April 2009 Archives
Sarah Palin is on Twitter to "set the record straight" or whatever. My life will be complete when she pew pew's. #
The trailer for 'Julie & Julia' is out. #
Punk rock Martha Stewart baker will tear your kitchen apart. "Ok I have the fancypants resume. I have the cover letter. I pimp that shit out and make it all special and fancy for each and every job I apply too. I have the little outfit which I iron on the floor of my hovel on top of a cutting board and towel. Not that it matters, because I DON’T GET ANY CALLBACKS FROM YOU PEOPLE." #
Def Leppard nominated for 3, THREE, Country Music Awards. All my 8th grade friends and I are slitting our wrists right now. This is horrifying. #
Christian Siriano asked to design faux-wedding dresses for celebrities. He could design mine any day. Hell, he can design my pajamas for all I care. #
How to be a successful evil overlord: a user's manual. "I will not have a daughter. She would be as beautiful as she was evil, but one look at the hero's rugged countenance and she'd betray her own father." #
The White House is on flickr. Totally worth it if for nothing else than pix of the dog ;). #
Get Excited & Make Things finally made into a tee. FINALLY! Want plz. #
In honor of tonight's Franz Ferdinand concert @ First Ave I present you this photo. Because it f*cking ROCKS. #
I hate my job. Dude, I know how you feel. #
Lord of the Rings goes HD. My fellow nerdlings are gonna be stoked. #
Shuttersmack. I helped my friend Leslie get her own spankin' new photoblog up and running recently. Go check out her sparkly new site and say 'hi' before she discovers what I did to her 'About' page and takes it down. :\ #
This grade school's music program makes me want to be a kid again. Aw snap, all I got to do was play the stupid recorder. #
Time Magazine calls the world's most influential person as... Moot. "I would remind anyone who doubts the results that this is an Internet poll. Doubting the results is kind of the point." #
Best Buy's got a bunch of vidgames on sale for $9.99. And there's some good ones too! #
Keith Ellison in the slammer. Puttin' his money where his mouth is. #
Viruses attacking a cell. Not totally unlike that whole fertilization process. Coincidence? #
Source code comments ftw. I am a nerd. #
The force is strong with this one. My girl kitty would look so fucking cute in little Leia buns. The cutest, even. #
Cameron Moll's delicious letterpress poster is ... delicious. Beautiful, tasty typography. #
Susan Boyle gets a makeover. I *heart* the Magnificent Bastard. #
A skateboarder / musician and his interior designer g/f turned a Victorian house in San Francisco's Noe Valley into a skater’s dream home. I want to live here plz. #
I guess Obama is a Canon guy. Luckily I won't have to hold it against him. #
Aww, sad. R.I.P. Geocities. #
Lucy Michelle & the Velvet Lapelles get the cover of vita.mn this week! Covering Voltage, of course. #
Henson's 11. Miss Piggy is so under-respected. #
The Star Wars collection to end all collections. Mom must be so proud. #
Early morning. In which a beautiful photo and the word "barf" are used together on the same page. #
Oprah effect: 43% bump in Twitter traffic. Ah gahd, head is goo. How do I feel about this?! #
Excuse me, doctor? Everything smells like menthol. Caution: there's a photo. Don't say I didn't warn you. #
Let's be honest, I kinda want to see Iron Maiden's rockumentary Flight 666. Fucking a I love this meta band stuff. #
City Pages releases its annual Best Of issue. Once again robbed in the Best Blog category, damn. Maybe next year they'll make a Best Photoblog category? #
Attn photogs: Salon Series 3 is tomorrow night @ the (new!) Minneapolis Photo Center. Bring yer camera and take up close and intimate pix of dancers in MN Dance Theater! FOR FREE! #
Stephen Mallon's incredible photos of the airplane that went into the Hudson. #
None of that social networking nonsense in the newsroom! *Spank. This is the most ridiculous thing I've read all week. #
Jason DeRusha supports local artists. The fabulous Miss SdL gets a shout out. Have I mentioned I sell prints? Call me! #
