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“What Are You Looking At?”

Kevin Connolly is a bonafide hottie. He may have been born without legs, but that doesn’t cloud just how hot, and even better (and more notably), how TALENTED this guy is.

What makes him so talented? He goes around the world taking pictures (30,000+ so far) of people staring at him. As a disabled woman, the looks he’s captured are more than familiar. What a fantastic idea this is! I just love it. He’s taking the power back. And the photos from his point of view are just stunning (I want to buy a few!).

Kevin’s photography is growing in popularity even today, thanks to this awesome article One of his subjects.about him on Yahoo News. There’s also an excellent video segment posted in that link so be sure to check that out. It is REALLY good.

And….he travels around on a skateboard. Pretty sweet, Kev. You’re my new MySpace hero *smirk* (no really, check out my page)

Kevin’s website. The Rolling Exhibition

– Tiff  

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Since When Did Touch Lamps Go Out of Style?

There’s something about touch lamps that makes this C6 quad a happy girl. I mean, all you gotta do is touch them – ANYWHERE – and then voila! “…and then there was light!”

Anyways, I went and bought myself a very cool modern touch lamp from IKEA last week (it’s in my living room next to my couch), and it’s increased my happiness level by at least 50% (for now…of course being human, that’ll eventually change).

It even has a dimmer “switch” (which really isn’t a switch; you just hold your hand up against it for a few seconds and it’ll start dimming).

What I bought: IKEA Stockholm table lamp

Price: $69.99

Ok, off to touch my lamp again…

– Tiff

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“If Celebs Moved to Oklahoma…”

Here’s what you get when you combine a Photoshop snarky man and a wicked sense of humor.

Someone once told me that Sarah-Jessica Parker had a horse face. Maybe this Photoshop guy had the same idea?

I salut thee, www.planethiltron.com, for making me smile on a blah Saturday where I’M SWAMPED WITH WORK.

– Tiff

PS. The Tom Cruise one and The Olsen twins ones are also hilarious. Some look obviously fake, but hey, they’re still good for a laugh.

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Don’t. Touch. the. Joystick. (kid!)

Something must be said for the phenomena, the draw really, of kids towards the mighty joystick.

There’s something about the wheelchair joystick that just screams for kids to come and play with it. And I gotta say, as much as I love me a cute kid, having random, strange kids reach for my joystick unbeknownst to me and accidentally run themselves over IS NOT something I want.

Hey, I’m a poor writer. I can’t afford to be sued by some pissed-off parents. Screw you. It’s not my fault your kids can’t keep their little grubby hands to themselves.Even my 1 year old neice, who is barely aware of the world around her, hones in on my joystick like a tiger to raw steak. I can’t explain it. It’s seriously the weirdest thing ever.

Maybe it’s because my joystick is shaped like a huge, over-sized nipple, and subconsciously the kid is drawn to it just because she just wants to suck on it. Maybe that’s true for the younger kids (ha), but for the older kids, say…the 5 – 7 years olds (after 7 they usually know better), well, these kids just see my joystick as an opportunity to practice the video game/XBox/360/etc skills, or something to that effect.

What am I? A rolling practice console?? 

So after dozens of incidents where tiny little kidlet hands have grabbed onto my joystick without me knowing and driven me around like an old lady drunk on Jager, I’ve learned to hone some skills of my own. Oh yes. I call it the “Flip Off and Cover” method. Once I see their eyes gravitate toward my apparently tasty black “nipple,” I turn it off and hide the joystick in the crook of my elbow. Disaster averted, and then the kid must now find something else to entertain him/her for that 10 second interval.

Apparently there really is “joy” in handling the “stick” afterall. After 14 years of using one, I guess I’ve forgotten there was a novelty about it. Bizarre…

– Tiff

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The Epitome of Laziness

You’re looking at it, folks: The Shoprider Scooter

For $6595.00 you too can have this ENCLOSED (with wipers even!) scooter, that can be your new favorite mode of transportation. Forget your legs, your bicycle, or your Hooveraround Chair, this all-weather scooter is the NEW way for lazy folks AND old folks alike, to get their asses around town.

At least (bleh) it runs on a battery.

Conclusion: Do I think this goes too far? A big, resounding yes.

– Tiff

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Remember when?

Does anyone other than me remember the OUTDOOR McDonald’s Playlands they used to have? THEY WERE TEH AWESOME. I had my 7th bday at the one in St. Paul and there was a trolley (yes, a trolley) that took you from the restaurant, up a short ways up this hill, to the crazy awesome playland, with things such as THIS!

THE HAMBURGLAR JAIL!

 

I’m guessing like with most things from the ’80s, it went away due to liability reasons.

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Who the F%#k Is Cory Kennedy and Why Do We Care?

She may just be a poorer version of Paris Hilton (here’s her scenester blog), but hey, the girl’s got mad makeup style, and one can’t help but give her kudos for that. And Urban Decay (one of the raddest makeup brands out there) agrees.

As part of their Spring Looks 2008 Collection, Cory is featured as one of the makeup divas.

I am in total love with the above look: Hot pink pigment dusted around the eye, a little above the lash line, then smudged outward for that hawt “cat eye” effect, and then they finish it off with some sparkly violet pigment all around the top and bottom lash lines. Love it.

Just member, if you do your eyes big like this, do a nude glossy lip or just a very light pink lip, otherwise you’ll look like a drag queen. But hey, if you wanna look like a drag queen, be my guest…

– Tiff