Looking wan from that string of all-nighters in Cabot? Can people identify you as a “Lamonster” from fifty-feet? Well, no more! “Bronzer makes you look healthy, healthy, healthy,” said Olivier Échaudemaison, the makeup artistic designer for Guerlain. “Pale skin makes you look tired, but if you are wearing bronzer nobody knows you are tired underneath.” […]
In your omg-we’re-gonna-inherit-the-earth-just-as-it-blows-up news for the week: You know those imperfect climate models global-warming skeptics doubt? National Geographic News reports that Arctic ice is actually melting faster than predicted. “We’re about 30 years ahead of what the models show,” said Julienne Stroeve, lead author of the study and a researcher at the National Snow and […]
So, surprise, surprise, Bush vetoed a spending bill that contained a timetable for withdrawing troops from Iraq. My favorite touch? Mr. Bush issued the veto from the Oval Office at about 5:30 p.m., using a pen given to him by the father of a fallen marine. Ironic? Appalling? Appropriate? I don’t even know anymore.
Here’s an interesting bit from the Red and Black, the University of Georgia’s campus daily. A couple of University of Arizona grads have launched Ugallery.com as a way for struggling art students to get their work out there. Gotta love the internet.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is what’s wrong with music these days: Musicians are just too healthy. This comment isn’t directed at T.I.; I find 24 pieces of fried chicken sufficiently bad for one’s health, so he’s off the hook. But Sister Hazel requested Healthy Choice Roasted Turkey and pure protein peanut butter bars. The double-stuffed […]
Any thoughts why CGIS smells like rotten cheese today? Anyone?
An artistic pioneer has created “Paris Hilton Autopsy,” a rendering of the dead body of the white-sunglasses-wearing, insect woman — complete with exposed innards for visitors to play with! (and Tinkerbell… or is it some other dog now?) Who’s up for a field trip to New York to check it out? *Edited to add: This […]
Am I the only one totally underwhelmed with the prospect of this new Pirates of the Caribbean movie? Johnny Depp’s Keith Richards impression was hilarious the first time out, but the second movie just wasn’t great. Pirates are cool without adding organ-playing, computer-generated sea monsters. (Of course, it netted like a billion dollars in ticket […]
There’s an article by Julian Gough (who just won Britain’s National Short Story Prize for his work “The Orphan and the Mob” which he described as being like Star Wars, but set in Tipperary) in this month’s Prospect, about the importance of comedy and the West’s overbearing preference for tragedy. He draws a straight line […]
In honor of the movie version of Aqua Team Hunger Force, a question: What’s the best Adult Swim cartoon? ATHF is, of course, a popular choice; it makes slightly more sense than the ones assembled from footage of Hanna Barbara characters, namely Sealab 2021 (what a catchy theme song!), Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law (with […]