Along with more pigeon apparel, Jeff Staple’s fall and winter collection is focused on community service or something. Observing “that as unemployment started going up lately, many people, of all ages, were heading back to the volunteer workforce,” Staple wanted to highlight this “silver-lining,” so he put some do-gooders to work. His new lookbook features volunteers from God’s Love We Deliver, Housing Works, and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society modeling his “Community Works” line alongside brief interviews about helping less fortunate folks.

Once upon a time, during some rather prolonged, intense sexing with Jack London in Heaven, God queefed and the resulting blast of holy vaginal wind birthed the shitty Alaskan wonderland that is Wasilla, which would, not coincidentally, later give birth to America’s shining beacon of virtue, common sense and family values perfection, Sarah Palin. Now, perfection doesn’t come easily, so Sarah gets her hair did at Wasilla’s Beehive Beauty Shop, which is run by Jessica Steele, a fantastically delusional but feisty supporter of her most famous client. Read more »

In a backwards burglary, an artist smuggled his work into the Brooklyn Museum over the weekend. During normal business hours, self-proclaimed “fine art graffiti artist” Mat Benote covertly hung his painting in the contemporary art section as the finale to an exhibition of illicit installations across the country. Benote’s original painting, titled “Life’s Puzzle,” was divided and distributed to a dozen museums in an attempt to give back to those deemed exceptional for their public service and access. In a statement, Benote explains: Read more »

Cold sore season, and Halloween, are both fast approaching. So, let’s take a Monday morning trip to the little Ad Photoshop of Horrors. Many find disembodied lips sensual. I find them disconcerting. Ursa in Sydney has made them even disconcerting-er by digitally painting a swollen pair of BJLs with hot pink hot rod flames to illustrate the speedy penetrating properties of Zovirax cream. While creeped out, I must acknowledge that both the product and benefit are unmistakable, a rarity in advertising these days. But, still. I’m envisioning an orally-talented porn star (Penny Flame?) becoming a freaky sensation by getting her lips tattooed thusly—”I make men cum five times faster!” |Image: BestAdsOnTV|

Twitter gives the world access to people’s most mundane details and it’s amazing how many women love to announce to the world that, yes, they’re on the rag. Here are today’s brave, bloated over-sharers. Read more »

The latest suspected spraypainting by street art millionaire BANKSY has popped up in Croydon, south of London. Stressing the challenge of turning IKEA’s flat-packed furnishings into anything functional, the new stenciled painting features a young punk puzzling over assembly instructions for one “Large Graffiti Slogan.”

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