High Maintenance, a brilliant short movie by Philip Van.
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Friday, May 30, 2008
PS3, you have failed men and penises from all over the world
I just saw this over at Dear Jane, and I'm still speechless. This just might be the most disturbing, weirdest, worst miscalculated ad EVER in history of mankind. Waaaaaay worse than this.
Now, check this out: IT'S A THUMB! A SMALL, TINY THUMB! LIKE IN FINGER. BUT FOR A PENIS. What the fuck! (click on the image if you're brave enough to see it larger)
Playboy forever?? "Yea not with a thumb for a penis you're not."
Jane says it best: "Seriously what MALE would EVER buy a PS3 after seeing this ad? They only way we could emasculate men more is by showing a Lorena Bobbitt in action. Did these guys even consider their target market when they created this ad? Who thought it would be a good idea to show a man with a small thumb for a penis?"
Now, check this out: IT'S A THUMB! A SMALL, TINY THUMB! LIKE IN FINGER. BUT FOR A PENIS. What the fuck! (click on the image if you're brave enough to see it larger)
Playboy forever?? "Yea not with a thumb for a penis you're not."
Jane says it best: "Seriously what MALE would EVER buy a PS3 after seeing this ad? They only way we could emasculate men more is by showing a Lorena Bobbitt in action. Did these guys even consider their target market when they created this ad? Who thought it would be a good idea to show a man with a small thumb for a penis?"
dude
"This study hasn't been done, I wouldn't think, but it would be very interesting to know the 10 words with this linguistic versatility. Can anything be more versatile than "Dude." Hard to imagine. But what are, for instance, the top ten? I think "wow" would make this list. I find myself using it lots of ways. I am sure there is an intellectual somewhere who takes this to me a measure of our decline as a civilization, but then if you are an intellectual everything, with the possible exception of an outbreak of Mozart festivals, is precisely this. Happily, it is the anthropologists job to observe, not judge."
via This Blog Sits at the
Intersection of Anthropology and Economics, one of my favorite blogs.
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Monday, May 26, 2008
ahhhhh... i miss my job...
Last year at Glen:
Yesterday, in Indy:
Charles, man! Why didn't you let her hit him???
Yesterday, in Indy:
Charles, man! Why didn't you let her hit him???
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
who needs an oscar...
José Saramago, after watching the movie version of his 1998 novel "Blindness" (alongside director Fernando Meirelles):
Fernando, I'm so happy I watched this movie...
like I was when I finished writing it.
like I was when I finished writing it.
the only gay in the village
A friend of mine who used to live in London told me about the show Little Britain, and he's always talking about the character "The Only Gay in the Village". It's absolutely hilarious.
Proud to be gay, Daffyd flaunts his sexuality in a variety of rubber outfits, to the villagers' complete indifference. He refuses to accept he's not the only 'gayer' in the village, and is outraged when fellow gays trespass on his patch.
Proud to be gay, Daffyd flaunts his sexuality in a variety of rubber outfits, to the villagers' complete indifference. He refuses to accept he's not the only 'gayer' in the village, and is outraged when fellow gays trespass on his patch.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Monday, May 19, 2008
fits like a glove
Talking away
I don't know what I'm to say
I'll say it anyway
today's another day to find you
Shying away
I'll come for you love O.K.
So needless to say I'm odds and ends
But that's me, stumbling away
Finally learning that life is O.K.
Say after me
It's no better to be safe than sorry.
Take on me
Take me on
I'll be gone
in a day or two
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Saturday, May 17, 2008
27
Today is my birthday and I'm turning 27. This is the first time that I feel closer to my thirties than I am of my twenties, and it's bitter-sweet. So I have decided to make a list of a few things to remind myself of how productive my twenties were. This is not intended to be a list of crimes I have committed, even thought some items might lead one to believe so. But let's keep in mind that this is a somewhat parent-proof list, so I might have been a little more productive that it seems.
1. Sold all my CDs to an used-CD store and borrowed the rest of the money to go to Los Angeles spend 4 days with my then boyfriend who had moved away.
2. Stayed at a motel called "Vagabond Inn" with then boyfriend at some ghetto in Long Beach, CA.
3. Spent $700 on a car on Wednesday afternoon and totaled it on Thursday morning.
4. Stopped taking my meds for almost 4 years because I thought I had cured my panic disorder.
5. Fell in love with and bent over backwards for a boy who had "INSANE" tattooed across his back. Literally.
6. Jumped on the road at 3 o'clock in the morning by myself, leaving Chicago at 95mph.
7. Bought a 30 lbs. dog in my first year in the US, and hid it for 6 months because the building where I used to live at the time did not allow pets.
8. Gave a old, ugly, and nasty-looking cop my cell phone number to get out of a ticket.
9. Had gastric bypass surgery.
10. Moved back to Brazil.
11. Went to school drunk. More than once. More than twice.
12. Accumulated almost $700 worth of parking tickets in a 4 year period. Had to pay it all off one snowy afternoon when my car was towed.
