abandoned smoky mountain stuff

yesterday, huffpo misleadingly posted a story about a hiker "discovering" an old abandoned town in the great smoky mountains of east tennessee. today, the tennessean snarkily responded that everybody who knows anything is aware of this place, which was a vacation resort before the area became national park'd.

regardless, i want to spend a night there.

wilbur the puppy-pig, you've stolen my heart.

this morning, i was perusing my nymag, and startled myself with an lol-in-public when i read this little neighborhood news item. i laughed because i envisioned his "energetic reaction" to look something like this.

when i got to work, i looked into the story of wilbur, and was delighted to find that he is just absolutely adorable.

Lisa Ortiz, assistant manager of the center in Manhattan, said workers there dubbed the pig Wilbur and pointed out that it wags his tail when called by name.

“He appears to be a pet because he was very friendly. He wasn’t charging, wasn’t snorting, wasn’t stamping his foot,” Gentiles said.
...
At the Manhattan center, hay was laid out on the ground for Wilbur. Employees had filled a small tub to be used as a bath, but most of the water had either been spilled or drunk.
...
On Tuesday morning, Wilbur snacked on vegetable- and fruit-flavored rabbit treats but shunned the morsels made with carrots as well as the whole carrots in its bowl. (via)

dislikes: carrots, strawberries
likes: mixed treats for rabbits, lettuce, head-pets

COBRAWATCH 2K11

FOUND!

The venomous Bronx Zoo Egyptian cobra that alarmed and delighted New Yorkers when it escaped from its enclosure was found today, ending a six day search for the celebrated snake.


The elusive snake was found "coiled, sort of secluded in a dark corner" about 9 a.m. a couple hundred feet away from the enclosure she had slipped out of, said Bronx Zoo Director Jim Breheny.


It was recovered by a Reptile House employee using "special tongs to grip the animal," Breheny said. (via)

lilly found this on the street.

she would.

so that's where it went!

the world trade center construction workers found my old-old-wooden-ship and my shoe that i misplaced in the 18th century!

On Tuesday morning, workers excavating the site of the underground vehicle security center for the future World Trade Center hit a row of sturdy, upright wood timbers, regularly spaced, sticking out of a briny gray muck flecked with oyster shells.
...
By Wednesday, the outlines made it plain: a 30-foot length of a wood-hulled vessel had been discovered about 20 to 30 feet below street level on the World Trade Center site, the first such large-scale archaeological find along the Manhattan waterfront since 1982, when an 18th-century cargo ship came to light at 175 Water Street.


The area under excavation, between Liberty and Cedar Streets, had not been dug out for the original trade center. The vessel, presumably dating from the mid- to late 1700s, was evidently undisturbed more than 200 years.

thx guys! i'll come by and get those after work!

coffee lids

this reminds me of that LTL coffee shop project that i love. via.

misplacedmanholecovers.co.uk

it is exactly what you think. but also a little bit better.

i just found this...

...in my dresser drawer.

that was quite a show, i'll tell you what.

elvis panda

these are a few of my favorite things

via @wiresandfires

trust fund babies

while in willamsburg last night, we were explaining trust fund kids to our guest, rachel. then, we went to an ATM in a deli and found THIS.

i bet some hipster is really feeling the sting of that $1.75 atm fee.

;(

RIP oil

this gem was on the wall of slim goodies, an egg place on magazine street in nola that was superb. it was surrounded by other, less final images of oil. i wonder what happened to him. there was a picture of obama with the owner a few feet down.

where did they go?

tazza

baby on board.

joel just sent me this photo from his airplane under the title 'about to ruin my life'.

thx ______!

thanks KT and beeun for letting me sleep on your couch last night! here are some things i found in your apartment that i liked.

spotted

kylie + markie kaiser.

brb : outside

yesterday, we embarked on an exciting adventure to new haven, ct to check out yale university, and a few other things in the area. i know what you're wondering, and yes! i would LOVE to share some highlights from our trip with you!

conditions in new haven:
just perfect. 77 degrees and sunny as all get out.

things we saw outside:

first stop, and a very special edition of what's for lunch????? : taco bell in greenwich, ct!
jelly?

yale art + architecture building by paul rudolph.
i wish i had some pics of people suffering in studio, but they had that place on lockdown.

yale center for british art by louis kahn.
if you love circles and squares and symmetry, then you'll love this!

jicyww what some people dress like at yale.

beinecke library by gordon bunshaft.
you can never go wrong with multi-story walls of books.

a noose.
reminds me of college.
omg look at this statue of a triceratops we found!!!!
rawr!

on top of the tallest mountain in all of connecticut.
look! its the ocean!

do you feel like you were there with us? i hope so. if you want to see the rest of the pictures, you can just click right here. and if you want to hear the best song in the world, click here. k bye!

slutty miata

"good girls go to heaven, bad girls go down"

seriously, you drive that car to you mother's house?

what the hell kind of gd boat is this?!?

will you look at this ridiculous thing? it's parked outside my house. turns out its a real life french battleship!