omg, nypost!

this is tasteless, even for you!

winter is coming

WARNING: if you live in the New York City area, you might not have long to live. Snowicane Sandy is coming and she is a real bitch and is going to pack a mean punch. Starting on Sunday and lasting two or three days, the worst hurricane/ thunderstorm/ snow cloud/ high tide is about to sit right on top of your neighborhood and take a weather dump. If you want details about your imminent demise, check here.

Snowicane Sandy has already claimed the precious lives of two Caribbean Islanders, including a Haitian lady who tried to cross a flooded stream and a Jamaican man who was crushed by a boulder that fell from up high. True story. NYC doesn't have a lot of boulders, but you know what we do have a lot of? STREAMS AND THINGS UP HIGH.

If I die, I just want you all to know that I love you and I'm sorry for that thing I did, you know what I'm talking about.

careful....

this mama duck takes her puppies across 5 lanes of traffic. spoiler alert: nobody dies. source

happy friday!

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WAAAAAAR EEK-agle!

A new species of spider was discovered in the suburbs of, none other than, Auburn AL. It's a relative of the tarantula, and a variety of trapdoor spider. What's it's name you ask? Myrmekiaphila tigris, or the Auburn Tiger Trapdoor Spider, in honor of Aubie. Personally, I think we just got ourselves an additional mascot.

Fun fact about how the trap-door spider got it's name:

The female of the species, which can live 15 to 20 years, spend nearly all their lives in silk-lined burrows, the entrance to which is hidden by a hinged trapdoor spun of silk and soil. The spiders wait by the door, feeling for the vibrations from passing prey then leap out to administer a venomous bite on the unsuspecting prey, which the spider then drags back underground.

If you ask me, that sounds a lot like Starla in her bedchamber at 90 dubz.

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chilean miners rescue

they are about to be rescued any second now... but have you seen the one man elevator they are putting down there to pull them out one by one? i have so many questions. they say it takes like 20 minutes to pull somebody out. how do they pick who goes last? what if you freak out 7 minutes in? that bottom escape hatch doesnt look too promising either.

UPDATE: i just read the article where i got this image. it actually answered a lot of my questions. thank you internet!

dont mind me... just sniffing you out.

source. via.

trapped chilean miners

they are sending them bibles and games, but they arent allowed to have alcohol or cigarettes. what kind of mine tragedy is this? check out these awesome pics. still trapped for a couple more months i suppose. which one do you think is the cutest?

Well that didn't work...

Arakawa, a Japanese-born conceptual artist and designer, who with his wife, Madeline Gins, explored ideas about mortality by creating buildings meant to stop aging and preclude death, died Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 73.

“This mortality thing is bad news”

Kittens!

I found an ad for this exhibit when perusing the NYT. Looks fun.

here's that story...

...i started to tell you about in the comments down there.

A 46-year-old man was killed in Central Park when a snow-sodden tree limb fell on him just before 3:30 p.m. Thursday, the authorities said.
 
The man, Elmaz Qyra of Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, was declared dead at the location, a tree-canopied stretch along Literary Walk on the east side of the park near 69th Street, after crews from the Fire Department arrived at the spot.

A witness who walked by as Mr. Qyra lay bleeding said that the branch, which came to rest beside his head, looked like it must have weighed 100 pounds. The American elm tree it fell from, the witness said, was massive, perhaps 80 feet high, and was bowed beneath the weight of several inches of wet snow.

“It was obviously a direct hit to his head,” said the witness, a man who lives on the Upper West Side but would not give his name. “There was this big pool of blood spreading through the snow. It was horrifying.” (via)

careful, patty....

Officials believe it is unlikely that the two climbers missing since Friday on Oregon's Mt. Hood are alive, reports Oregon Fox Television affiliate KPTV.

An authority on mountain survival spoke with family members of the missing climbers Tuesday and told them that the possibility of Katie Nolan, 29, of Portland, Ore., and Anthony Vietti, 24, of Longview, Wash., surviving conditions on the 11,249-foot mountain for this many days is exceedingly slim.

"Unfortunately, in this case, time is no longer in our favor," Terri Schmidt, a Oregon Health & Science University hypothermia expert, said later at a news conference. "What we know is after 48 hours, the chances of finding someone alive after that go down to about 1%." (via)

you too, jenny.