this little gnome...

is home and finally back in new york for a change! had a great trip across the pond. enjoy some bizarroness from foreign shores below.

you disgust me

wonder if this name calling campaign on the dublin trash cans is working?

my first mobile

oh yes, this is a real cell phone. for 6 year olds.

save the bees!

while i was in london, i caught a provocative documentary on the bbc about the plight of the honeybee. did you know that our bees are disappearing? and suffering from a global epidemic called CCD - colony collapse disorder? and that a related book is the #19 best selling non-fiction book at heathrow airport?

and i was worried about swine flu

i think this was the most bizarro pic i snapped on the trip. and it was at the boots pharmacy at heathrow airport.

travel advice? perfect.

medicines check & prescriptions? how convenient.

chlamydia screening????

this little gnome...

is off to dublin to see U2 and then onto london to see her peeps, so i probably won't be posting for a while. 

maybe i can convince the other fish and the flame to start posting again...?

bizarre love triangle

who knew there was so much drama at the zoo? harry has left pepper for a female widow named linda. linda has now been branded a "homewrecker." you can't make this up, kids! 

where the wild things are

i know i will likely be reprimanded by a certain librarian for having never read this book, but i think the trailer for the spike jones adaptation looks fantastic:

i also enjoyed the write-up on stuffwhitepeoplelike, here.  and yes, i do "feel a ticking timebomb whereby [i] must read the book in advance of the movie." 

hey gap, it's summer

it hasn't felt like summer much in new york. but that is no excuse to have back to school in the windows, gap. it's still mid-july! 

if it's summer...

it must be time for an obscene line around madison park for shake shack. i'm sorry - it's good, but not obscene line good. 

that's one hot mess of a dog

apparently, the weinermobile ran into a house last week. 

oops. that intern is fired. 

who approved this?

paparazzi photos from a distance...these two dresses were so short and so tight it turned everyone's heads in the park. 

 

speaking of eyepatches...

this is hilarious...pirate language for facebook:

STEP 1: SCROLL TO THE BOTTOM OF YOUR FACEBOOK PAGE. 

STEP 2: CLICK ON ''ENGLISH US or UK'' 

STEP 3: WHEN ALL THE DIFFERENT LANGUAGES APEAR, CLICK ON ENGLISH (PIRATE)

then, feel free to blabber t' yer mates.

(thanks to tz) 

how i spent last weekend

thankfully, the laptop is up and running again. 

this week's swap...

is the excel 2003 bible and and intermediate accounting textbook. yes, the nerdberger in me was tempted to take the excel. 

sounds of silence

apologies, faithful TFAAF readers, for my laptop has died. i have been computerless for a week now, so i haven't been posting. thankfully, it's in the shop, so hopefully we'll be up and running again soon!

great together

as you know, i heart hall & oates. plus, i heart keyboard cat. add them together and you get this gem of a mash-up.

i also love that oates and keyboard cat wore matching outfits. and that i get to use the "hall and oates" tag again.

such directness

unfortch, a comma and "dumbass" didn't fit within the approved space.

question...

did anyone else get a call from gov. david paterson tonight?

and, i'm sorry, but anyone else immediately envision fred armisen?

just plain coco loco

is this for reals, yo?

also, is toilet paper "really archaic and disgusting?" call me crazy, but i think toilet paper was a pretty damn good invention.

my new obsession

is this cute glass milk jug that i found at the food emporium.

yes, it cost 2x the price of regular milk, but i do get a new vase out of it. could look very nice with daisies.

(and yes, i am making banana pudding.)

question...

when did lance armstrong start riding for kazakhstan?

who knew?

ever wonder how much a new taxi goes for? i got into a brand new taxi tonight. turns out it's $30,820 and gets 24 miles per gallon. who knew?

this week's swap...

is a pair of cataract sunglasses and faux potted violets. seriously, who is leaving this crap? my neighbors appear to have moved out. but, they were two college dudes, so i doubt these were in their possession.

somehow...

these two gems - broadway-inspired crafternoon needlepoints - did not make the swap, but instead sit sadly in the recycling bin.

who approved this? (government PSA edition)

what happens when you cross a "we are the world" remake with your hard-at-work tax dollars? why yes, it is a PSA for the usa.gov website.

who approved this? how many layers of government did this have to go through? that said, my fave part is the bruce springsteen style solo with the cameo of abe lincoln around 0:47:

just because...

on a hot summer day, it's nice to walk around barefoot in the grass.

i like hello kitty, but...

this is a bit much, no? check out more pix of the hello kitty house as well as the simpsons and the flintstones here.

Just because.....