To anyone attending the Minnesota State Fair for the first time, it may seem like a typical oversized Midwest Extravaganza, with all its appealing and not so appealing aspects. People of all ages, shapes and sizes milling around the fairgrounds with every sort of food imaginable-usually on a stick. Hawkers of wares, of good and …
It still seems slightly preposterous that they will rent you a kayak and camping equipment, sight unseen, and set you off on your own into the North Sea with a vague arrangement to meet you somewhere down the coast in 6 days time. The arrangements en route were also, at first sight, a little ‘loose’ …
This kid is really keeping time, a drum prodigy. He can barely walk but he’s rocking to Joan Jett. Very “pro drummer” facial expressions. – Thanks to Joy Mazo Colella: https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=114329025264977
http://youtu.be/9zJCgUu5mtE In this video Spanish Police are using fists and nightsticks on a girl and a photographer. The photographer has blogged about his experiences here. En este video de la policía española está usando los puños y porras de una niña y un fotógrafo. El fotógrafo tiene blog sobre sus experiencias aquí.
A friend sent me a link to an internet gallery of motel postcards: http://www.motelpostcards.com It’s a lovely site, but any discussion of American motels of the 60s has to include Lileks’ homage to The Gobbler, the grooviest motel in Wisconsin. While a number of years old now, this gallery with commentary is the best thing …
I’m sure there will be people who find this diminutive duo to be charming, but I am not one of them. Oh, the kids are all right, it’s what’s been done to them. Training tykes to imitate the gestures and poses of adults– sexual innuendos aside– is a pretty creepy undertaking. People, no matter what …
Thanks to Reddit. Go here.
YELLE – Safari Disco Club / Que veux-tu (exclusive full length edit) from Yelle on Vimeo. “sunny french electro pop with clean lines and ice cream hooks” – New York Times “[frontwoman Julie] Budet has true star energy which fires her fans into hours-long dance fests” – San Francisco Bay Guardian French dance-pop trio Yelle …
Update 7/25/2011: Officials have lowered the death toll in the Oslo bombing and shootings today, saying 68 individuals died on the island and 8 died in the bomb blast. Previous tallies had been much higher. Full story is here. From the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/world/europe/24oslo.html?ref=europe CNN info about the alleged lone bomber and gunman: http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/07/23/norway.suspect/ …
[The photo above was taken of the Forest Cafe in Bristo Park, Edinburgh. For more information about the place and it’s history, click here.] My wife and I recently returned from a vacation in Scotland. We visited cathedrals, castles, the countryside, and the capital, Edinburgh. I asked at least five people where I could go …
I don’t know why folk dancing should depress me so, but it does. Perhaps the lingering aftereffects of the emotional damage inflicted at a nyckelharpa festival in Dalarna one endless hot June afternoon in 1976. No 14 year old should be forced to suffer so—though I expect I’ll subject my son to some equivalent trauma. …
This means, “Do you want sausage?!”
http://youtu.be/ytB17mKgrww
There is one place in the world where videos from reggae tunes have gone viral in 2011 and that country is in many ways a seeming polar (bipolar, really) opposite of reggae’s birthplace, Jamaica. The nation in question is Sweden. Several times this year already, non-ironic Swedish reggae tunes have made it to the list …
http://youtu.be/rqSyzmVeT54
There’s a talent gap across the pond this week. This video has been lighting up screens all over the UK since it was released last Friday. It’s vacuous, empty and not in the least bit entertaining. It’s important to avoid posting negative reviews on the net at all times as they lead to legions of …
This image — seen all over China on all kinds of souvenirs — is called “The Obamao” by locals. Seems the President and the Chairman indeed have at least one thing in common… – Colette Moran . .
This is the most popular vid in South Africa today. It’s the promo for a reality show or “unscripted drama series” about four American girls who go to Capetown, South Africa to live “in a mansion on Clifton Beach, under the watchful eye of a demanding billionaire boss,” where “the girls have to prove their …