Unusual Storage Ideas

I am a big fan of good interior design, but I usually have neither the funds nor the time to ever really have fantastic apartments. However, Christmas break always ends up being the time when I get antsy enough to fix up which ever apartment I'm inhabiting at the time. Last Christmas I made the Kitchen Rainbow, this year the apartment I live in is about 500 square feet and has zippo storage space, so I'm looking for some creative ways to store my junk. I found some awesome ones on Apartment Therapy today for inspiration. I'm thinking I might could actually make the suitcase one; it seems pretty simple.

There's going to be some changes around here

Recently I've been feeling like my blog lacks certain... direction, if you will. I am going to try to implement a new category system, which will hopefully keep me updating on a regular basis and supply some consistency around here.

Here's what I'm thinking: I'll have a category for each day of the week (listed below) and weekends will be for updates and pictures on whatever it is I do on weekends.

Categories are tentative and will be subject to change as I develop them. :)

Music/Movie Mondays
Terrifying Tuesdays
Wonderful Wednesdays
Thoughtful Thursdays
Fashion Fridays

Out of 14 followers one of you has to read this semi-regularly. I'm counting on a little feedback here, kapeesh?

Now, seeing as how it is a Terrifying Tuesday, check out this mess.


Japan is apparently offering to create robotic dopplegangers to be sold at a department stores for 139,000 Euros. The robots are an exact silicone replica of the recipient with speech based on recordings of that person's voice. So far there are only two on sale and they don't walk (yet).
How can no one see this is a terrible idea?! This is how movies that end in the destruction of the human race begin. Just because you can Japan, doesn't mean you should!


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1235994/I-Robot-Buy-android-double-Christmas.html#ixzz0b8qszAQT

Sears 1934

On this most holiest of shopping days I thought I'd share some neat pictures from a Sears catalog in 1934. It's interesting how gorgeous and aesthetically pleasing these are versus the catalogs now.








On this most holy of shopping days I thought I'd share some pictures and excerpts from a Sears catalog in 1934.

Pictures found via Lileks

Wowza!

Katy Perry, I will always love your sense of judgement. This is a picture from when she hosted the European Music Awards or some nonsense.

Likely Story

When asked to draw a picture of what they wanted to be when they grew up, second-grader "Sarah" turned in the lovely drawing shown below.

Needless to say, the teacher was a bit surprised -- Mrs. Smith had always seemed like such a conservative woman. So she sent a note home to the girl's mother asking for clarification as to the picture's meaning.

(Here's the reply the teacher received the following day) Dear Mrs.

Jones, I wish to clarify that I am not now, nor have I ever been, an exotic dancer. I work at Home Depot and I told my daughter how hectic it was last week before the blizzard hit. I told her we sold out every single shovel we had, and then I found one more in the back room, and that several people were fighting over who would get it. Her picture doesn't show me dancing around a pole. It's supposed to depict me selling the last snow shovel we had at Home Depot. From now on I will remember to check her homework more thoroughly before she turns it in. Sincerely, Mrs. Smith

I found this picture and story via The Blue Kimono

Decisions, Decision

I can't decide who to be for Halloween. Input would be appreciated. My choices are as follows:

Charlie Chaplin

A Dead Chimney Sweep

Karl Lagerfeld

A VALEDICTION FORBIDDING MOURNING

For some reason I got to thinking about this poem by John Donne today. It's probably one of the sweetest love poems I know, and I'd like to work it into a tattoo some day.

A VALEDICTION FORBIDDING MOURNING

AS virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls to go,
Whilst some of their sad friends do say,
"Now his breath goes," and some say, "No."

So let us melt, and make no noise,
No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;
'Twere profanation of our joys
To tell the laity our love.

Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears;
Men reckon what it did, and meant;
But trepidation of the spheres,
Though greater far, is innocent.

Dull sublunary lovers' love
—Whose soul is sense—cannot admit
Of absence, 'cause it doth remove
The thing which elemented it.

But we by a love so much refined,
That ourselves know not what it is,
Inter-assurèd of the mind,
Care less, eyes, lips and hands to miss.

Our two souls therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an expansion,
Like gold to aery thinness beat.

If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if th' other do.

And though it in the centre sit,
Yet, when the other far doth roam,
It leans, and hearkens after it,
And grows erect, as that comes home.

Such wilt thou be to me, who must,
Like th' other foot, obliquely run;
Thy firmness makes my circle just,
And makes me end where I begun.

