Oh my god! In an effort to fulfill my promise to blog about skulls for the next few days, I accidentally discovered this amazing skull-related website called the Skull A Day Blog. Skull a Day is maintained by this guy named Noah Scanlin who, quite obviously, is obsessed with Skulls! Metal! The blog started on June 4th 2007 with skull dude vowing to make one new skull each day for a year, and post it on the blog. When he posted his 365th skull on June 2nd of this year, he turned the blog over to submissions from the vast skull-loving public. You could spend hours on this blog. Why not start now?
Here at Worleygig.com, we like skulls! In the spirit of Halloween I’ve decided to dig up various random skull posts over the next few days. To kick things off in what we will loosely refer to as “Skull Week,” check out this rad skull sculpture by artist Sudobh Gupta entitled Very Hungry God, which is crafted from ordinary kitchen objects. Very Hungry God has traveled across Europe, from Paris to Venice and currently resides at the Frieze Art Fair in Regent’s Park, London. You can read a nice background story on the artist’s motivation for the creating the sculpture Here.
I really had to post Nicole Betancourt’s cool Latin salsa video, “Respondole a Obama” about the Latino community rallying behind Barack Obama, especially since I was just in a cab on Saturday night with a driver who insisted that Barack Obama would have tough time carrying Florida, “since there is such high Cuban population there, and everybody knows the Cubans hate the Blacks.” I swear to god, the cabby said that right to my face. But I think he was wrong. I think even the haters can put aside their lack of reason to avoid electing another fascist regime to government. Think people. And vote Obama / Biden a week from tomorrow.
Over the weekend, I hosted a visit by my very best friend from college, a totally Rad lady named Sue. Sue has connections in the television industry and, thanks to a few pulled strings, we ended up with last minute most-coveted tickets to see this weekend’s taping of Saturday Night Live. While I am not the biggest fanatic of that show, it has been pretty consistently good for the past year, and those Sarah Palin jokes just never get old. We had to arrive at the NBC studios by 10:00 PM to wait online and were completely soaked to the bone by the freak rainstorm that hit just as we left the house, but despite being exhausted and having to sit in wet clothes, we had a blast.
Here’s my Top Ten List of cool stuff about our Rad SNL Adventure!
Some guy in line was talking about how he’d waited 20 years to get tickets to a taping. We waited only one day! Yay!
We saw comedian Eddie Izzard in line! This is significant because the last time Sue visited me in NYC we had front row tickets to see Izzard live at Town Hall. So that was crazy.
Jenna Fischer from The Office – my favorite non-reality TV show – was sitting two rows in front of us! In person she is a gazillion times prettier than she is on the show. I love her.
It was so cool to see the displays of costumes from characters made famous by the show, and the amazing retrospective of black and white photos from every season of SNL since the beginning that line the walls of the studio’s exterior. Nostalgic!
Host Jon Hamm of Mad Men is so hot and very funny! How he kept a straight face during some of those skits is beyond me.
Michelle and Barack Obama Variety Show, featuring Bill Clinton singing “Don’t You Forget About Me.”
Cold Play performed four songs to fill the time gap created by the skits they had to cut because Amy Poehler went into labor on Friday.
Jon Hamm’s John Ham: “If it feels like a slice of ham, don’t wipe your ass with it.”
“Don Draper’s Guide on How to Pick Up Women” – hilarious!
Clever and (likely) bored packaging designers over at Cascadian Farm organic foods decided to have a little fun when they Photoshopped their heads onto this picture adorning a package of delicious frozen broccoli. I’m all about the power of subliminal advertising and I’m thinking maybe this will prompt people to rent and watch DVDs of Soilent Green, a really good classic Sci-fi film from the early ’70s.
A Closer Look, “Hi Guys!”
Originally posted on the (now defunct) Bread and Honey Blogspot, this thing has now gone completely viral, so I’m just going to cite the original source.
