Living in a Garbage Truck

http://dumpslikewhat.blogspot.com/2009/12/living-in-garbage-truck.html

MacArthur Fellows Program

find the smart ones, learn from them

full list of winners at wiki, interesting fields outside of the scientists & mathletes: bridge engineer, mental health lawyer, urban farmer, spider silk biologist, music critic, cosmologist, blacksmith, etc et etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur_Fellows_Program

The MacArthur Fellows Program or MacArthur Fellowship (nicknamed the Genius Award) is an award given by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation each year to typically 20 to 40 United States citizens or residents, of any age and working in any field, who “show exceptional merit and promise for continued and enhanced creative work.”

According to the Foundation’s website, “the fellowship is not a reward for past accomplishment, but rather an investment in a person’s originality, insight, and potential.” The current amount of the award is $500,000, paid as quarterly installments over five years. As of 2007^[update], there have been 756 recipients who have received a total of more than $350 million.

The Fellowship has no application. People are nominated anonymously by a body of nominators who submit recommendations to a small selection committee of about a dozen people, also anonymous. The committee then reviews every nominee and passes along their recommendations to the President and the board of directors. Most new MacArthur Fellows first learn that they have even been considered when they receive the congratulatory phone call. An editorial published in The New York Times by MacArthur Fellow James Collins describes the experience. [1]t

t.r.o.y.

Hi I’m Troy McClure you might remember me from…

….such educational films as “Lead Paint: Delicious But Deadly,” and “Here Comes the Metric System!”

….such fishing films as ‘Cast Out’ or ‘The Reel Deal.’

….such films as “The Erotic Adventures of Hercules” and “Dial ‘M’ for Murderousness”.

….such films as “‘P’ is for Psycho” and “The President’s Neck is Missing”.

….such films as “Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die” and “Gladys, the Groovy Mule”.

….such films as “The Greatest Story Ever Hula-ed” and “They Came to Burgle Carnegie Hall”.

….such Fox Network Specials as “Alien Nose Job” and “The Five Fabulous Weeks of the Chevy Chase Show”.

….such self-help videos as “Smoke Yourself Thin” and “Get Some Confidence, Stupid!”

….such nature films as “Earwigs: Ewwww” and “Man vs. Nature: The Road to Victory”.

….such celebrity funerals as “Andre The Giant, We Hardly Knew Ye” and “Shemp Howard, Today We Mourn A Stooge”.

….such telethons as “Out With Gout ‘88″ and “Let’s Save Tony Orlando’s House”.

….such cartoons as “Christmas Ape” and “Christmas Ape goes to Summer Camp”.

….such driver’s ed films as “Alice’s Adventures through the Windshield Glass” and “The Decapitation of Larry Leadfoot”.

….such TV spinoffs as “Son of Sanford and Son” and “After Mannix”.

….such instructional videos as “Mothballing Your Battleship” and “Dig Your Own Grave and Save”.

….such public service videos as “Designated Drivers, the Lifesaving Nerds” and “Phony Tornado Alarms Reduce Readiness”.

….such medical films as “Alice Doesn’t Live Anymore” and “Mommy, What’s Wrong With That Man’s Face?”.

….such automated information kiosks as “Welcome to Springfield Airport” and “Where’s Nordstrom?”.

….such Do-It-Yourself home videos such as “The half-assed approach to foundation repair”

….such educational films as “Meat and You – Partners in Freedom (a Meat Council film, part of the ‘Resistance is Useless’ series)”

“see you in the morning. get ready for tennis…it comes on at 10.”

Selk Bag

http://www.lippiselkbag.co.uk/store.cfm?deptid=56

for those cold nights in bed

see also:

http://brentabousko.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/the-snuggie-sutra/

stiletto stoners

http://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity-lifestyle/articles/living/female-stoners

They’ve got killer careers and enviable social lives. They’re also major potheads. Why are so many smart, successful women lighting up in their off-hours?

mbl interviews bo

aka @sidehike for you twitterati’s

Favorite New Songs from the Past Year
http://www.xxlmag.com/online/?p=57218
The New Mastersounds – Thermal Bad
Slaid Cleaves – Green Mountains and Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_kFjeGOZV0

Favorite Older Songs at the Moment
(I’ve been much more into old stuff lately than new.)
Gram Parsons – Return of the Grievous Angel
Warren Zevon – Studebaker
Fleetwood Mac – Oh Well
Arlo Guthrie – I’m Changing My Name to Chrysler
Tighten Up – James Brown (Yeah, I’m skipping the Archie Bell version.)
Led Zeppelin – Whole Lotta Love and Heartbreaker
Anything and everything by Jerry Reed

Favorite New Band
Them Crooked Vultures
(Not that it’s a fair fight. And not that it’s fair to call them “new.” But it’s what I’ve been most excited about lately.)

Favorite Song Ever
Bob Dylan – My Back Pages
 
Best Recent Concert
Jonathan Coulton @ The Granada. (Nerdy, but true.)
 
Last Great Film I Saw
It Might Get Loud
The Watchmen (It gets a lot of flack, but I thought it was great.)

Last Great Book I Read
Last finished: The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell
Now in the middle of: Age of Betrayal – The Triumph of Money in America by Jack Beatty

Best Purchase of the Past Year
New flip flops in May

Best Thing I Did This Year
Daytona 500. Seats were on the front row of the upper deck. Everybody should go at least once.

Favorite TV Show at the Moment
Mad Men
 
Favorite Video Game at the Moment
At the risk of being branded heinously uncool I have to admit it’s Peggle.

My Ringtone
Ted Nugent – Wang Dang Sweet Poontang

socks

http://jpeterman.com/product~cat~100211~sku~MAC+2618~src~SOCK.asp

masters of the universe – hipster edition

via hobo

http://www.behance.net/Gallery/MASTERS-OF-THE-UNIVERSE/213057

It’s done! This is what I’ve been working on for the last few months, I think it’s the biggest project I’ve done so far. 16 Redesigns of famous Masters of the Universe-characters! I imagined them somewhere in the myspace/beatnik jive turkey/fashion-scene, as if they were doing a photoshooting for some magazine. I’m a fashion-nerd myself, so I dressed them up in things that really excist and that I like.
They were hand-drawn on A3, and I plan to print them on fluorescent or glow in the dark paper. And hopefully do an exhibition with them

ex:

He-Man wears: Jacket – Dior Homme, Jeans – April 77, Shoes – Pierre Hardy

Skeletor wears: Hoody – Loopwheeler, Jeans – Cheap Monday, Shoes – YSL

Trap Jaw wears: Top – American Apparel, Jeans – April 77, Shoes – Vans

noise party