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Punch Me Panda Speaks

Punch Me Panda getting, er, punched in Astor Place, NYC.

Entrance to The Underbelly Project

For those wanting to know how to get into The Underbelly Project, some photos have appeared on burymeinbrooklyn.com of intrepid (stupid?) explorers who have deigned to enter.

The Underbelly Project Video

Underbelly Project Found, Bombed.

So the "top secret", "unaccessible" Underbelly Project has already been found and bombed:

 

More photos here, including a pic demonstrating that the location is the unused S 4th Street station in Williamsburg, BK, and that the entrance is via Broadway station on the G.  More on all this to come.

The Hair of Grace Coddington

This is Grace Coddington's hair everybody. I like this picture, so that's all.

Chinatown McDonalds, New York City

McDonalds in Chinatown, New York City. I had no idea this existed in such a manner. (Photo Vivienne Gucwa)

The New Look

Look, this limited edition eyeshadow from Dior is real pretty, but it costs $90 and I will not allow you to spend 90 bucks on a eyeshadow.

The Underbelly Project

Okay so coming up (ie later when I have time), a little investigative journalism into the mysterious Underbelly Project.  Stay on the website for a little while to hear the sound of trains for extra spookiness. 


Meanwhile check out the video of the works in progess here. Unfortunately I can't embed it, because you know underground art projects exclusively give their videos to The New York Times.
 

Dawg On It

It is a very important rule of the internet that at some point, if not all the time, you must post a cute animal picture to a blog. So I'm going to do that today, because I would very much like this dog. I would also like it to come with interchangeable sneakers/trainers, preferably these Def Jam Adidas ones, of which I would like a matching pair.

Dear Universe, please bring this dog to me. Thanking you in advance for your cooperation.

How To Make New Friends

You Don't Need These Either.

You probably don't need these Cynthia Rowley Band-Aids in your life either. But at $10 these are at least an affordable non-necessity.

Antoine Dogson

Separated at birth?

More Things You Don't Need

You probably don't  need a Hello Kitty Smart Car . You can look but you can't buy.

Sonia Magazine Presents Vatooing.

Okay, so seeing as pretty much the only thing that leads people to this blog is a search for vajazzling, here is a video about the next step up vatooing.

Check Yo' Grammar

Has anyone tried this grammar checker yet?

Your College Degree Is Probably Useless.

http://chronicle.com/blogs/innovations/why-did-17-million-students-go-to-college/27634

Things You Really Don't Need

A Louis Vuitton iPad case. You don't need this. You shouldn't get one. Not now, not ever.

Writing For The Web

http://styleguide.yahoo.com

Also coming up...

Yes, we are all going to die alone

I have come to the conclusion, and late stage in life, where I just wish people would give up centring their lives on trying to a find "a relationship". I'll get round to writing this at some point.

Real Estate Porn

Yes please, want to live in this New York Penthouse with private pool. Can anyone lend me $5 million?

Fifties Frou-Frou

Gratuitous picture of Marilyn.

 Also adorbs, is this little swimdress from Juicy.

Lohan gets 90 days in jail and 90 days in rehab

Miss Lohan has been sentenced to 90 days in jail, although she will only serve 25% of that time if she behaves herself. But after that she has to do a 90 inpatient rehab program, which let's face it is what the girl needs. What doesn't make sense is why she doesn't get put in rehab first. In fact why don't the authorities start combining the two.

TMZ has videos livestreamed from the court:
www.tmz.com/2010/07/05/lindsay-lohan-probation-violation-hearing-scram-drugs-alcohol/

Committed, Elizabeth Gilbert

I'm about to try and read this. I just hope it isn't as self-indulgent as Eat Pray Love.

Shephard Fairey Mural Vandalized

The damage that's been done to the Shephard Fairey mural at the Deitch gallery has become phenomenal. I'm going to backtrack a history to it when I get the time, which isn't right now.

This is the Os Gemeos mural which is hiding underneath Fairey's piece.

The Keith Haring mural which took the spot previously.

What I Wore.

