I Like Turtles

Cynthia the Famous Mannequin

2012-02-10T22:25:00.002-06:00

So the story goes:

"In 1937, LIFE Magazine launched the career of an up-and-coming starlet in a multiple-page photo spread that, overnight, made “Cynthia” a household name. In very short order she became an A-list celebrity; was given her own television talk show and starred on the silver screen; was sent jewels and dresses by top fashion houses; was briefly engaged to one of radio’s biggest stars; hobnobbed with the former king of England; and became one of the most recognizable faces in the fashion world.
There was only one minor catch: Cynthia was a mannequin. Not a mannequin in the way a supermodel is a mannequin. But a mannequin mannequin. A made-of-plaster mannequin. Hers was a stranger-than-fiction tale that encompassed the highest circles of New York and London society, the very the lowest brow of American entertainment — and even (as so many improbable, compelling stories so often do) touched on a grisly murder investigation."

I'm not sure if I believe it, but hey, it's interesting nonetheless.
Here's the link for the photoessay on Cynthia and her creator.

Photos of Rock Stars with their Parents

2012-02-10T22:09:00.003-06:00

Check out this article, portraying rock stars (like Richie Haven, above) with their parents in the good old 1970s. Also included is Grace Slick, Michael Jackson, and Frank Zappa.

Arkansas, 1900-1960s

2012-01-30T23:51:00.002-06:00

Someone graciously uploaded some family photos from the early 20th century, most of them in Arkansas. Check it.

Ferris Bueller Super Bowl Commercial

2012-01-29T13:41:00.004-06:00

Who's illogically excited?
Here's the preview:

Max WITH A SAX

2012-01-23T20:01:00.001-06:00

Vermin Supreme

2012-01-23T19:49:00.002-06:00

I know I'm a tad late on this one, but this is an actual video of lesser-known presidential candidate named Vermin Supreme. Vermin Supreme is one hilarious bastard and has now secured my vote after throwing glitter on another lesser-known candidate and declaring him gay (seen at the end of this video).

GOTTAMAKEMORECASH

2012-01-17T23:51:00.001-06:00

David Bowie and Marianne Faithfull singing "I Got You Babe" on his TV Special (1973)

2012-01-17T18:27:00.002-06:00

It ain't as great as it sounds, people.

Hidden in the Open: A Photographic Essay of Afro American Male Couples

2012-01-12T21:59:00.002-06:00

Trent Kelley has collected 150 years' worth of photographs depicting gay black couples. His Flickr page contains the pictures and a short article on the subject.

Exploring the Remains of Spain's Creepy Abandoned Doll Factory

2012-01-06T13:42:00.002-06:00

Uh huh

List of Australia's Big Things

2012-01-05T00:14:00.003-06:00

Someone took a ton of time to create a Wikipedia page of large things in Australia. This one, for instance, is The Big Dead Fish. I strongly recommend you check it out.
Note: There are a lot of big things in Australia.

Best Street Art 2011

2011-12-19T18:47:00.002-06:00

Is it just me, or is street art exponentially better than any other art these days?
Check out this website which contains the best street art of 2011.

Abandoned Theme Park in China

2011-12-13T22:50:00.003-06:00

So the story goes that investors stopped building the park after some dispute with the government in the late '90s, so it is now some sort of farm with a castle in the middle.
Anyone else wanna go to China?

Baby Jagger

2011-12-01T11:29:00.001-06:00

N-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n

2011-11-17T13:38:00.001-06:00

I only know one other person who likes the commercials for Napa know how,
and I had to convince him that they were hilarious WOW,
but hey, maybe you'll like them now...?
N-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-napa know how

Garfield has taken a turn towards the bizarre lately...

2011-11-07T13:43:00.000-06:00

Hairy Stairs (Jessica Wohl, HOT SPRINGS, AR)

2011-11-04T12:27:00.003-05:00

My hometown, Hot Springs, has made national art news! Jessica Wohl has made a piece called "Hairy Stairs" that is set up in Mountainaire Hotel in Hot Springs. I remember the building well, and passed it only last week, though I remember it being a nursing home. This website says that it has been boarded up since ~1995.

"When I Am Dead" as performed by Jonathan Frid

2011-10-30T20:51:00.002-05:00

Jonathan Frid (Barnabas Collins) performs "When I Am Dead" by Christina Rosetti from the first Dark Shadows album.

You guessed it! Another abandoned hospital!

