ronaldo :: underwear :: pissed

cristiano ronaldo from real madrid and some other soccer players took some sessy pictures for annie leibovitz and vanity fair. on the cover, they combined a sessy underwear picture of ronaldo with a less sessy underwear picture of didier drogba, a rival player who plays for chelsea FC. as is standard practice, different pictures from different photoshoots were combined to create the final composite cover image, but ronaldo is pissed that he looks to be standing in his undies next to his enemy. quit your bitching ronaldo.

super bowl 2014

did y'all know that the new york jets and the new york giants have teamed up in an effort to host the 2014 super bowl at our shiny new meadowlands stadium?

they're gonna announce it later today. the competish is tampa and south florida. is there even a difference? the super bowl was just in miami. booooooring. and isn't south florida where this year's ncaa national championship was? anyway, i don't even really care that much. just wanted to share.

i'll keep you posted.

UPDATE: it is really happening!

wal-marchitecture

this is the best article written about wal-mart that i have ever read. it doesn't stoop to demonizing, and seeks instead to suggest that wal-mart and the architectural designer both have much to learn from each other

more fun than the waterfalls

A British artist is putting 60 pianos in New York's parks and public spaces this summer - to be played by anyone passing by.

And even those who don't tickle the ivories can enjoy the installation: Musical luminaries like Alicia Keys may pound out a tune or two.

"I just imagine that there's going to be a lot of people ready to express themselves," said artist Luke Jerram, who has launched the "Play Me, I'm Yours" program in cities from London to Sao Paulo since 2008.

"The pianos act as a blank canvas for others' creativity."

Starting June 21, the uprights will be scattered all around the city, including Times Square, the Coney Island Boardwalk and quieter spots like Brooklyn's Fort Greene Park and the Bronx's Van Cortlandt Park.

do you think anyone is going to be calling Vanessa Carlton?
source.

did you see my recent tweet?

@JVMmonogram : "remember little Richard singing Rosita on sesame street. That's when I turned gay." #benjametz

omg, look at all this weird shit i found on ke$ha's internet web-page

thanks terran! (she doesn't read the blog, but, you know...)

[ke$ha]

daily ri ri

nymag

other new york sports news

have you all heard the one about the rich rich rich self made russian billionaire who bought up the new jersey nets and is going to move them to that new arena in brooklyn once brett ratner can get it built? well, when mikhail prokhorov came to brooklyn on his press tour last week, he granted two one on one interviews. the first was with a veteran new york sports reporter, the second was with a brooklyn blogger who had just graduated from J School at Columbia. (hey macbreath do you know this guy?)

mr prokhorov, next time you come to brooklyn and want to grant an exlusive interview to a local sports enthusiast, i know just the one.

Sugar Equivalents

This website shows drinks and their sugar equivalents. yuk.

Happy Bearday Rubick's Cube

The Rubicks cube is 30 years old today. This just in, the rubick's cube is no fun at all.

dct.

i would love to shoot a city pigeon for fun sport.

Earlier this month, in a letter to Pennsylvania lawmakers, the New York City Bar claims that many pigeons are captured and transported, without food or water, to middlemen in Pennsylvania. From there they are sold to shooting ranges for use in live trap shooting competitions where participants fire shotguns at live pigeons vaulted into the air. (via)

speshly the clurb-footed ones. thx g!

UPDATE: icing!

omg, joel just threatened to ice me nonstop while i'm in nashville, so i looked into what that meant.

"getting iced" or "icing bros":

from what i can tell, it's like a surprise drunk easter egg hunt game. if you can surprise (or "present")your friend (or bro) with a smirnoff ice in his (or her) face, they have to drink it right then and there.

upon further investigation, the presentation might not even have to be a surprise? you can just hand your bro an ice? this sounds silly and amatuerish, so i'm going to play only by 'surprise rules'. hey! i don't make the rules, ok?

the "ice block": a tWiSt!

 so i guess just keep an ice on you at all times?

ok, so maybe this is a ridiculous marketing strategy, but smirnoff ice is so disgusting and stomach-ache-inducing, that i'm going to choose to participate. additionally, it is further legitimized by its presence on this week's approval matrix, which i read this morning. i had no idea it would become a part of my life so soon! kIsMeT!!

click here for a website full of bros icing bros. hopefully, there will be several related 2Pz posts to come.

you're welcome!

jicyww

eric berry's got a new twitter page.

troublesome

Staff at the safari park were baffled by the mystery of the disappearing whirlpool bath.
Every morning they filled the open-air bath outside one of the guest lodges, and every night it was empty - even though no leak could be found.
It was only when a guest heard a mighty slurping and went outside with a camera that the culprit was discovered in the shape of Troublesome the elephant.

source. via.

likes this :: bookshelf gradient

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bjork :: marina abramovic

bjork and matthew barney and their daughter stopped by the MoMA the other day to check out the Marina Abramovic installation.

in related news, folks be gettin pissed that the exhibit is about to end, and celebs and museum insiders are getting all the facetime with the artist.

kelis :: scream

"like a zima with a jolly rancher in it"

clawson got iced. hey kylie, be prepared to be iced nonstop when you get to nashville. im going to ice the shit out of you.