Traditionally, when a patron gets into a fight with a bouncer, no matter what the venue, the latter wins and then some. But not this time. Joseph Wright was rushed to the hospital after “wanna-be reality TV star” Rashidah Ali allegedly clawed his face during a fracas at Greenhouse in late January reports the Daily News. It took 50 stitches to close the deep gash. Wright filed a $10 million lawsuit against Ali, which should just about cover his bruised ego as well.
This viral Russian rap video has Vladivostok city authorities investigating whether rappers and real uniformed customs officers made the clip in their customs department offices. Check it for replete bling-blingery and video honeys rubbing themselves with customs forms. Read more »
Someone in Kansas has a jar of authentic William S. Burroughs shit. Bioartists Tony Allard and Adam Zaretsky are going to extract the transgressive writer’s genes from said shit, amplify and shoot them into some cell nuclei with an art gun… Now that’s fitting. With an approving nod from Burroughs Estate, Mutate or Die: a W.S. Burroughs Biotechnological Bestiary will combine “flora/genetic info of WSB with another organism to produce an avant, transgenic mutation” and here’s how… Read more »
This book, titled Organizationsbuch der NSDAP, is the Nazi Party’s branding standards manual–with rules on how to properly display Nazi symbols, flags, and signs. Because they didn’t want people to be confused about such things. Read more »
TV viewers want more blood, more bullet holes, more people playing dead and as “dead” as possible, lest their HDTVs catch a carcass eyelid fluttering. Since “corpse duty” demand is rising, background actors better start practicing their short, invisible breaths to cash in on those sweet $139 for eight-hour day gigs. Read more »
The numbers are in and according to a “quietly released” report, a total of 1,509 geese were murdered across NYC, 368 of them at Prospect Park. (Photo: skipper warson/flickr)
Scott C’s massive compilation of Great Showdowns in cinema history paints character pitted against character, Alex DeLarge against his victim and Tony Montana against the great white, powdery mound of his hubris. They’re waving and smiling instead of punching each other in the face as hard as they can. There are a lot of them. “The Great Showdowns,” Scott C., Feb 4 – Feb 26, Gallery 1988:Melrose, NYC
MSNBC reports on a hot new micro-trend sweeping the nation: car surfing. For fun, not so bring young people are climbing on top of cars, sometimes the drivers themselves, and reenacting scenes from Teen Wolf. Fortunately for Michael J. Fox, this new crowd isn’t really familiar with the old school cultural reference and parents are blaming it on the Jackass movies instead.
Although it appears that Facebook did play a role in initiating the uprisings in Egypt, once the government pulled the plug on the internet, spray paint became the next best option for activists to express themselves to a mass audience. Apparently, both sides took part. (Photo: Al Jazeera/flickr)
For years – until a photograph of a murdered child made him quit – Ray Caesar worked in the photo department of the Hospital for Sick Children, documenting injuries and signs of abuse. The bruised muses come back as vengeful huntresses with teeth and tentacles in Caesar’s exquisite paintings… and Precious is not masturbating; she’s pretending to give birth, as artists do. “A Gentle Kind of Cruelty,” Ray Caesar, Jan 22 – Feb 19, Jonathan Levine Gallery, NYC
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