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Remember in elementary school you called Norman Cross "pig monkey" followed by "I'm rubber, you're glue, whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you" during recess? But other than Norman Cross's face, what WOULD a pig monkey actually look like? The answer to that question is now known. A pig monkey looks like THIS and it comes from village in China:
It's pretty much the very opposite of Cute Overload.
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These white guys in Oregon exploring the new "sport" of mountain unicycling do not seem that concerned about having quality time with lady folk or continuing their lineage. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K70dFXWmVTo]
Dulce Pinzon, a Mexican-born female artist living in Brooklyn, captured the lives of New York City Mexican and Latino immigrant workers in a superb series titled The Real Story of the Superheroes. Employed in a range of jobs from nannies, to chefs, to cab drivers, to construction workers, Pinzon photographed these ordinary immigrants "in a satirical documentary style...in their work environment" while they wore costumes in the likeness of various iconic American comic book superheroes. She further uses the photos to highlight and engage the viewer in a dialogue about immigrant remittances ("Noe Reyes from the State of Puebla works as a delivery boy in Brooklyn New York. He sends 500 dollars a week."), which when considering their jobs' laborious nature, low wages, and lack of benefits, seems indeed downright super heroic.
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This is the first webisode, an episodic show viewed on the Internets, of a cooking show called Food Hacking with Randy hosted by Randy and produced by yours truly, me, MRod, Matthew Rodriguez. Click on photo to view video.
In this world premier Randy demonstrates how to make a sausage donut.
(I'm reposting because a couple friends have complained that it got lost in the shuffle.)
Bonus: Check out the behind the scenes as we try to purchase the necessary items at Dunkin Donuts. Note the blank "you guys are jackasses" expression on the faces of the DD workers behind the counter.
Roger Ebert's lists his most hated films (although the only one I completely disagree with is The Usual Suspects which is on his list). Here's a few samples:
Freddy Got Fingered This movie doesn't scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn't below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels.
One Woman or Two Add it all up, and what you've got here is a waste of good electricity. I'm not talking about the electricity between the actors. I'm talking about the current to the projector.
Stargate It is also the kind of movie where the sun god Ra, who has harnessed the ability to traverse the universe at the speed of light, still needs slaves to build his pyramids. And where the local equivalent of a Nubian princess is sent into the chamber of the Earth visitors, to pleasure them. Don't tell me there aren't any coincidences. The movie "Ed Wood," about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for "Stargate."
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- Dr. Randy Pausch, Brown '82, Dead at 47, His last (inspirational) lecture at Carnegie Mellon:
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The last lecture is a series of special lectures at CMU where professors are sometimes asked "to give a lectures on what wisdom they would impart if they knew it was their last chance. Soon after Dr. Pausch ...accepted that challenge, he learned he had months to live."
In the lecture, he mentions his childhood dream, among many other things, of playing professional football. A month after his above lecture, he was invited to a practice by the Pittsburgh Steelers:
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I went to the Met earlier today on my bi-annual trek up there. (I really should go more often...) Like I stated in my previous entry I saw the Superheroes exhibit there which was terrific, but no photography was allowed and I got yelled at when I tried to surreptitiously take a picture. This exhibit also had copies of the original issues of Superman, Spider Man, Iron Man, Hulk, Captain America, among others. My brain exploded.
Anyways, here are some random pictures from the museum:
"Probably French." Uh, they should probably stick a summer intern on this one and figure out whether it's French or not.
Went to the rooftop and finally saw the Jeff Koons exhibit (previously).
Reflection.
Funny mirror reflection.
Haha.
The dog.
The detail is remarkable.
Haha.
Balloon Dog.
Me and Chuck Close painting. Haha.
This artist's kid is going to have the best toothpick suspension bridge in his class.
Close up.
This piece was really neat (I forgot who it was by. Anyone? Anyone? Erin? Bueller?) and it wrapped around the entire room.
We were wondering how it stayed up on the wall--and upon closer inspection we noticed these thin small nails that held it in place against the room walls.
I FOUND IT! TEH ONE R1NG TO RUL3 THEM ALL!!1!!
HEY CLAY! PUNCH!
I'm going to cash in my once-a-day usage here: This woman's outfit is AGGRESSIVE.
I'm thinking of wearing a name tag now that says "No, I have not seen Batman." And then another name tag beneath that one which says "Why? Because showings have been sold out, the lines have been too long, and its only been out for two weeks." I've been asked whether I've seen Batman by everyone and when I reply that I have not, the tiring interrogation demanding my reasoning for not seeing immediately follows.
