Advertising WIN

This is just fantastic. Wholly agree.

Also, Air New Zealand has this new campaign promoting their new Economy Skycouch. It's called "Who Would You Spoon?"


Oh Kiwis...your humour is whimsically unbeatable.
As are your accents ;)

And the cool factor ante is upped again

The funniest town name exists in Neverland.


Nightcaps, New Zealand.

Nightcaps.

Isn't that hilarious?


There is also Athol... and Alexandra (aww).

Ok, NOW I want an iPhone

Because before, nothing had sold me. ;)

Ever since two of my silly guy friends made their own "I Am T-Pain" song, I've been really wanting an iPhone.

So imagine my obsession with the following:

Protect Insurance Companies PSA

Haha!

Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell

Where Kanye and healthcare converge

In New York City (of course, duh) subways.

Below are some new ads set to go up:

image via NY Times

And I guess some experts argue this subway marketing works- after all with the nutritional labeling and trans-fat ban, NYC is one of the "thinnest" cities in the US.

Adding my two cents to the healthcare debate (Partisan pigeonholers be forewarned, I think mine's pretty independent):
One of the most essential but hugely unspoken element of the healthcare debate is that of what Americans are eating. I don't need to regale us with all the statistics of how obese we are or how large our portions are or how much we spend on weight-loss products...it's all a mess and too much money goes towards something that is not progressing.
Maybe I am not one to talk because I am not obesity- or diabetes-inclined, nor do I work in or formally study the healthcare industry. But when you see numbers like $263 billion going toward funding the two combined, I don't think it's entirely fair in some way that I am paying into something that is, as it appears (pun intended), for the MOST part (not all- type I diabetes anyone?) entirely preventable.

Maybe I've hit a nerve, and if so, I apologize. But please, do yourself and all other Americans a favor. I don't need to tell you to get '5-a-Day' or to work out or to not drink milk and all of that ... but I guess I just did.

I really liked President Obama's speech actually ... (revoking cancer treatment halfway through IS extremely wrong) ... and we shall see if his promises pan out. Even flaming conservative libertarian Glenn Beck, who TIME accuses as a fear-marketing "Mad Man" said
"I don't know personally a single Democrat who is a dope-smoking hippie that wants to turn us into Soviet Russia."

But politics is something in which I cease to find much satisfaction, as the more I read about it, the more confused I find myself. Maybe you could argue that anything worthwhile is, in it's essence, confusing at the core. But I can't seem to catch a break from this little thing called the US political economic system.
And coming from a politically apathetic family (read: Beltway Burnouts turned Carefree Californians) doesn't help.


But I think all of us can agree that in light of the pathetic and utterly rude Kanye antics of last Sunday's VMAs...

THE jackass comment is totally justified...

and maybe you totally disagree with me above on healthcare, but below here, can see why I deemed this the best subway ad of summer 2008:



T. Swizzle: you're welcome.

NYC: You can't come soon enough.

Happy weekend.

Selling Out Is The New Keeping It Real

A tribute to the tenacity of human spirit:

the documentary
"Lemonade"

via Swissmiss

via Juxtapoz

Oh and just for smiles, in case you missed THE viral video of yesterday...
the MegaWoosh waterslide.

xo.

Ewe should come!

I am so un-containably excited for Neverland...

that I make up Never-words like uncontainably!


look at the full Flickr photostream HERE.

via Cup of Jo

"Now that's what I call a taco!"

I was up in Idaho this past weekend for my cousin's LDS mission homecoming (from the NY NY North mission aka mostly the Bronx and Manhattan), and part of the cousin festivities included a YouTube-a-thon...

This was one of the best:




"Pizza?! Now that's what I call a taco!" HAHA.

Best Faces Forward!

Thank goodness for progressive technology.

If it wasn't enough to have Wi-Fi in class, now muted video chat to make funny faces appears to be the new wave of the internet.

So Tommy and I had our computers and his fiance Alyse was sitting next to him trying not to keel over as she Sudoku'ed.

Warming up...

And we're off...

Taking a turn looking invested in the lecture.

Self-zoom

Pictured below wins the award of: "I-had-to-turn-my-face-into-a-convincing-fake yawn-because-the-professor-turned-around-too-soon"

Kudos to Tommy for screen-capturing the pre-yawn face.

Too bad those weren't even the best faces made.
A 'you had to be there' thing.

There are no words

Hilarious would not begin to describe THIS.

My friend Rachael made a profile on blackplanet.com of Laquisha Jones from the Bronx...and well, go visit the link to see more of what ensued.
Be sure you watch the videos...

But now, we didn't expect anything less from a girl who wore a blue suit around campus during finals, now did we?

