Seen in the Wisconsin Sate Fairgrounds Horse Barn.


Left: Tough manly loner has unexpectedly unmanly butterfly tattoo. (Clooney, The American)
Right: Tough manly loner has unexpectedly unmanly butterfly tattoo. (McQueen, Papillon)
Also, after the jump, Clooney joins the pack of brooding back-tattooed actors (Penn, Liotta, Hawke)
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The New York Daily News Editor’s Picks column finally destroys reality by folding in on itself, like an editorial MC Escher work. It asks the impossible, and then answers it!


Hello genius. This is an email from the Colorado gubernatorial race. Full text after the jump but this is the best part:
“The McInnis Plagiarism Pen is a fine black pen with a rubber comfort grip, perfect for studying in school or writing the next Great American Novel. Best of all, the user will be constantly reminded of the importance of intellectual honesty.”
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“ A Wisconsin teenager was arrested for stealing a motorized shopping cart after deciding he was too drunk to ride his bike home.” You bet your ass there’s video.
Cheesecake Factory is “trending?” America, we need to talk.

A talk with Taylor Carick, proprietor of the great Minnesota blog Crazyinternetbeatz.com.
“What does diversity really mean anyway? Diversity means a whole bunch
of things that are neither one extreme or another. So, it means
“average.” Now, you tell me, who wants to be average? Not North Dakotan
children. The book has a section on film, painting by numbers, beat
sugar manufacturing and the filthy, depraved art of square dancing.”
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Below, the second detail proving Awl editor Choire Sicha is becoming Ernest Hemingway.
