Don’t sleep.

via the Comedy Geek

According to New Scientist, people with low self esteem who ponder death feel compelled to eat cookies and shop.

Smeesters found that people with low self-esteem shop and eat more after watching death-related news clips.

“One would hope that companies do not exploit this by putting food ads straight after the news,” Smeesters says.

One would also hope that they’d wake up one morning to a gold helicopter stuffed with video games and Cheetos, but like, guess what…ain’t gonna happen.

I don’t know about you, but i’m converting.

DGSF Jason has a new project, Cassette From My Ex. It’s like an analog muxtape or mixwit (thanks Rob), except the songs come with the added ex-factor. At any rate, the first two submissions are up now, one from the pianist/drummer/backing vocalist for The Magnetic Fields.

Image: greenapplegrenade

Slate rolls in with a misguided dichotomy regarding Gnarls Barkley:

Cee-Lo and Danger Mouse want to have it both ways, flaunting their Olympian ironic distance while still delivering an emotional stomach punch. But music this stylized and knowing does not lend itself easily to pathos. When Cee-Lo bellows “Oh, I’ve been entered by evil/ So someone best love me right now,” it sounds less like a cri de coeur than another impeccably wrought flourish.

Isn’t it possible to be both detached and deadly serious? Two other articles today seem to indicate that it is: Juergen Teller (above, with Charlotte Rampling, for Marc Jacobs) and Norman Mailer are both hailed for their both/and qualities, not either/or. But I haven’t even heard the new album, so there. To be continued …

A rare Asiatic lion cub roars for the camera.

Perhaps the team here at DG are late on this, perhaps not, but what appears to be an ongoing list over at stuff white people like is genius and embarrassingly accurate.

Just another testament to how awful the Garfield comic strip is: Take out the cat, and you end up with an acute testament to the existential modern man, Jon Arbuckle. Pretty brill.

So yeah, No Comprendo obviously rocked last night. Yay, good times.

…rocks. Throws a great party. His pics rule. Good peeps, all.