Happy Holidays!

Have a very wonderful holiday. Drink responsibly. By which I mean, only the best.

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You Must Change Your Life...

...because you cannot unsee Selleck Waterfall Sandwich(es)...

Sometimes Profanity is the Highest Form of Eloquence

HT: The Daily Dish

This Will Make You Consider Joining the Hairy Hordes Occupying Wall Street...

I try to remain optimistic. I do. But increasingly I find myself absorbing just how poorly Americans treat themselves and I wonder what could possibly change us for the better? This long infographic is worth the effort. You'll feel worse, but you'll be less deceived by the crap that is flowing mightily in the run-up to the Republican primaries.

Created by: Online Masters Degree


Remind yourself that we have chosen to live this way. And also: 90% of us are losing ground every year. So...

• Let's break the unions. 
•  Restrict access to health care.
• Defend the grotesque multiples of executive pay.
• Limit parents' time with their newborns.
• Hold firm on minimum wage.
• Fund prisons rather than social programs.

Yeah, that'll work.

I Needed a Good Joke Today...I Got Like 5 out of 10

BBC News - Nick Helm's password joke is Edinburgh Fringe funniest:

Here are all the top 10.

1) Nick Helm: "I needed a password eight characters long so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves."

2) Tim Vine: "Crime in multi-storey car parks. That is wrong on so many different levels."

3) Hannibal Buress: "People say 'I'm taking it one day at a time'. You know what? So is everybody. That's how time works."

4) Tim Key: "Drive-Thru McDonalds was more expensive than I thought... once you've hired the car..."

5) Matt Kirshen: "I was playing chess with my friend and he said, 'Let's make this interesting'. So we stopped playing chess."

6) Sarah Millican: "My mother told me, you don't have to put anything in your mouth you don't want to. Then she made me eat broccoli, which felt like double standards."

7) Alan Sharp: "I was in a band which we called The Prevention, because we hoped people would say we were better than The Cure."

8) Mark Watson: "Someone asked me recently - what would I rather give up, food or sex. Neither! I'm not falling for that one again, wife."

9) Andrew Lawrence: "I admire these phone hackers. I think they have a lot of patience. I can't even be bothered to check my OWN voicemails."

10) DeAnne Smith: "My friend died doing what he loved ... Heroin."

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Grover + Beastie Boys = The Beastie Beasts!

I feel like my video skills are gonna need an upgrade so I can do cool stuff like this.


Sesame Street breaks it down from Wonderful Creative on Vimeo.

Censorship

"A censor pronouncing a ban, whether on an obscene spectacle or a derisive imitation, is like a man trying to stop his penis from standing up," - J. M. Coetzee.

From the Daily Dish

Reverse ferret!

This is one of the most colorful things I've learned about the English press as a result of the Murdoch/News of the World phone hacking scandal.

Reverse ferret: "Reverse ferret is a phrase used predominantly within the British media to describe a sudden volte-face in an organisation's editorial line on a certain issue. Generally, this will involve no acknowledgement of the previous position.

The term originates from Kelvin MacKenzie's time at the The Sun. His preferred description of the role of journalists when it came to public figures was to "stick a ferret up their trousers." This meant making their lives uncomfortable, and was based on the northern sport of ferret legging (where contestants compete to show who can endure a live ferret within their sealed trousers the longest).

However, when it became clear that the tide of public opinion had turned against the paper's line, MacKenzie would burst from his office shouting 'Reverse Ferret!'"

Why Does this Make Me Happy? I Don't Know. It Just Does.

Classic-style cameos using Oreo cookies in lieu of gemstones. Other works in Judith Klausner's From Scratch series, including embroidered toast, mantis skeletons, and the union of moth and light bulb. 

Food Art of the Day - The Daily What

Ai Weiwei + MOMA + Beastie Boys = Cosmic Bouyancy

I was lucky enough to be in NY for the one of the late Thursday events this spring. Spring night, Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys spinner platters, and Art!

The most affecting thing I saw was a series of photographs take at famous locations around the world by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. The series includes the White House, the Eiffel Tower, and, below, Tienanmen Square. Ai was detained by the Chinese authorities this spring and released last week. The conditions of his release are still fairly restrictive.



A good write up on the Chinese government and Ai is here.

Other great things were the design exhibit and of course getting to visit "my Duchamps."