laugh at this

y'all know what this is about

what's for lunch?????

beers on the roof!

jelly?

you've NEVER been this warm!

Do you find the Snuggie too cliche? Do you like to wear sleeping bags as clothes? The Lippi Selk bag is for you.

hipster grifter update

How did hipster grifter and fugitive from justice Kari Ferrell take advantage of so many people in two separate states? With charm! We have two charming emails from her, as proof. She's sorry, okay? (gawker)

thx g.

what is kismet doing?

answer: taking a snooze.

loves it

you are now following oprah. believe it.

i <3 windmills

i just saw this cool video on the internet. it features windmills, which happen to be one of my favorite things. if you wouldn't mind, i'd like to tell you a little more about them...

(basically) invented by the dutch, windmills were initially used to drain water from the low-lying netherlands, since they set up shop below sea-level. the windmills in amsterdam are furry, making them the ceeyutest windmills you ever did see.

gabe just returned from a whirlwind spanish adventure, where he saw literally millions of old-timey spanish windmills (pictured above). in spain, windmills were used to crush grain. here's an interesting bit of windmill trivia:

"Miguel de Cervantes's book Don Quixote de La Mancha, which helped cement the modern Spanish language and is regarded as one of the greatest works of fiction ever published, features an iconic scene in which Don Quixote attacks windmills that he believes to be ferocious giants. This gave international fame to La Mancha and its windmills, and is the origin of the phrase "tilting at windmills", to describe an act of futility."

modern windmills (or wind turbines) generally used throughout the world to generate electricity, are pretty awesome, too. their ginormous blades range in size from 60-135 feet! they often appear in groups on wind farms, which can be on land or even in the middle of the ocean! did you know that ted kennedy hates windmills?

lastly, i'd like to share one of my fondest windmill memories with you. we celebrated joel's 21sts birthday on a beach in the netherlands, down-wind from some beautiful windmills. look at him go. doesn't it just make your heart soar?

THIS JUST IN:
erin macbeth just submitted a windmill photo from her recent travels through tarifa, spain...those are some good looking 'millz!

ctm.

Joel: yyayayayayayaya

actually

im going to take a nap

me: didnt you just wake up

Joel: then get in a cat and DRIVE

i mean car but i wish cat

hungry. happy friday

4th of july : free jenny lewis + conor oberst show in nyc

conor oberst (of bright eyes) and jenny lewis (of rilo kiley) are headlining river to river's 4th of july show. it's at battery park, and it's free.

bright eyes - four winds
jenny lewis - see fernando

omgikr!

lil' baby lemur

A baby lemur named Houdini pulled an underwater vanishing act at a Little Rock, Ark., zoo Wednesday, but thanks to the quick, caring and capable zoo staff, the performance wasn’t his swan song.

TODAY reported Friday on the heart-tugging rescue story of 5-week old Houdini, who was frolicking with his parents Todd and Pepper at the zoo Wednesday when playtime went horribly wrong. (msnbc)

rupert's new face

what did he do to himself?
do not like.

comic sans walks into a bar...

Vincent Connare designed the ubiquitous, bubbly Comic Sans typeface, but he sympathizes with the world-wide movement to ban it.

Mr. Connare has looked on, alternately amused and mortified, as Comic Sans has spread from a software project at Microsoft Corp. 15 years ago to grade-school fliers and holiday newsletters, Disney ads and Beanie Baby tags, business emails, street signs, Bibles, porn sites, gravestones and hospital posters about bowel cancer.

The font, a casual script designed to look like comic-book lettering, is the bane of graphic designers, other aesthetes and Internet geeks. It is a punch line: "Comic Sans walks into a bar, bartender says, 'We don't serve your type.'" On social-messaging site Twitter, complaints about the font pop up every minute or two. An online comic strip shows a gang kicking and swearing at Mr. Connare. (wsj)