According to Radar, Deep Springs College rates as the most Closeted College in America; “Deep Springs is a private, all-male two-year experimental college known for turning boys into rugged intellectual he-men.
10 strangers in the past 3 days have asked me if I’m the actor in a truck commercial, apparently this actor also does beer commercials as well as various print-ads for tool companies.
DV8’s bleak yet gut wrenchingly beautiful “Dead Dreams of Monochrome Men” from 1990 is available in segments on YouTube.
Tonight we get what every good Presidential election needs, a teen pregnancy scare, a pack of cigarettes and some testosterone.
Kelly Slater, surfer, eight-time World Champion as illustrated by Italy’s Alberto Seveso. Credits: Artdirector: Rebecca Wright Interview: Jordan Tappis Photography: ©tungsten Illustration: Alberto Seveso.
Placefav launched this week as a ridiculously easy way to share a list of your favorite places with friends and family: restaurants, bars, music venues, museums, parks, gyms, or any other place you like.
The unbearable gayness of being or what I missed last week at Bookforum and other places; “From The Gay and Lesbian Review, an interview with Edward Albee: “I’m just too busy to look back”; the search for signs of gay life in occupied Afghanistan and Iraq; an article on the [.
Fatal Bazooka feat Yelle - Parle à ma main (Talk To The Hand).
Fatal Bazooka is a french parody rap group featuring Michaël Youn, Vincent Desagnat and Benjamin Morgaine.
An art show titled Manifest Hope featuring work from the likes of Shepard Fairey and Ron English, ran during the DNC last week.
An interesting lists of companies and landmarks that we commonly think of as being quintessentially American but are actually owned or managed by international conglomerates.
Muxtape is (still) unavailable while the company sorts out a wee problem with the RIAA. Repeated requests for an interview with Muxtape founder Justin Oullette by various news sources have fallen on deaf ears, details regarding problems are sketchy at best.
Jimmy Smith, king of the Hammond organ in the 50’s and 60’s. According to All Music; “He provided walking bass lines with his feet, left hand chordal accompaniment, solo lines in the right, and a booming, funky presence that punctuated every song, particularly the up-tempo cuts.
25 Countries, Six Continents, from MatadorPulse, “As President George W. Bush nears the end of a mostly disastrous eight-year term, he too should be given credit for public appearances overseas.
The only thing that would make you happier than the demise of IE6 is world peace and You’ve had a client that insisted on using the font “Papyrus,” and you had to hold in your barf as you prepped it [the design] for printing.
Unmentionables from Luis Medina and Kathleen Orazio of Shinebox Print, a pre-printed mini booklet of cards with cute/mean monsters with pithy sayings like; ‘Can You Repeat That, I Was in A Coma’, ‘Now I Know Why The Bitch Slap Was Invented’ and ‘You Need a Mute Button’.
Banksy has posted his new work, this time with commentary from his recent visit to New Orleans. The artist’s statements filled me with a sort of poignant anxiety, or distress; seeing as Hurricane Gustav is scheduled to hit Louisiana on Monday morning.
John McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin “a two year governor of an oversized igloo” as his Vice Presidential running mate is framed (quite hilariously so) as a chick flick by Maureen Dowd of the New York Times;
“…the former beauty queen shaking out her pinned-up hair, taking off her glasses, slipping on ruby red peep-toe platform [.
British street artist Banksy has painted several murals in New Orleans to mark the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
The Five Stair Steps - Ooh Child
On the 45th Anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Sen.
File under politics and parody, Mark Fredrickson’s Alfred E. Obama cover for Mad #493 September 2008.