Babies should be more careful

One of the things I find funniest in life is when grown ups or animals knock over little babies. I found this picture today from Joanna's Blog and then I decided to look up videos of babies getting knocked over by dog. There short don't worry.

Ms. Jones if you're naughty

This is one of the most bad ass pictures I have ever seen. Someday it will be on impossible cool

Picture this

Someday...

I am kicking myself for not thinking to post this car sooner. I've been watching the process of painting it for a couple of weeks now, and only just the other day did I think to share it with you guys. I'll keep up with any further progress.



This looks like the next panel they're working on. As far as I can tell they are doing the outlines with a marker. I'm not sure what they're painting with, but I will ask when I find out who owns the car.

Culinary school drop outs

Today I give to you Cake Wrecks, a blog dedicated to sharing the hilarious results of professional bakers who are having an off day.

I'll give you five bucks if you can guess what this is before you get to the end of this post.

Many of the cakes aren't necessarily poorly made, but made in poor taste.
This girl might have the coolest parents in the world. She's going to be a rockstar.
I don't know if you can read that yellow writing, but it says "The Golden Girls" This guy has an obsession and that really stiff broad in his lap is supposed to be Sofia. God Bless.


The first picture at the top....is a fetus with an Ipod. Seriously, go back and look.

Queen+Beach Boys

if Queen and the Beach Boys fucked, and had a baby, and the Turtles and The Clash fucked and had a baby, and if somehow those babies met and fucked and had a baby, thats what Jellyfish would be

- David Hood


Jellyfish. Look at these goofy-ass dudes. They are the best power pop band you've never heard of.
This picture is the cover of their first cd, Bellybutton, which has now wiggled its way into one of my top 10 favorite albums. Buy this cd, buy it and then make everyone you know buy it. If this had happened in the 90s they might still be around. Shame on us.

Sometimes it helps me to think in terms of Hip Hop

I don't really understand US/Iranian relations- too many names and concepts I don't grasp, but Jay Z/The Game relations I know like I'm a part of it. Thus, Mark Lynch, a professor at George Washington University, breaks down complicated foreign relations with graspable hip hop references. I like it!

LIttle Weapon, we're calling you

When I saw these new mildly disturbing ads for Matchbox I couldn't help but think of Lupe Fiasco's "Little Weapons."

Picture of the day

Douchbags, pay attention

Congratulations Miller High Life, I will most likely buy at least one beer simply because I support this ad.

So many titles taken from The Bible

This is a list of book titles lifted from other works of literature. It's really neat to look through it and see the origin of some of the titles; a good majority are from The Bible.


edit: link fixed, my bad.

The many moods of Ryan Gosling

I found these pictures from Fuck Yeah! Ryan Gosling via Filmdrunk. It's pretty funny. They also have a Fuck Yeah Anne Hathaway, but it's not really worth looking at. They should have these for more celebrities.

must resist buying

Nasty Gal always has some pretty cool stuff, but it's usually too expensive for me. However, these shoes are in my price range. I want these shoes more than I want to get married someday, which may be a moot point seeing as how it might be hard to convince someone to marry me with my outrageous spending habits.

I'm trying

“Either write something worth reading, or do something worth writing.” Benjamin Franklin I'm currently working on the latter of these two suggestions. Sorry, for not keeping up.

Astronaut journey

Yet another fantastic advertisement for Louis Vutton by Annie Leibovitz

I will not apologize

These pictures are from the July issue of Vibe. Not only are The Roots one of my favorite hip-hop groups they just look like men I would want to be friends with. For those of you who don't tweet or know, ?uestlove is a Twittering fool. Check out some of the better ones below
@Questlove: wanna know how i can tell that the Jonas Bros *might* be in the 30 ROCK BUILDING? 11,000 FRIGGIN SCREAMING GIRLS CAN BE HEARD 8 BLOCKS AWAY!
@Questlove: ....& in "slowly morphing into his father news": it takes Questo 9 minutes to figure out where the plug fits on the palm pre. more news @ 11
@Questlove oh ish son for a sec i was like "i dont think B is gonna preciate Hov smilin near that blond and ish" rotf
@Questlove: pizza fight @ a pizza party gone wrong.
@Questlove: someone loves us: dunno who sent us this lifetime supply of Tomato Basil Wheat Thins, but i thank you & our trainer is plotting ur downfall
@Questlove: mark "zack" gosselaar is so nervous about this song. he has no zack swag. its gonna be cool dude, we gonna make it look cool! relax! lol
@Questlove: did I friggn just open my festival w/ an impromt song w/ jordan & donnie of NKOTB?
That is all