Well, except to the .000001% of you sick fucks. Admen will of course attempt to use sex to sell anything, even the unsexiest of products like shoe polish and…typing tutorial software. And now, Sara Lee’s Ambi Pur hospital grade toilet disinfectant. The campaign, by JayGrey
How bad is the city’s bedbug problem? This bad: the bloodsucking bastards have even taken up residence at the “Health Department — just blocks from City Hall.” |NYP|
Oh. My. God. Here are Randy and Evi Quaid’s mugshots, taken after their arrest yesterday in Marfa, Texas. Was Randy preparing for a winter job as a department store Santa? The couple wrote a statement about their arrest that included the following line: “I promise the state of California, Texas does not bother people over hamburgers ordered by room service, supposedly burglarized.” Randy and Evi Quaid are insane, obviously. |TMZ|
The French have gone mad. In what can best be described as an act of media sabotage, politicians are proposing a law that requires a full disclosure for all retouched images. Virtually every published photo made presentable with the help of Photoshop would be accompanied by the following warning: “Retouched photograph aimed at changing a person’s physical appearance.” Sure, that might help stem eating disorders among women, but it could also destroy the quintessential male fantasy of the perfect female specimen. Priorities people! |Telegraph|
An alcohol-based hand sanitizer intended to fight against Swine Flu has been banned from a British prison after inmates began scarfing it down and started a drunken brawl. Inmates at the Verne Prison on Isle of Portland, Dorset have reportedly “been placing their mouths over the dispensers and consuming it” and according to one prison official, “There was a fight after one of the prisoners got violent after drinking the gel,” leading to the disarmament of the prison’s viral defense. |Telegraph|
Well here’s your Randy Quaid fugitive on the run update: after a struggle with police, Quaid and his wife Evi have been apprehended and arrested in Marfa, Texas, which I hear is a lovely place to be arrested this time of year. |TMZ|
Earlier today I found myself wondering aloud on Twitter, “Why the hell is the G20 being held in Pittsburgh?” Not to slight the fine Western Pennsylvania town, but global economic summits and Pittsburgh don’t really seem to go together. Usually these sort of things take place in places like New York, Washington D.C. and Los Angeles. Certainly not in a traditionally industrial city like Pittsburgh, which have never ever hosted a Super Bowl or a Final Four. So I fired off an email to an important Pittsburgh person and it turns out that the whole thing was orchestrated by the White House because Obama is a big fan of the city. Read more »
Although it totally pisses off the nuclear-armed Pakistanis (and militants), the U.S. continues to send its shadowy drones into the country on assassination missions and this time around three people were killed—hopefully they were the enemy. |Reuters|
MOMO and Sam3 finished their first collaborative painting last month, a head-scratching image in an abandoned Long Island City lot. The two street artists freestyled the single line portrait according to MOMO, who’s no stranger to continuous drawings after tagging Manhattan in 2007. Watch a stop motion video of the illicit action after the jump. Read more »
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