YAS PRESIDENT TRASHCAN

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you'll be shocked to learn that queens was built on a pile of garbage

you have robert moses to thank for your enormous derelict meadows and nearby ethnic cuisine. read all about it

from shabby

to chic!

#trashcrafting

today, the first of what promises to be a multi-day deluge of biblical proportions, let's look at this: some "artists" made this geodesic dome out of used up umbrella parts and two-liter bottles!

the PSA that david lynch shot for nyc in 1991. spooky scary.

rats have little tiny people hands

"that pile of garbage saved her life"

a lady in new york fell three stories from her fire escape while she was trying to escape a fire survived relatively uninjured because she landed in a pile of uncollected trash bags. hahahahahah.

7 (and 6 and 5 and 4) DAYS!!!!!!!!!

2012 update : this 2009 post doesnt make sense anymore, but just deal with it, ok? it's been edited just slightly, but not with very much effort because unlike 2009, i have a job now (thanks, barack!). please note the prescient hatred for penn state. 

gosh, i know! i have been slacking big-time on the UT-football-greatness list. to make it up to all of you, and to get us all back on schedule, ima do a 4sie today. here we go!

10. the pride of the southland marching band
9. smokey
8. rocky top

7. the color orange!!

this should come as no surprise to anyone who knows me. orange is my favorite color. just ask anything i own. like my bike.

pantone 151c = where it's at.

6. eric berry!!

good luck! you're never going to catch him!

i love eric berry so much that i named my bike after him, and she's a lady! the UT safety is the first heisman-candidate we've had since peyton manning (i'm pretty sure). i hear what they're saying, that his chances are slim. tennessee will need to have a fairly successful season, and he'll have to pull out an amazing play in every single game. pssh. like that's even hard!!

he's the fastest runner. he takes the ball whenever he wants it. he'll run right around tim teabag. and watch out if you're georgia... he'll hit you so hard! he can play any position, just ask him! and he has the cutest tweets.

just sayin'... be sure to keep your peepers on number 14. he's a show-stopper!

5. trash talkingugh. georgia is the worst. their colors are red and black, which are ugly and boring. and they can never beat tennessee. it's like, if you put adult clothes on a bunch of toddlers and sent them out onto a football field...THAT's what it's like when georgia plays.

don't even get me started on florida. they repeatedly have poor wardrobe choices, they think their quarterback is so great, and their stadium is totes UgLy!

and auburn. second-rate at just about everything. guh-ross! their mascot is "tigers" but they yell "war eagle" like it makes any sense at all. that is 1) not an acceptible greeting, 2) not your mascot, and 3) not even an animal. more like "butt eagle".

and the same goes for the rest of you.

to be fair, the SEC is the greatest conference in all of college football, and i'd rather see all of these teams win than anyone in the big 10, especially the mf-ing nittany kitty katz. me-ouch!

4. lane kiffin!!

what a dreamboat. and he loves trash talking, too! lane's been making plenty of pre-season waves. i'm actually starting to think he might be a little bit crazy... like, beyonce-crazy. and i like it.

while we're all on p's and n's, waiting to see if he backs it up, i am enjoying the ride. my approach to tennessee football tends toward belligerent confidence, and i get the impression his does too.

keep it up, lane. can't wait til saturday! fuck this guy.

why would someone even consider this an appropriate place to put a dog?

spotted on west 22nd street in nyc

topical!!!

john and i were just ctm-ing about this account of what happened when rage against the machine's tom morello showed up at zucchini park yesterday to perform, while the protestors were scrambling to clean up the park and avoid being forcibly evicted this morning:

The cleanup efforts were temporarily derailed on Thursday by the appearance of Rage Against the Machine's Tom Morello. Some facilitators were not pleased. As he sung his first song, the leader in the red hat yelled out, "Tom Morello, stop singing and come help us clean." Another: "Tom, I love you, but come on!" A third, older occupier was blunter: "I'm more of a Grateful Dead guy." (via) 

ctm. anyway, then i stumbled onto this music video for their song "sleep now in the fire", recorded in 2000. looks like they're occupying wall street...

in related news, wtf is bloomberg talking about?