2011-10-23T10:24:00.001-05:00

Check THIS out!

Color Photographs of Circus Performers, 1940s-1950s

2011-10-21T13:25:00.001-05:00

Check THIS out!

Holy Shatner

2011-10-20T12:05:00.001-05:00

This can NOT be real

2011-10-12T21:01:00.001-05:00

Ok, you know that illusion where you either see two faces or a vase?....

The Man with Two Faces

2011-10-03T08:50:00.002-05:00

Note: This may be a little creepy, MIMI. I'd categorize it more under "early-'80s Ripley's Believe It or Not," though.
PS, sorry about the weird fascination with deformities. I SWEAR I'm not searching for them. I just keep running into them.

Various Atlases of the Diseases of the Skin

2011-09-28T16:20:00.002-05:00

This website is HIGHLY DISTURBING, if not outright frightful. That being said, it is totally intriguing. Hey, how many of these could be Smiths album covers?

Euthanasia Coaster

2011-09-26T10:43:00.002-05:00

I would like it recorded that if I am dying of a terminal illness, please let it end this way instead.

Shar Pei Iams commercial

2011-09-21T13:26:00.000-05:00

Yeah, I'm a sucker for Shar Pei ANYTHING. So deal.

Rotating Jesus Play Mishap

2011-09-10T20:44:00.000-05:00

Rick Steves: Marijuana Activist

2011-09-09T11:03:00.000-05:00

20th C. Fox Theme on Recorder

2011-08-27T16:49:00.001-05:00

Trailer for Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

2011-08-19T16:49:00.002-05:00

AND I JUST READ that CHRISTOPHER FUCKING LAMBERT is in it. CHRISTOPHER FUCKING LAMBERT!!!!

Untitled

2011-08-16T13:55:00.002-05:00

Thank God for Internet K-Hole.

Jim Gillette Hits an Insane Scream!

2011-08-07T23:41:00.002-05:00

Maybe it's old news, but it's funny news to me!

New Coke PROTEST

2011-08-02T21:15:00.002-05:00

Y'all should read up on this. It's hilarious.
PEOPLE TOOK TO THE STREETS TO GET RID OF NEW COKE.
Look up a guy named Gay Mullins, who created an anti-New Coke peer group, because that part is equally hilarious.

"Sisters of the Moon" by Fleetwood Mac, 1982

2011-07-27T22:11:00.001-05:00

Fabio New Old Spice Guy

2011-07-24T17:13:00.001-05:00

<3<3<3

Also, FUCK YOU AMY WINEHOUSE WHY DID YOU DIE

Hairless Mr. T

2011-07-23T06:42:00.001-05:00

Flickr of stickers from the 1970s

2011-07-03T10:47:00.002-05:00

Someone has compiled a bunch of stickers made around the 1970s onto a website, and the results are pretty cool.

Tugboat Graveyard (Staten Island)

2011-06-21T11:50:00.002-05:00

Info
Photos

No More Jazz (AntiGravity article about '70s punk and new wave in Louisiana)

2011-06-12T23:27:00.002-05:00

Here's the article in PDF, but you should really just pick it up somewhere.
What's weird is that I knew a lot of this stuff just from being a '77 aficionado, but, other than Toxin III, I had no clue that it came from Louisiana.
Check out the playlist that the author has made so you can listen to what you're reading about. I highly recommend the Normals. SO GOOD!

Wave at the Bus

2011-06-04T20:27:00.002-05:00

This website details the day-by-day account of a man waving to his high schooler son as the school bus passes.
Not soooo bad, huh?
Well, he wears a different costume every time.

One of them is a wedding dress.

Fuck You, Baltimore

2011-06-04T20:16:00.001-05:00

Schroeder Stained Glass

2011-05-30T17:26:00.004-05:00

"Beethoven-loving Schroeder of Peanuts shares with Albert Schweitzer a window to glory of music in Buffalo's Westminster Presbyterian Church."
from a 1967 Life Magazine article on Charles Schultz

Sect et Sept

2011-05-30T16:02:00.001-05:00

Source

RIP Gil Scott-Heron

2011-05-27T21:17:00.003-05:00

Gummy Bearskin Rug

2011-05-26T21:06:00.000-05:00

Say wha?

The Hiroshima Files (New York Times)

2011-05-24T20:40:00.001-05:00

The caption of this pic:
Flash burns on steps of Sumitomo Bank Company (Building 19), Hiroshima, Nov. 20, 1945. The discoloration on the stone steps of the bank entrance is believed to be a human shadow burned into the stone by the heat of the blast.
Czech it out.

