gus wants an indoor pool

via

because its hot outside.

M83 Midnight City

Midnight City by M83

m83 has new music that i think you might like.

sorry my vacation took so long. i forgot to bring my laptop. ive got some good vacation themed posts to give you though, so reasy easy on those pins and needles for a minute.

This blog's not going to write itself!

In their absence please consider the following:
















Ipod Gramafone












Twosie Twosdey on monday. are they a.) making it rain? or b.) playing flutes?

















I am so excited for "Watch the Throne"
Seal is featured on a track. jus' sayin'

yup, that's about right

Source: the internet.

there's no way that's not a cheese ballz container.

read this sad / happy story about a bear in the smokey mountains, rescued from his plastic prison by the kindness of humans.

"On every level he was in a deficit," Hammonds said. "For three weeks he had not eaten, had been breathing his own breath, and the only way he must have been able to drink was by lowering his head under water and filling up the jug." (via)

i won't lie, i woulda liked to've seen that drinking manuever! thx leigh anne!

omg, arizona, get OVER yourselves!

PHOENIX — The massive dust storms that swept through central Arizona this month have stirred up not just clouds of sand but a debate over what to call them.

The blinding waves of brown particles, the most recent of which hit Phoenix on Monday, are caused by thunderstorms that emit gusts of wind, roiling the desert landscape. Use of the term “haboob,” which is what such storms have long been called in the Middle East, has rubbed some Arizona residents the wrong way.

“I am insulted that local TV news crews are now calling this kind of storm a haboob,” Don Yonts, a resident of Gilbert, Ariz., wrote to The Arizona Republic after a particularly fierce, mile-high dust storm swept through the state on July 5. “How do they think our soldiers feel coming back to Arizona and hearing some Middle Eastern term?” (via)

JFC. get the sand out, you racists.

Not everyone was put out by the use of the term. David Wilson of Goodyear, Ariz., said those who wanted to avoid Arabic terms should steer clear of algebra, zero, pajamas and khaki, as well. “Let’s not become so ‘xenophobic’ that we forget to remember that we are citizens of the world, nor fail to recognize the contributions of all cultures to the richness of our language,” he wrote.

i'm glad at least one person in that state has some sense.

ps - i'm fairly sure 'haboob' is the phrase with which the countess greeted everyone in morocco.

where'd kylie go?

she gone picked up her new cornhole bags. "if that ain't love, then tell me what is"

what is chuck bass doing?

that's what i found myself wondering after reading erin baker's latest post. here are some answers:

shooting some new gossip girl scenes while wearing adorable pants. (c2e!)

driving a ferrari around in the hamptons!

oh and guess who was SPOTTED shooting scenes with nate...

spoiler alert retroactive.

HAPPY BEARTHDIE BUN-BUN!!!

28 BEARS OLD!!!

i hope you get to go swimming for your bearthdie, because it is hot as hades today.

nErD aLeRt!

herzog & de meuron design for a new stadium in bordeaux. i like it mostly, but i also think it looks like a clinique counter.

thx bun-bun!

more surbway fighting!

you can BEAR-ly see it, but when these classy ladies get to scrappin', the baby in the stroller rolls right out of the open subway doors. real rude, bitch!

thx john + liz!

jay-z + kanye west : otis

click here to listen to "otis", from their highly anticipated and mysterious upcoming collaborative album, watch the throne, now rumored to come out on august 1.

i don't really like it. (UPDATE: i like it pretty well after a couple more listens.)

i do like this:

i'm sorry, but...

...these leopard photos are crackin my shit up!

it's right behind me.

...isn't it?

space shuttles : OVER.

well, they are!

too hot for chips.

well, hotpocalypse is in full swing. today's forecast includes a high of 97, with a feels-like 105. that's degrees. farenheit. we've also got an "excessive heat warning", which i read is only issued for very extreme combinations of heat and humidity.

now, i know what you southerners are thinking. "that's not so bad. y'all are a bunch of babies. it's worse here." but let me tell you about a little something called an "air quality warning." we've got one of those going, too. i don't know what it means in science terms, but i do know that this morning the entire city smelled like one gigantic, garbage-y queef. i sidestepped a pile of vomit on my way to work, which sparked a lengthy chicken-and-egg debate inside my head.

all of that being said, i'd like to pass along this article featuring the city's best frozen treat offerings. if you can bear to be outside over the next few days, maybe you can check out these spots for some relief.