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At this website click on the appropriate first letter of the model's name to see her latest campaign. Not really my cup of tea, but I like the site's funky design (and the LOLstyle editorializing). [Via]
So I know I'm about ohhhh 20 years late on this, but I just started watching the first season of Friday Night Lights. And.
SO GOOD.
Although, this sleepy football town must have something in their water, because there are more hot girls per capita there than in any other place in the world.
And of course John Mayer dated the hottest of them on the show, Ms. Minka Kelly.
I want to hate, but I can't knock the hustle.
Men Who Look Like Zach Braff (menwholooklikezachbraff.blogspot.com) is making me laugh uncontrollably. They describe the Braff Face as "the floppy hair, the close together eyes, the flirty smirk, the bottom-heavy forehead to jowls ratio, the potato shaped head," and a surprising number of celebrities share such a face! See exhibit A:
and 
Ahhh, it's so funny because it's true.
[Via]
No, it isn't some screenshot from a new M. Night Shymalan "horror" film. But, faceless people have been appearing in various high profile places, such as Wimbeldon and red carpet events in the UK. It's all most likely a guerrilla marketing promotion. Still doesn't make it less creepy.
Chris Rock is having a busy year so far "as the only black guy at the Van Halen concert, the only black guy at the Cure concert, and the only black guy at the White Stripes concert," and he reviews a recent free concert Coldplay gave at Madison Square Garden:
If anything, Coldplay kind of reminds me of a British Hall and Oates. In the eighties what did a pop record song like? It sounded like Darryl Hall.
Brilliant insight.
Read more here.
[Thanks Moye]
This dance off featuring characters from the Star Wars universe at some theme park made me chuckle but also gave me a huge headache. Either way, in the amount of time it took me to post this, George Lucas just made 20 million dollars. Supposedly Lucas looked to classic hero's quest stories for guidance when he was writing Star Wars. This may be true. I just have a hard time making the leap from Gilgamesh to Darth Vader and his storm troopers dancing in synch to Thriller. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkTQwP2gFxU]
When it rains it pours, so the adage goes, and for Mike Myers he definitely did not evacuate the town after the hurricane warning. The hurricane known as his latest bomb the Love Guru is leaving behind a wake of destruction. And now a Canadian newspaper columnist, pointing out that he has been reduced to a one-trick pony of "that relies primarily on poop jokes, cultural stereotypes and Scottish accents," decides to disown Mr. Myers on behalf of his fellow countrymen and women.
1. Shrek (2001). Fans of this animated, Oscar-winning smash will go green with anger over its inclusion on this list, but we're firm on this. One of the first times we see the titular character, an ogre with a Scottish accent, he passes gas. Funny? My three-year-old doesn't even laugh. And that is this film's target audience, we presume.
Read more here.
Someone had way entirely too much time on their hands. (Beat.)
Thank god for that because this is awesome:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0i3ZigYK4I]
[Thanks N]
Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler crocking the Crocs!
Throwaway joke: Dude does look like a lady.
[Thanks Ashley]
George Carlin passed away yesterday. He always did have interesting things to say.
Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating...and you finish off as an orgasm.
Beyond his self deprecation, I always find Conan O'Brian an erudite and interesting person. Check out his hour long interview with Charlie Rose: [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=Voq3ngTfWAw]
Jay Z trying to maintain a swagger at a Coldplay concert while hanging out with Ricky Gervais. Basically the same swagger I had when I was in 5th grade and wore similar thick glasses. What is happening to this world where Ricky Gervais looks cooler than Jay Z? And Coldplay? Really? As Poplicks pointed out: You can knock the hustle.
[Via]
I have to tell you, I find solace in sweeping. I have no other responsibilities. I have no phone. I have time to think. I just have, you know, peace.
The UK music video of Leona Lewis's pop song Bleeding Love: [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=_f8nJSAzsH4]
versus the US version:
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=j7HHspl65g8]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v31qxrXsxv0] This admittedly terrific video of apparently a guy's girlfriend playing hula hoop on the new Wii Fit game has garnered nearly 2 million views on YouTube alone and countless more on copycat sites.
View more pics here.
Giovanny Gutierrez, the director of interactive media at ad agency Tinsley, surreptitiously recorded his girlfriend, Lauren Bernat (who also happens to work in advertising) playing Wii Fit and then, as we all know--all 2 million plus of us--he posted it on YouTube. And despite their advertising connections, he swears up and down that this wasn't commissioned by his agency or Nintendo.
How'd she react after she found out? Guiterrez told the LA Times:
"She was FURIOUS," wrote Gutierrez, who said she "called me on the phone screaming her head off and then hung up on me."
"But now [she] finds herself actually laughing about it and enjoying her 15 minutes of fame."
It really brings to life the adage that it is better to do and ask for forgiveness later than to ask for permission first and be rejected. Wait, did I just make that up?? Either way, it's a pretty useful principle. I like the guy's quick-footed justification for all of this:
The whole thing was just an idea I had for a spec viral video.
Brilliant!
I can see him racking his brain for an excuse after his girlfriend found out about the video. His first thought was "Damn, how'd she find out? I thought I posted it as private and only sent the link to Jacko, Tommy, and Sandman."
"You fucker! How could you do this?! What were you thinking?!"
"Baby, baby. Calm down. What are you talking about?
"What am I talking about?! That fucking video of me on YouTube that you recorded. That's what I'm talking about!"
"Ohhh, that. Baby, calm down. I was just working on an, uhm, viral spec. Yea, a spec. For a potentially huge new client of ours. You know, Nintendo. You know how it is. You're in advertising. It's all about digital and viral and MyYouTubeBook this and that. I've just been under so much pressure from Mr. Tinsley to produce. "Gotta bet big to win big," he says all the time. If we get this then I, I mean, we can finally start looking at those special rings that you like to talk about so much. Just doing it for us. The team. Fuck Mr. Tinsley. I'm doing this for the team of you and me. You can't be getting so upset like this all the time. Now I'll be home in 10 minutes. What's for dinner?"
The lesson here is that:
1. Hot chick.
2. Nerdy activity.
3. YouTube
4. +1 million views
5. ?
6. Profit!
Us Versus Them applies their special brand of penetrating analysis on Former New York Governor Spitzer's former escort Ashley Alexandra Dupree aka Many Vowels ("I'd like to buy a vowel, no, make that two vowels--the A and most oh-so-definitely the E.") hanging out at the beach with her mom.
Mom’s has to be running through the “mature escort” game. I mean she stays in the gym, and the gene pool is strong. I mean talk about born and bred for the streets…
Read and...uh, view more here.
The bootyologists at Us Versus Them bring their critical analysis to the current situation taking place at Danity Kane (Quick! Name one song by them! Yea, me neither. Oh what about that one?! No, that's by the Pussycat Dolls.):
3. Previously super thick D. Woods is now super tightNuff said, though she may want to watch getting too tight in the middle. She’s starting to get that Venus Williams extra hard stomach piece. I want my lady strong, not skrong.
Lines like "I want my lady strong, not skrong" compels me to be a repeat customer.
Read more here.