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.

aziz ansari - mtv movie awards

MTV Movie Awards Promo: Aziz Ansari ft. Sarah Silverman, Diddy, and more... from Aziz Ansari

aaliyah movie

this post was originally going to be about how academy award winning director bill condon has signed on to direct the final installment of the twilight series, breaking dawn. that is the one where (spoiler alert) edward and bella have rough sex and he has to bite their baby out of her and the climax battle is actually an anti-climax where both sides basically agree not to fight. so good luck with that project bill.

but. what i discovered is that according to some unreliable internet sources, bill condon is supposed to be directing a biopic about Aaliyah. can you just imagine. this needs to happen. its not imdb, and has been erased from wikipedia, so it may be all bullshit, but who knows. maybe someone can start a facebook page to make it happen. just look what good that did for betty white.

casting news

katie holmes cruise is set to play jackie kennedy in an 8 hour History Channel mini-series. greg kinnear is jfk, and barry pepper is rfk. via.

who is brian eno?

i told you all that i was going to go to a cd store and buy congratulations, the new mgmt album. well i did. (11 bicuits by the way) i went to grimeys. the next day i learned grimey's was voted as the 8th best indie record store in the nation (one of 2 from TN in the top 15). coincidence, maybe.

well, on the album, and on snl, there is a song called "Brian Eno."

this is what andrew vanwyngarden had to say about the track:
“It’s kind of a vampire-punk-rock song about finding Brian Eno in like a cathedral in Transylvania. He’s like a dark wizard. We originally asked him to produce the track, but he hadn’t heard of us.”
i can freely admit that while the name rang familiar, i had no idea who brian eno is. for some reason, in my head the picture associated with the name is james iha's face.

so brian eno, (nee Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno) is an english musician and composer who basically pioneered ambient music and has produced or collaborated on some of the best music of the past couple decades. also, if you had windows 95, he is responsible for the start up sound that you probably have nightmares about when your computer crashes. from what i can tell, this musical theorist and installation artist is basically a genius, so thanks mgmt for helping me figure it out.

opinionz

if you'd like to discuss the glee episode that we're polling about (look up there!), just put your opinions in these comments!

i also picked a pony

my pony is named homeboykris. i picked him because i liked his name the best. i also found out that former New York Yankees manager Joe Torre is a part owner of my new favorite pony. his granddaddy, and his great granddaddy are both derby winners, so that is something.

the oddsmakers have homeboykris as a longshot, but i think by throwing the full weight of my support behind him that magic can happen. look for him to win.

ok i picked one!

i was perusing the post positions for the kentucky derby, which jicydak is this weekend. g.animalz is going! i knoooooooow. anyway, i've picked my pony.

his name is conveyance.  and if you have any confusion about why i might've chosen this horse, refer to below clip:



here's a list of ponies. leave your pick in the comments!

does this qualify as "telling"

via.

get it together, BP!!

today, it's been announced via press conference that that oil is leaking 5 times faster than originally estimated. they have discovered 2 new leaks. and it could touch louisiana (and its wildlife) as soon as tomorrow night!!

somebody needs to get down there and FEEYAUX IT!!

based on the impossible true story

speaking of cornhole...

 ...i forgot to tell you about it!

by now i'm sure you've studied the photos on facebook carefully, but here are a few anecdotes to help you feel like you were there, jic you weren't.

firstly, beeun metz traveled all the way from tennessee. we got got warmed up and stretched our livers the night before at benny's burritos. here he is with a world famous bulldog.

 tournament day was a beaut'. just ask marley!

 we really needed our grill master...

 action shot! (please note: american flag, left. cornhole cup, right)


TOMS : the official shoe of the 3rd annual cornhole tournament. we all have matching foot-tan-lines to show for it!

this is definitely my fave photo of the day. sideline ladies!

it was a hard fought battle all day, and peanut butter jelly time came out on top.

we wrapped up with closing ceremonies: spraying champagne (or in this case, bud light), waving the american flag, drinking from the cornhole cup, and doin' the ol' softshoe to 'dixieland delight'.

and no bhp party would be complete without a living room dance party.

in closing, we had just a great time. thanks to everyone who came. and thanks to g.animalz, mer, and nscience for the photos! see y'all at the 4th annual in a couple a months!

wondering why i wasn't at the cornhole tournament?

you had better. i like knowing i was missed. anyway, as i was saying, i was in birmingham AL for my high school bff's wedding. you might know of birmingham for the terrible segregation riots they had there in the 60's. quaint. anyway, again, there were tornadoes, i crashed another wedding reception, saw some friends from college, drank lots of firefly sweet tea vodka (starla, it was the bride's choice cocktail at the wedding) did not get that drunk on it not surprisingly, and...

went to the botanical gardens with my mom. saw lots of these.

the wedding was here.

the bride looked like this. she was real tired of having her picture taken.

the wedding cake looked like this.


there was a red tub in the house.

went up to the top of red mountain.

vulcan was up there. roman god of the forge.

check out that butt.

THE END

and while i'm at it...

another AL original, standard deluxe, printing posters for shows in auburn and other such things from the town of waverly, population 180. i have a copy of this one:

jicydak : graphic design

i was in AL this past weekend for a wedding, and it got me a little homesick. here are some things my trip got me thinking about. one of my favorite printer, amos kennedy of gordo AL. i first heard about him through his work with the rural studio at auburn. you can purchase one of his prints for only 15 doll hairs. don't mind if i do!

i don't like people playin wit my plates.

my freind (that's so) raven took this pitcha down in auburn.

