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.