Superflex created this life-size replica of a McDonalds at South London Gallery, which was then gradually filled with water. [vimeo=http://vimeo.com/2966602]
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This entry is dedicated to April who has difficulty with reading comics. This article lists a general set of rules comic book letterers should follow to clearly convey the events taking place within each frame.
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I can't believe the motorcyclist gets up and starts walking away from this head on collision with a police car. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HfxNaSZ2q8&fmt=18]
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This is hot. Download album 
His Work Has Been Really Stressful Lately Which Is Why He Hasn't Called.He's Sleeping With Your Best Girl Friend, But Doesn't Know How To Tell You.
He's Gay. Seriously.
He Isn't Sure If You Are Into Him Which Is Why He's Been Sending You Mixed Signals.
He's Just Not That Into Fat Chicks.
He Was Into You Until You Mentioned Voting For McCain.
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If you find yourself with a case of writer's block after being tagged and compelled to join the lemming masses posting 25 random things about themselves on Facebook, the New York Times after an "analysis of 2.5 million lists (okay, maybe more like six or seven) yielded the following formula for the perfect list." I don't condone this decades old meme, but as a public service here it is:
1. Say that you hate things like this, and are doing it only to get the (oh, so many) friends clamoring for your list off your back.
2. Describe “embarrassing”
high school incident that makes you look cool.
3. Confess to crush on a) third-grade teacher b) obscure indie actor or actress c) your significant other, especially if he or she is on Facebook.
4. Identify real, but minor, flaw.
5. Identify major flaw by suggesting how it may also be major virtue.
6. Cite mean nickname you were given as a child.
7. Follow with offhand mention of receipt of high professional honor or athletic or artistic achievement.
8. Describe meeting a celebrity and how it a) disillusioned or b) thrilled you or c) if it’s a really good celebrity just the name will do.
9. Mention small adversity, like long commute or annoying neighbor, and the unexpected, preferably funny, way you overcome it.
10. Cite an actual random thing that comes to mind while writing this list.
11. “Admit” that you always identified with weird ancillary character on popular TV show in 7th grade, as if you didn’
t know that everyone in retrospect agrees that was the best character.
12. Expose something genuine and poignant about yourself, such as untimely death of close relative or rare genetic condition.
13. Express heartfelt thanks to friends or family for helping you through #11, or just for being there, or whatever.
14. Conclude sentimental portion of list by citing the scene in movie X that always makes you cry. Could also be a lyric, or a memory, so long as it involves crying.
15. Something about drugs.
16. Tell a story of how you stood up to authority. Dwelling on descriptive details can help it not seem like you are making yourself out to be a hero even though you are.
17. Recount a dramatic moment, like having your heart broken or getting arrested, but withhold details, forcing readers to ask for them in your “comments’’ section. In case you didn’t know, comments equate to status on Facebook even more than number of friends.
18. Make one up.
19. Say “one of these is completely made up.”
20. If you have kids, a) cite weird names you wanted for them and how your more rational, if less creative, spouse rescued them from a lifetime of torture,
21. and/or b) relate story that appears to expose your inept parenting while in fact highlighting their precocious brilliance. If you don’t have kids, relate a cute anecdote from your early life to show everyone that you’re still a kid at heart.
22. If you have a pet, you have one item only through which to convey its superlative nature. If you don’t have a pet, talk about how much you yearn for an obscure breed of cat/dog/reptile or, alternatively, how much you hate animals and the people who love them.
23. Something about parents.
24. Name skill that you are proud of by recounting unexpected way you acquired it.
25. Close with the unusual: a) recount a genuinely traumatic event you witnessed or b) name an exotic location that is your favorite place on earth or c) cite a dubious world record that you performed.
26. This is important: Do not add “bonus” items.
A fight at my all time favorite burger joint Corner Bistro between an employee and a patron, Nick Haramis was caught on surveillance tape. You can see around the 1:13 mark in the YouTube video below that Haramis grabs the neck of the employee. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7xBlKqerZ8&fmt=18]
Luca Marchio, 33, a native of Como, Italy, astonished locals and Iraqi officers when he decided to visit Falluja, a still volatile city near Baghdad, to become their first (unexpected) Western tourist.
Then came a 200-mile journey by taxi from Erbil, the Kurdistan regional capital, to Baghdad, where a startled Bashar Yacoub, 31, reception manager at the Coral Palace — a hotel that had not had a casual Western visitor since the American invasion in 2003 — took his details.
A good Iraqi bureaucrat, Mr. Yacoub checked Mr. Marchio’s documents and despite qualms about hosting a foreigner found his papers in order and gave him a room key. “He told us he just wanted to see Baghdad,” Mr. Yacoub said. Asked if he thought Iraq was ready for tourists, Mr. Yacoub said, “No.” When he was asked if he believed Falluja was safe for tourists, his emphatic “no” was echoed by staff members and guests standing within earshot.
