optical illusion!

who doesn't love a good optical illusion or animated .gif? well here you have both in one. these things are fun. except magic eye pictures. i struggle to see those, and when i do, they're usually inverted, so it's just a lot of rubbish! if you must know, i stole this one from ed norton--after a failed cloning i went and drowned my sorrows reading tweets, nice and mindnumbing. now i'm ready to try again with the cloning, and luckily there's a new episode of Glee tonight. though i have to say i'm really not that excited about the "ballad" episode. oh well, last week's "broadway" one was my favorite yet!

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embedding?

Hm, does it work if I embed things in my email to posterous?

 
Yay! I heart new york and alicia keys playing piano in T^2.

 
Speaking of loving new york, this is one of my favorite images from the I (lego) new york series that came out earlier this year.
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japan is so hard core

Over the weekend, we visited the new york botanical garden, to get a taste of fall splendor.  As in the past couple years, they have a special exhibit during this time of year featuring the japanese art of chrysanthemum ("kiku") cultivation.  Pretty pink ones here. Overall, chrysanthemum is really not my favorite flower, although I do like to have it in tea, at dim sum. Yum.  The flowers were very rigidly displayed, and overall the exhibit had a somewhat unsettling, funereal feel to it.  Try reading this posted description as a metaphor for society:

"The Ozukuri display features 3 plants each with nearly 230 kiku flowers all grown from a single stem. This style takes 11 months to grow and is the most complex and difficult to execute.

As the plant grows, unwanted side branches are pinched off its main stem until five strong ones remain.  As new branches develop, each is tied to a vertical stake where it grows straight and tall.

Buds are removed from the branches of the kiku plant until only one remains on each branch. As the flowers begin to open, a collar is put around the base of each to support its weight. The growers always leave a few long stems witha perfect flower hidden inside the plant in case one of the others fails."

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pink mums

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fall splendor!

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snarky review of the weezer concert and new album. so much sad truth here.

http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-11-03/music/halloween-with-weezer/

haha, photo caption: "Rivers Cuomo, totally sincere"
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2009/10/31 New York, New York: RXP Masquerade - Hammerstien Ballroom

Posted by Karlophone on 10/31/2009 | Comments (23)

2009/10/31 New York, New York: RXP Masquerade - Hammerstien Ballroom

Tonight was the climax of the New York Super Weez Week. Not the final performance but the big one, down at the Hammerstien Ballroom, where Weezer played once before back in 1994, opening for Lush. The Hammerstien is a great if somewhat rough old ballroom, a perfect mid size venue to rock out in and give everybody a good sight line and decent sound. Sort of like the Palladium in L.A. but with less acoustical dead spots.

Being a Halloween show, costumes were encouraged, and many were spotted in the audience. Though many came as a "Weezer Fan", which is fine too! Onstage, the band got into the spirit of things, starting the show in their wicked bug costumes from the "Yo Gabba Gabba" show taping from a few weeks back. Then they had about 20 fans come on stage and help them get their costumes off, WHILE they played "Undone"!

Tonight we had some special guests onstage. No guest rapper for Cant Stop Partying, but Leighton Meester did the duet thing with Rivers on "I Want You To", while Nat Wolff from The Naked Brothers Band helped out on guitar for that song. Odd side note: check out the recently released DVD of "Inside" at Blockbuster, its a pre Gossip Girl Leighton role, directed by a certain Jeff, once better known for his weezer fandom on the old RCB boards!





story and pics from weezer halloween concert

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awesome halloween night: party-weezer-party!

halloweeeeeeen spooky yayyyyyy!!  hans's moon man got mad props from strangers all night! we spent the afternoon making kanye + taylor costumes, then started off at a good luck party for dragony, who ran today's nyc marathon. there was an adorable dog there dressed up in a marathon costume. next, a random last-minute weezer halloween show at hammerstein ballroom. it was my first weezer concert in 15 years as a fan (!) and it was awesome. they're amazing performers, and last night the whole band came out in ridiculous giant insect costumes, played "hash pipe," then got fans to help them get out of the costumes while they played "sweater song" (get it?). they're bundling their new cd with a weezer snuggie!! hilarious. gotta love the weezer blend of nerdy/cool, pretentious/dumb, and yay harvard. continuing with the harvard thing, we wrapped up the night at eliot's party.

how to:

• v.m.a. for the base: duct tape roll plus black construction paper.  flag: chopstick and foil.  moon man: plastic action figure, modeling clay, and foil.  bound with twisty ties and clay.

• kanye: shiny black dress shirt, eyeliner tattoo, 
black or shutter shades, knit black cap, hennessy, mic

• taylor: grey jersey dress with sheer curtain and glitter nail
polish. hair: gold spray paint (washable)! nails: essie #104 scarlett o'hara.

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so I can show my mom my egg mcmuffin, I'm posting it here..

recipe: spray a small pyrex baking dish with cooking spray, break an
egg into it, and place in a larger pyrex dish with hot water. bake in
oven at 400 deg for 20 min (so much for fast food) or microwave on
medium for ~5 min. when the egg is almost done, toast a split english
muffin. then layer a slice of american cheese, slice of canadian
bacon, and the egg inside the muffin. microwave the whole thing for
15-30 seconds to get it hot and gooey. yum.

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I graduated! for proof, see this cake. okay, it's not proof, but it's like a diploma, only you can eat it.

boo made me this cake, vanilla bean with pastel xenopus green
frosting, complete with plastic graduate figurine! It matches lisa and
bobby's genius frog cookies:

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