Slow motion videos, newsprint, and fashion. Seems like something our DGSF WL would be digging in between Gagasms.

The doc debuts tonight on 20/20. (I know—20/20 is still on air?!). Jezebel highlights the nuttiest comments to a story in the NYT:

At the risk of being crass, I hope this doesn’t portend some entrepreneur coming out with baby-shaped dildos.

This reminds me somewhat a story I read a long time ago where a mom reported pleasure during breast feeding and had her child custody summarily cut off. (She eventually did get the baby back.) I know it’s lame—I link to Buzzfeed so much. But credit where credit’s due.

Mini ponies!! If you are blind, and allergic to dogs, then you could get yourself a little tiny pony that will even sleep in the bed with you. Be sure to check out this vid of Cuddles (above), who is not only potty-trained but will poo on command. (The magic word is “bombs away.”) And she has little sneakers!

via DGSF Julie

From This American Life
Thanks, Devin

We’re not such big fans of nostalgia over here at DG, but three factors have contributed to my sudden interest in the fried-chicken-and-mashed-potatoes band Southern Culture on the Skids. First, the kids over at fave mp3 blog Dream Chimney posted “Camel Walk” yesterday and now I can’t get it out of my head. Second, DGSF White Lightz has been reliving the dorm dreams of ‘95 lately, and so I hope this fills the empty space next to Teenage Fanclub and Jawbreaker. And lastly: Daddy’s from Michigan (yep, stole that from HLSH). It’s his theme song, dontchaknow. 

Almost forgot: I think there’s some armpit fetish stuff going on at the very beginning of this video. Here’s a roundup.

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 …