Pile of bison skulls, circa 1870

2011-05-18T22:18:00.000-05:00

Blessed John Paul II Cookies

2011-05-15T00:16:00.002-05:00

I have something to thank God for.

Butte LaRose, Louisiana

2011-05-14T23:01:00.003-05:00

In order to keep the overflowing Mississippi River from flooding Baton Rouge and New Orleans, the government has decided to open the Morganza Spillway into rural Cajun country, displacing hundreds of people who live in Butte LaRose, Morgan City, and the towns surrounding the Morganza.
Something that astonishes me is the lack of reporting about the people living in the area, who are sacrificing much of their material posessions to save those of us in those cities downstream. Thankfully, we have something in this country called NPR, and they did a short report on the subject. And here's another one by the New York Times.

Two more openings in the Spillway will be opened tomorrow.

Dominoes made of dominoes

2011-05-13T12:10:00.001-05:00

Whoa

Hell House

2011-05-11T10:36:00.002-05:00

Ever heard of a Hell House? It's a haunted house set up by extreme churches to depict what Hell would be like and all the groups of people going there (gays, people who have committed suicide, adulterers, etc.). There's a documentary on the subject I would very much like to see. Has anyone seen it? I've read that some people applauded at the death of a homosexual. I'm weirded out/so interested in seeing one.

NEATO BILLBOARDS

2011-05-10T11:38:00.001-05:00

Check out impressive billboards, much like the one pictured here.

Army Men with PTSD

2011-05-05T20:40:00.002-05:00

Mitch Landrieu on 60 Minutes

2011-05-01T19:08:00.001-05:00

http://youtu.be/5NoTMx8F8V0

Poly Styrene dead at 53

2011-04-26T10:03:00.003-05:00

Well another one's gone. This one was the singer that created what I consider the greatest punk album of all time, Germfree Adolescents by the X-Ray Spex. Poly Styrene died last night from cancer at 53 years old.

Banksy, y'all.

2011-04-25T13:03:00.000-05:00

Kit Kat

2011-04-25T00:29:00.001-05:00

Y'all. There are so many flavors of Kit-Kat that we are missing out on.

St. Roch Cemetery

2011-04-23T23:12:00.005-05:00

So, I just found out by watching WYES (one of the PBS stations in New Orleans) that the St. Roch Cemetery is not only the coolest thing in the universe, but also seven (give or take a few) blocks away from me.

St. Roch was the invoked against, among other things, the plague and skin disease.

Here's part of the story:
At the height of the yellow fever epidemic of 1867, a German priest named Rev. Peter Leonard Thevis arrived in New Orleans. Faced with the severity of the yellow fever epidemic, he turned to God invoking the intercession of St. Roch, the patron of good health. He promised that if no one in his parish should die from the fever, he would erect a chapel in honor of the Saint. Amazingly, not one member of Holy Trinity died from yellow fever, either in the epidemic of 1867 or 1878.
In thanks, Rev. Thevis’s conviction was to build not only a chapel as a shrine to St. Roch, but also a mortuary chapel in a last resting place for members of his flock. The cemetery was called the Campo Santo (resting place of the dead). Rev. Thevis traveled to Europe to study the architecture and construction of many beautiful shrines and chapels before building the chapel. The chapel, completed in 1876, was considered a beautiful example of Gothic architecture.

The best part of the cemetery is that in a room inside of it, people leave possessions attributed to their illnesses (ie, prosthetics, crutches, etc.) and crucifixes, rosaries, and such.

I Shot Andy Warhol: The Game

2011-04-23T11:42:00.002-05:00

I Shot Andy Warhol is a modified NES game played with the Duck Hunt gun. Also making appearances are the Pope, Col. Sanders, and Flava Flav. Here's an idea: Give it to me.

Skynet

2011-04-21T10:54:00.002-05:00

Well, as you have probably already found out, Skynet has become self-aware today, as per the prophecy of one James Cameron in his futurediary, T2: Judgment Day.
All the signs have presented themselves. Opening pitches in baseball games are going to be thrown by robots. Sporcle AND Reddit are down. Arnold Schwarzenegger is conveniently visiting Washington, DC. I guess the thing to do is just sit and wait for the imminent destruction of mankind, as pictured in this futuremovingpicturediary.
Or wait for "Sarah Connor" (an alias to protect Linda Hamilton) to have her messiah baby. Either one.

