My other favourite episode is The 39 Stairs.

Shona's "biggest accomplishment" yet?

Sherlock Holmes looks terrible, but damnnn.

Sarah Lownes
(via Sabino)

JeongMee Yoon
SeoWoo and her pink things 2
from: The Pink & Blue Project
2008

(via This Wasteland)

Adam Shaw, Vancouver
ONE CITY LEFT

I knowww.  I just like it, ok?

Leonardo Erlich
Swimming Pool
1999

(This is at MoMA's PS1 till March)

Leonardo Erlich
Smoking Room
2006

Third and Delaware -- Fashion Highlights from Roseanne

I love R. Kelly so, so much.

Skull and Bones Society = Boring :(

Forget Mexico!

Even TIME Magazine cites this study positively:
Drugs in Portugal: Did Decriminalization Work?

Toronto woman charged with witchcraft

Walton Ford
The Island
2009

More

Japan must being going crazy over The Fanstastic Mr. Fox.

The internet will tell you that everything is a bad idea.

HARMONY Chocolate Milk will change your life.

Michael DeForge Really Likes Shoe

Bunky and Scarface

The 50 Best Protest Signs of 2009

Yes, that's Ron Moss in the red!
Ron Moss has played Ridge in The Bold and the Beautiful since 1982.

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
- Marcel Duchamp

Ask Amy To Rape Victim: "First, You Were A Victim Of Your Own Awful Judgment"

Show some leg, show some arm, but not any more than that.

Terry Richardson

A woman called Dan Savage this week (Savage Lovecast Episode 160) to bitch about how her husband won't eat the fruit (and occasional vegetable) he fucks her with.
This is as good an explanation as any as to why we are doomed as a species.
Doomed.

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice publishes executed offenders' last statements.
Don't read these in more than 20-minute increments. 

We wouldn't want Art to be too insular

Controversy for the New Museum

Now this would have been a Halloween party.

Dinosaur bones: the latest status symbol

Calvin Klein's Sex Addiction


Scott Stapp and Music's Fifteen Greatest Man Chests

From MoMA's Tim Burton Retrospective

Yes, it took this long for the ball to be inducted in to the U.S. Toy Hall of Fame!

Rob Lowe by Nan Goldin. Vanity Fair, February 1984

One of my first commercial assignments was to shoot Rob Lowe for Vanity Fair in 1983. It was in a hotel room in New York, and I was shocked at his lack of interior life: at one point I asked him to look introspective -- and he turned on the television. When he left, I invited my boyfriend up, we ordered lots of room service, champagne, pay-per-view movies, and spent the night. I didn't get much work from Vanity Fair after that.

From My First Assignment

Happy November

Whit Stillman's The Last Days of Disco

"Uncle Scrooge is sexy."

Caravaggio, Conversion on the Road to Damascus, 1601





















Francis Bacon, Study of George Dyer, 1969

A contest between Bacon and Caravaggio

Burkini



Muslim group call for ban on the burka
(Old news, I know.)


A Combat Role, and Anguish, Too

Mad About Mad Men

Stranger: Do you know what an extra is?
Me: Yes.
Stranger: Have you ever considered working as an extra?
Me: No.
Stranger: I'm going to be honest with you. I work in the porn industry.

(Hey, it tops having a bagel thrown at you! Yes, A BAGEL.)

Paul Sculfor

The Divine Miss V

JFK, Gore Vidal and Tennessee Williams


Have you met President Clinton?
Yes – and I like Bill. My family is Southern. I’m used to Bill Clintons. The country apparently wasn’t, though. At the time of his impeachment trial, I wrote a defense of him. When he claimed, “I didn’t have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky,” he was totally accurate.
You believe him?
He was talking Southern. In the South, sex is when you put it in and pump away and there’s a danger of a baby. That’s “sexual relations.” Anything else is what we called in school “messing around.” And all Southern boys messed around.

...

So what’s your take on Polanski, this many years later?
I really don’t give a fuck. Look, am I going to sit and weep every time a young hooker feels as though she’s been taken advantage of?


A Conversation with Gore Vidal

Allen Huynh

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COME BACK KYLIE!

I thought I hated Glee because I didn't go to high school; however, here's a more compelling argument as to why it sucks.

Sing It, Sister: Why I Hate Glee

ALPHABET

I've seen this on a variety of blogs so I thought I'd share....




