prank o’ the day: VF punks TWS

from Vanity Fair via Gawker. But yes, they really SHOULD do the New Yorker (and some Canuckistan terrorist such as myself really SHOULD do The Walrus…hmmmmm).

In any case, the skanky demi-coverwrap innovation, paired with the chubby, self-satisfied, Winnebago-driving Rotarian-pandering-to, blowhardy Weekly Standard makes this the perfect target.

For the National Lampoon. Vanity Fair, how did it come to this?

Still. Funnee.

A Vanities Cover-Flap Public Service

By ANDREW HEARST

Magazine publishers often send their newsstand editions into the world with “cover flaps” that tease the contents within. This is a handy way to pique the interest of passersby. But a cover flap can also be useful as an agent of mischief and lighthearted political agitation. Inside the October 2006 issue of Vanity Fair is a fake flap you can attach to a copy of The Weekly Standard. Simply get your hands on a copy of our October issue, turn to page 272, and follow the instructions below:

1. Cut and fold where indicated.

2. Hurry to a newsstand. Pick up the latest issue of The Weekly Standard. Wrap folded page around spine of magazine.

3. Return magazine to rack.

4. Step back a few paces and observe.

VF's TWS cover flap in prank flap

Boris Johnson, the artsy-fartsy poster

I suspect BoJo‘s not the only Oxford grad to have his portrait done Andy Warhol-style, but he’s probably the only one who had it done in this pose:

Bojo, yo!

And, as I said on Guido‘s blog, it appears that he has an extra finger on his right hand. I see now one source of his evergreen popularity. Or is that six of them?

how Republicans celebrate 9/11

from Gawker. You must check out the comments section on their post; one of the very best. “I hope they don’t invite Cheney!” for example.

Tasteful Dove Shoot on 9/11

THE definitive YouTube Manifesto!!!

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.

cheap designer shoes

 Stephon Marbury

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.

Adidas. What did you think they were? Ain't you seen Adidas before you sorry-ass Pumaboy!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