washington dc : hollywood for ugly people

For some reason, nytimes magazine decided to spend a couple thousand words describing the social and professional comings and goings of a few of the young 20 somethings who work in DC. The life they lead sounds familiar, long hours, hard work, group living, themed keg parties, etc. The only thing that makes these kids special is that these lives are happening within the sphere of the Obama administration. Some began on the campaign trail, hauling luggage and performing other non-glamorous tasks, and have now been rewarded with other non-glamorous jobs in the White House.
they struggle with the same issues as other young professionals: how to get drunk in an age of foursquare, facebook, twitter, and nonstop work emails while maintaining your job and self respect. you dont have to work in the white house to relate to these feelings, but wouldnt it be cool to work in the white house.

kylie had nothing to do with this post.

go to a museum

chinese lies

do you remember the brouhaha during the beijing olympics about some of those little gymnasts looking pretty young. like they looked 12, when they have to be at least 16 to legally compete. and everyone was sort of coughing under their breath because the chinese government was so adamant that they win gold in every event, especially gymnastics, and the chinese athletic programs were all like, "yeah, yeah. these children are all 16, we promise. here, look at these official government records. and here look in her purse, she has tampons and everything."

well the chinese ladies gymnastics team just had their medals taken away. not from the beijing olympics. from sydney, in 2000. thats how long it seems to take to sort these things out. in related news the US ladies gymnastics team from the sydney olympics are now being rewarded the bronze medal. congrats dominique dawes!

"Renesmee tried to kill me"

Jackie Ostermiller of Rexburg, Idaho, thought her cat loved her. But the cat had other plans—murderous plans. Luckily for all of us, the KIDK CBS 3 local news team was there get Jackie's story. And film the aftermath.

The cat—named Renesmee, after the baby in Twilight—ended up giving Jackie 35 bite marks and 15 huge bruises, and sending her to the hospital. KIDK has the details (above) via.

trail mix!

happy BEARthday erin macB!!!!

27 bEaRs oLd!!!!!!!

omg nononononononoonononooNOO stop! stop! stop! STOP!

look at this dumb idiot boat trying to stop like a millz barrels of oil from touching the beach.

i've got my goop-gobbled about this...so settle in while i rant for a sec:

i'm a little perplexed about why this hasn't been a B F-ing D all over the news this week. why did bobby jindal wait until yesterday to issue a state of emergency? half the people to whom i've mentioned this don't even know what i'm talking about. i mean, remember how no one could shut up about that mine explosion in west virginia? well, eleven people died in this explosion, and now there's also a buttload of crude oil creepin' on our precious beaches! y'all remember the exxon valdez, right? that was in alaska, where no one even liked to swim! and that's not even to mention the implications of obama's recently announced decision to open more coastal areas to offshore drilling.

this morning on npr, they spent about 2 minutes covering the oil disaster, and 10 talking about the decline of the off-track betting industry. i feel like the the news coverage is starting to become more proportionate to the significance of this event, but only now that the oil has arrived on land. i don't know, JUST SAYIN'!

n-e-wayz, i just hope nobody planned any vacays to gulf shores. it's gonna be a long summer down there. ;(

grace jones, original

grace jones rocked the house at her one off show at the royal albert hall in london. check out more costumes by designer Eiko Ishioka. more of this grace jones. more of this.