March 2009 Archives
The Presidio Motel in Santa Barbara is beckoning to me. Each room is decorated by a local artist, with free loaner bikes for guests to go cruise the beach and taco stands, and all starting for $69/night! #
Bold & Noble prints will look scrumptious on your walls. #
Finally!! A cloak of invisibility. #
Slideshow of GQ's 50 Most Stylish Men. Mmm, I could look at this allllll day. #
Speaking of kid movie trailers ... 'Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs' looks delicious. #
I give to you: The Sexy People blog. It's so much more hilarious and sad I can see myself in some of these people. #
New trailer for 'Where the Wild Things Are.' Aww, makes me miss being a kid! #
Michele Bachmann isn't even on this planet anymore. "She knows that she was Chosen because her poo smells like the stable where baby Jesus was born." Gawker commenters are the BEST. #
Ansel Adams describes the key to a great photo: visualization. Ansel Adams in moving pictures!! #
Noah Stokes wants your web bi'ness. Hahaha, awesome. #
Local rocker Dan Israel has made his latest album 'See the Morning Light' free to download. Yes, have some. #
P.O.S. covers Pearl Jam's 'Why Go?' #
Sigur Ros blows your mind in a Parisian cafe. #
Kid pwns entire country of England (and all her visitors). Best part of that story?: the last line. Kid winz. #
The Photographic Dictionary. #
Sylvia Plath's son commits suicide. So sad. #
Crayon rings! Fun for a girl and a boy. #
1-star reviews of great lit / music / whatever on amazon.com. You cannt pleaz evryone. #
I'm On A Boat. Don't know how I missed this, funny stuff from SNL that's WAY NSFW. #
The Sci Fi Channel changes its name. I blame Twitter. #
You can keep your 'Keep Calm and Carry On.' I'll do it this way instead. #
Undersea eruptions near Tonga. Explosions are all cool 'n stuff. #
iSweat. Oh the stories the Geniuses must tell over family dinners. #
The More Cowbell 5th Anniversary Party is coming up. Evening Rig + Absent Arch + TBAs + Turf Club. Gonna be hawt. #
Meat Madness. Finally a March bracket I can get behind. #
The untold story of the world's biggest diamond heist. Finally got around to reading the whole shebang (and possibly to be at a theater near you; possibly directed by JJ Abrams??). #
I love you. That is all. #
10 annoying habits of a geeky spouse. I'll have you note that spending an entire weekend gaming isn't even on the list! #
Happy St. Patty's Day. I give to you the gift of a rainbow. #
The new Bob Dylan LP gets a cover. Love. #
Stores that are no more. Time's nice photo essay on closed suburban shopping centers. #
Tori Amos reveals album art and does a small interview for her upcoming album. Freaking out! #
Vita's got the in on the new Paul Rudd movie 'I Love You, Man.' Normally these movies are kinda meh for me, but this one made me laugh out loud so it gets +10 pts in my book. #
A bunch of oldies review Animal Collective's latest over coffee and cookies. This needs to be a regular series. #
Big Picture Notes. New add to Big Picture awesomeness. #
The White House briefing room seating chart. Just like in the 4th grade! #
Phish hippies pharked. *doo bee doo bee doo* #
Nerd Boyfriend. Way too much cool to call everything here 'nerd'. #
This puppeh has a case of the Mondays. That's the last time I'll ever use that joke I PROMISE. #
Progress. "The pages are really turning!! And there's words on each one!!" #
Blow-verine. I don't know if you knew this, but, I'm 10. #
Strictly No Photography. Photo sharing for photos you're not supposed to see. #
New vid for the Handsome Furs tune "I'm Confused." Beware of a teeeensy tiny little NSFW scene. Otherwise rock it out. [This album is in my top 5 fave albums of the year so far.] #
What does 1 trillion dollars look like? Think of all the camera stuff I could buy with that! #
Jon Stewart rips CNBC a new one. The whole episode is worth watching. #
These recycled London Underground Sneakers are, uh, actually really cool! Surprisingly, I could see myself in a pair. #
Cool gig posters. Meow-a-licious! #
Q&A with John Keatley of Seattle, who recently photographed Annie Liebovitz. #
Slate is organizing its readers in an effort to photographically document the current recession/ depression/ economic crisis. The 30s had photos of people in soup lines and the 70s had gas lines but what does the economic crisis look like when everyone is online? #
Wow. Did Annie Liebovitz’s financial woes stem from having to pay taxes on her deceased partner, Susan Sontag’s estate? Which, you know, wouldn't have happened if they had been allowed to marry. #
Prank War: dude thinks he just won half a million bucks. This was pretty funny. #
For a non-video link today, here's a thoughtful post on domestic violence, and Ri-Ri taking back the f-wad. (Matt's words, not mine.) #
The Daily Show. Discovers. Twitter. #
The new trailer for 'Terminator: Salvation' is pretty kickass. #
New Andrew Bird vid for 'Fitz and Dizzyspells'. Wait till you check out his speakers toward the end. #
Last night Justin Timberlake appeared on the inaugural episode of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon and does a pretty spot-on impression of John Mayer (and his tongue) while The Roots back him up. Whoa. #
The new Neko Case album 'Middle Cyclone' is out today. My new life's ambition is to be photographed on the hood of a red car with a giant sword. Awesome. #
Bad paintings of Barack Obama dot com. #
Slowmo NYC. Did I mention I'm going to NYC this weekend?!! #
All those rumors that Facebook tried to buy Twitter? Totes true. #
The Obamas are just like us: drinking through this recession, at home! "Well, not entirely like us. They're all wearing fancy clothes and they have jobs and Steve Wonder is there." #
How very modern of Prince to be riding a Segway. In purple, of course. #
Dow dips below 7000 for the first time since 1997. Happy Monday. #
Hannah Emily Upp suffers from dissociative fugue, "a rare form of amnesia that causes people to forget their identity, suddenly and without warning, and can last from a few hours to years", which caused her to disappear from her usual life for three weeks until she was found floating, alive, in New York Harbor. #
Ever had jury duty in MPLS? Thankfully my answer is 'no'. Yikes. #
Final edition. After 149 years and 311 days, the Rocky Mountain News published its final edition on February 27, 2009. #
Restaurant Week is in full effect in Mpls. Of all the things I could say about this, it's gonna be that I think it's f*ing hilarious mspmag put a apostrophe in the url. *snrt #
10 things that would make twitter better. Right on. #
Garlic cheese bread. Because whatever you've eaten today has been too healthy. #
Your Pressie, on duty. Ooh ooh!! #