13. Almost got arrested on Memorial Day weekend in 2004. Here's the story: the Indianapolis 500 was going on down the street from my apartment. The police blocks 90% of the streets at a certain time so the crowd attending the race can get off on the highway only, and every road that led to my place was a dead end. It was storming badly, the tornado warning sirens were going off, and I could see a tornado from a small distance. So I decided to run over a road block and get home as fast as I could. Couldn't get home fast enough, so I had to hide a an Arby's kitchen.
1. Sold all my CDs to an used-CD store and borrowed the rest of the money to go to Los Angeles spend 4 days with my then boyfriend who had moved away.
2. Stayed at a motel called "Vagabond Inn" with then boyfriend at some ghetto in Long Beach, CA.
3. Spent $700 on a car on Wednesday afternoon and totaled it on Thursday morning.
4. Stopped taking my meds for almost 4 years because I thought I had cured my panic disorder.
5. Fell in love with and bent over backwards for a boy who had "INSANE" tattooed across his back. Literally.
6. Jumped on the road at 3 o'clock in the morning by myself, leaving Chicago at 95mph.
7. Bought a 30 lbs. dog in my first year in the US, and hid it for 6 months because the building where I used to live at the time did not allow pets.
8. Gave a old, ugly, and nasty-looking cop my cell phone number to get out of a ticket.
9. Had gastric bypass surgery.
10. Moved back to Brazil.
11. Went to school drunk. More than once. More than twice.
12. Accumulated almost $700 worth of parking tickets in a 4 year period. Had to pay it all off one snowy afternoon when my car was towed.
13. Almost got arrested on Memorial Day weekend in 2004. Here's the story: the Indianapolis 500 was going on down the street from my apartment. The police blocks 90% of the streets at a certain time so the crowd attending the race can get off on the highway only, and every road that led to my place was a dead end. It was storming badly, the tornado warning sirens were going off, and I could see a tornado from a small distance. So I decided to run over a road block and get home as fast as I could. Couldn't get home fast enough, so I had to hide a an Arby's kitchen.
Friday, May 16, 2008
Some people have no idea of the power they have to make your world stop.
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This may be one of those many instances when I head back to my therapist and say listen, I'm having a hard time, please help me climb this mountain.
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This may be one of those many instances when I head back to my therapist and say listen, I'm having a hard time, please help me climb this mountain.
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who's momma's pretty boy? WHO IS IT?
"I don't do too many [drugs]. I just smoke weed and drink. But I'll never fuck with no more coke. It's not about the bad high; it's just about the acne: Cocaine makes your face break out. I'm a pretty boy."- Lil' Wayne
via perez
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Rauschenberg
"I really feel sorry for people who think things like soap dishes or mirrors or Coke bottles are ugly," he once said, "because they’re surrounded by things like that all day long, and it must make them miserable."
Rauschenberg, October 22, 1925 – May 12, 2008
Sunday, May 11, 2008
old russian lady's house
"This is old Russian lady from Ukraine. You can see her in the middle on the photo above. She had a life full of hardships but overcame all of them, then settled in a small village in Ukraine. Her grown-up son was beating her constantly demanding to sell all her things and furniture and give all the money to him. Eventually he got into a jail and the lady was left all by herself in this house. And once she tried to draw something on the wall when she had nothing to do. She liked so much this that she went on and on and finally all her retirement money she spent on the paint to turn all her house into an art gallery. Just take a look."
[I'm not sure where I found this blog, but it's one of my favorites now. Everything there is worth taking a look at.]
Thursday, May 08, 2008
Monday, May 05, 2008
Sunday, May 04, 2008
finally – what sex and the city is really about
"Really great sit-coms, traditionally and broadly speaking, are very often about three stupid men. Sometimes the men think they are clever, like in Frasier. Sometimes, they have been abandoned on a remote island, where their stupidity can be contained, like in Father Ted. Often, their situational pecking order is in inverse to their intelligence, like in The Office. Sometimes, they have women around to keep them straight, like in Friends. But in Sex and the City, one of a few sit-coms that is entirely carried by four women, nobody is stupid, or even properly ditsy, like, say, Bubble in Absolutely Fabulous, in any way.
Maybe that's the joke. [...] Is there still a strain in the culture that struggles with the idea that intelligence isn't just wasted on girls? Why is it that a group of clever, ambitious and successful women, sitting around chatting about their tiny troubles, should be such a comedy goldmine?
It's because, isn't it, they're all bright enough to live life on their own independent terms, but still, despite their occasional protests, can't stop projecting their ideas about themselves and their status on to men? Yes – comedy genius – that's why Sex and the City is really about stupid men."
Read entire article here. Very enlightening, indeed.
Maybe that's the joke. [...] Is there still a strain in the culture that struggles with the idea that intelligence isn't just wasted on girls? Why is it that a group of clever, ambitious and successful women, sitting around chatting about their tiny troubles, should be such a comedy goldmine?
It's because, isn't it, they're all bright enough to live life on their own independent terms, but still, despite their occasional protests, can't stop projecting their ideas about themselves and their status on to men? Yes – comedy genius – that's why Sex and the City is really about stupid men."
Read entire article here. Very enlightening, indeed.
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