Obama Supreme Court appointee Sonia Sotomayor told a group of Yale students, faculty and alumni that her confirmation process was so intense that Obama administration officials even told her what clothes to wear at time. |NBC|
According to a new study, weed smoking among adults is a global phenomenon enjoyed by many despite the dangers: “Nearly four percent of adults around the world use cannabis, even though the drug raises many major health concerns…” |Physorg|
There’s a growing conspiracy to delete The Hipster Grifter from the annals of Wikipedia and it’s happening in real time. Kari Ferrell’s entry currently displays an ominous warning threatening the worst punishment possible: deletion. It specifically says: Read more »
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 »
The Heene family is mentally exhausted from lying to the media and so they penned this note to the many journalists camped outside of their house and stuck it on their front door: “Thank you for all of your support. We are not taking any interview any more. We are tired. Thank you. Heenes.” In related news, Balloon Boy hoax mastermind, Richard Heene, believes that the world will end in 2012 and all sorts of other delightful oddities. |EOnline|
Posterchild’s Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Christmas season is starting earlier and earlier, not only in store windows but also in street art displays. Following his series of foliage-filled flyer boxes, PosterChild installed an Alberta Dwarf in an old, abandoned newspaper box off Bedford Ave in Williamsburg. If the miniature Christmas tree survives long enough, the Toronto-based artist hopes someone will festively decorate it, but based on past experience that’s not likely.
Photos via Blade Diary
Chris Jordan Shoots Garbage-Filled Birds
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- Midway – Message From the Gyre
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- Midway – Message From the Gyre
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- Midway – Message From the Gyre
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- Midway – Message From the Gyre
Best known for his large-scale images of excess, rendering unimaginable statistics like the millions of pieces of plastic dumped into the ocean each hour, photographer Chris Jordan focuses his lens more closely. Visiting the Midway Atoll, at the center of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Jordan took these disturbing photos of dead albatross chicks raised on a steady diet of plastic debris floating in the water: lighters, bottle caps and other colorful trash. He writes: Read more »
Hunter S. Thompson to Hollywood Executive: ‘Okay You Lazy Bitch’
One of my favorite websites these days is “Letters of Note,” a collection of correspondence written by various famous people, and this angry 2001 missive fired off by Hunter S. Thompson to a Hollywood executive handling the adaptation of one of his books is among the best of their collection. Read more »
Some people consider writer/tranny-lover/boxer/Fiona Apple-dater Jonathan Ames’ unique brand of eccentricity, the same eccentricity displayed by the lead character in his HBO show Bored to Death also named Jonathan Ames, to be somewhat grating. Personally, as a HUGE fan of Ames’ writing, I find him enormously endearing, and his using Twitter to find a kindly stranger willing to let him come over to watch his own TV show (Ames doesn’t own a television.) will only help to enhance Ames’ already legendary kookiness. Read more »
With cocaine usage on the rise in the UK, England’s Department of Health, via Mother London, began airing two new TV spots last week tagged “There’s a darker side to coke.” In the lead spot, Pablo the drug mule dog (he’s well known in the UK from previous anti-drug spots) confronts a skinny young sniffer’s who’s just powdered his nose, which causes the lad’s nostrils to verbally flare up. As far as government-sponsored drug ads go, it’s not bad, and definitely less preachy then the DOH’s pathetic anti-cannabis effort from earlier this year. Jump for some English humour, and a second spot which simply features a heart with a funny voice, dying. Read more »
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