Abandoned Russian Biologist Settlement

2011-04-19T11:04:00.002-05:00

According to the site, this is a collection of pictures of a Russian biologists' settlement built in 1935 and abandoned in 1989. Just think of all the human-giraffe hybrids they created in there.

Japanese Arnold Schwarzenegger "Cup Noodle" commercial

2011-04-14T00:17:00.001-05:00

Yep.

Patti Labelle's "Forever Young"

2011-04-13T21:36:00.001-05:00

Most electrifying performance I've ever seen on tape. I still get chills, and I saw this for the first time in 2005.

Untitled

2011-04-05T23:26:00.002-05:00

The Gambit interviewing John Waters for the Tennessee Williams Festival

2011-03-29T00:26:00.002-05:00

Here's the link.
Here's my favorite part:
"I lived on Rampart Street right across from that Schmegmann's [sic] market, and it still looks exactly the same. I would hear 24 hours, all night long, "Mrs. So-and-So, your groceries are ready on Aisle 3," and it was like a nightmare. I lived there with Mary Vivian Pearce and Danny Mills — he played Crackers in Pink Flamingos and she was a topless go-go girl, and we stole drinks from people in bars. I don't know why we didn't get mononucleosis, 'cause we would go from bar to bar lifting people's drinks when they weren't looking."

The place he mentions living in is only a few blocks from my house! Neat!

Pee Pee

2011-03-22T14:02:00.001-05:00

School of Rock

2011-03-11T23:12:00.003-06:00

Ian,
The scenario portrayed in School of Rock is not a plausible career option.
Just because [spoilers] Jack Black, masquerading as his roommate, entered into a contract with a flashy private school as a substitute all-subjects teacher, and taught them instead about rock and roll music, eventually getting caught, and, realistically, creating his own after-school rock music program after kidnapping children on a bus to perform at a local battle of the bands, DOESN'T MEAN that you are smart enough to pull this off.
I KNOW you don't actually want to kidnap children or steal the identity of Fabio to infiltrate the private school system; you ARE above that! There are a lot of problems with this plan. No, no, I KNOW it's just an idea. Just let me finish!
Fine, you know what, you can do all the talking. Is that what you want?

Go ahead. I'm waiting.

Okay. I'll take your silence as a go-ahead for my point. As I was saying, you can't play guitar. In fact, despite the fact that you are competent enough to play just about everything else doesn't mean that you can teach it. The kids in that movie are about four times better at their instruments than you, and THEY'RE ONLY TEN (note to reader: the previous line may only be funny to people who have watched School of Rock on TBS twice in a row. But they mention the fact that the lead guitarist of the School of Rock, Zach Mooneyham, is only ten like seventy times. SEVENTY). I'm rambling. Secondly, no children are as well-behaved as the children in that fucking movie. You know that. You KNOW that. You worked with children for like, what, twenty years?
You know what? Do you even really like Joan Cusack? Yeah, Addams Family Values is an adored and cherished household tradition dating back to your very youth, but have you ever liked her in anything else? Be honest. Thank you.
And you know what else? Progressive commercials ARE too frequent in the duration of movies on TBS. We at least agree on THAT point. That red lipstick BITCH isn't just completely intolerable; she's also a simple bully. Just like ZACH'S DAD. I mean the way she taunts you with those guys in giant dollar bill costumes is just like Zach's dad telling him that music should be practiced only after math homework, and that rock and roll music shouldn't be practiced at all! IT'S A PERFECT ANALOGY. Listen, Zach's dad. Listen close, and listen hard: just because you found a way to sneak Tron into your FUCKING commercial doesn't mean I'm going to buy your FUCKING insurance. How did an insurance salesman get to send his son to a $15,000-a-year private school anyway? You're a fraud, just like Jack Black. In a different, more socially acceptable way. But you're still just a fraud.
Here's another point: School of Rock is just Rock and Roll High School if it was directed by post-2000 Adam Sandler. And, by the way, JANICE, post-2000 Adam Sandler HAS NEVER BEEN FUNNY AND I DIDN'T EVEN LIKE IT WHEN I WAS 14. And don't pretend you remember that anyway because you didn't RUIN MY CHILDHOOD and meet Dad until I was 15. Stop pretending you're my mother. You're just married to Dad. I HAVE A MOM. HER NAME IS SHERRILL. NOT JANNIIIIIIIIIIIIICCCCEEEE. Your shoulderpads look STUUUUUPPPIIIIIDDD and your "parenting" skills are A JOKE.
Even after this little pep talk, Ian, I know you're still weighing the options of teaching children about the Sex Pistols and whether or not their parents will be upset about this. They will. But I'll leave the decision to you. I know that kids can be a lot of fun and that you love nothing in the world more than the rock-roll music, but combining the two can have disasterous consequences. Just look at Jack Black. What's he doing these days? I haven't heard from him since that critical failure Kung Fu Panda. Have you heard from him since them? Hmm? You haven't, have you? He might be dead, Ian. Is that what you want?
Just think about that.

