are strongly cautioned to avoid cumulonimbus with mammatus." -- just like Canadian Geesers!

"neglected giants in watercolour paint"

Sometimes, you just have to give up. You just can't go on any longer. As we overheard in the Sunshine theater yesterday, "it's not that I couldn't do it anymore; it's that I couldn't keep it up!" So it goes with the elephants of Thailand. The poor bastards. See, they're no longer popular after some pandas got on the scene. View their desperate cry for attentionz below:

just 'cause my email is down

Au Revoir Simone

sun's out!

brb finishing up eclipse on the roof. i hope everything goes ok with the big fight!

what is charlie doing?

just bein' in a depressed stupor over patty leaving the south.

spotted.

danielle from real housewives classin' up the pride parade. thx 4 the hot tip starla!

also, g.animalz and i saw simon and alex and francois brunching at bar tabac on smith street today.

how exciting

Now i know what im getting starla for christmas

gwen verdon

hottest bitch in the game. and oldie but a goodie

look out for herbie

nymag posted a slideshow of dogs at work in honor of take your dog to work day. do yourself a favor and look at it.

strange news

anderson cooper revealed that had met michael jackson. at studio 54. when anderson was 10. he announced that michael was a good dancer. mmhmmmmm.

elaine dance

what is jazzy doing?

just taking a little puppy nap.

ope! she's awake! streeeeeeeeeeeeeettttccccccchhhhh!