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In an exercise that will be beneficial to both me (emptying out my Google Reader's "starred" items) and to you (a whole lot of stuntastic things from around the Internets), I'm bringing back an old segment that will be familiar to my oldest readers, "News I Find Interesting!" Here, I will be posting a long list of links and such that I've encountered that I found interesting, amusing, idiotic, titillating, or hilarious, but didn't get around to sharing with you. You may have already seen few, some, or all of the links below, but in any case I hope you will find an item or two of note that YOU will find interesting.
1. The New York City's Department of Transportation has installed nine unique bike racks designed by David Byrne, yes of the Talking Heads fame, but did you know he is also a bike enthusiast? It is only temporary but I hope the powers that be change their minds and make them a permanent addition to the City landscape. More information, including rack location (hi-ho!) here.
2. Do your best Beavis and Butthead laugh when looking at this unintentionally funny sign.
3. Idiot TSA "inspector" breaks commercial airplane. TSA guy should be added to the "no-fly" list as he clearly is a danger to travelers.
4. The DUI Mario Kart experiment. Damn, I'm ready to submit myself as a subject for an experiment like this. Any fellow geek want to organize this?
6. Photos of cute animals + website = Profit! Cute Overload, the popular site of fuzzy wuzzy puppies and kitties, is making the owner some nice chedder from advertising. WHY DID I NOT THINK OF THIS FIRST?!?!
7. People taking photos of Obama. One dude got himself one of those green disposables just for the occasion.
8. All that music you kids are uploading and streaming from Muxtape is costin the company a whole lotta money in the hosting category. Looks like cloud computing might be expensive enough to bring a company crashing back down to earth.
9. Michael Phelps doesn't want to make a splash and piss off advertisers and sponsors. He just wants to be a corporate bitch. Post-college idealist MRod is looking to do the same. Sponsors, sponsor me!
10. Selections from H.P. Lovecraft's brief tenure as a Whitman's Sampler copywriter. Haha!
11. What makes for a good blog. I agree with many of the points, but I break most of the "rules." I think those traits make for popular blogs, but that is separate from what I specifically enjoy about blogging. In the end, there's no hard and fast set of rules. Do you. Do what you like to do that will keep you blogging, even if it is for just a month or two.
12. LGBTA L.G.P.A, the Ladies Golf Professional Association, is requiring all its golfers to pass a verbal English test or face suspension. This new rule was especially aimed and communicated to the South Korean contingent. It's so jarring to read of something so anachronistic as "English-Only" in the 21st century particularly when it pertains to professional sports which is becoming more and more globalized in a symbiotic relationship for new talent, bigger audiences, and more money. As the Times writes:
Women have been fighting against discrimination in golf for decades, as Augusta National Golf Club — home of the Masters Tournament and still lacking a single female member — shamefully demonstrates. For the L.P.G.A. to impose discriminatory rules on its own members is not only offensive, it’s self-destructive.
And IDIOTIC!
13. Campbell Soup Company's marketing manager writes to Andy Warhol. So pop.
14. Eric Ripert, chef of top restaurant le Bernardin, is blogging recipes of dishes he creates using the common toaster oven. He's JUST LIKE YOU AND ME! Okay, not at all.
15. Drawing with a cup of coffee and a spoon. Genius. I can't wait to try this at brunch next time and piss off the server.
To read more click after the jump...but you've been warned: there's a LOT more to read.
16. Another upcoming show, called The Wrong Door from across the Atlantic that looks promising. The BBC is so on point.
17. Has the identity of the Zodiac Killer been uncovered? He may be....RIGHT BEHIND YOU!
18. The most obsessed Twat Twit ever. Dude gets the Twitter error message image tattooed. I'm definitely "unfollowing" this cat. Freak.
19. Matt Harding, you know the guy who danced all around the world, now brings his schtick to the corporate boardroom to "boost morale." I would jump around like an idiot for a paycheck too. Yea, I'm hating. So what?
20. Sarah Palin's Wikipedia page got a bit of Fall cleaning right before McCain announced her as his BFF (after only just meeting her once).
21. A new study in Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics argues that medicine tailored to specific "races" or racial groups are doomed to fail. Although two individuals may be of the same "race," a label that is a social construct in of itself, their respective genomes may respond differently to a particular medication.
23. Bush eats cat on the cob. Haha.
24. This sci-fi film noir short (won a film contest) is pretty good. In a future where cloning is widespread, this detective tries to track down who is murdering his own clones.
25. LA has had a serial killer out there for awhile. Yikes.
26. This teenager started a Zune chat community in 2006. He earned $1,000 a month for a couple years from advertising and just recently sold it for $62,000. I hate my life.