Pavilions

Archdaily has posted some photos of the Shanghai Expo Pavilions. Some are coolish (the UK's is the only one that turned out great). My favorite is above - Romania's - because it looks like a squat green SunSphere.

hey condi, where did you go?

i was watching oprah about the two wes moores, and condoleezza rice was mentioned. that got me thinking about how i had such a crush on her when she was secretary of state and i wondered where she ended up.

turns out that she is the Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution and professor of political science at Stanford University. you go gurl.

hungry eyes

i would murder one of you for a shake shack burger or some ditch dogs. i mean it. if you had a hotdog covered in macaroni and cheese and i had a gun i would shoot your face off and take your food. fer relz.

some videoz

t.i. - i'm back
yay! missed you!


hot chip - i feel better
creepy!


bowerbirds - northern lights
not new, but pretty!

you set me for pm. that's on you!

backwardz wednesdayz

remember?

the fly girls?

jicydak

a big ol' oil rig off the coast of louisiana exploded, caught fire, and sank last week, killing like 11 people.

also, they can't turn off the faucet on the sea floor, and it is just pouring crude oil into the gulf of mexico.

now, they're thinking about setting fire to the oil to save the shoreline. that would be so crazy!

i'm ready to go swimmin

via

ktv and I start practice tomorrow

this is even better than the original. like when tina covered proud mary

via

lets go to the movies!

via

can we be new best friends?

via

ru paul is so wise

drag race announced their queen and (certain circles of) the internet is atwitter. if you have any good sense you have been following the show, and you will love this behind the scenes report from the the reunion show. included is the following insight from rupaul himself:

He elaborated on a point from our interview regarding his tendency to get the side-eye from celebrities while he’s dressed as a woman: “What it means for them to accept me fully would be rebuilding their identity. To accept my existence as something real and viable would mean the foundation they’ve built their house on is a hoax. It’s faulty. More than the gay thing, it’s a drag thing. People don’t accept drag queens because drag queens are saying, ‘Your identity is a hoax because it can be manufactured. It’s not really real.’ And the ego knows it, and the ego fights it. I can’t tell you how many famous people I’ve admired who are smart, evolved, but when they get around me or drag, you can see them backing up. It’s the ego saying, ‘Don’t go over there. Don’t trust that.’ Other people’s ego won’t allow my charm or my intelligence to override the fact that I am an identity buster. And by accepting me, I would be busting their identity.”

holy crap.

want to hear the cuntess's new song? i know. me too.

click here. you don't have to be rich or famous to be unforgetttable ha ha.

my.

friends.

happy BEARthday hubble telescope!

20 bears old! here's a series of hubble's "greatest hits".

einstein!

the world's smallest foal!

(via)

what did joel do yesterday?

c2e.

look at this dumb idiot! more correspondence here.

in on tv tonight news...

everybody excited for the return of THE CITY!?!!?

i know i am. here she is talking trash about smellivia palergross in a recent interview:

As revealed in the trailer, Olivia is not supporting your line — were you surprised? What is your relationship like with her?
I was not so surprised by that. Olivia and I have never really been the best of friends. You know, at the time, yes, I was a little bit hurt because it wouldn’t have really taken that much for her to interview me for elle.com, and as a "journalist" or whatever she is for the magazine, your opinion doesn't really matter. Your job is to interview someone and then report it, but she made it personal. I think that there's obviously some level of insecurity on her part, and she's showing it. I don't know that she knows that she's showing it, but it definitely comes through. It was a little bit hurtful, but Olivia's one of those people who doesn't care about anybody but herself. That's why it's not so surprising because she doesn't want to help anybody else out. She's only out for herself. So, if I expected something different from her, then maybe I would have been more hurt, but it's like the same old thing with her. (via)

set your dvr's!

do not care for that.

this is allegedly what the new teenage mutant ninja turtles will look like in their new movie coming out in 2012.

no thank you!

thx joey.

walmart's at it again...

they're trying to open one in brooklyn! gmaB!

don't worry. the last couple times they tried to do this, the city's labor unions have shut them down. so it probs won't happen.

we (heart) ny mag

and i think they <3 us too....

when i saw this week's nymag cover, i thought to myself "ouch....poor fedex." when i was reading this article this morning, about the branding of sarah palin, i noticed a couple of notes on the images they've created.

on the cover:
The graphic reference to FedEx, a fine company we use all the time, is a visual shorthand for brand. It does not imply any connection to, or endorsement of, Sarah Palin. Just in case you were wondering.

on the title page:
Just in case you missed it on the cover:
The graphic reference to Ford, that excellent car company—as well as to the fine cheese of Kraft, delicious Pepsi beverages, Visa's very useful credit cards, and Chevron's powerful gasoline—on the following pages is a visual shorthand for brand. It does not imply any connection to, or endorsement of, Sarah Palin.

omg they talk just like us! i'll let 'em know that there are well established and recongized abbrevs they can start using, jictww.

tornado in new jersey!

just kidding. it's a funnel cloud, alright. but this one is just some sort of refinery in new jersey reverse-funneling toxins into our atmosphere. the clouds are pretty low this morning, and a different color than that pollution, so you could really see it just hanging out up there. isn't that appalling?

come on, new jersey. have some self-respect.