Hotel Hell Vacation

2011-02-26T15:48:00.004-06:00

Somebody PLEASE tell me why I have never heard of "Hotel Hell Vacation," a short film documenting the continued journey of the Griswold Family, a la National Lampoon's Vacation of 1983. In any case, here it is, in all of its hotel commercial glory:

Also, it must be noted that a new Vacation movie is in the works. WHO ELSE IS REEEALLLY EXCITED?!

Vintage Tokyo Subway Posters

2011-02-23T19:45:00.003-06:00

Thanks to Mimi for sending me this link to a bunch of pictures of vintage subway posters in Japan. The poster pictured reminds people to remember their umbrellas after they have finished making lude gestures to one another behind Jesus's back.

Soviet Workplace Safety Posters

2011-02-22T17:52:00.004-06:00

IN SOVIET RUSSIA, MACHINE BREAK YOU!
More of the collection here.

Andy and Archie

2011-02-12T11:09:00.001-06:00

Kenny G, Upscale Prison Riot Suppressor

2011-02-11T23:54:00.002-06:00

HYSTERICAL!
Thanks to Charming for bringing this to my attention.

Inside Coltrane Church

2011-02-10T20:46:00.004-06:00

Yes, there is a church that identifies John Coltrane as its patron saint: St. John Coltrane African Orthodox Church. And with that music, how has it taken me so long to find it? Video to follow.

Pespi Generation (Michael Jackson TV spot)

2011-02-06T23:09:00.001-06:00

Continuing on the MJ theme, here's a HILARIOUS vintage Pepsi ad featuring the King of Pop and the new and improved lyrics to "Billie Jean".
I give this commercial TWO THUMBS WAY UP!

Thriller--WITH A CASTE SYSTEM!

2011-02-06T22:53:00.000-06:00

DeNiro and Hoffman on Letterman

2011-01-30T00:14:00.000-06:00

I can't stop thinking about this.

Twolander

2011-01-15T13:35:00.002-06:00

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/15/zoolander-2-ben-stiller-confirms-movie-talks-plot_n_809490.html

Life Magazine Goes Inside Today's KKK

2011-01-13T22:26:00.003-06:00

Photographer Anthony Karen took pretty interesting/horrifying pictures of the KKK, which were published in Life Magazine in 2009. A particularly interesting/horrifying quote he had was, "You'd only know they were in the Klan if they decided to share that."
EDIT: More disturbing photos (KKK and otherwise) at Karen's website.

I Feel That (Rodrigue)

2011-01-11T19:48:00.002-06:00

Link

Man imitating mad dog

2010-12-24T22:29:00.000-06:00

Sorry if you've seen it before.
You're welcome if you haven't.

When John Waters Met Little Richard (Guardian Article)

2010-12-20T23:39:00.001-06:00

Link

Fourteen Actors Acting

2010-12-19T17:39:00.003-06:00

The New York Times's Hollywood Issue features a collage of videos by famous actors called "Fourteen Actors Acting". It is highly interesting, though slightly confusing: fourteen minute-long vignettes of actors doing something or another. The website calls it "a gallery of classic screen types," though it seems very Warholian in nature to me: a modern touch on his infamous "screen tests".
AND IN THIS ONE JAMES FRANCO MAKES OUT WITH HIMSELF

Hell (Stop-Motion Animation)

2010-12-15T10:13:00.002-06:00

This is some freaky-ass shit. Not recommended for those who don't like mortifying claymation.

SULFUR HEXAFLUORIDE! FUCK YEAH!

2010-12-10T11:19:00.002-06:00

This guy starts inhaling sulfur hexafluoride on public television and hilarity ensues.

Alternate Reality/Depressing Garfield (1989)

2010-12-07T20:57:00.003-06:00

I FOUND STEVE GUTTENBERG!

