I gotta give it to the old man (the old man being the president of South Korea). The French Prez has nothing on this guy.
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For the latest update to their Google Map Street View feature, google employees get in the act with the assistance of the google camera car:
Street view icon man.
Dance dance to the beat of the Google revolution.
Inhouse fighting.
Predictably a marriage proposal.
I would be acting the silly, dancing, and proposing if I had Google stocks too.
View more here.
[Why, Mr Stevens, why, why, why do you always have to pretend?
- Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
[I will never quite understand the desire people have to dress up in costumes for these conventions, but it is amusing to view. Some of the costumes are pretty good methinks. And some really, really, really bad. IO9 collected some of the better ones.
I think I must be the most aurally challenged person out there because although I'm sure this song and video has been around for a bit, I JUST heard it thanks to Ashley. Gah! Anyway, whatevs, better late than never. I like this song and music video that stars wifey. My film shoot hopefully this Saturday will be EXACTLY like this video. Stay tuned. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13CIzmy6bM4]
My friend Clay sent me this photo that he snapped with the comment that "this is the gayest/most awesome photo i've ever taken."
I had to look at it for a few seconds before I picked up on why this is the gayest/most awesome photo ever. I got the awesome part right away.
I mean, dinosaurs! Awesome! Dino Rampage? FUCKING Awesome.
Gay? Ohhhh. Yup. Totally gay, like in gay pride gay.
Thanks Clay!
I'm continued to be amazed at the ascendancy of amateur fashion photographer/blogger Scott Schuman--the eye and lens behind the hugely popular street fashion blog The Sartorialist. Just google him and you'll see that he now has relationships with nearly every magazine, not to speak of his monthly column in GQ. Anyway, here's him in a brand new Gap ad.
While I find Gap's clothing too ill-fitting on my wiry frame--As a friend recently said to me, "[MRod] you are a so skinny, you're like a cross between Jackie Chan and Kate Moss." Fuck you was my appropriate response.--I think the Gap's celebrity photo series is nonetheless pretty cool.
Anyway, a combination of me, Jackie Chan (No, we don't all look alike you assholes!), and Kate Moss with the assistance of Photoshop would result in something frightfully horrifying.
A documentary from College Humor about the walk of shame (conversely for guys, a walk of triumph in a shameless double standard): [I hate you wordpress that you won't let me embed Vimeo videos. To view above film click here.]
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A walk of shame anthem from some energy drink:
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I'm holding off on purchasing a new macbook, and a strong motivation for the delay other than the almighty dollar is mac buyer's remorse: a month after my theoretical purchase, Apple will release a brand new revolutionary macbook. Anyway, Wired's Cult of Mac has photos of what is purported to be the next macbook. Color me ipod white skeptical, but the touchpad seems ginormous (that's what she said?).
View more shady images here.
Here's a hysterical segment from the Jimmy Kimmel show where they selectively bleep out and censor parts of the popular children's show Sesame Street to make it appear that the boys and girls and their furry friends of Sesame Street curse up a storm. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8Vh9_Hi1kY]
I'd like to thank the following people who bought this video to my attention: Thank you people with too much time on your hands. Thank you YouTube. Thank you broadband internet connection. Thank you Jim Henson.
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Here's yet another remix of a classic cartoon reedited into a rap video. This time Junior M.A.F.I.A.'s raunchy hit "Get Money" gets the treatment courtesy of GI Joe. I'm going to put this in the "Awesome" file cabinet. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atqFBB15Voc]
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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.
Wired lists a top ten list of battle cries, including this one below uttered by Finnish troops in Väinö Linna's World War II novel The Unknown Soldier.
Tulta munille!
Translation: Fire at their balls!
I think that is against the Geneva Convention.
Read more here.
Here's a classic explication of Top Gun by Quentin Tarantino as he explains the subversive subcontext of this film. It's not about fighter pilots but instead about "a man's struggle with his own homosexuality" where you've got Maverick who's on the edge with Ice and his crew representing the gay man and the gay way while Kelly McGillis represents heterosexuality. This is pretty well known today but man, back then: groundbreaking stuff! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW9YutYlUHo]
A super fan put together a good video on YouTube (over 2.7 million views) where he points out continuity mistakes in The Matrix. Granted this movie is sooo 1999, but it's still an interesting watch nine years later. Although what I really enjoyed about it was that the fan sounds a lot like Pedro from Napoleon Dynamite. Thanks to this I won't be able to watch The Matrix again without yelling at the screen "WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GUNS?" and "ARMS IN THE FRONT, ARMS IN THE BACK!" [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ0v5H3Uctw]