Quote of the day

"Sweeney explained his fondness for the man hug."

I would share a man hug with Mike Sweeney (or any of the Phillies, for that matter) any day.

Must love pandas

Thousands enter panda keeper contest in China.

Sounds like a job for the News Team!

That's a pizzly!

I don't get how a picture of a grizzly bear fits with the headline Why "feminist" is a dirty word.

Sometimes, the NY Times is just baffling.

And is it just me, or does this particular bear look like the infamous pizzly/grolar bear? I apologize in advance for the photo in the link... I know, hunting bears just seems obscene, but the content of the story is quite fascinating.

Quote of the day

"We can see some nice cracked edges that do look very much like a bullet hole."

Nice is not an adjective one thinks of when describing a bullet hole, generally. Anthropologists are just so damn quirky, gotta love 'em!

The ACTUAL Quote of the day

"Watch Donald get gored."

Having just toured several national parks, this holds a bit more weight...I knew I should have been filming those kids around the desert centipede at Carlsbad Caverns...

And this sentence sums up the entire article -

...in an effort to home in on “contributing factors (technology)” to park accidents, the service recently felt compelled to add “inattention to surroundings” to more old-fashioned causes like “darkness” and “animals.”

Quote of the day

"May you always have soft cuticles while tweeting."

That is some sound advice from a damn classy lady.

The Japanese hate fat kids

I wish that my kindergarten had built me a tree house!

It probably would have been much safer than the shoddy ones we used to put together with scrapped plywood and 2x4's found who knows where...

I have to say, leaving the rope as the only method of getting up there is brilliant. It's like they purposely wanted to exclude the fat kids from the joys of a tree-borne club house. Joe was never my favorite little rascal, anyway.

Apparently, only 30 out of 130 (approximately 23%) students made it up to this wondrous realm of imagination and girl-hating. I'm sure Petey would approve.

Quote of the day

"It's been great, bitches!"

Okay, maybe I added bitches but I can imagine it wasn't far from his mind...

August Auteurs

So working in the Financial District of Manhattan has certain perks...

Lots of surly looking business men in suits(BMS).
Tourists posing with and giggling at the bull's balls.
A plethora of fast service delis that are open past 6pm to cater to aforementioned BMS.
The sad yet smile inducing panda.
An occasional BMS napping haphazardly in a random patch of grass.

This however, is not one of those perks.

From late July to August, the area is invaded by children following around hipsters that take summer jobs mentoring them for the New York Film Academy. The kids wander around with tripods, light meters and cameras while the chaperones stand there with a cigarette, sweating in their skinny jeans and black NYFA prescribed t-shirts. They like to set up on sidewalks, especially corners, that are generally best used for walking.

Can't they film in one of the districts many public, open spaces where there is plenty of room to avoid them?

And plus, you just know that these kids are all full of themselves, sure they're going to become the next Roman Polanski, Sofia Coppola or Steven Spielberg.

Or maybe even a more enriching career in front of the camera.

Not to be a grumpy-gus, but why didn't these kids want to get out of the city for summer? Instead, they schlup around all of this equipment, getting in my way, filming next to ever-present smelly trash bags that are already cluttering sidewalks and alley ways I use as a shortcut to the BMS delis?

I blame the hipsters chaperones.