“Because love is forever!” // Smart collar for dogs. // Brain-controlled bionic leg. // There are duck lanes in London. // Star Trek-inspired office building of note. // That holiday in Iceland you’ve been planning. // How to prolong battery life. // Belly paint. // Rihanna farts in a bath. // Giant strawberry. // Tasty hedge. // Stayin’ Alive. // How to make gummi Lego. // Wet-fold origami animals. // An interactive global map of meteorite falls. // Interactive pixelated fur pompoms. // Cruise ships from above. // “Masturbating men will find their hands pregnant in the afterlife.” Don’t question Islamic science. // Smartphone screen-to-body ratios. // Retro-ironic gaming cabinet of note. // Hurdler. // Dad interventions. // And finally, fiercely, drag queen Storm versus drag queen Dark Phoenix.
NB the cluster of meteorite impacts near Roswell, NM.
Posted by: R. Sherman | May 29, 2015 at 01:52
Karnak: I will now read the next envelope!
Ed McMahon: (Stepping on Johnny's next line) HE WILL NOW READ THE NEXT ENVELOPE!
Karnak: (Glowering)... May your hands be impregnated in the next world!
Anyway, I got your ephemera right here, buddy.
Posted by: Dave M | May 29, 2015 at 01:58
“Because love is forever!”
Bet someone will though.
Posted by: sk60 | May 29, 2015 at 06:53
And finally, fiercely, drag queen Storm versus drag queen Dark Phoenix.
He's way better than Halle Berry.
Posted by: Joan | May 29, 2015 at 07:45
Via PootBlog, I bring you... this.
Posted by: David | May 29, 2015 at 08:51
On the subject of cruise ships. I used to sit beside a naval architect, who told me two things:
1. If you want to compare their sizes, count the lifeboats.
2. One of the hardest things to locate is the nightclub, because of the noise. So on the modern ships, that weird saucer-shaped thing perched right on top of everything is the nightclub.
He also told me that the takings from the casino pays for the vessel in short order, but I don't know how true that is. What I do know is these things are being built bigger and bigger, and there appears to be no drying up of orders.
Posted by: Tim Newman | May 29, 2015 at 14:09
How to prolong battery life.
That's something else I didn't know.
Posted by: Sam | May 29, 2015 at 14:17
From Harvard Business School: How Crowds and Experts Kickstart the Arts
The money quote:
Posted by: Ted S., Catskill Mtns., NY, USA | May 29, 2015 at 14:19
Classic sentences from the Guardian Summertime livin' is easy for rich
Posted by: Ted S., Catskill Mtns., NY, USA | May 29, 2015 at 14:20
The unbridled brilliance of envious materialism.
Or as it's known, feminism.
Posted by: Ten | May 29, 2015 at 14:35
Most of the disagreements were on projects that the crowd liked but that the judges would potentially have given less money to or not have funded at all.
Imagine my surprise.
sweltering polyester
Christ almighty. The pious Mr Thrasher opens with this: “I resent rich people in general, but I hate them especially during the summer.” Pretension aside, I can’t help thinking that cultivating a worldview in which irrational resentment is presented as a virtue, something to display, must take its toll on a person’s mental wellbeing.
Posted by: David | May 29, 2015 at 14:36
Because love is forever!
Or: how to put your primary school - age children to work
Posted by: Jonathan | May 29, 2015 at 15:41
What, is it illegal for the poor to wear seersucker?
Posted by: Quint&Jessel, Sea of Azof, Bly, UK | May 29, 2015 at 16:17
. . . the Guardian Summertime livin' is easy for rich
Errrr . . . at least from the descriptions, and definitely that picture, the rich, or the frantically middle class---aka merely other hipsters?
A few years back in San Francisco, there was an enraged howl from someone who had deliberately parked a more glitzy than not car in a somewhat so-so neighborhood, just in time for a "protest march" to come along, complete with "anarchists", who immediately targeted the car and did some variety of damage . . . Or as I and several other readers noted; Oh, so a hipster is pissed off about encountering other hipsters.
Posted by: Hal | May 29, 2015 at 18:35
David, a 't-shirt of note'... https://twitter.com/RobProvince/status/604330223266451457
Posted by: Min | May 29, 2015 at 20:08
Heh. Works for me.
Posted by: David | May 29, 2015 at 20:14
But Crowds are the "experts" at art.
i.e. you cannot be expert judge of subjective value.
of course failed "artists" resent this as they understand (yet cloud with obfuscation) the masses rejection of their work and their assignment of a low productivity to the failed artists time.
Which is where the artistic narcissist comes in and demands that the public are somehow "wrong" and should be extorted from for selfish benefit.
Posted by: ac1 | May 29, 2015 at 22:46
Dad interventions
It's all true! I hate to boast, of course (cough), but I've done numbers 1, 3 and 6 on that list in the last fortnight
Evolution made men do all that sport so we could catch babies. Fact(oid).
Posted by: Henry | May 29, 2015 at 22:51
@Henry
Alas, my evolutionary tree prevented me from catching small children pre-mishap. Rather it prepared me to keep a death grip on my beer and then say, post tumble, "Rub some dirt on it . . . and don't tell your mother how this happened."
Posted by: R. Sherman | May 30, 2015 at 02:47
but I've done numbers 1, 3 and 6 on that list in the last fortnight
Number six . . . the one where, as far as I can tell, he doesn't just scoop up a kid, but fires her over the horizon?
Posted by: Hal | May 30, 2015 at 03:03
In other news, Mark Littlewood reminds Laurie Penny that on May 7th the electorate didn’t seem overly keen on Laurie’s far-left Occupier “full communism” politics, resulting in the election of a Conservative government. Laurie regards this electoral detail as a “cheap debate point.”
Posted by: David | May 30, 2015 at 07:26
Because love is forever!
Now if only they could get these as 3D tattoos.
Posted by: The Lurker on the Threshold | May 31, 2015 at 11:29
Belly paint
How could you forget the TRIGGER WARNING on that one? Why do you hate women?
Posted by: Darleen | May 31, 2015 at 19:05
How could you forget the TRIGGER WARNING on that one?
It’s best to take my evil intent as a given.
Posted by: David | May 31, 2015 at 19:18
Only the poor wear white after Labor day, m'dear.
Posted by: mojo | June 01, 2015 at 06:06