Warning: this photo may make your insides explode.
I still lived in Chicago when The Dark Knight was filming there, and we all heard rumors about seeing the Batmobile around, or streets being shut down for massive stunts, and sadly I had other plants the night they blew up a candy factory, which would stand in as the hospital that explodes in the movie.
The rumor that I heard most was that Heath Ledger was an avid skateboarder, and would be seen all over downtown, skating around the set and such. A guy I knew in Chicago posted this image on his Facebook tonight, and it made me feel very wistuful and sad and happy and giddy at the same time.
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Mommy, I wanna be a model because they wear pretty high heels!
On the left is an example of the kind of shoes that Alexander McQueen designed for his fall 2009 collection.
They look like those Frankencricket things that I found in my apartment in college and nearly burned the whole place down trying to get rid of them. Click to see them in action.
Spacelake
Oh, what’s this?
It’s the first ever lake found somewhere other than Earth! It’s a Spacelake!!
This was found on Titan, one of the moons of Saturn, and it’s made of liquid methane. So maybe don’t get out your swimmies quite yet.
New Years Eve Romance?
I’ve been asked to compile a bunch of sappy sweet romantic New Years Eve stories, which I am gleefully tackling despite the fact that I think that NYE is like the picture on a box of a Lean Cuisine meal.
A golden standard that the product never reaches. I’ve emailed some ladies to see if they have any stories, and literally NO ONE does. So if you have a romantic New Years’ tale, I would love to hear from you. Please email me at emilyvgordon@gmail.com.
LAing it.
Kumail and I just came back from LA, and now that I finally have a phone that takes pictures, you lucky people get to be treated to blurry pictures from it!
Case in point, here’s the Hollywood sign from very far away.
We were lucky enough to stay in TJ’s apartment right around the corner from Mann’s Chinese Theater, so we were in the thick of the touristness. We had some lovely dinners with lovely people, hung out with friends, experienced the Watts Towers, and saw some major celebrities. Click to see all the blurry action!
This movie will….ok fine, it will KICK ASS
Nic Cage in the film adaptation of the comic book series Kick-Ass, training his 11 year old daughter how to be a superhero.
“we bought our christmas tree ironically”
This is a funny parody of those horridly obnoxious cheerleader Gap ads by a comic named Kevin Tor. It’s for American Apparel, and it’s hilarious.
Christmas Public Service Announcement
Take care of your trees guys. This video terrifies me. SEVEN SECONDS.
Ask Gynomite!
Gynomite is a licensed therapist in 2 1/2 states and she would love to take a crack at your emotional dilemmas. Write her at askgynomite@gmail.com- all emails stay confidential. Today, Gynomite takes on men who hate PDA.
I’ve been dating a guy for a few months, and everything is going really well, except that he refuses to show me any affection in public. At first I was fine with it, but it’s starting to bug me more and more. The most he’ll “allow” is me resting my head on his shoulder during a movie, but there’s no hand holding, no drunken makeouts at bars, no squeezing my knee at parties, nothing. Everything else is going really well, but this has become a weird sore spot between the two of us, and sometimes I’ll attempt a kiss in public even though I know it’ll start weirdness between us. I just want to kiss him! Help!
Ahhh, this is definitely a proceed with caution situation, but one that can be easily solved.
