I got a new bike this weekend. It's a Linus Roadster Classic from Adeline Adeline located in Tribeca. Its name: Linus Richie. I spent all Sunday afternoon breaking it in along the Hudson River bike path from Battery Park all the way up to 125th Street.
[Image [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DfdDDQcKyg] "Short Intermission" by The Big Phony. A quiet ballad.
You can also see him do some acting as the sensitive guy in Ktown Cowboys, an 8 episode Youtube series about Entourage-meets-Koreatown dudes.
A wealthy unknown benefactor needs to buy Ed Ruscha's "51% Angel, 49% Devil" for me.
Norwegian artist Gardar Eide Einarsson's "Oedipus."
The question is why would you not order this smoked salmon flavored vodka from Alaska Distillery? They have some other sweet sounding vodka too. Rhubarb vodka anyone?
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Prepare yourselves: Please welcome this year's inductee into the Cute Hall of Fame.
This street art piece on a fence at this year's Glastonbury Festival is allegedly a Banksy.
A performer at this year's ginormous Glastonbury Festival offers Prince Charles a cup of "tea."One of my guilty New York Times pleasures is its weekly snarky "The 10 Things to Talk About This Weekend" column for reasons such as these in this week's edition:
8. Bill Clinton: Haiti helper, wedding host. Al Gore: environmentalist absentee, massage enthusiast. Bill and Al are starring in a remake of “Freaky Friday.”10. Getting a bad reception: Bristol and Levi’s engagement, the iPhone 4.
Hi-yoooo!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2dPA2dCRNY] A mash up between Kesha dollar sign s's "Tik Tok" and Katy Perry's "California Gurls" that attempts to prove they are in fact the same song. No, it is the newest Lady Gaga single. And here is a Korean pop singer Son Damdi's recent song that that tote bites Tik Tok. Or California Gurls. I can't tell.
Ricky Van Veen shares a hilarious prank played on Neel Shah during his tenure while working at New York Post's "Page Six" that involved an omniscient Rupert Murdoch hounding Neel for wearing shorts to the office.
And we’re bullshitting about the Mets, when all of a sudden the phone rings. Sal answers, “This is the NewsCafe. Oh, hello, Mr. Murdoch, how are you?”
So obviously my ears perk up at the mention of Our Fearless Leader. Sal looks at me oddly and goes, “Mr. Murdoch would like to know why you’re wearing short pants.” So I look at Sal and am like, “Dude, what the hell are you talking about?” And he continues talking into the phone without taking his eye off me and is like, “Yes, I see, okay, I’ll ask,” and then looks at me and goes, again, “Mr. Murdoch is inquiring again as to why you are wearing short pants in the office.” And I look at Sal and am like, “I do not follow. How does he know I’m wearing shorts?” And Sal covers the receiver and says, “He is in his office but he can see you. He has a camera down here.”
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"The Revolving Internet" is Constant Dullaart's latest art project which spins the Internet around and around to the song of "Windmills of Your Life." [Via]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AToS187FiU] My friend Emily sends out a monthly music email of a few songs we should listen to and why. Recently she included this Cillo remix of Tunng's "Hustle" which I really liked, but I also quite enjoyed the above acoustic version that was recorded at Hackney City Farm in London.
For reasons I do not know there is this: Uneven Google.
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An artist friend of mine doing some extra side work at a finance firm IM'd me the following:
So the past 11 months I've worked here, people are always taking about Bony, like did that trade with Bony go through? Did you get in touch with Bony? Did you send those emails out to Bony? And I've always been like who the hell is this guy named bony??!!And I finally figured out that its Bank of New York.
God.
This looks like a piece by Mr. Brainwash but I guess itBackground information: So most of my readers probably have no idea who this cat is, but Jay Park is this Korean American singer and dancer who became the leader of a popular South Korean boy band 2PM before he was controversially kicked out. For awhile this was a top Twitter trending topic. Koreans are obsessed with their pop music ("kpop") and the fans of the various girl and boy bands are legion. So in exile back in the US, Jay uploads on YouTube this amateur video of him covering B.O.B's "Nothing on You" (You know, the "beautiful girlsss all over the worlddd" song) and since March its received over 5 million views. See, aren't you glad you asked? Anyway, here is the teaser music video for his slightly rearranged and updated "official" version of Nothing on You.
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Kanye is currently fully endorsing the Canadian tuxedo (as well as a mini-mullet).