This will change the way you think about Smurfs FOREVER.
I was researching the average height of a Smurf for an article and learned that Smurfs are often described as, “three apples tall.”
If you haven’t taken the paragraph break as an opportunity to think about that, please do so now.
That means Smurfs are about a foot tall. That’s up to your knees! I’ve always imagined Smurfs as, at most, one apple tall. Plus, then how do they live inside mushrooms?
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Yes, it sucks that our favorite shows are going on hiatus and that support staff is having a hard time. But the fact that everything has to shut down when the writers strike illustrates how important their contribution is. And that contribution should be paid for. Media conglomerates are being disingenuous when they say they don’t know how big of an impact the internet will have on their revenue streams. What a big crock of shit. The internet has changed everything. It’s time for them to share the wealth with the people who make the shows possible–without whom, in fact, there would be no shows.
More here.
And here.
Blog written by WGA members w/ updates about the strike here.
Actors support the strike here.
Why the strike is so important
Show your support by signing the petition
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Artists arrange garbage to make amazing shadows.
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The National Portrait Gallery has a wonderful online exhibit of influential women of the 20th Century. The exhibit includes fascinating reads on each woman.
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Interesting little article about the feng shui of color.
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Hello from Switzerland! Thank jebus the people we’re staying with have broadband internet. I was seriously going through withdrawals. In my absence my grades came and and although there wasn’t really any doubt, I officially graduated.
Although I had a great time in Paris, I’m glad we moved on. There were lots of people, many of whom did not like Americans and many of whom came from a culture where standing in line was an unfamiliar concept. On the plus side, I saw the Louvre (on the last day even though our hotel was a block away), Notre Dame, the Museé d’Orsay, Versailles (no wonder the peasants were pissed), the Eiffel Tower (second floor only), the Lido show, the Arc de Triomphe (at night and during the day), the Museé Rodin, we took a cruise down the Seine, I ate the best onion soup of my life, drank many bottles of wine, drank much cappucino and even more Orangina (et sa pulpe!), and generally marveled at a place where things were really old. (I will have more stories later.)
By yesterday afternoon, I was exhausted. It was pretty warm there on most days and I’m not used to walking around quite so much. It’s warm here in Switzerland too, but it’s very peaceful.
Well, I’m going to go relax now. More later …
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There are actually people in the world that operate on this level. I find it utterly amazing (and amusing in this case. ) Holy cow.
You picked the wrong boy to fuck with, you pussy. I am not like anyone you’ve come up against and I don’t consider there to be any rules in this. I break aging trust fund pussies like you as a matter of course. If you think you can bring it, then bring it, faggot. Because I know that in my world you’re nothing but a two-bit lame. Do you know what a lame is, Doug? A lame is an also-ran, a lame is the excuse for the person he would have been if he wasn’t so fucking weak, so completely pathetic.
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Does the way you arrange your medicine cabinet reveal things about your personality? Artist Coke Wisdom O’Neal thinks so.
[via MoFi]
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Interesting profile of Prada’s top seller last year
Most members of the Prada sales staff are assiduously cool young people who affect thick, sixties-revival eyeglasses or orange hair in multiple pigtails. They look just right in those snug, sombre Prada outfits. Victoria, however, who is petite and pretty, and has long black hair tumbling out of a red plastic banana clip, wears quarter-inch-thick eyeliner and brilliantly hued rhinestone earrings, and paints her lips in tropical shades. “I’m Latin,” she says. “I like color.” Anyone observing Victoria over time might wonder whether she wouldn’t be happier in a flashier place—Versace, say, or even Target, where her wearing a “Hunchback of Notre Dame” Band-Aid or handing out Russell Stover Santas at Christmas might be less jarring.
But Victoria Gallegos, at twenty-seven, is the highest-selling salesperson in Prada’s Madison Avenue store—and, by extension, in the company. Though her specialty is menswear, she sells everything: belts, handbags, shoes, suitcases, briefcases, key cases, golf bags, women’s clothing, appointment books, and underwear. Last year, her first at the store, she sold around two million dollars’ worth of merchandise. Combining old-fashioned sales psychology with new technologies, Victoria moves the merchandise in ways that seem magical even to the people who hired her.
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As a counterpoint to Kimberly’s ‘Reasons I won’t miss LA’, here’s the (current) #1 reason I love it here:
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YOU SPIN ME RIGHT ROUND
Now this is a holiday celebration I would enjoy! Via Mighty Girl.
Last weekend, a little group of us went to see the Dance Along Nutcracker. It was exactly as it sounds: hundreds of little girls in fairy-princess costumes, and dozens of drag queens who had the same idea. Tutu rentals were $5 and worth every penny. There were toy soliders, and mice, and many a sugarplum fairy. There was also a woman who, inexplicably, took a length of pink tulle and tied a toy lamb to her head.
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I always hated Monopoly–I just don’t think that way. I’m not ruthless and I don’t care about business strategy. I never thought about it this way though.
< shudder >
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Sars wrote an Emmys recap for MSNBC. It’s kind of surreal reading her snarky self in a news format. heh.
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