Under new management. I bought a new t-shirt at lunch today, because it was pink and sparkly cute. #
I need this t-shirt. If I didn't know better I'd say they stole a photo of my little Indigobutt. #
Inspired bicycles. 4:28 is mind-blowing. #
Some very special pool photos by Swiss photographer Nils Riedweg. #
Have Adobe CS3 or 4 installed? Read this tiny bit and download to remove some bad mojo from your machine. #
Lest we forget that first and foremost Hello Kitty is, indeed, a kitty. And may God bless Robot Chicken with phat lootz. #
West German photographer Karlheinz Jardner took fascinating photos during a trip through East Germany in the spring of 1990, capturing a world that would soon disappear forever. #
Drop Sequence. Any of you buying more art than usual ... totes not my fault. #
42 songs for 4/20. Minneapolis Fucking Rocks is one of the givingest blogs that ever did give. Enjoy! #
White pattern. Here's to hoping tomorrow's entry is called 'White Noise.' Fab. #
I've been scolded for not posting a link to the new Harry Potter movie trailer. So here you go, it looks like the most amazing movie in the series yet! #
Crappy balloon art. No bonus for the clown that creates a 'hyphen.' #
Welcome to the world, little one. #
Swedish court finds The Pirate Bay guilty. A year in jail and $3.6M in damages. Fun haterz. #
It's baseball season. This photo actually makes me kinda excited for our own outdoor stadium opening next to The Incinerator. #
Your eco-friendly cellie of the future? I'll take mine in pink plz. #
One hundred millionth visitor. #
What's your NPR on-air name? Mine: Margareet Pukeberg. #
4chan users discover Twitter, mass-following a new account, created yesterday, in a race to beat Ashton Kutcher and CNN to 1 million followers. Here's the NSFW thread about the whole thing. #
The 60-minute Conor Oberst documentary is free for download as of midnight. Poor Leslie, of course she's obsessed with Conor and is on the road traveling today. Altho after getting a peek at the trailer I'm moooore than happy to pick up the slack on her Conor-crush until she gets back... #
Neko Case performed live on Letterman last night and was her fabulous self as always. #
These adorable motivational mini-chalkboards make me wish I was less motivated. I mean, so I'd need one you see. #
I'm just a vulture ... hanging out in downtown Minneapolis. wtf?!! Holy crap batman. #
Good news ... dinner before a show @ First Avenue is about to get a lot easier. #
Local M.C. Trama not only has free music out today but his art website launched today in conjunction with an exhibit he's having at the MOA / Bloomingdale's opening this weekend. #
Bo's first day at the Big House. With video! #
Newly launched: Life.com. A sparkly new photo site. #
Your moment of a Dingy cluster. I just so wanted the opportunity to write that, since it'll probably never happen again. #
Mel Gibson and his wife of 28 years are getting a divorce. Not particularly newsworthy, except she'll prolly get half of his $900m fortune. What planet do we live on where Mel-effin'-Gibson is worth NINE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS?! #
Judge rules Franken winner MN Senate recount. Coleman will appeal. Then Franken will appeal. Then Coleman again, followed by Franken. This whole thing is like a horrible endless FOR loop gone rabid. #
4chan manipulates all 21 top results on the TIME 100 Poll. Not only does moot get the top spot, but they're sending you a message. Who says kids these days are losers? #
Dork Yearbook. This hits a little close to home, but I proudly stand by my former love for the Apple IIE. #
Speak Up closing. As in, for good. *sob #
A fun post about one local guy's town-scouring adventure in a quest for Lily Allen tix. #
Michael Bay signs $50 million deal to fuck up ThunderCats. "ThunderCats has a great story, endearing characters, action, adventure, space-travel, and fantasy. It will be an honor to run it into the ground." #
The well of uncomfortable truths. #
Truly groundbreaking marketing researching: Understanding Twitter. "Twitter seems to be, first and foremost, an online haven where teenagers making drugs can telegraph secret code words to arrange gang fights and orgies." #
