For some time comedians — I’m pretty sure Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle are among them — have been joking about the fact that in America black people get pulled over by the cops for merely being black, an offense popularly known as “driving while black.” Well, it appears as though lily-white Canada isn’t immune to the same sort of horseshit after a judge accused the police of doing that very thing…pulling someone over for “driving while black.” Read more »
Though decorative wall calendars are pretty much obsolete, the Swiss Institute is releasing a “cutting edge” version at next week’s art world clusterf#$% in Miami. Fulfilling basic timekeeping needs, the 2010 calendar features portraits of “today’s most famous artists on their bikes,” including David Byrne, Ryan McGinley and Terry Richardson and others. Shot by photographer Lukas Wassmann, the calendar, “Artists on Their Bicycles New York,” can be bought for $45 in a limited edition of 500 or just downloaded for free.
When you factor all of the shooting rampages that have taken place lately in America lately with the fact that just about everybody has wanted to kill someone in their family during a holiday gathering, you almost knew that eventually someone would open fire on their family in the midst of a Thanksgiving Day gathering, and sadly a man in Jupiter, Florida actually did it last night. Read more »
Although it took the equivalent of about 40,000,000 horsepower to launch the space shuttle Atlantis and its cargo into space, the orbiter, affectionately referred to as the “flying brick,” returned to Earth today as a powerless glider—Captain Sully style! It landed safely at the Kennedy Space Center this morning with the help of a little gravity, aerodynamics, and a very steady hand. Read more »
Now that we’ve all shown our appreciation to the universe for the gifts its bestowed upon us by engorging ourselves on steroid-laden fowl, creamed green beans topped with stale onion rings from a can and gelatinous cranberry molds, it’s time to whip out our big, capitalist, American dongs and buy some shit. Read more »
A media whoring-couple looking to snag a reality TV show slipped past White House security at Tuesday night’s state dinner honoring the Prime Minister of India. The Washington Post identified the party crashers as Tareq and Michaele Salahi of Virgina. Although they weren’t formally invited and didn’t have an invitation, the duo somehow managed to make it past Secret Service checkpoints and into the event, where they took photos with Vice President Joe Biden, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, and CBS’s Katie Couric among others. Michaele published the photos on Facebook, which she announced via Twitter of course.
For a UK illuminated art car parade this week, designer Ben Wilson went pedal-powered, building this neon-silhouetted recumbent-style ARTIKCAR.
Photo via Wilson Brothers
So tomorrow is Thanksgiving and like the rest of America, we’ll be too busy gorging on food and strategically dealing with family members to bother updating the site, but will be back in a limited capacity on Friday.
Photo by Dru!/flickr
Today the teabagger movement announced, probably on stone tablets, just like Moses delivered the Ten Commandments, that they will be holding the first ever National Tea Party Convention in Nashville this February. Read more »
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