from better off ted
30 June 2009
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."
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...
"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.
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)
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
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.
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)
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)
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