Tag Archives: silliness

Gothamist notes that according to Taiwanese animators, the dead shark found yesterday on the N train started his day with trip to Times Square before killing some hipsters and then getting the stop-and-frisk treatment by the NYPD.

Sesame Street takes on this year’s most inescapable track. (Tipped by JMG reader Bill)

Thanks to a Freedom Of Information Act demand, the state of New York has handed over its previously secret list of banned vanity plates. Via Village Voice: The agency says it’s meant to be “a guideline to the DMV employee who screens personalized license plate applications for offensive or objectionable words or phrases or messages.” And what a list it …

Marketing blog The Drum reports: “The Pembrokeshire Herald has apologised after someone tampered with an Enterprise Rent-A-Car ad to suggest that ‘cock sucking’ was an added bonus of the service. It is not.”

Random silliness for your weekend.

A breathless press release from Conan’s show: “Peter’s famous for showing it all on screen, but he spills the beans on which well-hung stars have the most to show.”  I think these beans have already been spilled, but whatever.

Tomorrow a Brooklyn straight bar will host a smallest penis contest. Gothamist explains: Organizers at Kings County Bar confirmed with us yesterday that this is really happening: “The contest is absolutely happening this Saturday. Time has been moved up slightly, so we are anticipating starting between 3-4pm (doors will open to the public at 2pm). There are currently 12 contestants.” …

Seen by JMG reader Sean Chapin.

An actual news report. Acting! (Via Towleroad)

The reaction to this week’s cover is mixed: A story about, ahem, underperforming hedge funds isn’t provocative or controversial, but the content could be overshadowed by the cover, writes The Atlantic Wire’s Alexander Nazaryan. “At what point do risque covers actually undermine the reporting they are supposedly advertising?” Nazaryan asks. “And is the purported audience of Businessweek going to be …

(Tipped by JMG reader Maggie)

(Via JMG reader Some Teacher)

Yesterday my pal Jerry accompanied me to the Invasion Of The Pines, the 37th annual marking of the day in 1976 when a drag queen was denied service at a restaurant in Fire Island Pines. Every Fourth of July since then, hundreds of drag queens board a chartered ferry in Cherry Grove and “invade” the Pines for a day exploding …

Via Paul Constant at Slog.

Visit xkcd.

“Your children’s breakfast cereal is now gay. Just so you know. Your children’s breakfast cereal is now gay. I don’t think that’s a sentence anybody not a comedy writer ever imagined penning. What’s next? Snap, Crackle, and Poppers?” – Conservative pundit Rod Dreher.  Gotta admit, I totally LOL’d.

Gothamist explains: If you’ve been wondering where the bearded, slim-hipped throngs of Daft Punk-worshipping, artisanal razor-shaving blog cliches prefer to get their kale and PBR, well, Yelp has got you covered; the all-encompassing Reviews of the People site has been kind enough to create heat maps documenting where reviewers mention words like “yuppie,” “tourist” and “bacon” most, and naturally they’ve …