This is amazing (I especially love that you can discern the jaunty "stance" of the subject): Wasserstiefel or Water boots by Roman Signer.
Ashley has more.
No doubt R Kelly ought to be in jail, but I suppose for every girl he pisses on, he pays society back with priceless video treasures like this one below. Watch until the very end for the unexpected finish (No, not THAT finish, although that wouldn't be totally unexpected from this cat). If I was on that jury I would have voted not guilty just on the strength of his uplifting song Happy People. Damn, that puts me in a good two-step mood. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdaAWFoWr2c]
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I finally received my new New York State driver's license after saying good bye to my Alaska one. I look like an extra from the upcoming Dragonball Z movie in my new license photo.
I'm not sure if doing insane yo-yo tricks to the tune of Kanye's Stronger will protect this kid from schoolyard bullies or get him a dance to cotillion, but that said, MRod and my nerd squad is duly impressed. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSm0VgGwBSo]
[Thanks Tony!]
BP: Do you have Trivial Pursuit by any chance?Me: No... BP: Ok. Me: I have Ho Pursuit.
If the ol' blog is boring today, you can blame the activity below which I'm very excited about. Hope to have something for you guys soon!
Previously mentioned Facebook Gangsta is back on the scene and this time gets his poke on with the Nonsociety girls. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ujfSrADTA0]
[Way to go Nick. Keep 'em coming.]
Aquaman needs your help to convince 80sTees.com president Kevin Stecko to make the promised Aquaman Hoodie available for order!! 200 hundred people need to place an order for them send the badass hoodie into production. Come on citizens of Detroit, do your part! It's the LEAST you can do for him saving your city!
Mold at Subway. Nope, not the NYC subway system, but the other Subway where Eater reports mold was found on their roast beef at the location of Broome and West Broadway. Thankfully I don't recall ever getting the roast beef, but I'm going to go ahead and retire this fast food place from my menu of options. Forever.
That is fucking gross. So. fucking. gross.
Read more here (beware).
Here's the first look at that OTHER W movie, that is the new Wolverine feature. I'm not completely sold on it other than the Hugh Jackman's reliable job as the eponymous temperamental mutant. However, I was pretty jazzed to see the brief appearance of the Cajun kinetic X-Men member Gambit. View Wolverine trailer here.
#150. Saving Austrian Jews from occupying Germans during WWII. #151. Michael Chang:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU2-jsRJRJE]
Does that catchy hit song Forever by Chris Brown you dance to at your 2k dollar table at the club, where he sings "Double your pleasure, double your fun," make you feel so fresh and so clean? Well, there's a good reason for that because it's a freakin' extended jinle for Wrigley's Doublemint gum (a 30-second version will begin airing next month) as part of the company's strategy to update their brands. The WSJ reports:
But Mr. Brown's "Forever" is the most ambitious part of the campaign. Mr. Brown was commissioned to write and sing both the pop song and a new version of the Doublemint jingle, introduced in 1960.
First, Mr. Brown updated the jingle and recorded it with hip-hop producer Polow Da Don. Then, during the same Los Angeles recording sessions in February, paid for by Wrigley, Mr. Brown added new lyrics and made a 4½-minute rendition of the tune, titled "Forever."
Remember in the dystopic future presented in Judge Dredd we all laughed when they listened to popular commercial jingles on the radio? Well, the future is here.
Read more here.
This is for my friend, tribe member, and loyal reader (only because half of our conversations involve me saying to him: "I blogged it. Did you see it? WHY DIDN'T YOU READ IT?") who happens to be stuck in Detroit for a couple more months while he completes his prestigious assignment there before returning back to the Mothership City.
Aquaman saved Motown, Motor City, 3-1-3, and Chauncey Billups. Don't you guys forget it.
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Jay Z recently performed at a popular traditional outdoor rock festival held in Glastonbury, UK. Oasis's Noel Gallagher took offense to J's appearance and prior to the festival lobbed a diss saying, "Glastonbury has a history of guitar music...I'm not having Jay-Z at Glastonbury. It's wrong." This was Jay Z's response with audience participation:
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=mrDIOVXx-y8]
And Slate intellectualizes Jay Z's retort (along with the related phenomenon of "cross genre covers"):
The song was "Wonderwall," the old Oasis hit, and it opened Jay-Z's performance. He strolled out pretending to strum an electric guitar as the original played over the speakers. Wearing a delighted grin, he missed big chunks of the lyrics, flubbed many of the rest, and delivered everything in a tone-deaf sneer. It was a mess, but that was the point: Jay-Z wanted the guitar to look like a big, goofy prop (in Gallagher's formulation, after all, guitars aren't instruments so much as membership cards); he wanted to mistreat the melody, not coddle it; and he couldn't be bothered to remember lyrics that, when you think about it, sound sort of flubbed to begin with. By butchering the cover, Jay-Z weaponized it.
Read more here.
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Headline: Ballerina beats off hijacker. GROW UP. Sheesh.
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My roommate's pet turtle endlessly cracks me up which is pretty odd considering s/he (we aren't sure) is pretty inanimate as far as animals go, except it has this tendency at times to follow me around by frantically paddling inside his cage if I pace back and forth in the living room. I also like the way it sunbathes in the glow of the hot lamp by sticking its back feet-fins out. He looks like he's doing the Superman pose.
For your consideration: The Strange Carrot, Part 1 by Matthew Rodriguez. At work I found a strange carrot amongst its normal brethren who I consumed for their excellent antioxidant compounds and pro-vitamin A carotenes. The strange carrot however I left alone. I stared at it, unsure what to do with this mutated orange hued root vegetable when suddenly, inspiration struck! And I along with the strange carrot embarked on an adventure of creativity and imagination.
Please watch part 1 of the saga of The Strange Carrot:
[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=kEHHt4FikCY]
Wow. Wow. Wow. The repercussions of this radio station on-air prank on the wife of one of its employees is so, so, so horrible for the people involved, but it's hilarious for the rest of us. Listen to the entire thing until the very end for the pay off. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1piuJzS7H-4]
[Thanks Paul]
This might not be the best thing to watch before passing out for the night (Damn you Metafilter!) but this dubbing of Lionel Richie's Hello is absurdly hysterical until the very end when it gets totally creepy. Warning: YMMV (Your mileage may vary) with this video.
[youtube=http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg_z9v-4KuQ]
Wrestler receives LOTS of chairs: [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=rds_ljcVn-o]