The Miracle of Life Part II

...Because maybe unloading these is therapeutic and shows how ridiculous a child I was.

A) One day as my mom was collecting items to donate to "the poor people" of Mexico, she told me to gather things that maybe had sentimental value but that I didn't need anymore.

I was about 4: old enough to see right through all the hogwash and glory of being a fairly new big sister to what it really was = attention redistribution.

Apparently, my eyes got wide and excited, and I said
"I know! We can give Anne Carroll [my sister] to the poor people!"

I'm so glad my mom overrode my judgment.



B) I once went through a phase of demanding people call me Wendy.

As in, Wendy from Peter Pan.

Demanding manifested in there being "Wendy" written atop many a Pre-K art piece (in both my handwriting and my teacher's- I can only imagine what they were thinking).
But among other things, it came back to me remembering how I thought Wendy really had it all:

i) a guy who knew how to fly,
ii) who taught her how to fly, and
iii) who flew her to a place of tree forts and forests to explore.

(My future husband has some large shoes to fill...(wings to spread?))


C) I was a very curious child. One day as a 7 year old, I was totally flummoxed for how "it" happened and straight-up asked my mom how A got to B (a term later learned as "conception" in middle school science class).

The best part is that AC happened to be in the room too, approximately age 3, and as soon as my mom opened up the peanut gallery for questions, AC ever so inquisitively asked...

(I can just see her head tilted and brow furrowed)

"Even....camels?!"

So yes, I brought on the sex talk at age 7.


I can only wait to be on the receiving end of questions like these of my own, because as you have just witnessed, I know I really have it coming...

Love,
Wendy

Free candy inside

Okay so one of Lindsey's ski bum friends bought this 'molester van' (as they called it) with his fellow ski bum college co-eds.
They had Canyons season passes and had plans to sleep in it the night before they would go.
Why? I don't know, they were just being silly boys.
They also put a "Free Candy Inside" sign on the back window as a joke a couple days prior to it making it on KSL...
Classic college.

Read the full story here.

Although, I don't think KSL got to the deeper economic implications- why is this dude literally living in his van part-time??!! Haha.
Apparently now, he has been nicknamed "stranger danger" by all his friends.

Luke the P.I.M.P.

So turns out my 4-year-old nephew is a certifiable studmuffin.

(eat your heart out, Brook!)

As if we needed anymore proof, apparently he was THE highlight of my half-brother's (I prefer calling him my brother) sister's wedding reception a few weeks ago.

In over 2 hours on the dance floor, Sir Luke singlehandedly:

a) had 4 songs dedicated to him by the band...

(with his gorgeous mommy, my sister-in-law)

b) caused three groomsmen to approach my brother, saying "I cant get any of these girls to talk to me because they're too obsessed watching your kid dance!"

c) had circles form around him, and ate the attention right up...

Apparently, the bride (my brother's sister) received somewhere between 50-100 texts & phone calls on her honeymoon telling her what a stud/how cute/how funny Luke is.

I can't wait to see Luke and his little sister Sydney duke it out on the dance floor in years to come!

I love them so much!

Hilarious, huh?! I was dying laughing when I heard about it.

Down the Rabbit Hole

Above from Vogue's 2007 Alice in Wonderland fashion shoot featuring Natalia Vodianova, shot by Annie Leibovitz.

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First look at Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland movie!

(coming 2010)

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A 4th Grader questions Condi Rice about waterboarding.
Wow.
I think in 4th grade I was most consumed with beating boys at recess games.

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Vanity Fair slideshow of actors and directors:
"Something Just Clicked"

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Swine Flu count at 1,000 and counting: via Al Jazeera. Yikes.

Mexicans finding that (masked) laughter is the best medicine.

Full NYT story here: "Viral Humor Helps Mexicans Cope"

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Also funny: Vanity Fair's Frank DiGiacomo's The WASHMEN!

parody of "The Watchmen"

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Oh, wait, this too:

NY Mag's "analysis" of last week's Gossip Girl.


and last, but not least...
Have we swooned enough over the 6'5" actor Armie Hammer yet (aka Gabriel on GG)?

No, not enough, methinks....


XOXO, Gossip Girl

9th Ward Cartoons

Visiting Teaching: Bearing each others burdens, one Edward Cullen reference at a time!

See more LDS cartoons at 9th Ward Cartoons. Funny!


If you're lost, read about what "Visiting Teaching" is HERE.

Enough said.

To take our minds off the hour of sleep we will not 'retrieve again' until this coming autumnal season, let's watch some YouTube.

Thanks to sister for this one:




And to Kate for giving me a better picture of what my mom will be like reincarnated: