He was sucha joker.
Can you imagine if a photographer tried to get that close to the President today? A secret service agent hanging out on a rooftop would probably practice some of 
Notepad with an accompanying "And You Know I Could Have Loved You" pencil by Tracey Emin. £12.00 here.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
- Charles Schulz
HOW DID MY NONEXISTENT TIVO NOT RECORD THIS SHIT???I went on a date recently and the girl showed up wearing these heels. Guys, do you think I should go out on a second date with her?
These "Gun Hoofs" are by Iris Schieferstein.
Decepticon Soundwave has been updated to a (working) mp3 player. $79 at Amazon. This might have to be done.
This installation titled "Sunlight In An Empty Room (Passing Cloud For Emily Dickinson, Amherst, MA, August 28, 2004)" by Spencer Finch is made with 100 fluorescent lights, filters, and clothespins. The artist explains:
This work re-creates the effect of a passing cloud in Emily Dickinson’s back yard in Amherst, Massachusetts, based on an August afternoon. The bank of three types of fluorescents generates a simulation of the daylight, and the hanging filters of the “cloud” shift the color and intensity of the sunlight to replicate the shadow cast by a cloud.
A gimpy Voltron by photographer Adam Voorhes.
Double protect your eyes with these sunglasses, a collaboration between Linda Farrow and Jeremy Scott.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1PMdU0tKdU] On January 19, 1993 all three contestants went all in with their earnings, but guessed the incorrect answer in the final round of Jeopardy, except for Air Force Lt. Col. Daryl Scott who held back $1 or just enough money to win by default and in the process set a record for the smallest total earning on Jeopardy.
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At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement.
- Benjamin Franklin
O HAI GIANT CUPCAKE. Moye and her friend bake from scratch a giant sized cupcake.
From Urs Fischer's exhibition Marguerite de Ponty at New Museum.
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Similar to his lamp, here's Ryan McElhinney's mirror with a frame made from recycled action figure toys.
Michel de Broin's "New York Times reports:
On Friday afternoon a woman taking an adult education class at the Metropolitan Museum of Art accidentally lost her balance and fell into “The Actor,” right, a rare Rose Period Picasso, tearing the canvas about six inches along its lower right-hand corner.
Wanna get away? Fly Southwest.