Who’s Having Their Period Today?
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 »
Chinese Artists Mix ‘Love’ and ‘War’ in Chelsea
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- “Lust and War” by Wei Dong
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- “Angel No. 2″ by Ling Jian
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- “New Mao” by Qu Guangci
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- “Cyborg No. 1″ by Fan Xiaoyan
Scantily clad soldiers, pick-legged cyborgs and steely sculptures of Mao star in a group exhibition of “prominent contemporary Chinese artists.” Opening last night at Stefan Stux Gallery in Chelsea, the show features 14 artists using conflicted images to explore the dualities within China’s contemporary change. “On Love? On War?” is on view through October 29th at 430 West 25th Street.
As cities in California and even the Obama administration move one step forward with progressive weed laws, Minnesota takes two steps back. From the AP: “In Minnesota, bong water can count as an illegal drug. That decision from Minnesota’s Supreme Court on Thursday raises the threat of longer sentences for drug smokers in that state who fail to dump the water out of bong.” It’s definitely not worth the time people, pour that shit out. What should be criminal though is dirty bongs—those are dangerous! |AP|
Photo via GrassCity
To vandals, he was known by his graffiti name, DASH MDC, but to the rest of New York and the media, James Costello was the notorious young man named as the prime suspect in the murder of his mother, Dr. Teresita Valera-Costello, back in 1994. The Daily News confirmed that the 40-year-old was found dead last week of an apparent suicide. Transit police say he jumped in front of an oncoming train near the LIRR’s Forest Hills station. Costello made headlines when he was formally indicted for the murder of the wealthy doctor, who was found stuffed in the trunk of her car. Police believed her $4.5 million estate was the major motive, but he was later found not guilty of all charges. Read more »
Welcome to Friday, gentlemen, a day when your mind drifts to thinking about risking surfing porn from your work desk. Well, here’s a video appetizer, via Berlin ad agency glow GmbH, for German online lingerie store Liaison Dangereuse. Tagline: Sexiness for everyone. Everywhere.” It’s got brief bare butt, and an ending twist that’ll make you Catholics feel a little guilty. The spot can be viewed a couple of ways: empowering to women, especially women in certain desert nations; or promoting stereotypical Western views. Here’s a primer, via one of the regressive commenters at AdsOfTheWorld: “Much riskier if she was boarding a plane with Semtex strapped to her suspender belt.” Fuckwad. Meanwhile in America, our lame agent provocateur is Peaches Geldof. Read more »
Here is the Official Obama White House Family Photo
The Obama’s official White House photograph, taken by Annie Leibovitz, was posted to the White House Flickr page last night. |via Huff Po|
Aw hell, we Brooklynites might as well face it…we’re all gonna die…soon. If the damn pig AIDS or various mutations of STDs don’t get us, the current outbreak of the mumps, yes, the mumps, will. So we all might as well get stoned and laid and make the best of it. Read more »
Then you have to read my friend Jordan Reid Berkow’s account of being part of the original ensemble (She was the original “Sweet Dee”) that created the FX show, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, only to be unceremoniously sent packing by the network after her longtime relationship with one of the show’s stars and co-creators, Rob McElhenney, fell apart. Jordan, who’s now married to musician Kendrick Strauch of The Harlem Shakes, has refused to discuss what happened to her publicly for a long time, but finally decided to open up about it all after a lot of prodding by a lot of people. It’s a very engrossing story. You can read Jordan’s full account here and Mediaite’s Rachel Sklar has a good background piece on it all here.
Well here’s something to scare the beJesus out of you just as you prepare to board a flight this afternoon for a weekend away. Two Northwest Airlines pilots commanding a flight from San Diego to Minneapolis-St. Paul weren’t paying attention to what they were doing and overshot their destination considerably. Further, their failure to respond to “WTF?!” calls from air traffic controllers on the ground caused so much concern that fighter jets were enlisted to engage the aircraft in the event it’d been hijacked by dastardly terrorists. Read more »
Parting Shot: Whiteface
Street artist Rub Home Kandy whitewashed a skull across a warehouse in Rome as part of his “Anamorphosis series” of perspective paintings. |Unurth|
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