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- All the cool kids are hanging out at Rockaway Beach. (The Times)
- There’s no way I can do justice to this picture by trying to describe it. You just have to look. Seriously. Don’t not. (The Cut)
- Kid-size thong underwear, “Eat Less” t-shirts, vibrating Harry Potter broomsticks and other super-duper ill-conceived products that actually happened—then got pulled from the shelves. (The Daily Beast)
- Walter White’s meth lab in Lego form. (Pop Culture Brain)
- And a happy 30th birthday to you, Prince William “Big Willy“ of Wales.
Posted on June 21st, 2012
let’s plan a field trip to Rockaway Beach. it’s not really that cool, despite the fact that the Times does about 17 gajillion articles every summer about how it’s the coolest place that has ever been or ever will be. (that said, there is a yummy taco stand where we can have lunch!)
I saw that photo yesterday and it had me falling off my chair laughing!! Mr. Sarkozy has issues, in my opinion. At least she’s an adult.
Ok. I looked.
Ugh, see, I’m so conflicted. Part of me wants to snark and point out how she is roughly the size of my seven year old daughter and the 16 year age difference, but a bigger part of me is ” who cares?!”
These people are just so…. Meh. I can see why the twins get props for design but meh, who cares? There are so many fascinating people in the world. I just don’t get why we ( the collective we) CARE about these things.
Sarkozy and Olsen are both of age, both single, both free to love whomever they want. They can’t help how they look and if the age difference doesn’t bother them, then it’s no one else’s business. I do wish they wouldn’t smoke in front of the child, but, having spent a considerable part of my life in France, I also know that kid has probably inhaled more second-hand smoke in her few short years that most of us will in a lifetime.
Perhaps I’m just too old to be a Mean Girl…
Can Rockaway be cool if people wear pleated shorts there? Ghastly. I don’t care if they’re in style, they are horrid and do no favors for anyone, of any age. No, no, no.
That other photo was a bit much too, mostly because of the smoking. How are people still thinking that looks acceptable? I hate to be superficial, but smokers just look stupid to me now. And they annoy me, and I feel guilty for being annoyed by them, because they are pathetic.
Normally I would think that a 25 year old girl and a 42 year old man would have nothing in common. But Mary Kate is a successful business woman and probably way more worldly than most. If you want to laugh at her for being short, well that’s your problem.
MK looks like the daughter’s bad-seed twin: a smoking, jaded, on-the-phone 10 year old. The oversized jacket just adds. I am fascinated by it.
Hi!
Love the links– they have become a daily read! My favorite part of your blog!
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I HATE, HATE, HATE the unbuttoned pants. Why bother to wear any?
The Rockaways and Breaking Bad in one post? I love your blog so, so much!
No I don’t care about celebrities but bwhahahahahahahaha! That’s damn funny…and creepy.
Oh that photo of the teenie tinsie Olsen smoking in the phone next to the little girl whose about her size, and the look on husband/daddy’s face, weird and so disturbing. Thanks for sharing.
My kids have gotten into watching Malcolm in the Middle on Netflix — that really was such a great show. Bryan Cranston is such an amazing actor,and I had totally forgot about his other mad skillz:
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/81912697/
I think we need a total BC worship moment here.
Okay, so I don’t live in NY, have never been to NY and never read the NY Times, but is the NY attitude about itself really as insufferable at that Rockaway article comes across? “Only in NY will you find uniquely dressed people going to the beach!” “Only in NY will you find unique food stands!” “OMG! A guy with a pretentious tattoo and self-centered attitude! Only in NY!”
No, NY Times, you are incorrect. There are cool, unique people all over the country. I live in freakin’ Kansas and know some of them. Some of us even put together fun ensembles to wear to the beach instead of just walking into Wal-Mart and buying and wearing the first thing that we encounter, even if it’s a disney princess costume on clearance from last Halloween. Yes, the ‘beach’ is actually about 30 feet of sand dumped on the edge of a man-made lake, but still, our outfits are awesome. There are also tattooed, self-proclaimed narcissists, as well as inane-conversing young women, all over the country. I’ve met some of them in my hometown as well. For better or for worse, many of the things that you apparently believe that NY has a monopoly on do in fact exist in other places. Gah.
(Sorry to rant about it here; I don’t actually believe that all NY-ers are a-holes, that article just really set my teeth on edge and there didn’t appear to be a comment section associated with it. Had to rant somewhere.)
Sarah M, this isn’t my blog, obviously, but in general … come sit by me, as the saying goes. Interesting complaints are always welcome.