Lebanese Artist, Israeli Curator: Art Relevant, Ethnicities Not
In the spirit of bridging the Arab/Israeli/Jewish/Islamic divide, an exhibiton at Fred Torres Gallery brings together Lebanese artist George Rahme and Israeli gallery director and curator Elana Rubinfeld. It’s All There Already, Detroit-based Rahme’s first solo show, presents fifteen new works. Upon first glance, they look like highly polished pastoral and nature scenes, but in...
Trouble With ‘Love’?
Despite causing a veritable media shitstorm, the last time we saw Courtney Love, mental and healthwise, she was doing pretty darn good. In fact, we even lauded her for "[becoming] more in touch with herself than ever before." However, a recentPage Six itemsuggests that Love is back to her old ways after allegedly trashing her...
Washington Man Jailed For Giving Wife Meth-Water
It’s one thing to accidentally give your kid-sister pot brownies, but it’s quite another to intentionally give your nursing wife methampethamine-laced water. The latter, it turns out,gets you arrested forall sorts of bad shit–including (but not limited to) endangerment with a controlled substance, second-degree assault, domestic violence and five counts of witness-tampering.The accused’s defense?He wanted...
AIG Bonus-Gate Scandal Escalates. _New York Times_ Reports on Nerdy “Command-Chair Trekkies”
Today, as I read what very well may be one of the most absurb _NYT_ articles to date (utterly eclipsing the scary horse sculpture story and the sillyBritish vocab piece)–whichaddressedthenew subculture of so-called"command-chair Trekkies" who "[get] their Kirk on" byengineering sophisticated versions of Captain Kirk’s command module–I couldn’t help but wonder what kind of badasshallucinogens...
Louis CK Says “Fuck You” to the Recession
Only two days into the work week, Tuesdays often times makes us feel like we want to–well–"suck a bag of dicks." With that in mind, please check out this vid of comedian-extraordinaire, Louis CK, waxing angrily about people not being appreciative of technology. (And here I was, about to bitch about how this video was...
Where Mad Men Meets Superman
Peep this brand new funny orDIE vidof Jon Hamm (aka: Mad Men‘s Don Draper) channeling his best Lex Luthor, who attempts to endear himself to Obamain hopes that the president will bailout hisflailing company,Lexcorp.
Fake-Tanning Now Found to Be Lethal
To us moreshallow (read: naive) folk, fake-tanning is a lot like dabbling in cocaine usage: You know it’s hella bad for you but you go ahead and do it anyway.One more time is not gonna hurt anyone/thing, right? Well, not anymore.Yesterday,a man at a South Carolinatanning salonjust narrowly escaped a burning tanning bed before it...
Lindsay Lohan Flips Again
Lindsay Lohan has anillustrioushistory of flip-flopping.In the past two years alone she’s replaced: cocaine with fake stints in rehab,wangs with muffs, and now, whatever-the-fuck-religion-she-is with Judaism. Apparently, she wants to prove her committment to muff-diving paramour, Samantha Ronson. All I can say is, Samantha is one lucky bitch!To prove his committment to me, my boyfriend...
Dow Below 7,000. _New York Times_ Reports on Cursed Horse Sculpture in Denver
The last timeIblogged aboutTheNew York Times and their self-indulgent mantra of "I’m The New York Times and willpublish nonsensical crap because I can,"it wasenlightening us with the vagaries of British vocab. Yesterday, as the Dow dropped below 7,000 for the first time since 1997, NYT wrote a story about some fucking horse sculpture at the...
Kim Jong Il Has a New Lady Friend
No, not really. But he does in theabove video, a parody of those God-awful Eharmony.com commercials. LA-based comedian Danny Cho, who bears a striking resemblance to our favorite nuke-happy dictator, has been turning out satirical videos of Kim Jong Il for the past few months. After a brief hiatus, he’s back with the recently-released gem...
Gayest Oscars Ever!
Ok, I admit it: I saw the "Boy From Oz" on Broadway and loved it.I didn’t care how tight Hugh Jackman‘s leggings were nor how faux-bronzed his skin looked. Icould watch him dance and twirl (and do jazz hands) on stage all night long. And last nite was no different. Jackman’s latest gig ashost at...
Look Who’s Coming to Dinner
Dinner ForSchmucks is a Hollywood remake of the 1998 French hit Le Dîner de Cons (The Dinner of Idiots). In theFrench version, a pompous publisher and his similarly bombastic friends invite the most pitiful people they come acrossto a weekly dinner party. On one particular occasion, however, things don’t quite go as planned, and a...