Bloomberg, meanwhile, attempted to explain the change of course on his radio show this morning. "Yesterday, as of 8 o’clock at night, they were going ahead to do it, but, as of midnight, they called and said they wanted to postpone the cleaning operations," he said. The mayor went on to blame members of local government for pressuring the park's owners: "My understanding is Brookfield got lots of calls from many elected officials, threatening them and saying if you don't stop this we'll make your life more difficult," he said. "If those elected officials had spent half as much time trying to promote the city to get jobs to come here we would a lot more ways towards answering the concerns of the protesters.

"There has to be some resolution eventually," he added. (via)

that doesn't make a lick of sense.

whodunnit

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for keeks

i searched my gmail for the earliest reference to "wbd" that hasn't been deleted. it was this chat to kylie on 12 june 2006:

me: Speaking of WBD, did you and joel get moved in alright?

kylie and joel had just moved to alphabet city from knoxville, and i was not yet in new york.

where babies belong

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Ke$ha's very flattering yearbook photo

via no one ever really accused her of being too pretty i guess.

this is pretty important.

Today, most kitchen trash bags are white (though the outdoor kind tend to be dark green or black). That stems from a time when most kitchen appliances were white or shades of beige. That time has passed.

...

While stainless steel is the bigger trend in appliances, black is a bigger deal in trash cans, said Lisa Smith, marketing manager for Hefty waste bags, primarily because black cans are less expensive than stainless steel or chrome. Consumers also find black bags look better with stainless steel than white ones, she said.

Delving deeper, Hefty discovered trash also looks better, or at least less messy, in black bags. (via)

now you know everything.

a wall of water and sky rocks

that's what hit brooklyn a couple of hours ago. i tried to take pixies but it was too dark on my street. luckily, 2Pz reader leigh anne posted some on her fb. so i stole em'

thx leigh anne! omg it's still thundering!!

what is kismet doing?

i fed kismet a piece of my lunch popcorn and well, i guess he got a taste for it. i hadnt seen him around in a while so i went looking. he had gotten into the trash and pulled out just the popcorn bag and he took it into his bedroom and was secretly licking it. bad boy.

you'll never guess where the cat ends up

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cute.

jicydak, steppin' out magazine is new jersey's premiere free, sidewalk-dispenser publication, which features about 1% celebrity-related content, and 99% adspace for new jersey nightclurbs. (via)

5 days!!!!!!

originally published in 2009, but ima do a bit of fine-tuning to keep us current.

gosh, i know! i have been slacking big-time on the UT-football-greatness list. to make it up to all of you, and to get us all back on schedule, ima do a 4sie 3sietoday. here we go!


10. the pride of the southland marching band
9. smokey
8. rocky top

7. the color orange!!

this should come as no surprise to anyone who knows me. orange is my favorite color. just ask anything i own. like my bike.

pantone 151c = where it's at.

6. eric berry!! gerald jones!!

now that eric berry is all grown up and playing in the NFL, and modesty hardesty, too...it's time for me to pick my new favorite player. now, i don't know that much about our current team. i wanted nothing more than for bryce brown bearz to step up and be my next favorite. but he ruined everything.

regardless, i'm delighted to announce that this year, i'm so excited to see gerald jones on the field. some reasons i love him: he's ceeyute, he likes to sing, he likes to dance, he has the same birthday as ktv, and he embearasses georgia regularly.

just sayin'... be sure to keep your peepers on number 14 4. he's a show-stopper!

5. trash talking

ugh. georgia is the worst. their colors are red and black, which are ugly and boring. and they can never beat tennessee. it's like, if you put adult clothes on a bunch of toddlers and sent them out onto a football field...THAT's what it's like when georgia plays.

don't even get me started on florida. they repeatedly have poor wardrobe choices, they think their quarterback is so great, and their stadium is totes UgLy!

and auburn. second-rate at just about everything. guh-ross! their mascot is "tigers" but they yell "war eagle" like it makes any sense at all. that is 1) not an acceptible greeting, 2) not your mascot, and 3) not even an animal. more like "butt eagle".

and the same goes for the rest of you.

to be fair, the SEC is the greatest conference in all of college football, and i'd rather see all of these teams win than anyone in the big 10, especially the mf-ing nittany kitty katz. me-ouch!

what did patrick halley do this weekend?

gulp.

you're welcome!

now i have to listen to the whole album. you get me every time, ke$ha!

brb glitter-bombing myself.