can you guess who this is? i'm going to leave the answer in the comments.

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bolshoi juice

i'm halfway through this article detailing the inner workings of the bolshoi ballet, moscow's storied dance company, in light of the recent acid attack on its artistic director. it's riveting and i recommend it if you're in the mood for some longform.

At around eleven, Filin, feeling tired and eager to see his wife, steered the Mercedes into a parking lot outside his building and headed for his door. The snow was icy and thick. Filin was reaching for the security buzzer when he heard someone behind him call out his name. Then the voice said, “Tebye privet!”—literally, “Hello to you!,” but more abrupt and menacing, as though someone were relaying an ominous greeting from a third party.

Filin turned and saw a man in front of him. He was neither tall nor short. He wore a woolly hat and a scarf wrapped around his face. His right arm was crooked behind him, as if he were concealing something.

A gun, Filin thought, in that flash of confrontation: He’s holding a gun and I am dead. Bolt! But, before he could move, his attacker swung his arm out in front of him. In his hand was a glass jar filled with liquid, and he hurled its contents at Filin’s face. A security camera in the parking lot fixed the time at 23:07. (via)

guess what: you're going to die.

i've recently decided to become kind-of-obsessed with the latest threat to all of our lives: CRE. you might've heard that this week the CDC announced that this was a very scary threat and we should all begin making our final arrangements. i also asked nscience how scared we should be on a scale of 1-10. he said (and i quote) "11 biscuits".

wondering what it is?

Here’s some back-story: CRE stands for “carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae.” Enterobacteriaceae are a family of more than 70 bacteria which share the characteristic of being gut-dwelling (“entero”); they include Klebsiella, Salmonella, Shigella and E. coli. Carbapenems are a “last-resort” family of antibiotics — imipenem, meropenem, doripenem and ertapenem — which are used against these bacteria when they have become resistant to other drugs.
...
CRE tends to attack in ICUs and other critical care, and also in rehab units and nursing homes. That is for several reasons. First, because patients in those settings are uniquely vulnerable to infection, not just because of their illness but because the protective barrier of their skin has been breached by ports and catheters, and also because they are visited and touched by a lot of people. Second, because they are likely to be receiving heavy-duty antibiotics which put the bacteria in their bodies under evolutionary pressure. Third, because those drugs plus others cause diarrhea, which spreads gut-dwelling bacteria into the air and area. And fourth, because those bacteria are particularly good at surviving on the kind of surfaces — plastic, glass and metal — that you find in health care. (via)

so get scared. don't go to the hospital. keep your diarrhea to yourself (thomas wilhelm). read the rest of this scary article. this is happening. and you need to deal with it.

stop whatever you're doing and read this liza minnelli interview

national treasure

blog sneak attack

me: who knew there were ada restrictions on wall sconces
is there anything these people dont control?
Joel: their lower halves
or, their bladder

martha on the today show making meatloaf

and giving me real bitch stink face like a boss.

good advice from caity weaver

NEW POPE ALERT!!!

i hope she's black!

NEW POPE

music minute with ms. dangles

 Michael: I love this song its from Before Stevie and Lindsay were in Fleetwood Mac

here in america...

...we have beautiful alive dalphins in our rivers, instead of thousands of dead-ass pigs.

According to various witnesses, a dolphin has been spotted in the East River—the most heavily trafficked, overly contaminated waterway on the Eastern seaboard—near 96th Street. It was first spotted sometime after 10 a.m., and locals tell ABC that it keeps surfacing. At least one person said they saw it swimming in circles between the Randall’s Island pedestrian bridge and Mill Rock. (via)

don't die, dalphin!

taylor swift - 22

maybe it's the beautiful day we're having in new york, but (barring the stupid hipster-dressing theme), i dont. hate this.

cheerwine is the new shandy.

this year's drink of the summer is kalimotxo, or as i call it: cheerwine.

one part red wine + one part coca-cola. get on board, and i'll see you in mccarren park.

no more dead pigs!

china proves once again that it thinks the world is its own personal garbage disposal:

The Huangpu River, a source of drinking water to Shanghai's 23 million residents, should basically be called rotting swine soup. Some 3,000 more decomposing pigs have been found in the river near Shanghai since Monday, bringing the number to about 6,000 dead hogs, but authorities claim that water is just fine. (via)

6000 more reasons to stay away from china, if you ask me.

vote for christine quinn

she went on national tv monday night after the soda ban got killt, and celebrated with a giant DC. a lady after my own heart.