Archive for April, 2009

April 28, 2009

Autotune the news

I saw this once and laughed. But it haunted me, so I watched it again. And again. And again. Now I can’t stop calling people “Shawtayyy-y”.
Kudos to The Gregory Brothers.

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New York Trip: Central Park

“Oh, hello! How strange it is to run into you here in Central Park!”
The thing I liked best about New York was how totally mundane things like walking through the park feel magical. Of course, when the park is Central Park, and it’s enormous, and everything is starting to bloom, and it’s a Friday afternoon, [...]

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Treasures from the Neverland Ranch

If you do one thing today, that thing should be checking out all the crazy stuff that is up for auction at Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch.
Giant chess set of gold and marble? Check.
Miniature of MJ on a gilded toilet? Check.
Supremely creepy life-size dolls? Check.
Commemorative model of the World Trade Centre? Check.
Painting by Macaulay Culkin? Check.
Creepy [...]

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April 27, 2009

New York: Research at the Met

The whole reason we went to New York was so I could visit the Boscoreale cubiculum at the Metropolitan Museum, which is the primary research site in my big fat MA paper. On Friday, I was privileged to have a “curatorial tour” of the installation and surrounding galleries by the associate curator of the Greek [...]

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New York: New York

A New York bachelor apartment.
Last weekend me and Pete went to NYC and had an awesome time! Technically I was there to do research at the Metropolitan Museum, but that only took about three hours. The rest of the time was spent walking around and eating. And sleeping. We walked around and ate and slept [...]

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Role Model Alert: Hilary to Pro-Life Advocates

Awwww, snap! You got p0wn3ed, Rep. Christopher Smith of New Jersey, 4th District Hamilton, Whiting!
I hope that one day I will have an ounce of the dignity, poise, and balls that Hilary Clinton has. Which perhaps means that I should refrain from saying things like, “snap,” “p0wn3d” and “balls” all the time.

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April 20, 2009

I can’t stop getting hate for hating The Tudors

People on the internet get really pissed off that I don’t think The Tudors is a good show. It’s not a good show, it’s really poorly written and often very badly acted.
The secret which I haven’t mentioned till now is: I actually watched all of the first and second seasons. I found the whole Anne [...]

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April 18, 2009

We didn’t start the flame war

We Didn’t Start the Flame War from Naeem Passa on Vimeo.
Oh, internets. You are such a dick.
Via Nadine.

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April 17, 2009

Doing your gardening

This is possibly the best Target Women yet (better than the yogurt episode?), tackling those horrible British razor commercials that tell you to “mow the lawn“. Sarah Haskins, will you be my best friend?

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April 16, 2009

Bill O’Reilly discovers Super Mario in 1988

This clip is totally great for about 25 reasons that die-hard Super Mario fans would have more fun explaining than me.
Puzzling: the never ending question, “Why is his name Mario?”
“That’s just his name!”

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