Celebrity Letterhead
Web Urbanist selected the letterhead of seventeen celebrities from a larger catalog at Letterheady. This is Leonard Cohen’s. Make sure you compare it to Richard Simmons’.
(via @gary_hustwit)
Offer: Elmo toy
Posted to the Dubuque Freecycle list:
Chicken Dance Elmo. A little dirty, but works.
Sent from my Verizon Wireless smartphone
headline of the day, II
Paula Deen confirms that she has type 2 diabetes, unveils partnership with drug company
Not my super-heroine persona,
but I am thinking that somebody should assume the mantle of The Sanitizer.
tweet of the day
Fun fact: Bullies in high school called me Shamalamadingdong.
— M. Night Shyamalan (@MNightShyamalan) January 5, 2012
Farewell to a chimp
Norma Desmond makes funeral arrangements.
Inspired by @Howlinow, who spoke of the late Cheeta (whomever he may have been, and however long he may have lived) as “the Norma Desmond of simians.”
How do I feel about this car?
Did I ever tell you about the time . . .
Is it boring? Does it involve a musician? Will everyone on the internet go, “Pft! Are you kidding? Is that it? Your story?”
Yes?
Congratulations. Post it here.
I made it to the Hall of Tedium on Christmas Day with my Dave Davies story:
Dave Davies wanted some tortilla chips.
Clusterflock friend Pete Ashton’s Belinda Carlisle story was a Boxing Day feature:
I sold Belinda Carlisle a book about giant squids.
Smell Them; You’ll Know.
Fade from black to black.
Ice Cube Celebrates Charles and Ray Eames (and Los Angeles)
In a world full of McMansions where the structure takes up all the land, the Eames made structure and nature one.
(via @gary_hustwit)
Question
Do you think I’m to blame for the death of Natalie Wood? Should I be worried the LAPD are re-opening the case?
image out of context
Cher is on Twitter
Ok, I imagine this may not be breaking news to some, but did you know Cher is on Twitter and is incomprehensible?
I discovered this via The Oatmeal:
photo caption out of context
Week Five of the Occupy Wall Street movement finds couture-and-pearls-bedecked actress Elizabeth McGovern preoccupied with America’s growing income disparity at the New York Film Festival premiere of “My Week With Marilyn” in a swank New York City hotel on Sunday.
(via @tcarmody)
from the moderated comments
Well, Fuck me… your still as stupid as before.
She said
Doris Day looks fat.
headline of the day
Gordon Ramsay’s Porn Dwarf Double Eaten by Badger
quote out of context
Have you been partying with John Waters? You may REALLY not like what you find out about last night. It may be best just to “let it go.”
Holy Crap!
Using facial recognition in realtime via a webcam, this system lets you control the face of another person…like, say, John Malkovich.
Make sure you click through. The future is here, dude.
I saw Deron in Oslo
At Akershus Castle.
how to be a successful fake
Not Burt Reynolds: Never bring your mouth to the banana. Bring the banana to your mouth. Other people’s mistakes often make the best stories. And yes you can drink and Tweet effectively.
From an interview with fake Twitter celebrities. Where have you gone @CWalken?
Artifice and foam rubber
In fact, so much artifice and foam rubber is often used to create the sexually alluring woman that it’s sometimes difficult to know where the lady ends and the foam rubber begins.
Via dangerous minds by way of Roger Ebert.
quote out of context
The reason for Caan’s departure from the show is unconfirmed but it may have something to do with his attempt to buy a Pakistani flood victim’s baby for £725 while making a charity film.
Bill Murray (Vector Portrait)
Guess Who?: The Many Faces of Noma Bar features over 50 minimalist vector illustrations that encapsulate, with brilliant subtlety and visual eloquence, the essence of famous politicians, philosophers and pop culture legends — a masterpiece of capturing character and sentiment with uncanny precision.
Cindy?
Divas, Why?
Just got back from an “Employee appreciation” event we planned at 3:00 this afternoon. The guys were playing “Pop a Shot” (basketball hoops), and some video shoot-em-up, and that shuffleboardy thingy with corn meal looking stuff the lubricant to allow the disks to move. I had a couple cocktails (well maybe four) and started talking to a small group of us about Liza Minelli.
