from culturekiller, creator of the immortal Simpsons/Star Trek theremin/Rhodes piano/kitchen funnel mashup, which got him a million or so views; this gonzo nutbar knows what the hell he’s talking about.
You like the big brother huh? You dig rubbish TV and Jessica Simpson, don’t ya? You hate culture huh? I’ll give you antiCulture.
Sheer genius.
Don’t let the kids fool you; they are more addicted to shoes than Carrie Bradshaw ever was. When I was little it was Adidas. Pumas were for sorry-ass kids who couldn’t get Adidas and had to wear bowl haircuts because their mothers couldn’t do a David Cassidy/Dorothy Hamill. And if your navy-and-white Adidas shoes matched your navy-and-white Adidas shorts that matched your navy-and-white Adidas satin bomber jacket (Joanie STILL loves Chachi, people!) that matched your white-and-navy Adidas baseball tee, you were totally happening, man.
Now the shoes cost more than I earn in a week and Stella McCartney is designing for them. Somebody should do something.
Somebody has.
from Popbitch:
>> Good sport <<
Will the Starbury change the world?Kids only want to buy trainers if they are super-expensive and exclusive, and top sportsmen can’t be blamed for endorsing top-priced goods. Well, this conventional wisdom is being turned on its head by New York Knicks’ Stephon Marbury.
Kobe, Lebron and Michael Jordan have all put their name to $150 Nike shoes, but Marbury has made it his mission to bring out a line of shoes for poor kids. The cost of the new Starbury shoe? $15. And it’s not just a piece of tat. Marbury is wearing the shoe on court himself.
Sold only in US discount store Steve & Barry’s (which prides itself on enabling a family to be clothed for a year for $100) the shoe has become a word-of-mouth phenomenon. Queues run outside the stores, with a two-item per person limit now enforced on the Starbury range. Marbury‘s aim is to show people just how little it really costs to make high quality sneakers.
“Two hundred to buy a pair of sneakers? That’s groceries for the week,” he says. “History is going to say Stephon Marbury changed the game.”
More:
http://www.starbury.com
Today in Stupid Tourist News, we present the case of the moronic Swiss driver in Eastern Ontario (BBC, please note proper capitalization), whose defence, when pulled over for speeding, was simply that he was carried away by the sheer joy of being able to drive where there were no goats.
And who among us has not felt that joy? Can we blame the poor man? Are we without hearts, without souls?
I say verily we are, for we will laugh at him.
via the BBC.
‘Goat-free roads made me speed’
Police said goats had not been reported on eastern Ontario‘s roads
A Swiss man caught speeding on a Canadian highway has blamed his actions on the absence of goats on the roads.
The man was caught driving at 161 km/h (100mph) in a 100 km/h (60mph) zone.A traffic officer’s notes said the Swiss driver had said he was taking advantage “of the ability to go faster without risking hitting a goat”.
Canadian police spokesman Joel Doiron said he had never found a goat on the highways of eastern Ontario in his 20 years of service.
“Nobody’s ever used the lack of goats here as an excuse for speeding,” Mr Doiron told the AFP news agency.
“I’ve never been to Switzerland, but I guess there must be a lot of goats there,” he said.
The driver was ordered to pay a fine of C$360 ($330; £175) for speeding.
The below image is NOT representative of Eastern Ontario, although apparently it somewhat resembles Zurich.
and can’t nobody unpack ’em like Courtney.
I mean moreso. Pre-rehab style. What can you say about Courtney Love that hasn’t already been said in an arrest warrant? But you gotta luv those Banana Splits!
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