It's 6:30 in the morning. Do you know where your child is?
A fucking airport.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Saturday, August 16, 2008
**NY CELEBRITY SIGHTING NO.4**
Phish guitarist/frontman Trey Anastasio found at a Manhattan Mac Store, listening to a Mac Store employee tell him something about "festivals." Maaaaaaaan.
Location: 767 5th Ave.
Time: Approximately 4 PM, EST
**HONORABLE MENTIONS**
8/1/08: Sergio Cilli, of Current TV's Infomania, seen ahead of me in line at David Byrne's Playing The Building installation at 10 South Street, Manhattan. Not strictly a "sighting", because I spoke with him briefly. He is very nice and keenly grasps when a conversation has run its course.
8/3/08: Les Savy Fav frontman Tim Harrington spotted at McCarren Park Pool in Williamsburg, Brooklyn holding a naked infant.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
BLING BLING
This could easily be an Onion article.
MAN BUYS CHEVY WITH SMALL CHANGE
BBC News, 14 August 2008
An Ohio man with a hatred of paper money slapped down $8,000 in coins at a car dealership to buy a Chevrolet pick-up - then paid the rest by cheque.
James Jones, 70, produced 16 coffee cans full of coins to buy his new Chevrolet Silverado in Cincinnati and staff spent 90 minutes counting it.
But his coin hoard only covered half of the $16,000 (£8,500) price tag.
The man's son said the most amazing thing for him was his father deciding to replace his 1981 pick-up at all.
As far back as he could remember, Dennis Jones told the Cincinnati Enquirer, his father had always had coins.
“He gave me lunch money in coins and each time he ever gave me money it was in coins,” he recalled.
“I am amazed that we were able to talk him into buying a new truck, because he is pretty tight with his money.”
According to the paper, James Jones walked into the Jake Sweeney dealership, plunked down his cans and said: “I want that Chevy truck.”
"In my 19 years in this business I have never seen anything like this,” said Biff Arnold, finance manager for Jake Sweeney.
“I have seen many buyers come in with a lot of cash money, but never this much money in coins.”
Salesman David Crisswell said the coins included "dimes, quarters, half-dollars, silver and Susan B Anthony dollars".
The new owner of the Chevy says he does not trust banks or paper money.
“Paper money will burn, but it is hard to damage coins," the retired engineer pointed out.
"I bought four or five rolls of coins each month. I don't know how long it took me to save this amount, probably all my life.”
Monday, August 11, 2008
What's the Hippest Thing Here?
A) The only alcohol visible here is Colt 45 and Old Style
B) Scruffy as fuck beard
C) Wears thick glasses (but cares enough about them to take them off so they don't get all beer-y)
D) Bracelets on both hands
E) His backpack strap is a rope
F) Wearing a cheap ring
G) Post ironic gold necklace
H) Deep V
I) Deep V reveals tattoo
J) Having fun in front of a camera
Salon.com reps bros
Two bro-pleasing reads from Salon this morning. (Well, I hope so, at least; I'm inputting ad page counts for the next few hours, so I'll be reading these in slow chunks).
Salon's guide to cheap beer.
Something about PBR.
Sunday, August 10, 2008
"Holy Shit That Just Funking Happened"
At around minute two or three of this video, you'll start to get bored, then you'll realize it's 8 minutes long. Fast forward to the end just to see how amazed this guy is. I knew he had it in him all along.
Saturday, August 09, 2008
Olympics Update!
I just had my first vocal reaction to the Olympics (at least the games themselves, the opening doesn't count because anyone who didn't have good reactions to that must not have watched it). Youngs and her hot young partner (USA's 2nd women's beach volleyball team) just hit it out of bounds and I went "Oh!"
LET THE GAMES BEGIN! HOORAY!
Friday, August 08, 2008
My Sister Would Kill Me If She Saw: To Alabama and Back
Mom and Ellen deciding what they should order at the Peach Park
Dad having a pulled pork sandwich
Ms. Peach beauty contest winners. Four categories by age
The Sciuto Family in front of the Southern Poverty Law Center
Dad and Ellen in front of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, the only church where MLK was a pastor!
From our deck. One of those people out there is Ellen.
Am I sleeping? I'm such a blob!
Our kitchen. Ellen has a sour look on her face.Opening Ceremony
This is the coolest thing I have ever seen. Ever. The pictures don't even come close to capturing how absolutely mesmerizing, huge, and precise this is. Is anyone else watching this?
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