Obama puppy crisis finally coming to an end. #
In the news for the first time in years, Buffy's preggo. #
Dungeons & Dragons co-creator Dave Arneson died last weekend. He's probably one of the reasons I'm still a gamer. Sad. #
Dear god, this is what the newspaper / media industry has come to. I should know, I'm in the middle of it. [Oof, hits a little close to home.] #
Control panel of the craft that took the first human being into space, 1961. Crazy stuff. I swear my computer workstation with its monitorz and cordz looks more complicated than this bad boy. #
Riemenschneider reviews last night's Nickelback concert. Haha, the first comment might be better than the review: "I liked Nickelback when they had long hair and they rode their horses to help save Gondor from the invading forces of Mordor. Wait, that was the Riders of Rohan, I never liked Nickelback." #
Horses in wigs. Cuz who needs a reason to dress up horses in wigs and then photograph them? #
Now THESE are wedding invitations I can get behind. Mf*ing letterpressed boomboxes is what I'm talking about. #
'Womanizer' covered by ... Franz Ferdinand? Yes, really. My theory is they're drunk. #
Dooce made an appearance on Oprah yesterday. Parenthood is hard blar de blar. But seriously, she makes 40-fucking-grand a MONTH?! Excuse me while I go unplug my website and shoot myself. #
Blair Waldorf's got an album coming out. No kidz, sneak a listen. [It's not terrible!] #
Making sausage: a post of dirty implications. Wow, that even has 'photography' discussions beat. #
Hot new video game consists solely of shooting people point-blank in the face. I'm an easy laugh tonight, everything has me in fits. #
The Big Picture: Alaska's Mount Redoubt. A series of volcanic eruptions began on March 22nd, 2009 and continues to be active to this date. Also: check out the flickr uploads. #
Sean Tubridy, one of my fave local artists, is having a kickass sale. Everything 50-60% off. Damn him and his stupid sales!! My walls are gonna look great with his prints though. #
Bonuses to be paid out to Fannie, Freddie employees. jfc, I haven't received a bonus in 5 years. Hell, the most I've gotten as a "bonus" was a Christmas cupcake a few months ago. Grrrrr. #
Best. Blog name. EVER. People who sit in the disability seats when I'm standing on my crutches dot com. #
Vid for Tori Amos's new single 'Welcome to England' is out. I'm probably the only person who will click on that link but sue me. I LOVE HER. #
Behind the scenes at Netflix. I think it's funny they wear matching outfits in a private warehouse env't. *snrt #
Have you seen this cat? Well, NOW I want to! #
Iowa court says gay marriage ban is unconstitutional. YAY IOWA! #
Study finds paint aisle at Lowe's best place to have complete meltdown. "In terms of causing normal, healthy adults to completely lose their shit, the Lowe's paint department amounts to a perfect storm." #
The Obamas gave Queen Elizabeth an iPod full of vids and pix. More importantly, what music should be on there? Damn that's a hard one to work out ... but I gave it a shot. #
ThinkGeek's Tauntaun April Fool's joke may become a reality. God we're nerds. #
Rock the Garden 2009. The Decemberists, Calexico, Yeasayer and Solid Gold ... so, yeah, be there. Brought to you by Walker, The Current, and VITA.MN bitches!! #
Patriotic posters. BEST! April Fool's :). #
Dear Emmett Cullen, forget that Robert Pattinson tool -- let's run away together and have beautiful vampire children. Love, Margaret #
Steve helps me out with a self-portrait near Lincoln in DC. Wow, I'm looking kinda sassypants in that photo. #
My friend got DCists photo of the day. Dangit, now I'll have to wait at least a month to post my own version of this. #
Homemade Star Wars costumes. Haha, the worst. FAIL. #
Update: Minnesota STILL doesn't hasn't settled on a Senator. Sadly that's not an April Fool's. #
Book of Secrets. Did you know there's a secret daily flight from the United States to Cuba? Or that there are quite a few abandoned underground New York subway stations? #
10 shirts a font nerd should own. I gotta be honest, some are okay but it seems like a list made for dudes. #