I gotta admit I’m a big fan of Jennifer Aniston, so I was really glad when WHY THE HECK IS SHE ON THE COVER OF 3 DIFFERENT MAGAZINES AT THE CHECKOUT IT’S 2009 WASN’T SHE FAMOUS 10 YEARS AGO?! YET SHE LOOKS THE SAME HOW LONG CAN WE LOOK AT THE SAME CRAP?!?!

Hit Baby Jim’s on the way back from VA today. Unfortunately Baby Jim is closed on Sunday’s.

Baby Jim – people just don’t use the word loaf enough these days. Thanks for expanding my vocab Baby Jim.

Usually artist’s renderings of the future are abnormally happy, artificial, perfect little worlds. The In Towner, some DC neighborhood rag, has renderings that are also happy and artificial but fortunately not quite perfect:

This one I like because, while the happy people and 2-D school bus fit my idea of an artist’s rendering, the still-missing letters on the Marie Reed Community Center do not. Very realistic. Very cool.

This one’s a bit more subtle (makes me excited for the next In Towner – what will they hide next?!). Pylons and related municipal junk are ever-present, regardless of whether or not there’s construction going on. I love that it’ll be there in the future too.

If you smoke in this elevator you have to pay hefty price. Hefty for a 4-year old, that is.

This baffled me momentarily. I figured all things frozen are bound to be pretty darn quiescent but I was thinking about it wrong – it’s how they get to become frozen – in a “quiescent” fashion vs. an “overrun” fashion.”

Went to see a movie yesterday and noticed these reviews of Slumdog Millionaire and The Wrestler. They’re pretty long reviews so it’s nice that they PUT THE IMPORTANT PARTS IN LARGE BOLD FONT SO YOU CAN SKIP THE REST.

IT’S TRUE – NO BULL. I mean, this s*%t was SERIOUS. HIT ME HARD. I was FLOORED. I POOPED MY PANTS.

The nice thing is that the people at AMC Loews put these 2 reviews side by side so you could compare them and see that the writer couldn’t compose 2 reviews of different movies without using the same uncommon adjectives to describe both.

I love the AM Briggs logo. There’s something about it’s simplicity and style combined with the fact that it’s public signage that says “two dozen cows inside, hanging upside-down by hooks” that creates that kind of conflict inside that good art can do.

Left: the pattern revealed on my water bottle after I peeled off the Dasani plastic (since it is no longer filled with Dasani water but tap water instead). Right: the official GTAA logo. Conclusion: I fly to the Toronto airport a lot and see that logo so much it’s permeated my entire consciousness (plausible), or, the water bottle is telling me to move to Toronto (a challenge I’m hoping to accomplish), or, the water bottle wants to move to Toronto (easy to accomplish).

You can make fine art out of lint. The most efficient way is to get the lint from the lint trap in the dryer. However, purists prefer to, each day, pick a small portion of lint off their clothes and collect them until enough accumulates to make art. My all time hero has collected decades years worth of lint out of his belly button. Unfortunately it stops there – he has yet to make art out of it. Art by Stela Kaloyancheva.