Culture Buzz So Ray Stanz gets slimed, and Jake Blues is Slimer? Nice work, Luis Diaz. (via flickr.com)
Science Buzz Mother Nature is turning trash into treasure. For almost twenty years, residents of Fort Bragg, CA used the ocean as a receptacle for household garbage. The practice was shut down in the sixties and ever since then the surf has been beating the glass shards into beautiful submission.
Culture Buzz Justin Gignac successfully sells garbage he finds in NYC for $100. Justin says the product came out of a bet that packaging alone could sell a product and looks like he's right.
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Why wouldn't you is a better question.
Celebrity Buzz A new site dedicated to musicians telling the train wreck tales of their worst live performances. I would pay good money to see a bald Juliana Hatfield get into a fight with a homophobe. Many more accounts of concerts gone awry over at The Worst Gig.
Culture Buzz An artist who scours junk shops and eBay for items to use in his exhibitions has scooped £16,500 as winner of the Northern Art Prize. Haroon Mirza's winning installation combined second-hand record players and radios with sound art, projection and a 19th Century painting. The award was established four years ago to showcase contemporary artists working in the north of England.
Culture Buzz The effects of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s stinky government are spilling over into the streets of Italy’s third-largest city. So far, more than 10,000 tons of trash have piled up in and around Naples due to lack of landfills.
Even on reality shows at the center of the cultural zeitgeist, “From MySpace to My Face” — one of many novelty tees sold at the seaside garbage store where the guidos and guidettes “work” — will undoubtedly steal the spotlight. Although nothing will ever come close to my favorite shirt, spotted at a state fair in rural Virginia, which featured the Warner Bros. logo and read, “If you see the cops, WARN A BROTHA.”
Chris Brown started his 180 day community service today by collecting garbage alongside a road in Richmond Virginia. I have to admit, these pictures are pretty gratifying.
Culture Buzz The Toronto garbage strike just ended after weeks of Canadian complaining. See how it stacks up against the worst garbage strikes in history!
Some half-assed ninja does his best E. Honda bonus stage impression. Surprisingly, the thing is wrecked at the end. And he didn't even use the Hundred Hand Slap!
They may look like jewelry pulled off a mall kiosk (or My So-Called Life), but these charms for dudes are straight-up classy with a capital K. With models like “Desire,” “Challenge,” and “Cool Topaz,” guys finally have the chance to make the “middle school art teacher” look tew-ootally sexy. (Thanks, Gabe!)
Celebrity Buzz Someone went through the Weeds star’s trash and found medicine to treat underactive thyroid. Classy. Also, we’re electing a new leader of the free world in less than ten days. But in the meantime, does Stockard Channing use a dumpster?
Celebrity Buzz As a correspondent for The Insider — the tabloid show he used to host — O’Brien wrote a scathing e-mail to his staff, decrying the plight of the poor Iowans he met while on location (who can’t afford “food, gas…or movies”), before lambasting one of the show’s fluffier recurring segments about accessories, which he claims “make [people] want to vomit.” O’Brien says he’s just trying to “create a discourse.” And he will, right after the segment about Brooke Burke dancing.
Served in Japan, the franchise serves a pie that — from what we can tell — is topped with cheese, hot dogs, confetti, and garbage. The cool thing about the Double Roll is that it probably looks the same on the plate as it does in the toilet.
TV Buzz Somewhere in the Navy Yards of Brooklyn sits the scrappy remaining set pieces after 25 years of Saturday Night Live. And somehow, Ellen Cleghorne was nowhere to be found.