On my way to Dunkin Donuts in Penn Station this morning I spotted this huge banner advertising a 2 eggs, home fries, and toast meal for 99 cents. Hells motherfuckin yea.
Previously. I only have a few photos from day 7 of my trip to San Francisco. Day 8, which was my last night in the Bay Area, Kaizar and his roommates had a house party. Morning of day 9, very hungover, I departed to head back home to NYC.
But first, I don't remember which day it was but I went to a bookstore and found this funny book plus commentary:
Day 7
After a night of drinking we came back and smoked shisha, and Interneted, naturally. Because we are big dorks.
Day 8
Kaizar broke his eye glasses.
A funny postcard in the apartment.
I was dual-interneting.
Cupcakes made for the party! I helped make these. And by help I mean I placed the cranberries on top of the frosting.
Kaizar and Jim Bean. Both good peoples.
The things that make people happy.
Kaizar and his super, super cool roommates. Thanks everyone for putting up with my presence for over a week!!!
Smiles for the camera. And entirely way too sober looking.
Me and Kaizar!
Getting ice at 7-11. But first, jump!
Kaizar and Akash! And I have no clue whose middle finger that is. So rude.
Dave picking more music. And all of you cool kids can shut the hell up about the three laptops.
Ohhh, party foul! Dave cleaning up after he spilled his drink.
"And polish my shoes next!"
FUCK YOU! So rude.
Hahaha. This girl who graphically described what she hoped to get out of this party, or rather IN at this party was showing us her fucked up toe or something. I forgot the details. The eating-no-dinner plan started to kick my ass around this point I think.
Kaizar and party guests moving really fast. That's why it's so blurry in this photo.
Dave and Josh rocking out! Man, these guys were cool. if these two programmers ran Google the "Android" wouldn't have been some dumb derivative PDA phone, but freakin bad ass hover boards. Because THAT is what I'm talking about!
More middle fingers! San Francisco is SO rude.
I think we were singing along to These Eyes.
THESEEYESCRYEVERYNIGHTFORYOUTHESEARMSLONGTOHOLDYOUAGAINNNNNN
Day 9
And it finally rained on the morning of my departure. (God damn, I wonder how much Disney pays for that placement.)
Ashley was right when she said to watch the last 10 seconds of this music video from the Fall Out Boys. It's great. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z1wyXxmnEw]
I'm not the biggest fan of this band, but for a pop music video it has a humorous political subtext that's topical, and I especially love the band's needling of the buskers who operate on the street corners of Manhattan. I guess I still haven't gotten over those jackasses who dance in Grand Central after they called me Jackie Chan.
After an Oregonian local woman's yard sign supporting Obama was stolen twice, she staked another one into the ground. Her 16-year-old son Preston Fosback then trained a webcam's on it and connected it to a website that provides live streaming across the Internet. Since then this live feed has earned over 40,000 views and an active global community, calling themselves "CHAOS" or "Citizens Hanging Around the Obama Sign," has formed to protect the sign around-the-clock.
Given that little happens on screen, mundane occurrences can generate fevered excitement.
When a car passes, someone often types, "CAR!" Each night when Preston turns on the two lamps aimed at the sign, held on the roof by pillow cases filled with dirt, viewers type, "LIGHTS!" A few nights ago, Ms. Fosback, a public-school teacher, provided some entertainment by feeding pizza to their golden retriever, Mandy, in front of the camera.
I also love it that they've coined the rocks around the sign, predictably, "Ba-rocks."
To watch over the sign click here.
Artist Laura Sanders paints a series of near-realistic portraitures of girls and women swimming with their heads above the water. Not necessarily my cup of tea, but they're quietly complex. It'll be interesting to see how this interest evolves.
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Andrew Sullivan is outraged over Palin's never-ending series of lies:
Palin could not have asked her girls for permission to accept McCain's veep offer if she also says she accepted the offer unblinkingly and right away. Palin did fire a police chief even as she insisted to a reporter she hadn't. She did violate the confidential medical records of Mike Wooten. She hasn't met with any trade missions from Russia. She does not have any gay friends that anyone can find. She did not oppose the Bridge to Nowhere. She did not sell that plane on eBay. Her Teleprompter did not fail in her convention speech. Alaska's state scientists did not conclude that polar bears were in no danger. She did deny publicly that humans had anything to do with climate change.
Alaska does not provide "nearly 20 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of energy," as she claimed. The gas pipeline she touts as her major "mission accomplished" has not broken ground and may never do so. She did not take a pay-cut as mayor of Wasilla. And on and on. Anyone with Google can check all of these out. Including reporters.
I'd also add to the list that Palin, remarking on her upcoming debate with Sen. Biden, said:
I’ve never met him before, but I’ve been hearing about his Senate speeches since I was in, like, second grade.
She's been listening to Biden's senate speeches since second grade???
That is DEFINITELY a lie. I would put a lot of money on the fact that she didn't even know which state Biden represented until quite recently, quite recently as in 2008.
And as Sullivan also noted, Palin still has not released her tax returns or medical records.