I don't like the What I Wore blog (waving at the google alert). In fact I don't like this whole generation of mainly girls, whose primary purpose in life seems to be photographing themselves all day and posting it to a blog. Someone needs to come up with a term for this sort of blogging. But seriously,  not even facetiously, photographing and looking at pictures of yourself all day has got to be some new kind of mental disorder; it will probably appear in the DSM in about 10 years time, guarantee it.

New Shoes

These shoes are kind of beautifug. And I'm loving the sequinned socks. From the Cynthia Rowley Resort 2011 collection, if that means anything to any of you. Does this mean that chunky heels are back? Does anybody care?

The Best Women's Websites?

According to Forbes the top 100 websites for women may be found here:

http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/23/100-best-womens-blogs-forbes-woman-time-websites.html

Lacking in Charitini?

So Rachel Sklar of Mediaite and Charitini is selling her clothes on craigslist, ten big, whole bags of the stuff. Now really, when you want people to just buy big, whole, bags of unspecified clothes it's time to get up and take those bags to a charity shop.

Bros Icing Hoes

Julia Allison just got iced.

http://pegshot.com/p/418iaab2n/

The History of Fashion

If you need/want to research fashion history, check out http://www.fashion-era.com

Anita Baker

That's so cute that Anita Baker has become the hottest search on Google Trends after singing at the NBA finals. Everyone had forgotten about her right? Okay so here are the youtube links to Sweet Love and Rapture.

Never forget Anita Baker!

American Apparel wants Supermodels. To work in their stores.

American Apparel will only hire you if you look the part, Prada fire their staff when they no longer look the part, and Soho House only want members who are under the age of 27. So if you're ugly and over 28 you might as well die now.
Um, hello American Apparel, supermodels don't get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day, not minimum wage.

New York City budget dictates that you are not allowed to be suicidal during a recession.

So after the closure of a major hospital, with the threat of library closures looming, The City of New York now wants to shut down suicide prevention hotline The Samaritans to further reduce budget deficits. There is well documented link between unemployment, deprivation, depression and suicide, and with the unemployment rate still over 10% in NYC, The City couldn't be looking to close this line at a worse time.

Secondary Musical Interlude

Jose James from the album Blackmagic. Why is he not a huge, huge star yet?

Musical Interlude

Paul Weller - Wishing on a Star

Media Schmoves - Anna Holmes leaving Jezebel

Anna Holmes will step down as Editor in Chief of Jezebel.com at the end of June. She is being replaced by Jessica Coen, which means that a media job has not become available so please put down your resume.

Footnote: A media job is something that people had in the 90's

Hire someone to wait in the Shake Shack line for you...

Ah New York, the city where you can get everything, except probably a job and enough money to pay the rent. But for the Richie Rich's amongst you ZipGigs will pick up whatever you want from wherever you want (within legal reason I presume).


That said, there appears to be no line today according to the Shake Cam:

Sex and The City 2 Premiere

Watch live streaming video from sexandthecity2 at livestream.com

Crystal Renn, real model with real pubic hair

There's something very 70's about "outsize" model Crystal Renn; or maybe it's just that "curves" in general hark back to the era. Vogue obviously couldn't find any sample sizes to fit her which is why she's pictured sans clothes, but let's marvel at the pubic hair. So 70's in it's full bush glory, none of this Brazilian or landing strip nonsense going on. I applaud it's naturalness.

iPhoney 4G

What is all this hyperbole and crap about this mysterious new iPhone?

So somebody loses the prototype new iPhone in a bar, then somebody finds said phone and can immediately tell enough about it to call Gizmodo and sell it them. When Gizmodo apparently had to take the whole phone to pieces to be able to verify that it was even by Apple. If it was that valuable to Apple wouldn't they have reported it stolen?

Yeah great PR people. The phone is due out in a couple of months.

Russell and Katy Need More Homes.

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Russell of Brand and Katy of Perry are apparently looking for a home in New York's East Village. Lucky them because no-one else can afford to live there anymore. 
EV Grieve has guessed details of  the places they've been looking at.

http://www.mediafire.com/?zhznnm5mk52

Some of us have standards.