27. Soulja Boy talks about the hacker who hijacked his MySpace and other pages.
28. VPILF. LOL. "Just a heartbeat away from being a PILF." LOL.
29. Headless teddy USB drive. Or in other words, "How to be even MORE creepy at work."
30. Nasubi, the naked guy who lived on freebies for an entire year for a Japanese reality show for a sort of real life Truman Show...except even more fucked up!
31. YouTube Comment Snot - A Firefox add-on that will hide all those stupid comments on the popular video hosting and streaming site.
32. Strawberries and shake, the perfect combination? YES YES YES.
33. Banksy hits up New Orleans. BANKSY -- COME BACK TO NYC! Specifically, come to Park Slope and tag up my apartment building or hell, even my apartment room itself! Thanks!
34. Militant art. ERIN, Please have your [famous] boss buy this please!!
35. I know it's a low blow, but mang, it's still funny. Old guy + young gal = Comedy.
36. Michael Jackson and Emmanuel Lewis vintage video. Back then this was probably considered cute. Today, frightening. I'm watching it and all I keep thinking is "How the heck is no one flying across the screen and tackling Michael while screaming KEEP THE FUCK AWAY FROM THE CHILD MICHAEL!"
37. Cute Overload. Damn, this puppy whistling is so cute I want to just pop it in the microwave on high heat.
38. Hysterical Nickleback parody. Seriously, I wasn't going to watch it because well, I hate Nickleback, but I'm glad I did. Hilarious.
39. Oddly compelling video put together using photos of Bush, Obama, and McCain. It sounds a lot more interesting than it reads.
40. This cat bento box should have two heads.
41. Nine breathtaking bridges. Although I'm pretty much amazed by any bridge which I think are amazing feats of engineering.
42. Obama needs to unleash his moneyed advantage and buy up some keywords.
43. GUTEN TAGGGGG! Breakfast for yo brain!
44. As Gawker says, this story is the most Onion like story yet. It reminds me a lot of the vibe of St Louis.
45. North Korean anti-America propaganda posters.
46. The most unhappy dogs in the world. I would be too if I had to wear what they were forced to wear.
47. Camouflage art.
48. If a black hole accidentally occurred here on earth, what would the repercussions look like? Like this.
49. Parking tickets for those who've crossed the line.
50. Dave Freeman, co-author of 100 Things to Do Before You Die" dead at 47.
51. Train nearly runs over idiots. It's a "HOLY SHIT" sort of a moment in the video.
52. "Old man" does magic tricks on subway trains and amusement parks. The last one is hilarious.
53. China isn't the only country that lip synched its Opening Ceremony. Those Aussies did it as well during the Sydney Olympics.
54. How did we end up with a drinking age of 21 in the first place [in the US]?
55. Zombie emergency procedure. Guide on what to do in the event of a zombie attack.
56. Heh. Evily genius in today's age of hyper-connectivity. Fake Following.
57. The Japanese Anna Kournikova...sourta.
I headed to NoHo for a party thrown by the guys at Bowery on Saturday night.
Ugh! It's so annoying when you just miss the subway train, especially at night when I'm heading out to get my drank and two-step on. And by that I mean, to get my party on.
But, the Party Gods were smiling down upon on me, because only a couple minutes after I had just missed the first train, another one train arrived!
I saw my fellow Bruno, Kevin (with his great wife and her friend) who I haven't seen since graduation.
Stan (hilariously tan from his vacation out West) telling a hysterical [censored] story to Kevin. Hahahah. Stan: You are my inspiration for my new feature length screenplay.
The bartenders on the rooftop is always a classy touch.
Bucket o' beer.
Kevin and Keystone beer!
[I'm sorry, I forgot your name!] is amazed by the novelty of the Natty Light.
Nate (who just returned to NYC from a pretty bad ass cross country motorcycle bike ride) and his gal. As I lifted the camera to take a candid photo of them, she reflexively hit the camera with the-arm-on-the-hip-pose which cracked us up.
Haha. Here's take two.
"Hey Michael! Here, pose with these two girls." "YES."
"That was a GOOD idea."
N triple fisting. No, not that, you perverts. I don't even know what that means. I'm referring to N maintaining a grip of three drinks simultaneously.
Chris, N, and John.
John's favorite pose. Haha.
This girl's top was very...silvery.
Haha, I'm not quite sure what Chris is doing here.
N doing a little dance while a floating hand flips him off.
Bennnn!
Kevin's wifey gives the party a thumbs up.