2010-12-03T17:55:00.002-06:00

So, this is apparently an (six minute wtf?) ad for a Norwegian television show called Golden Times. And it contains A LOT of people you thought might have died ten years ago and A LOT of people you wish would have.
And if you are paying attention, you can answer the age-old question: Where the hell is Steve Guttenberg?

Picture (Seasonal)

2010-12-01T23:20:00.000-06:00

Cookie Monster on SNL?

2010-11-24T09:41:00.002-06:00

This is weird, but it definitely has promise.

The Ronnie Horror Show (Fridays, 1980)

2010-11-19T12:03:00.004-06:00

Let me break this down for you: This is a 15-minute skit from the show "Fridays," which featured Michael Richards and Larry David, spoofing the Rocky Horror Picture Show and combining it with the then-recent election of Ronald Reagan to the presidency. Do you think you're ready for it?

You're not.

EDIT: 300th post!

Tron Shit

2010-11-18T21:04:00.002-06:00

Y'all December 17 is coming soon. In the meantime, let's get excited for Tron: Legacy by looking at these neat Tron merchandizing items and fan-made collector's bits. This one is a Tron watch. So, if you ever wanted to know what to get me for Christmas.........do it or I'll kill you.

Island of the Dolls

2010-11-14T11:25:00.002-06:00

This article details the life and work of Don Julian Santana, who once found the body of a drowned girl on the shores of the island his house was built upon. In order to appease her soul, he collected dolls and doll parts and hung them in the trees (hence the name "Island of the Dolls"). There's a lovely twist at the end, but you simply MUST go to the website and see the pictures to read about it.

Pripyat, Ukraine

2010-11-12T11:59:00.003-06:00

(Last one today, Mimi; I swear!)
This is a link to a collection of photos from Pripyat, Ukraine, an abandoned city neglectfully not mentioned in the previous post. Pripyat was abandoned after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. Wikipedia.

24 Tales of Ghost Towns and Abandoned Cities

2010-11-12T11:30:00.004-06:00

(Sorry, Mimi)
This post on WebUrbanist gives a short write-up of several abandoned towns across the world. It's not very comprehensive, and doesn't give a lot of information or pictures, but hey, that's what Wikipedia is for, right? (Be sure to check out Kowloon Walled City, Hong Kong, pictured above.)
Thanks to Hipstercrite for bringing WebUrbanist to my attention.
EDIT: Also check out the Sanzhi, Taiwan, UFO Houses on Flickr.

Shatner Does It Again ("Fuck You" by Cee-Lo)

2010-11-04T16:32:00.002-05:00

I promised myself that George Lopez could not ever appear on my blog, but lo and behold, there's his opposite-of-funny face.
Nevertheless, Shatner wows me again with his musical adaptation of Cee-Lo Green's "Fuck You". No, William Shatner; fuck you. And fuck her, too. (Her refers to Lopez. But I take back what I said about you last sentence; I only meant it referring to George Lopez. Seriously, fuck her.)

Circus (PBS)

2010-11-03T22:12:00.003-05:00

Hadn't heard of this show before today before I turned on PBS and there it was. The program is incredible. I don't know if everyone is as fascinated by carnival folk as I am, but interesting they are. Check it out Wednesdays from 7:00 to 10:00 on PBS/LPB.

One Square Mile (New Orleans)

2010-10-25T20:53:00.003-05:00

This is a documentary series called One Square Mile, which highlights one square mile of land in the United States, which can be in an array of spots, such as New York City or rural Texas. The goal is to create a "patchwork of contemporary culture," according to the website.
This episode focuses on the Irish Channel and Garden District areas of New Orleans. My favorite part starts at around the 4 minute mark. Makes me want to watch the rest of the series.

Ari Up (of the Slits) died today

2010-10-20T23:53:00.003-05:00

Link
The subject of what I think may very well be the greatest punk rock photo ever (see left), and a damn fine singer, died of complications from a "serious illness" she had been battling for a while. She was 48. RIP Ari.

Abandoned Hospital Photos

2010-10-19T10:25:00.002-05:00

This is someone's photoessay documenting the Henryton State Hospital in Maryland that closed in 1985. Lots of cool and creepy pictures.

Fort Worth Councilman's speech about being gay-bullied in school

2010-10-17T00:41:00.004-05:00

SERIOUS NOTE
Very touching. I wrote him a FB message letting him know how appreciative I was.

My Hero

2010-10-10T22:49:00.001-05:00