I blame Australia

Last time I was locked in the hospital, I had to watch Titans games online, and to do so I streamed from an Australian Channel. They had a product that I found amusing, disgusting, and delicious looking at the same time. Well, don't fret my fellow Americans. We are just over 4 days away from that product (or something similar to it) being available on this side of the world. Introducing the KFC Double Down.

The gambling reference is a little 2005, but I'll still roll the dice on that heart attack.

more spring springing

a photo collection of some wonderful signs of spring from all over the world, including this cute one of some bear-babies playing in a PURBLIC BEAR PARK in switzerland!

why doesn't nyc have one of these?

thx susanne!

it's like...

...you have to wear fur for religious ceremonies, but you can't wear fur, because it's against your religion.

International animal-rights activists are campaigning for Israel to become the first country in the world to ban the sale of fur.

A bill to make Israel fur-free is being debated in the Knesset, pitting animal-rights campaigners against the lobbyists for the global fur industry and the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, which says the fur ban is an affront to its religious identity. (via)

Harold Fisk. 1944. MS River Alluvial Floodplain Map (part deux)

joel posted this earlier. and look what i found when i did some snooping around the internet myself; he did a bunch of them! click to enlarge. (that's what she said).

Weekend at Bernies?!?

Some people tried to sneak a dead woman onto a plane!

I'm the specialist person ever.

Yes, I mean short bus special.

2pz contributor and bangin' Brooklyn blogger G.Animalz has another little blog called Space Shuttle. It took me a bit (by a bit, I mean months - up until 5 minutes ago) to realize why her blog was named such a thing. And I only realized this because I noticed the address of her blog is spacevshuttle.blogspot.com. I thought, "space versus shuttle?" and then it hit me.

I just want to commend you for intriguing me for so long with something so intelligently simple. And I would say exactly what it is, but I'm curious as to how many followers picked up on it. So let me know in the comments. And be honest about how long it was before you realized the connection.

Harold Fisk. 1944. MS River Alluvial Floodplain Map

love you jenky-poo! click to enlarge.

Prada : Marfa

Have you ever noticed the large pop art "PRADA, MARFA, 1837 mi ->" print in the Van der Woodsen penthouse on gossip girl? I just noticed and googled and was directed to this blog that had previously googled what I just googled.

Apparently the print recognizes a permanent art installation located in an empty landscape in west Texas (nytimes), 26 miles away from the small town of Marfa, TX. I will leave the art history critique to you.

Don't you love it when tv teaches you something?

chinese hairless bear (beast)

This sad looking creature which resembles a hairless bear with a kangaroo-like tail was trapped by hunters in Sichuan province in China and now everybody's running around saying it's an 'Oriental Yeti'.

Said hunter Lu Chin: "'It also does not sound like a bear - it has a voice more like a cat and it is calling all the time - perhaps it is looking for the rest of its kind or maybe it's the last one?"

via. source.

"a frog is sort of like a turtle"

carly: "hang in there baby"

hApPy EaSteR!

A little late, I know, but I want to share this photo of the Easter Bunny. a.k.a. Phyllis with socks paperclipped to her ears by my little brother.

Bunner'z List

1. Those Slutty Polish Donuts.
2. Double Down induced cardiac arrest
3. Socrates Sculpture Park
4. Costco free samples

elephanTEE

can you buy this for me to make animal pantomimes with? mk thx. via.

My favorite street

Just a quick stroll over the Pulaski Bridge from my apartment, Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint is one of my favorite places to go explore on a warm afternoon, buy a halloween costume, or buy candy. It seems that I am not the only one to have discovered some of it's many delights. However, Tina Fey expresses her love for Manhattan Ave.'s delights more eloquently than I could ever hope. She tells Esquire:

"The best doughnut? That's Peter Pan doughnuts in Brooklyn. It's a Polish bakery. We shot nearby once for 30 Rock. It's a white-cream-filled powdered doughnut. And I really believe, when I first tried it, if I had a penis, I would put it in this doughnut. I finally understand what you guys are thinking about and what motivates you guys."

I am locked up in Manhattan, which is not the same as Manhattan Avenue, so I unfortunately cannot go try these donut whores for myself. They're just asking for it. I will add them to my list.

Keep an eye out for future Manhattan Ave. posts.

(via via)

what is Jake Gyllenhaal talking about?

"And I’d say, ‘OK, I’ll try it,’ and then I’d say, ‘OH GOD. OH, please.’ But then I’d get it, and we’d go a little further and a little longer and a little higher and just kept it up...It got a little bit dicey there near the end, when they saw that I liked doing things that were dangerous. I tried my hand at things that were pushing it a little bit." via

sounds fun jake. wwwwink ;)