the rich lesbian widow stirrin' up troubs in washington.

if you're like me, when you heard about the upcoming supreme court case involving edie windsor and the $300,000+ estate tax she's being asked to pay for inheriting the estate of her wife, thea spyer, you thought, "those fancy-named ladies sound rrriiiiiicccccchhhhhh..."

...and you wanted to know more about their life together. nymag has a brief piece with an accompanying slideshow.

During this vacation—one of many—the pair tried to stay only in hotel rooms with water views. “[One] day, we were in the Piazza San Marco, and Thea kept protecting me from the Italian guys. Finally one of them said to her, in this strong Italian accent, ‘If you love her, kiss her!’ She didn’t, though. We were still young enough that we just hustled out.” They arrived back in New York the morning after the Stonewall riots. (via)

i hope edie gets to keep every last penny of that gay marriage $$$$$$$$$$$$

today in "why cant all commercials be like this?"

ponies + fleetwood mac = slam dunk.

finding nashville in new york city

gothamist is hip the hot new city every is buzzing about and wants to let you know that there are places in new york where you can listen to live country or blugrass music. read all about it.

also, did you know brooklyn has a country music radio channel (Nash 94.7) and that NYC is second only to Nashville in terms of country music purchases? the more you know.

someone needs to tell me where i can get a bushwacker.

thomas wilhelm wanted me to let you know that your new favorite movie is coming out in just a few weeks

music minute with ms.dangles

how fitting...

...that the video for the 2Pz song of the winter takes place in the dominican republic.

this is what it would be like to have a house inside a swiss olympic bobsled stadium

In Residence: Rolf Sachs on Nowness.com.

check it out

should you feel bad about trying to get into the Met for free?

No. They are rich, you are not.

tilda swinton is a cuckoo pants

"Museum staff doesn't know she's coming until the day of, but she's here today," a museum source told Gothamist (who also took some fun photos.) The performance, titled The Maybe, will remain "unannounced" and "random" and will last for a full day when it happens. Swinton (who's done this before in London and Rome) hasn't said anything about the piece, and MoMA's official comments only confirmed that there would be "no published schedule for its appearance, no artist's statement released, no museum statement beyond this brief context, no public profile or image issued. Those who find it chance upon it for themselves, live and in real — shared — time: now we see it, now we don't." via

joe jonas sex tape miracle

thanks to the internet, we should soon get to see the following:

  The video features explicit footage of Joe Jonas, 23, and his girlfriend, Blanda Eggenschwiler, 28, drinking, doing drugs, and engaging in sex using a number of sex toys and BDSM devices, including dildos, a gag ball, and a slapper paddle.

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your move nick jonas.

moleskine comes to time warner center

have you ever found yourself at barnes and noble, borders, target, walmart searching for just the right notebook to hold your doodles and meeting notes and hopes and dreams and recipes?

have you ever noticed how all the ones for sale are some stupid color or have lines or grids or are in some other way exactly not what you want?

never fear, moleskine is opening their first US store in the time warner center for all of your notebook needs.

i've been calling it that for YEARS.

from a little internet number called thug kitchen.

kapoooyah!

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this is the internet.

You are looking at, more or less, a portrait of the internet over an average 24 hours in 2012—higher usage in yellows and reds; lower in greens and blues—created by an anonymous researcher for the "Internet Census 2012" project. (via)

get with the nytimes

someone just figured out that there is a rabid trend spreading out of brooklyn, and it's called "cuntry ladies". guess what, ladies who are not taylor swift who make country music are getting their shit together and making music i want to listen to. and the new york times finally noticed:

Even with the same goal the two take different approaches. Ms. Musgraves’s assault is full frontal. Her indictments come with names, or at least a boatload of identifying details. They’re about the enemy. Ms. Monroe’s, on the other hand, are sung into the mirror. They’re about the enemy within. (via)

listen to kacey "muscovite" musgraves and ashley monroe today!