Inspired by Matt Damon's astute comparison of Palin's vice presidency with a bad Disney movie, College Humor created this amusing trailer of such a movie: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xgsNAHrkQA]
It's sort of like a combination of Dave and Mystery, Alaska. The only difference is that those were fictional movies. Sarah Palin is for reals.
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The following was read by Charles Bernstein at a recent event at the New School celebrating the release of "2008 Best American Poetry."
As you know, the glut of illiquid, insolvent, and troubled poems is clogging the literary arteries of the West. These debt-ridden poems threaten to infect other areas of the literary sector and ultimately to topple our culture industry.
Cultural leaders have come together to announce a massive poetry buyout: leveraged and unsecured poems, poetry derivatives, delinquent poems, and subprime poems will be removed from circulation in the biggest poetry bailout since the Victorian era. We believe the plan is a comprehensive approach to relieving the stresses on our literary institutions and markets.
Let there be no mistake: the fundamentals of our poetry are sound. The problem is not poetry but poems. The crisis has been precipitated by the escalation of poetry debt—poems that circulate in the market at an economic loss due to their difficulty, incompetence, or irrelevance.
Do not go gently in that good night / Old poems should burn and rave at close of day / We will rage against the dying of the poet.
My apologies to Dylan Thomas.
Read rest here.
The digital Casio watch, model F91W in particular is an affordable, functional, and reliable timepiece worn by millions around the world and essential for any backpacker or Napleon Dynomite wannabe. It's also possible evidence that you are a terrorist in the eyes of the US government.
The U.S. military cites the digital watches worn by prisoners when they were captured as possible evidence of terrorist ties. Casios have been used repeatedly in bombs, after all, including one used by the architect of the 1993 World Trade Center attack.
I'm glad I ditched mine after I turned 14.
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What is this? It's a scotch egg: "A hardboiled egg encased in sausage meat, rolled in breadcrumbs and then fried. Fried. Fried."
[Thanks N!]
Justin Ouellette, founder of the now defunct music playlist sharing site Muxtape, explains the circumstances surrounding the closing of this popular website.
The meeting alternated between an intense grilling from the legal side (“you are a willful infringer and we are mere hours from shutting you down”) and an awkward discussion with the business side (“assuming we don’t shut you down, how do you see us working together?”). I asked for two weeks to make a proposal, they gave me two days.
To not sound like a cliche, but I really did discover a lot of new bands and music by just randomly exploring different "muxtapes" people created. I'm sensitive to the legal issues, but the mainstream music industry really needs to understand that whatever short-term loss they may experience from sites like Muxtape they will be paid back with long-term net gain of new fans.
I don't really have any photos to accompany this weekend's activities other than this chart:
This is one team that the whole country can get behind (except for those deviant vegetarians and vegans).
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If you didn't see it before, I filmed my coworker Randy enjoying an advanced version of this donut:
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/1401128]
(Formerly "News I Find Interesting") Here's a round up of recent items and links I found interesting but not necessarily worthy of a full entry of its own.
1. The woman who splits her time between London and New York, enjoys the official title of Lady, made over $100 million before marrying into the powerful Rothschild family announced she is endorsing McCain in part because she says Barack Obama is "an elitist." Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, you are no Lady. You are a silly hypocrite. [Thanks N]
2. Author Tom Wolfe who coined the phrase "Masters of the Universe" writes that they're still doing alive and well: they've just moved from Wall Street to Greenwich, Connecticut.
3. Apparently genius actor Michael Cera's mom is a MILF.
4. Will Ferrell and Dave Grohl cover Leather and Lace.
5. Future wifey Milla Jovovich @ Paris Fashion Week.
6. In one day homeless Robert Evans is struck by a car in a hit and run. On his way back from the hospital, he gets hit by a train. And survives.
7. Shaky sneak peek at the upcoming macbook pro?
8. McCain has to retract Palin's statements.
9. SNL nails Palin again in their spoof of her nonsensical interview with Katie Couric.
10. Cardboard duvet set.
11. Cool band performance on the fire escape.
12. Gorilla throws up.
13. Alan Fishman, CEO of the now defunct Washington Mutual was on the job for only 17 days before JP Morgan Chase purchased it. For his efforts, Fishman is entitled to $19.1 million in compensation. You do the math.
13. Dumb IT questions.
14. 10 ways Rock Band 2 will change the world. LOL. Funny article. [Thanks Moye!]
15. Jimmy Carter's fisticuffs comments on the exit of Thabo Mbeki.
16. Judge a book by its cover.
17. Russian and US naval forces go after pirates off the coast of Somalia after they jacked tanks.
18. Cool coffee advertisement.
19. The most interesting boring photos of Flickr.
20. Ah, Ricky Gervais, you disappoint me.
21. STR82NL. Haha.
22. Walking-Chewing Gum diagram.
23. I'm totally on board with group B.
Although Governor Palin is popular in Alaska, nonetheless as a recent poll demonstrates Alaskans themselves are insightful enough to know that Senator Biden is much better prepared and experienced than Palin to run the country if that unfortunate need arises.
McCain and Palin are running the risk of losing all their credibility and particularly for Palin her future political prospects both in Alaska and nationally if they let this shallow opportunistic farce of a campaign continue.
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This makes me chuckle:
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