(via Kiss Me I'm Lazy)

TOP 40 - 1986

1. That's What Friends Are For - Dionne & Friends
2. Say You - Say Me - Lionel Richie
3. I Miss You - Klymaxx
4. On My Own - Patti Labelle & Michael McDonald
5. Broken Wings - Mr. Mister
6. How Will I Know - Whitney Houston
7. Party All The Time - Eddie Murphy
8. Burning Heart - Survivor
9. Kyrie - Mr. Mister
10. Addicted To Love - Robert Palmer
11. Greatest Love Of All - Whitney Houston
12. Secret Lovers - Atlantic Starr
13. Friends And Lovers - Carl Anderson & Gloria Loring
14. Glory Of Love - Peter Cetera
15. West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys
16. There'll Be Sad Songs - Billy Ocean
17. Alive And Kicking - Simple Minds
18. Never - Heart
19. Kiss - Prince & The Revolution
20. Higher Love - Steve Winwood
21. Stuck With You - Huey Lewis & The News
22. Holding Back The Years - Simply Red
23. Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
24. Sara - Starship
25. Human - Human League
26. I Can't Wait - Nu Shooz
27. Take My Breath Away - Berlin
28. Rock Me Amadeus - Falco
29. Papa Don't Preach - Madonna
30. You Give Love A Bad Name - Bon Jovi
31. When The Going Gets Tough - Billy Ocean
32. When I Think Of You - Janet Jackson
33. These Dreams - Heart
34. Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone) - Glass Tiger
35. Live To Tell - Madonna
36. Mad About You - Belinda Carlisle
37. Something About You - Level 42
38. Venus - Bananarama
39. Dancing On The Ceiling - Lionel Richie
40. Conga - Miami Sound Machine

They still seem dated, don't they?

Recently, a friend took a business trip to Austin, Texas, and ended up at the QUA Bottle Lounge: a bar with a shark tank.
Needless to say, PETA has a problem with this place.

1 Girl 5 Gays

Apparently Bossip is my go-to news source...RIP life as an informed individual.



Soulja Boy Arrested For Running From Police

Fresh Up Out of Jaaaiiillll Turn Yo Swag On!!!

Pedro Almodovar's Monument

From Elvis' last film, Change of Habit. Make sure to see the end of the clip...WHO WILL SHE CHOOSE, ELVIS OR JESUS? WHO?!?!

Bringing Up Baby
1938

The chemistry between these two...sigh!

If I could go anywhere this weekend, I'd head to Chicago for Art on Track.
Slowly, slowly, my beloved Toronto catches up...

For Lippincott...95 4 EVA

(I don't think I've posted this song before...)

The more layers of another man's saliva that you can shellac your body with, the sooner you will be over the Jesus-freak.
--Dan Savage
Savage Love Podcast Episode 155

Greg Girard
Fuzhou Lu Mailboxes
2005

Big Bird gets shut down!

Al Aareen

Toronto Star

My latest television crush: Robert Herjavec of CBC's Dragon's Den and ABC's Shark Tank. There's something so refreshing about a reality television show that just rips people and their ideas apart without any narrative framing or celebrity posturing. The dragons, or sharks, depending on the country, are also completely frank about their greed. The show originated in Japan, of course, but is now syndicated around the world in places like Lebanon and Nigeria. I thought I didn't have a reason to go to Africa, and now I do.
To learn more about Robert's inspiring life, read here.

Fiona Apple -- Paper Bag

On Tuesday afternoon I went to hear George Elliott Clarke read from his latest book, I&I. After the reading, an audience member asked him about how he started writing. His response was the following poem. Clarke claims (doubtful, and I mean that as a compliment) that this was the first thing he ever wrote. This poem told him he was supposed to be a poet.

Watercolour for Negro Expatriates in France
George Elliott Clarke (1960-)
1979

Compared to regular potato salad, it's downright exciting.

Though Mark Bittman's Sweet Potato Salad does look delicious, I'm posting this more for his hilarious intro and witty repertoire. Honestly, I have yet to find another chef that can capture my attention. I find all other food television, while informative, excruciatingly boring.

Full Moon on Nuit Blanche

Moon Connection

I don't want to jinx it, but this year's Nuit Blanche looks promising.
Battle Royal sounds really scary.

Elsewhere in America...

(Kinda bad but curious nonetheless.)
Harvard educated; was set to appear in Lily, a Gossip Girl spin-off.
I think he can do better.

"Obama Be a Comin' For Mah Dip"

I have only made it to 1:52 of this.

Gordon Ball
from I am sorry. Sincerely, Frankenstein.
2009