Dance your ass [dignity] off.
Were you thinking “Hey, I’ve got nothing to do for the next three months, and I’m fat, and I’d like to look stupid on television”?
Or…..
Were you thinking “Hey, I like The Biggest Loser, and I like Dancing with the Stars, but I just don’t have the time to watch them both”?
Well have I got a show for you!!!
DANCE YOUR ASS OFF!
Listen to how grotesquely excited and punny and repetitive the writers for the casting call are.
New York pranksters, I love you
My pal Kenz snapped this in the Lorimer train station and I stole it from her because it’s my right as an American.
Drew, I take back everything I’ve ever said about you….
….now can I go ahead and have this dress?
Drew at the premiere of Grey Gardens last night
I want to wear it, you know, everywhere.
As with any system, accessing it only takes the right passwords….
I don’t have much to add to this story, no witticisms or insightful comments, other than to say that if there’s a population that needs some damn infiltrating and scamming every once in a while, it would be the hipster population.
Please read about Kari Ferrell, a girl who has been terrorizing the men of Brooklyn with her name-droppage of Vice and Coachella, her “I love beards” tattoo, and her frank sexual talk, all while borrowing money she never pays back.
And guys, seriously. If a girl, even a Asian girl with tattoos that says she can get you into shows, asks you for money early on, don’t be an idiot.
Science news Oliver Sacks would be proud of!
Get it? It's a phantom limb Phantom.
A Swiss woman who had suffered a stroke was paralyzed on the left side of her body, and started experiencing “phantom limb syndrome”, meaning that she felt as if she had a third arm that did not exist.
The doctors put her in an MRI and asked her to move her right arm. Everything was normal. They asked her to imagine moving her left arm (as it was paralyzed) and got weaker but similar brain activity as when she moved the non-paralyzed arm.
They asked her to move her phantom arm, and the same brain activity occurred. Not only that, but her visual cortex lit up as if she actually saw the phantom limb.
Wanna hear the craziest part?
They asked the woman to scratch her cheek with her imaginary hand on her imaginary arm, and the regions of the brain that sense things physically were also activated.
Jeeez, Neatorama. Like I needed another brain mystery. (I did!!)
Current score? Word- 1 Amazon- 0
Lovely Brooklyn bookstore (and host to my workshop this Sunday at 3pm!!) Word has responded in their own way to the Amazon “reclass scandal”.
(If you hadn’t heard, in the past week many books had their rankings dropped suddenly, which means that they no longer show up in searches, and can seriously affect those books’ sales. When asked, Amazon first said that they were taking “adult” books out of the ranking system, but the books that were ultimately deranked were GLBT books. Now Amazon is saying it was a glitch and they are working on fixing it. Jezebel will tell you all about it.)
Annnnyway, Word decided to explain how they came up with their monthly “Best Sellers at Word” list each month, and strap on your brainhats, because it’s complex:
1. On first day of new month, run sales report for previous month.
2. Type top ten bestselling titles on a list.
3. Print out list on yellow paper.
(Possible glitch: the manager forgets how to count. If this happens, we’ll be the first people to let you know.)
KMart: a place for blue light specials and bad decisions
Yesterday, while waiting for a friend to meet me in the Village, I decided to go to a store that had been beckoning me from afar ever since I started taking dance classes near it.
That’s right, KMart.
Ask Gynomite!
Gynomite, one of my best friends is dating this girl that completely sucks. She’s lame and never lets our friend hang out anymore and is rude to us when we see her. And he seems oblivious to it. I want to tell him that I don’t like her- how can I do this?
There are few hard and fast rules of interacting with other people, as people are always individuals and their relationships ever changing and amorphous and beautiful and blah blah blah. But this is a situation that does have some hard and fast rules.
Now I’m the only member of my little family that hasn’t been on SNL
Sorry to get so personal lifey this morning, but it happens sometimes. This weekend, thanks to Mike Drucker, our kitten Bagel was featured on SNL!!
Kinda.
See, her picture was on a triptek for a science project in the science fair sketch, but when Bobby Moynihan pulled the sheet off of his project, it stayed stuck on the corner where Bagel’s picture was! CURSE YOU BOBBY MOYNIHAN!
Wonderfully, Vivek made a screenshot of the half-second you kinda see her, so jump to see the actual picture and what made it on TV.