God I love this: http://wehavestandards.com/

Fairytales

I wish I could watch this show and count my own blessings, but instead I sit there and think, "Oh my god - maybe quality management is just another bullshit fairytale I'm going to have come to terms with as an adult."
Like the idea that freelance writers can afford designer clothes. Or that being young and childless means you spend your nights at bars with your loyal and constant group of friends. Or that "dating" as an adult entails many actual dates. It's a lie, kids, it's all a lie!

But seriously -- does anyone work for a genuinely good manager? Or are we all just laboring under people who put zero effort into how they manage staff or projects? 

Meat Market

Courtesy of Brian Moylan at Gawker this is precisely why not to go the Meatpacking District:

"It's full of Scandinavian tourists, hoochie mommas from New Jersey trying to have their Carrie Bradshaw moment, and guys who wear a jacket and tie to hide the fact that the fattest thing on their body—next to their wallet—is their gut. There's even an Ed Hardy store down there, for fuck's sake."

 Amen.

Winter Fell, And So Did I.

The History of Vajazzaling

Okay so here dear friends is a brief history of the recent trend of vajazzling:


It started on Lopez Tonight with Jennifer Love Hewitt telling George Lopez how she used Vajazzling to help her get over a break up. Whatever works for you honey.




It apparently shined like a disco ball.


This microtrend then got picked up by the, er, women's media, and Bryce Gruber was the first one out there to make her sparkly pubic area public:

 During

After
















So then she apparently still hadn't had enough exposure after this and decided to put a video up on luxuryspot.com, showing the act of vajazzling in process. Funny note, the woman who does the vajazzling was too embarrassed to say the word 'vagina'.



Yeah so anyway, Bryce is apparently celibate so I hope she gets great pleasure out of looking at that all day. Apparently it was done in the name of investigative journalism.


If you really feel you need to get this done, get your vajayjay down to Completely Bare Salon in NYC.


Endnote: The history of Vajazzling probably goes way further back than this, possibly to the Mona Lisa, but I do not have time to research such matters now.

Girls and Boys

So important:

I welcome the day when girls learn that their agency and self-sufficiency in the world is as important as their looks, and boys learn that they are valued for reasons other than how much money they make, and their own skills as fathers matter tremendously.

New York I Love You, But You Brought Me Down

Lawd, this should have been my theme song for 2008/9.

I would quite like to post every video variation to this song. Maybe I will.

http://www.pixlr.com/

http://www.pixlr.com/

This is so bloody great. A free online version of Photoshop.

Si Newhouse's Secret Tattle Tales

Si Newhouse's Secret Tattle Tales

Sorry but no...

One of the wonders of the medium of the internet is that it has brought forth a new style of writing via a platform for previously unheard voices, a topic which I need to come back to. What I don't understand, and clearly what the monoliths of "old media" don't understand, is that old media isn't just failing because of the internet but also because it's formulas and ways of being are tired and often no longer relevant. So I don't understand magazines that simply put their vehicles online as they already are. And now a new site Crushable from Elizabeth Spiers the original editor of Gawker, I would have imagined she would have known better. But no, here it is again, another version of the same old tired women's magazine. Features on "Dress in pink for a week"? No. No way, no how, get outta here, you are not of this time.

Do not agree

From Joan Didion's Goodbye To All That, and essay which I love but see the fault of youth in, she writes "the way you love the first person who ever touches you and you never love anyone quite that way again." No not true, the guff of your first love will always be your biggest is garbage, and is only uttered by someone who hasn't loved much or settled down young.

Musical Interlude

Reggie Watts, Wax and Wane. Love love love

Me, My Blog and I

So now that I've come to realise that absolutely no-one at all is reading my blog, not even me, I'm probably just going to start making it more much personal as as outlet for myself.

This will undoubtedly make it both more and less and interesting at the same time.

There seems to be a current complaint trend on the internets about people's narcissism and repulsive oversharing when it comes to personal blogs. I say there is difference between those who are trying to garner attention via the internet, and those who use this medium simply a an outlet, just like the journal of yore.

Sntr Diane Sorvino

Diane Sorvino is what politics needs to start looking and sounding like.