Tyra’s So Mad She Didn’t Think of This for ANTM…
This fall, MOMA is going to be doing a retrospective on Tim Burton’s films, so Harper’s Bazaar decided to let Tim Burton create clothing and style a photo spread for this month’s issue. This is fairly perfect, since Tim Burton’s movies have, as of late, been more appropriately viewed as stills rather than moving, talking, horrible song-filled pieces of cinema.
Like this.
More gorgeousness after the cut, and sadly/gratefully, no Helena Bonham Carter…
Let’s play a game!
This is a news item entitled “Masturbating Trucker Flips Rig, Loses Load” and the full (short) article is after the jump. The game is this
1) Find all the sly dick jokes they managed to slip in, and then
2) See how many more you can add yourself!
It’s fun!
Off the Grid
While Kumail and I were at the gym on Saturday, something happened. We returned to a home without Internet or cable, and nothing we did made it come back. No one is able to come and bring these things back into our life until Tuesday, so we have been living like imbalanced people since then, carting our laptops to the coffeeshop down the street, playing video games, watching VCR movies, pretending Bagel is a zombie, staring into each other’s eyes, and dancing to Wham! songs.
So this is an apology for my digital silence and a plea for understanding. Right now I am trying to decide among 8 website I desperately need to check.
Let’s learn a little Psychology 101
Today’s subject: the visual cliff. This pioneering experiement both looks cool and is a fun exploration into the development of depth perception in creatures great and small.
In 1960, E.J. Gibson and R.D. Walk set up this awesome looking contraption that makes it look like a surface completely drops off, when actually, it’s just an illusion made with shatterproof glass.
Gynomite’s Emotional Assignment of the Day
Figure out your origin story.
I have a friend who is really into comic books and also happens to have had a rough childhood. He told me that he likes to think about himself as a superhero, and as all superheroes do, the things he’s been through are just part of what makes him such a badass superhero.
I love this.
I hope she uses the plot where Jessica invents punk rock and sophisticate personalities to impress men!
Today Diablo Cody confirmed via Twitter that her movie adaptation of the Sweet Valley High series will be set in the 80s. So….whew. She may be taking the most embarrassing guilty pleasure of my childhood and making it into an obnoxiously self aware, horribly snappy-dialogue filled cutefest, but at least the Internet won’t exist in Sweet Valley. Honest to blog.
Things that go from ironic to real and how I’m learning to be a better kid
Here’s my latest Lemondrop piece, about how I’m a rebellious kid inheriting Muslim parents via Kumail.
Also, yesterday in AMNY there was an article about squirrels that detailed how you could become a certified wildlife rehabber, making you a person that gets called to help out if a squirrel falls out of a tree or a possum gets hit in the head. I looked up all the info, thinking in my higher brain that I was doing it to make fun of it here, but my brain stem knew what was up. I realized quickly that I was looking it up because I want to do it.
So I sent in my application today, and I’m pretty excited.