People, I get it. It's a great film that has a good balance of the eye candy razzle dazzle (Oooh, a black motorcycle! Explosions!) for the Michael Bay audience, without straying too far from the source material so as not to not piss off the hard-core comic book fans, combined with a compelling and dark performance by the now deceased Heath Ledger in the role of the Joker that pleases the art house crowd and validates the fact that they are watching a movie about one of the most mainstream comic book characters ever while masking their macabre fascination with Ledger's premature death.
Or I can just resort to lying, which doesn't seem too difficult here.
"Hey did you see--?"
"YES. Wow. Heath Ledger. What can I say other than Oscar. i don't mean the hot dog."
And then I can continue and talk about how "dark" it was and how the Joker really fucks with Batman's pysche, and the notion of how Batman, the ultra vigilante--a role the daytime playboy adopts to deal with his continuing childhood trauma over the gangland death of his parent--gives birth ironically to the ultra villain.
Am I right or am I right?
Also, I've noticed that people who have seen this movie fit into two distinct groups. One group simply asks, "Have you seen Batman?" The other and more questionable group says "Have you seen the Dark Knight? I generally respond to the latter group, "Dude, you're a little too close and are invading my personal space."
So, I have not seen Batman, but I did go to the Superheros special exhibit at The Met today and saw the Batman costume that Christian Bale wore in the latest movie. Have you seen that, huh? Huh? Have you?
The show highlighted "the symbolic and metaphorical association" and connection between the fictional world of superheros and its relationship with both fashion and technology. There was some great stuff there including the Iron Man suit (pre-paint job) and the suits from Spider Man. But it was also kind of bullshit because there wasn't a single mention of Aquaman.
Update: I received the following two e-mail messages from my friend DC this morning after he read this entry:
12:00 pm: When I called last night I was at the theatre and it was to ask if Batman...the Dark Knight was really good.
12:01 pm: Ahhh...also I'm a little freaked out because I did not realize the joker was ledger....
Mind you DC is one of the sharpest kids I know.
Mother Jones (one of my favorite publications) had a short Q&A with Dan Walsh, creator of Garfield Minus Garfield (one of my favorite niche websites).
So, was I onto something with my whole theory that Garfield Minus Garfield is about identification with the "product" in a fractured late capitalist society, or was I full of crap?
Yeah I think you were on to something. It's Jon's inability to "fit in." It's about being a sad, bored, lonely nerd on a Saturday night. I can't imagine why it became so successful on the internet ;-)
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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.
View the first webisode of my new cooking show called Food Hacking with Randy hosted by...my friend Randy. In each episode Randy and I will take you on a tasty journey that combines seemingly unrelated ingredients for the most experimental of gourmands.
In this pastrylicious bellwether episode Randy demonstrates how to make and enjoy a sausage donut.
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While Crocs (previously) are sandals that wraps your feet in a cushion of rubbery ergonomic goodness, this neocroc sandal goes in the opposite direction and strips the sandal to its most minimal and basic function.
And it's a bargain at $12 a pair!
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A 10 minute bench clearing brawl occurred between the minor league affiliate teams of the Cincinnati Reds and Chicago Cubs on Thursday night. 17 players including the managers were ejected afterwards. A fan at the game was taken to the hospital after being hit by a ball thrown by "Peoria (Cubs) pitcher Julio Castillo, who was throwing at the Dayton (Reds) dugout" during the first inning melee. [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=RHs94UuzWjU]
No wonder this Julio Castillo cat is pitching in the minor league. He's a pitcher who literally can't hit the side of the proverbial barn, er, dugout.
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According to the Aquaman Shrine, there is not yet enough demand for this sweet Aquaman hoodie to go from concept into production. This is a travesty. It should be like the iPhone of hoodies.
Anyone who wears this would most definitely be stopped by the Sartorialist for a photo.
I only just noticed this in front of the deli near my subway stop. Anyone have an explanation?
Bill O'Reilly is running an unintentionally hilarious poll on his website asking which news organization is the most biased in America, in the following order: The New York Times, MSNBC, Associated Press, or NPR? As this image from Poplicks points out, WHAT?
So inspired by such a clearly unbiased poll, they decide to run their own poll. Who is the most talented hip hop artist or group of all time?
Shaq and Snow are in a near dead heat. Go cast your vote here.
I wish Fox would change their programming and just run clips of Megan Fox all day, every day.
I'm just the messenger here, folks, but apparently we are all only a one-hit pop song away from a vacation like the one here that James Blunt is apparently enjoying in these photos:
Allegedly Blunt called John Mayer before heading out to see if John wanted to come.
"Dude, grow up bro," replied John Mayer, "Besides, I can't: Minka Kelly is coming over in a bit. I think she wants to get back together. I don't know what to do. Jennifer is great and all, but she keeps talking about this Ross guy."
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