On Sunday, CNN’s former technology reporter, Miles O’Brien, spoke to a group of 100 space enthused Twitterers—myself included—at the Kennedy Space Center as part of a two-day gathering hosted by NASA in anticipation of today’s launch of the space shuttle Atlantis. The self-described “Recovering Correspondent” discussed the dying role that his former employer and the mainstream media is playing in covering events like the space shuttle launch and basically said that they just send the news trucks in case things blow up or what he affectionately called “Deathwatch journalism.” Read more »

Hey look, Starbucks has broken out the holiday cups two weeks before Thanksgiving this year! Now, I haven’t visited a Starbucks in a few days to confirm this myself, but if anyone is to be trusted on this matter, it’s Brian Stelter of the New York Times. Now y’all go out there and buy some shit, umkay!

President Blackie McMuslimcommunist is still out there, going around the world spreading his plans for the extermination of people who love Jesus and the constitution globally, and he won’t stop bowing! Thank goodness that these acts of liberal faggotry haven’t gone unnoticed by the New York Post. Read more »

Ron English opened his show “Immortal Underground” last night at Opera Gallery where he brought some of his characters and cattle to life.

Photo by Martha Cooper

Just because it’s late Friday afternoon, I demand all ANIMAL readers to go to Jim Carrey’s website right now and spend the rest of the day hypnotized as you gaze upon it in slack-jawed amazement. WARNING: it’s sort of like looking directly into the sun, I think. |Via Mike Ryan’s Twitter|