But there was no stopping Mr. Marchio. For an extra $40, the hotel gave him a tour of Baghdad sights, driving him along the riverfront, where he could photograph a statue of Scheherazade, the narrator of “The Thousand and One Nights,” and see children playing in a riverside garden. He proceeded to the artificial lake near Baghdad University and then to the square named after Baghdad’s founder, Abu Jaafar al-Mansur, on the west bank of the Tigris.
He went on to Zawra’a Park, a family spot with a small zoo and rides. He finished his day in the affluent but bomb-scarred shopping district of Karada, where his guide for the day, Ramez Fa’eq, 23, said, “When it became dark, he got afraid and wanted to return home to the hotel.”
Read rest here.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wkZYBJGaMk&fmt=18] Danny Johnson, 14, hailing from Texas set a new Guitar Hero world record with 973,954 points on Dragonforce's "Through The Fire And Flames" at a Best Buy event in New York City. Danny beat the previous record of 899,703 set by Minnesota's Chris Chike.
Danny came within seconds of playing all 3,722 of the song's notes flawlessly, but his streak ended at 3,558 when the blue button on his guitar broke under his assault. Danny said he had destroyed about 80 plastic Guitar Hero controllers in the last nine months with his intense play...and which recently earned him an endorsement deal with a gaming team and event promoter, eMazingGaming.com.
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Back in early January, Pooja had a party at her apartment's event space after her lengthy visit to India.
Cyrus and I (poorly) playing a game of pool.
This was my last shot: I was solids and needed to get that 8 ball in the pocket. And I was victorious.
Ayo came back with his gross looking drink. KG wasn't a fan of it either.
Pooja and Namik!
Nick!
Mun!
Ben!
Cyrus enjoying Pooja's vegetarian chicken nuggets.
Later on, we all got booted from the event room and relocated to Pooja's apartment (SHOES OFF CYRUS!) where girls lined up to get flipped by Ayo.
To celebrate the opening of its first US store located in the Plaza Hotel in New York City, Eton is auctioning off this white dress shirt which is valued at $40,000.
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Atheists ran a cheeky ad last year on sides of buses in London. Christian groups are planning on responding in kind.
Now you can create your own with the bus slogan generator.
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Tom Chiarella writing for Esquire explains his $20 theory of the universe, where a twenty "...placed in the right hand at the right moment, makes things happen. It gets you past the rope, beyond the door, into the secret files." Airports
On the plane, I approached the woman in seat 1A and held out a twenty. She asked if I was serious. I said yes. She took it and ran to 9B like her pants were on fire.
Cabstands
I could have stood in line at the airport cabstand for fifteen minutes like every other mook in the world, freezing my balls off, but such is not the way of the twenty-dollar millionaire. I walked straight to the front of the line and offered a woman twenty bucks for her spot. She took it with a shrug. Behind her, people crackled. "Hey! Ho!" they shouted.
Hotels
I always grease Bobby H., the bellman at my hotel, and on my first night, within minutes of the pass, he suggested that I might request a room upgrade. He even gave me a room number to ask for. Another twenty at the desk and I was out of two queens, snug in my one king. The next day, we ran the same drill, and wham, I was in the minisuite. The twenty after that, I was in a full suite with a view of Times Square.
Cafes
In my favorite midtown coffee shop, the Cafe Edison, they maintain VIP seating for a-holes like Neil Simon and August Wilson who supposedly come here to write. They keep the area roped off and generally empty, even at noon while a line stretches out the door. This has always pissed me off. So when I entered at noon one day, I folded a twenty, slipped it to the old lady at the counter, and she waved me into the VIP like she was whacking me with the back of her hand.
Bodegas
At 3:00 that very morning, I had called an Eighth Avenue bodega and told them I'd give them twenty dollars for a pint of milk and a Hustler magazine. The guy who answered the phone had a thick Arabic accent. "You are crazy," he said. ...Twenty minutes later, the guy was at my door with a quart of 2 percent and a shrink-wrapped valu-pack of three Hustlers. He sighed and smiled when I gave him the twenty.
Photoshops
"What do you wanna see?"
"You know," I said. "I want to see the file."
He picked up the twenty with two fingers and tucked it in his pocket. "I'll show you what I've got." He pulled a manila envelope from beneath the counter and took out four snapshots. The first three were simple bare asses--in a shower, at a kitchen sink, faceup on a couch. Beneath that was an enlargement of a cat licking a woman's nipple. Pretty cool, but hardly what I expected.
"That's it?" I said.
The guy pursed his lips. "That's all I've got this week. That stuff doesn't stay around here long. The master file would cost a lot more than twenty dollars."
Master file! Damn. Clearly, I had priced myself out of the good stuff by coming forward with the twenty too fast.
Etc
I bought my way into a good table at a Les Paul show with a twenty. I got an usher at NBC to hold a front-row seat for Busta Rhymes on the Carson Daly show. I got a seat at Dos Caminos, Manhattan's jumpingest Mexican restaurant, in five minutes despite the two-hour wait. I cut to the head of the line at the half-price Broadway ticket booth in Times Square. I got my shoes resoled in twenty minutes instead of two weeks. I got a little love by shoving a twenty into a homeless guy's coffee cup.
I imagine this tactic is even more influential in today's economic times.
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