lets talk about the magical creature named conchita wurst

have you ever heard of eurovision? apparently there is this international euro-zone song competition that has been going on since the 1950s. Past winners include ABBA, Celine Dion, and Julio Iglesias. You can sort of think of it like a miss america pageant, but only songs, and each country involved gets a vote. well conchita wurst is this singing queen fron austria who won the contest this year to some controversy. what do we call a fishy queen with a full beard? i vote for catfish.

europe is just a bunch of lines on a map

via watch the border change over the course of history. it never has quite settled down over there.

what are joel and thomas wilhelm doing this weekend?

jicydak.

i won the lottery

yale advanced design studios have a strange reverse lottery system to select professors. this occurred yesterday. i distributed my points correctly, and then gambled by putting frank gehry as my top choice. i then had a stroke of luck, as apparently the selection process became a coin flip for those that tied in points. i've heard, though it's not confirmed, that there were 2 people out of 10 that got lucky in the coin flip, and i am one them (see my name right next to frank's [first name basis now, o.c.] in the picture there?). anyways, we then sat down with him for 2 hours and listened to him talk. i like listening to old men talk, and this one happened to be frank gehry. we are meeting him at the met opera house this afternoon, and then he's taking us to dinner in the city. and he told us he would get us drunk and get to know us. i also will be travelling and meeting other famous people throughout the semester. i'll let y'all know all about it. ridin' high this semester.

batmanning.

the new owling.

i dare you, joel.