15 July 2010

turn the beat around

new mascot for Ole Miss


you know that the university of mississippi (the harvard of the south) finally decided that their mascot was a little racist, and that they should pick a new one. they are still going to be the rebels, but arent going to have a cartoon plantation owner (slave beater) running around on the football field. they narrowed it down to five choices:

a) horse
b) land shark
c) hotty and toddy
d) lion
e) bear

what do you think? i think you know what i think.

Argentina figured it out...


a new place to get gay married. thanks for being normal argentina.

Sen. Norma Morandini, another member of the president's party, compared the discrimination that gays face to the oppression imposed by Argentina's dictators decades ago. 'What defines us is our humanity, and what runs against humanity is intolerance,' she said."


oil stopped spilling, i guess.


cnn

James Franco is Allen Ginsberg | Howl

jean-michel basquiat

a documentary about the artist

congrats, america!

the senate finally passed that pesky financial reform bill they been workin' on!

The bill would create a council of high-level federal officials, led by the Treasury secretary, to try to detect, and perhaps prevent, systemic dangers to the financial system, and it would give the government new authority to seize and shut down failing financial institutions, by liquidating assets and forcing shareholders and creditors to take losses.

It would create a powerful consumer financial protection bureau, to be housed in the Federal Reserve, and widely expand the regulatory authority of the central bank. It would widen the purview of the Securities and Exchange Commission to strengthen regulation of hedge funds, other private equity firms, and credit rating agencies. (via)

dnd.

what is patrick doing this weekend?

making a paper clone of himself.

so that's where it went!

the world trade center construction workers found my old-old-wooden-ship and my shoe that i misplaced in the 18th century!

On Tuesday morning, workers excavating the site of the underground vehicle security center for the future World Trade Center hit a row of sturdy, upright wood timbers, regularly spaced, sticking out of a briny gray muck flecked with oyster shells.
...
By Wednesday, the outlines made it plain: a 30-foot length of a wood-hulled vessel had been discovered about 20 to 30 feet below street level on the World Trade Center site, the first such large-scale archaeological find along the Manhattan waterfront since 1982, when an 18th-century cargo ship came to light at 175 Water Street.


The area under excavation, between Liberty and Cedar Streets, had not been dug out for the original trade center. The vessel, presumably dating from the mid- to late 1700s, was evidently undisturbed more than 200 years.
thx guys! i'll come by and get those after work!

joel's mom sent me this.

it's from his childhood. thx ktv barbara!

tay-tay.

nymag interviews rachel zoe's former assistant whom she fired, taylor jacobson:

You left Rachel Zoe Inc. almost a year ago. What are you up to these days?
I’m styling, I’m building my roster of clients — you know, editorials, campaigns, personal shopping for private clients I have. I’m pretty much doing the same thing, just on my own. Also, I’m consulting with my denim company, Kasil, and we’re introducing denim pieces and separates — you know, everyday casual chic pants, blazers, vests. I'm really excited about that because I’ve never done that before. I have a blog.

Who are you styling?
Obviously it was all over — the news about Kate [Beckinsale]. I have a celebrity clientele, but I don't want to say who else.

Have you been offered a spinoff?
Yes. I don’t know if I’m really cut out to do reality TV. It’s just not the direction I want — I’m so awkward. There’s things on the table, but it’s not my priority.

nErD aLeRt!



rolex learning center by sanaa (via)

puppy abuse.



he sounds pretty stressed to me!

an explanation.

hay y'all, just wanted to tell you that i texted my friend, lo, to ask her what was up with that hills ending and she told me to check her blog in a few minutes, and she would write it out there for me. so i did, and here it is:

TWIST! Tuesday night, viewers said in disappointed shock, "OMG was ‘The Hills' really fake all this time?" I mean, that's what you guys have been saying forever, right? Ha ha. Don't worry. It wasn't fake. I have never shot any ‘Hills' scenes on a stage of any kind.


Rest assured, we were simply poking fun in the way that our viewers have done since the show began to air. Our show's undeniable production value sometimes made the validity of it all questionable, but in truth (and this really is the truth), the relationships with those on the show are real.


Lauren, Kristin, and I have known each other since we were all under 5ft tall. No conspiracy there. As for the others-we met them all when moving to L.A. Sure, some relationships were pushed by producers, but once pushed, blossomed into real life friendship (or hatred, take your pick).


So, lovely reader and watcher of ‘The Hills'-it was just a big joke's on you, without it really, truly being one. Just messin' with you guys a little. In the end, we're all in the same boat, right?
SPOILER ALERT RETROACTIVE!!

pitchfork reviews reviews

Early each weekday morning, the indie music Web site Pitchfork posts five new album reviews. Hours later a 22-year-old reader named David downloads them onto his BlackBerry, reads them on his way to work and muscles out a rambling but surprisingly fluid response using his phone’s MemoPad function: no links, no capital letters at the start of sentences, just adrenalized response.

When he’s done — usually after he gets to work, where he has no Internet access — he e-mails the text to a friend, who posts it on David’s Web site, Pitchfork Reviews Reviews, which, since it began in March, has emerged as a vital and unexpected companion piece full of evangelism and skepticism. (via)

RIP the hills + captain phil

i'm a day behind, BUT... last night, i watched two things:


first, i watched the hills finale, which was a hot mess. i don't believe for one second that chicken tetrazzini even stepped foot on a plane to europe. i also don't believe for one second that the show was in any way fake. you can't fool me, brody jenner! I KNOW IT WAS ALL REAL! you guys are my friends! you wouldn't lie to me. i miss you already.

then, i watched the deadliest catch. and speaking of real, one of the main characters, captain phil harris, died of complications from a stroke. this was the conclusion of a four episode build-up, and i'm relieved that we finally made it. jicydak, phil asked the crew to keep the cameras rolling, and i think discovery channel kept it pretty classy in their depiction of his death. oof, i just cried and cried.

the internet is a-buzz with discussions of reality tv's first real death. most agree that the show is to be commended for its discretion, authenticity and sensivity in handling the matter. the episode was the highest rated for the d-est c, and third highest of any discovery program, with about 8.5 million viewers,

on a side note, captain phil's death was watched by 5.5 more millions than the hills finale, which aired during the d-est c's after show, which drew 5.6 million, which was still 2.6 more millions than the hills finale.

haven't had enough?

according to the spanish internet, spain and argentina will be playing a friendly match in new york on september 7. i'll let you kow if i hear anything else.

grcs gabe!

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