Michael and Nate and pizza. When I was looking at this photo today I thought, "Damn, there was pizza? I want a slice."
NO PIZZA FOR YOU!
The Pizza Dance!
More Pizza Dance!
Pizza almost all done and nothing but crust left dance!
John tries to rush me. This is the last thing a man sees before John decides to break him in half.
And then we bounced to another bar, and I soon did a classic Irish goodbye for the night to head home. Thanks to the guys at Bowery for a fun party and dranks.
The End.
I found these couple photos while going through my camera today. Yea, I've had a REALLY BUSY Saturday obviously. OBVIOUSLY.
At Botanica. Natch.
Broadway and Spring.
Pooja and Munira had a joint birthday party on Saturday night at the popular blogger bar The Magician.
Munira and some of her friends decide to get shots. They seemed unenthusiastic about this decision.
I don't know what they ordered but those shots were gigantic (that's what she said?).
Ben!
Chris!
Pooja's temperamental attitude towards the camera. Right now, she's anti-camera.
"MRod, you don't understand. She is a bitch. See the back of my hand here? See it? Look at it. I just straight pimp slapped her with this hand. I've been working out. I'm skrong."
I just noticed that there are a lot of empty beer glasses on this table. Poor show.
Haha.
Pooja and Ben.
Chris and friends.
Birthday gurl looking kinda sober here.
Pooja and random guy sitting behind her. He was very happy to get a photo with her. You're welcome, guy.
Mun and her friend Katie--a fellow Providencer.
I can relate guy--trying desperately to continue a conversation with a girl who doesn't seem really interested. Pooja, you. are. such. a. bitch! Haha, just kidding, obviously.
And then one of Mun's friends was next door at La Caverna. And I think La Caverna translates to the "The Bathroom" because it smelled horribly in there.
Haha. The caption for this one is password protected.
Then we went to No Malice (I can't believe we walked there. Sheesh.) Here's Pam with her friend (forgot your name, sorry!) from DC. What occurred here the last time I went did not happen again, unfortunately.
Note N's left hand. Excellent. I have to give props to Pam's friend for asking N and I if we wanted a drink. That behavior from girls, especially from someone who we'd never met before is...so...unexpected, but it was just really thoughtful of her.
Ah, everyone's favorite social activity at the bar: texting other people to see if there are cooler people doing something better. Or trying to set up, as the kids say today, "situations."
Heading out back into the night for our respective destinations.
After I got out of the cab at my apartment, I suddenly decided that it would be an awesome time for a...shrimp salad with avocado, jalepenjo, cucumber and lettuce sandwich. Wow, 10 hours later that became a very poor choice I made.
Just a few photos from a rooftop kegger in the east village in this recap.
My night started off inauspiciously as I rode a subway train that was covered in blood. This was the main source of it but there were blood splatters all over this train. And then David Caruso showed up and we were all like, "Dude, you can't see the blood when you still have your sunglasses on." And then he replied, "It's okay. I'm CSI." We said "That doesn't even make any sense!"
When this drunk half-passed out Hispanic guy noticed that I was going to take a photo of the blood, he tossed his banana peel on to the blood.
And there was food. This was the source that I was tapping into towards the end of the party when I kept disappearing and reappearing with brownies.
Stan: "Yo yo, check it out!" Hahaha.
My friend Hector (and his friend) who hit me up with the head's up about this party. And in another example of this city being way too small: It turns out that Hector's roommate, a random situation from Craigslist, in that building is my (still relatively new) roommate's boyfriend. Cue, It's a small world afterrrr allll.
This girl admirably tried to take charge of the situation after the kegs were kicked and every drop of alcohol was consumed.
Hector hooked us up with a secret stash from his apartment.
O Canada!
Get a glimpse into the denizens of the Shore where low aspirations, hair gel, and burnt skin reign supreme. Watch until the very end for the ridiculous no-holds barred catfight. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjLaJO8QEuw]
[Thanks N]
After work on Thursday I headed over to Stan's apartment for a bit of Guitar Hero and beer.
Stan killing it on the hard difficulty level with his best hero of guitars face.
Ian came over and was all like, "Oh, I'm going to suck." "I haven't played this for months." "Guys, don't make fun of me." And then he picked up the ax and ripped off a near perfect 97 percent performance. Asshole.
I realized that drinking straight out of the bottle isn't the most classy thing to do, especially when there were seven or eight lonely full flutes each filled with bubbly only an arms distance away.
But you know what's even more unclassy (Is that a word? Auto spell check says it is not.)? Answer, getting champagne dumped all over you. That is ONLY classy when it occurs in the designated champagne room. Allegedly.
