Foreign Objects

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Some more beautiful, living things from my mini-vacation to the Florida Gulf Coast that doesn’t exist in Brooklyn.

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(Island) Street Shots

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From Anna Maria Island, Florida

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Depressed Polish Mannequins

These ladies fit right into Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint, with their dyed hair, serious composure and downward glances.  If they had arms, they would be smoking those thin-ass cigarettes.

Choice November Pop

Hello and Happy Thanksgiving, dear readers.  This is going to be a fun post. Choice means these are my favorite random bits of the Internet for the month of November 2011 for you to consume. Happy eating.

Bacon Apple Pie.. yup. (Via Tasty Trials)

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A good cop helps a deer in headlights. (via Neatorama)

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A roller coaster for pedestrian use only in Germany. (Via Kuriositas)

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Protestors clashing with police and each other in Warsaw, Poland that someone caught on a camera-mounted remote control helicopter. (Via kottke.org)

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“Inglourious Animals” is a really well-done movie trailer mashup of “Fantastic Mr Fox” and “Inglorious Basterds“  (Via Boing Boing)

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Christophe Courtois makes mosaics of film poster clichés. (Via Laughing Squid)

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Social Media Magazines (Via Buzzfeed)

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28 seconds of Picasso painting. (Via MetaFilter)

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Check out Ron Arad’s “Two Nuns Bicycle”. Go to 0:42 (Via NotCot)

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Ever see a camel run? (Via The High Definite)

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Check out the “GOP Clown College” Flickr page from WMxdesign

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And finally.. Benetton has a new ad campaign.  (Via The Gloss)

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Queensapalaza XI : Tree Pits Fail

Three months ago, the City of New York hired a private company to install trees in these freshly prepared tree pits on both sides of Queens Plaza.

The trees were young, healthy and too fragile looking for the hustle and bustle of this thoroughfare.

They put those green tree gator bags that are used to keep the trees hydrated, but they were never filled and all of the trees died either from lack of water and construction accidents.

So they took out the trees and paved over some of the tree pits.

The rest will see new trees coming soon, so says the lady in the food truck nearby.

Based on what I know about tree planting and construction costs, I would be willing to guess that $20,000 – $40,000 was lost in the process. Paid for, of course, by yours truly and the other seven or so other mill taxpayers in NYC.  Not cool. Total Tree Pit Fail.

See the first ten Queensapalazas Here!

NSFW WEDS*: Large And In Charge

Meet Nancy Upton.  She started a photo project / blog of her posing in ridiculous scenes that poke fun at American Apparel’s recent plus size model hunt that just recently ended.  After only catering to anorexic cocaine hounds and almost going bankrupt, AA is adding fat people to their potential shoppers.  It seems kind of low, especially since their larges already fit like a medium in the first place.

I like Nancy’s sense of humor and clearly she’s a beautiful girl..

But

if

you

were

looking

for

something

bigger..

keep

scrolling

down

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it’s comin’!

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ready???

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Meet fat mutant, Susanne Eman.  She is attempting to be the fattest woman on Earth.

From her website:  “I began to eat just a bit more each day than the previous day. Before I knew it I was 700. I’m still very healthy, very mobile, and active. I’m looking forward to pushing the limits and seeing just how fat I can get. It’s hard to put into words what it feels like.”

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Meet record breaker, Donna Simpson.  She’s the fattest woman to ever give birth at 602 lbs.  She also wants to be the fattest woman in the world.

Have I just blown your mind?  Good times.

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*Wednesdays at Brooklyn Imbecile is Not Safe For Work Day, so if you’re viewing this right now at your corporate America job, sorry, but you just had a personal file created by your IT’s facist security team, so I would avoid being late to work in the mornings from now on. Until we find a decent way to completely disintegrate this non-functional capitalist police state work week, y’all have a happy Hump Day!

If Only..

If only.. this crappy drug store on Nassau Avenue sold the good herbs, instead of dust-covered Nyquil from 1982.  Murawski Apteka‘s one redeeming aspect is that they sell really cheap (and probably uncomfortable) vibrators and butt plugs.  Okay, redeeming is the wrong word.. how about interesting?

Mellow Yellow

From Nassau Avenue, Greenpoint, BK

Blogging Is Work

In addition to my 9 to 5 work day, my life with my number one homeslice: “J” and continuing my attempt at an art career, blogging is a lot of fucking work to keep the posts comin’ every single day.  Just sayin’.

Peculiar Receptacle Advertising

Yes, as a matter of fact, this is a sticker advertisement for an actual case to keep your tampons in.

From Kent Street near Manhattan Avenue, Greenpoint, BK.