FYI
Ok, where to start. Remember how years ago, when a 14 year old Vietnamese kid, naked and bleeding from the anus, was found running around in the Milwaukee streets? And when the cops found him, rather than getting him to a hospital, they instead took him back to his boyfriend, Jeffrey Dahmer, and decided that they were having some kind of gay fight that they couldn’t comprehend? And remember how that kid, Konerak Sinthasomphone, was later killed by Jefrey Dahmer? Remember how Dahmer kept his head as a souvenir?
Well, someone wrote a play about those two cops, the ones who turned a bleeding, disoriented, naked child over to a registered sex offender. That play was called A Steady Rain, and it starred Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig with a horrific 70s mustache.
Seems like Daniel Craig could have played Dahmer with a bit more ease…. But I digress. It just seemed like information you needed to know.
Yet another another reason why North Carolina is awesome.
This is NC A&T State University’s famous drum team performing the Bed Intruder song. I had the privilege of seeing them just once, and it knocked my face off. Enjoy!
Videos of My Life
I love Patsy Cline. My family has always listened to Patsy while driving to the beach every year, so I associate her with excitement and comfort, but it wasn’t until I got older that I appreciated how intense and emotional her songs are. Enjoy this performance of one of my favorite songs, I Fall to Pieces. That voice is heartbreaking.
This is how I feel today.
A young Jay-Z photographed in the Marcy Housing Projects in the early 2000s.
Because you know who’s an Alpha Male? Don Draper.
Would that be so terrible?
For years now, pop culture analysts and relationship experts have been crowing about the “beta male” syndrome. As women have been getting more successful on their own, it’s created a bit of a financial power shift in relationships- women with PhDs are with men who wait tables and are in a band, low level IT guys who do comedy at night, writers who work at Starbucks, etc. Maybe the guys play video games. Maybe they don’t dress in suits every day. Maybe they’re portrayed in movies like Knocked Up by Seth Rogan.
The thought has been that women can’t have both success and a successful partner at the same time, and there’s been lots of tongue clucking over that. Women are said to be “dating down” with someone less because they’re too focused on their careers to find a “good man”.
But fuck that.
Yet another reason why North Carolina is awesome.
Our porn stores inspire Lady Gaga songs.
I have lots of stories of wandering into adult stores in college with friends and being shown how durable the glass dildos were by the clerk banging them against the counter loudly, or talking friends into asking where the completely illegal and immoral movies were kept. Nothing phases those guys.
My life in pictures
I’ve been taking some random pics of my travels for the last few days, so I thought I’d share them with you.
This is a hamster asleep in his cage face down with his ass in the food bowl. He is my new hero.
Gynomite’s Reading Room
There’s a new Twitter in town! TechCrunch sums up what you need to know about it.
I talk about Madonna and meat dresses and Lady Gaga and the problem with kids these days at Lemondrop.
Here’s a great mini-documentary about Threadless, badass Chicago tshirt company that has become huge in the last four years.
Brilliant brilliant brilliant- a collection of “sorry I haven’t posted in a while” posts from random blogs.
Ant Death Spiral isn’t the name of a band you should already know. It’s real, and it’s terrifying.
This guy was vegan and vehement until he read Meat: a Benign Extravagance. Now he says “I no longer believe that the only ethical response is to stop eating meat.” Read why. (thanks to Kevin Slaughter)
The charm just oozes out of Alie and Georgia- watch their show Drinks with Alie and Georgia, and read my scintillating interview with them next week when it comes out!
Coco (yes, that Coco) killing it in a fashion show for Sachika Twins.
Ahem.
Tim Gunn on Taylor Momsen: “You know young lady, there are hundreds of thousands of girls who are just as attractive and even smarter than you.” Daaaaaaayum.
Old School plus Gran Torino? Produced by Ryan Reynolds? I think I’m on board.
Discoveries of a Has-Been
Today I offer you the Norwegian band Madrugada with the song “Vocal”. I have just been listening to it on repeat for about three days now, and yet I cannot find it on ITunes. Lame.
Is this racist?
I don’t even know anymore.
Found in the fish section of my neighborhood grocery store. Couldn’t find a single price on any of them, so the jury is still out on if they are decor or for sale.
