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Daily Archives: January 13, 2012
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This is Mary Lynn circa 1966. She alone bore NotSoDeepSouth into this world and while looking into this image, so ripe with promise and innocence, who could hold that fact against her? (Shut up: it’s not entirely her fault I’m so damaged)
Reviewing 1966 in The Googles, I see that it wasn’t all smiles and eyebrows. Vietnam, IRA bombings, Communism (not the fruit growing, hemp loving, feminist bookstore frequenting kind, the other kind), The Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, Fidel Castro – the list could go on forever.
In that other age of turmoil, upset and unrest it warms my heart to see that Mary Lynn, the lady I call Momma, had it together – at least she appears to have it together in this photograph. She will forever be smiling into the distant unknowable future with that soft glow of goodness we know as yesteryear. Continue reading
Aleksandra Radonic – Women, Banat, Serbia – 2010
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We’ve known from the very beginning that the Jersey Shore was just too much. Too much drama and silliness contorted by the inebriated and raucous ramblings of the eight people stuffed into a shore house in the buttcrack of New Jersey’s Wendigo realm called Seaside Heights. It has all been too much; the braying at the top of their lungs, the fights, the smushes, the showing of kookas, the living in a mini-hoarders wet dream, the sometimes psychotic repetition of the same people doing the same things, expecting different results, but ultimately pooping out shoulder-shrugs and continuing on their merry way toward lunacy and an enlarged liver.
These are all things we know. What we didn’t anticipate was the eventual toll this would take on one of the participants. Continue reading
Azealia Banks announced via Twitter that her newest collaboration with Machinedrum (Travis Stewart), titled “NEEDSUMLUV,” will be out on Monday, January 16th.
So apparently there’s a Twitter feed that publishes selections of overheard conversations from the Goldman Sachs elevator and it’s been around for a while, although it was only recently brought to my attention. The New York Times actually featured an anonymous interview with the person behind it back in August 2011.
But because I hate myself, and apparently, you guys, I scrolled all the way back to August and pulled out some of the more horrifying tweets for your judgement and tears. Seriously, this twitter feed has everything. Real or not real, it kind of made me want to invest in some pitchforks and torches. Continue reading
Now that the eldritch tendrils of Flying Spaghetti Monster Elisa Jimenez have been banished from the competition, it’s time to get serious. What could be more serious than a challenge to make a gown to wear to the opera? A “couture” gown, no less. In one day. Yes, a gown that normally takes weeks or months to painstakingly hand-sew, let’s slop one together in a few hours, shall we? As always, there’s spoilers, so read on at your own risk! Continue reading
Keep in mind that it is the Year Of Our Lord 2012 as you’re reading this. The incident described here happened in the Spring of 2011… but it might as well have been 1963. Continue reading
So, early this morning, BoingBoing.net with some pretty serious accusations towards Google’s falling ethics and a specific bit of fraud that seems to be going on in Kenya. Basically, Kenya does not have a good public business directory. There are no yellow pages and most businesses do not have a web presence. So, a company called Mocality decided they were going to do that. Continue reading
We all know a story topper. If you have a bad cold, she will tell you about the time she had pneumonia. If you had an argument with a co-worker, he will talk about how a disagreement at work came to blows. If you are talking about your trip to Florida, he will comment about how much better Tahiti is. Ugh. These people are insufferable. This personal flaw is probably the result of some sort of deep-seated insecurity or a desire to connect with another person but one up them in the process. Most of the time, these individuals aren’t even aware that they are doing it.