Awesome People Hanging Out Together in LA

Proof that non-shades and shades can hang out together.

Friends!

Go Skateboarding Day in Kabul

Boys and girls in Kabul, Afghanistan participating in International Go Skateboarding Day.

Office Planking

My good friend, gym buddy, managing director of the board of MRod, and my former boss from my old advertising job sent me this photo of one of his coworkers doing a recent office plank. If you've been off the grid and living in a cave somewhere and don't know what this is here's the Wikipedia page for it. Semi-relatedly, did you know that the longest Wikipedia page belongs to Dungeons & Dragons?

Moving with the Times

Someone recently painted this Soviet era monument in Bulgaria to resemble various pop culture characters then wrote what translates to "Moving with the times" below it.

[Hat tip @mrkamoji]

It's Friday!!!

Call Me Ishmael_65

McSweeney's Famous Opening Lines from Novels Updated for the Modern Age.

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into a giant insect. Not literally, obviously. He was playing an MMORPG and this was his avatar.

+10 hilarity.

Scene in LA

I kinda love this photo that Ub took of me and Erin playing ping pong. And by playing I mean, Erin carrying on a clinic demonstrating her wicked form as evident here.

Go the Fuck to Sleep

[audio http://mrod.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/go-the-fuck-to-sleep-samuel-l-jackson.mp3] Samuel L. Jackson reading Amazon's number 1 best seller and the children's book "Go the Fuck to Sleep."

Listening to this actually made me sleepy.....

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The Guerrilla Swing Project

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYt3ib1EwNE] The swing under the pier is my favorite.

This project is funded by the Awesome Foundation and Bolivia is next. Please "swing" by NYC next.

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LA without Cars

[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/11986171] Inspired by Matt Logue’s Empty LA project, Ross Ching created this video version.

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Human Pyramid

[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/16392519] Apparently this is a tradition every two years in Tarragona, Spain.

Parent of the Year award goes to the ones who send their kids to the top of this human pyramid.

Poll Finds Americans Angry About Pretty Much Everything

Onion-like Headlines in Real Life. [Hat tip: Moudhy]

I'm Back

Pooja and I completing "The Skinny Trifecta" at The Getty in LA.

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Be Right Back - On Vacation

Rare Leica Auctioned for $1.9 Million

This super rare 0-series Leica was recently auctioned for a record setting $1.9 million.

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It's Monday...

Like A Boss

The Olympics were so much better in the olden days.

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Fact

Sea otters hold hands with one another when sleeping so they don't drift away from one another.

Cue: Awwww.

Fact

Don't deny it.

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I Really Want to See this Movie

The Navy actually deploys "sea lions, dolphins, and other marine mammals as an elite corps of underwater sentries, searchers, and mine-sweepers."