February 2011
1 post
March 2010
1 post
February 2010
3 posts
Exhaustion
NYC sculptor Joshua Allen Harris makes vibrant, eye-grabbing street beasts from garbage bags, tape… and subway exhaust.
I love how fresh and modern these works feel, even though all of these ingredients have been around for at least 50 years. (Garbage bags: invented in 1950. Duct tape: 1942. NYC subway exhaust: 1904!)
Beauty quote: “The city decides how it’s going...
August 2009
1 post
July 2009
3 posts
Rogue Diva
Peter: Uh, I don’t like my job, and, uh, I don’t think I’m gonna go anymore. Joanna: You’re just not gonna go? Peter: Yeah. Joanna: Won’t you get fired? Peter: I don’t know, but I really don’t like it, and I’m not gonna go. — Office Space (1999)
If I were the citizens of Alaska — who elected Sarah Palin to serve a...
June 2009
3 posts
May 2009
4 posts
April 2009
1 post
December 2008
7 posts
Plaxico Burress
The New York Giants’ star wide receiver shot himself in the leg. How? He was dancing in a nightclub. With a handgun. In the waistband of his sweatpants.
Dancing. Handgun. Sweatpants. Pick two.
November 2008
4 posts
Fu** Tha Police
NWA’s seminal 1988 jam about racism and police brutality in the LAPD hit the hip-hop world like a bomb. The FBI and the Secret Service sent official letters of displeasure. When Australian radio station Triple J banned the song, the staff went on strike and played it for 24 hours straight. In 1996, during opposition riots in Serbia, Belgrade station B92 played it for 2 days...
September 2008
2 posts
August 2008
2 posts
July 2008
4 posts
June 2008
13 posts
Eurocypria →
The only two airlines …
Royal Brunei →
… worthy of this blog.
upwardly mobile →
“(adj) Advancing or likely to advance in economic and social standing.”
Zem Joaquin →
Stylish founder of green-chic blog Ecofabulous.com. With her J and Q and Z, oh what a Scrabble play she would be.
Benazir Bhutto →
May she rest in peace.
Planet Unicorn →
In the year 2117, an 8-year-old gay boy named Shannon found a magic lamp. He was granted three wishes. The first, a fur jacket. The second, a flying car. And the third was a planet full of unicorns. This is the story of that planet.