Brilliant right?
Well, it's even more brilliant once you learn that a "splayd" is, indeed, a real utensil, defined by Wikipedia as "a single eating utensil combining the functions of spoon, fork and knife." So, ha, that's what you get for doubting my charts.
[via the ragbag]
Here is an excerpt from "How to look at billboards," a fascinating essay by Howard Gossage from the February 1960 issue of Harpers:
What a billboard looks like has nothing to do with whether it ought to be there. Nor does the fact that it carries advertising have anything to do with it, either. It would be the same thing if it were devoted exclusively to reproductions of the old masters; just as the open range would have been the same thing if they had only run peacocks on it. The real question is: has outdoor advertising the right to exist ...
The answer, my friends, is very.
Where the Wild Things Are, adapted from everyone's favorite children's book and directed by the awesome Spike Jonze, comes out in October. Get your hallucinogens and/or children ready.
(The book's cover...now do you remember?)
This picture is just bad-ass, despite my poor attempt at a joke in the title of the post. And really the only description of the photo that can do it justice is this caption that was originally included with the image:
In this handout photo provided by the White House, a folder for U.S. President Barack Obama (the 44th president) is shown, left for him by Former U.S. President George W. Bush on the Resolute desk in the Oval Office of the White House January 20, 2009 in Washington, D.C.
[via The Best Blog Ever i.e. The Big Picture]
Happy Holidays and shit from Blogbdon!
Now, as something I've been saving/had lost for a little bit now, here is my present to "all of you," albeit a full day or so late (remember: I'm Jewish):
Either click on the article above or peep here for a closer (i.e. legible) look at this landmark in journalistic history.
[From The Onion's "Our Dumb Century"]