But I still rallied tho, if not soaked, for awhile.
FYI: Last Night's Party segments and other retardo moments in MRod & Co's lives are back so stop.
A few crap-phone photos from last night's rooftop party, which I classed up by bringing a six pack of MGD. I thought it would go well with the wine and cheese.
Over looking green Central Park.
Catching the firework show over Central Park. As some things go like Megan Fox, the IAC building, and your mom, it was more impressive in person than as seen here in its pixilated variation:
I know that my blog is awfully New York City-centric. Anyway, here's a bone, in the guise of an art show , I'm throwing out to you West Coasters, specifically the Los Angelesians which you should go check out because 1) it looks awesome, 2) Moye @ Chopstix is involved, and 3) top shelf open bar hosted by Megan Fox. Okay, one of these reasons may or may not be true, but go nonetheless to cleanse your polluted, silicone LA minds with a bit of culture!
Read more here.
[Moye: I bet you could get more people to show up for the opening if you promise that Megan Fox and Hot Girl--she looks like a Crazian--will be hosting an open bar. Just a FYI. Will there be any Crazy Alaskan Korean Mexican artists showing at the event? If not, you should find one. Cough.]
At last night's party I listened to a guy:
- Defend his $100 haircut;
- Defend his $100 wax--and not on his chest (So what do they call that? A Brozilian?);
- And argue that my last name can't possibly be Rodriguez.
There's a club in Beijing called "Sex and Da City."
Sex and da City opened in 2003, Ms. Shen said. She and about a dozen friends had been out at the World of Suzy Wong Club, and everyone agreed they might as well open a bar of their own. When they convened to discuss the idea again in the daytime, the group had dwindled to five. When it came time to talk about investing money, Ms. Shen said, it was down to four women.
That night, Ms. Shen said, she went home and watched HBO. And right there was a show—she had already been a fan—about “exactly four girls,” pursuing independence and glamour in the big city. Before Ms. Shen and her partners went to the bank, another one of them dropped out, but she had settled on the name. Replacing “the” with “da” is, by Chinese standards, a fairly respectful nod to intellectual-property rights.
I think the club name is actually an upgrade. Has anyone ever been to this new hot joint?
Read more here.
[Via Gridskipper]
Imagine going to a party and at the party there was a watermelon. And the watermelon had a tap attached to it. And coming out of the tap was refreshing spiked watermelon drink. Would you ask then if you had died and had arrived in heaven? Sweet delicious watermelon heaven?
Read more here (with instructions on how to make your own!).
A security camera captured the following scene: Three young girls testing out speakers start dancing to the music. Jovial Best Buy employee stands off to the side bobbing his head along and enjoying the impromptu dance party taking place in front of him...and then he decides to join the party. And he joins in a SERIOUS way. You can view it here (no sound). Watch it for around the one minute mark for the payout. It made me lawl. If Best Buy was smart they'd turn this into a commercial. Makes it seem like a fun, friendly, and comfortable place to shop as opposed to the fascist warehouse where they kick people out because they've been playing the demo Guitar Hero too long even though there was no one else waiting to play it and it was a quiet Friday evening...
Nothing screams vigraous romance for octogenarians like a cancer benefit titled "Celebration of Life," because they truly are celebrating the fact that they are still alive. And there's no better way to express that than the classic dance floor ass grab. Whether you're 14 or 84 it never goes out of style. Sir, you are an American hero.
Check out the couple on the right for the punchline. Man, he is really digging in there. AGGRESSIVE.
New club Santo's Party House opened up in Chinatown of all places (makes sense if you think about it in terms of zoning and space availability) at 100 Lafayette.
The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry on account of...Rock Band.
When N said there was some random open bar thing, I was expecting a couple drinks at a one hour shindig. What I did not expect was that we'd crash a Univision private party at the Town Tavern with an 8 hour happy hour plus beer pong table. I have photos, except those photos are on some random girl's camera and when she uploads her photos to her Facebook page, N and I will be tagged as "who are these guys??"
Thanks to N for the connect.
Witnessed last night: Two guys jawing at one another in front of a bathroom at club. One guy is in crutches. The other guy punches him. It's quite a sight always to see human bodies quite literally fly through the air. This incident occurs about one meter away from me. I side step--useful as a dance move and to avoid a fight--as the guy with crutches falls to the ground as he gets pummeled by the assailant. Another guy jumps on the punching guy's back to try to pull him off. I recollect briefly considering, "Should I jump in and try to stop the fight?" One second later, "Nah." The DJ and bouncers stepped in a few seconds later. I welcome the next stage in human evolution.