Well, Things Continue to Suck

by Liz Colville

We returned from a weekend of mourning birds and fish to mourn people who went to talk about issues with a politician only to be killed or injured by or traumatically proximate to a person who we then spent the next five days reading all kinds of speculative articles about. The Tucson shootings did cause certain areas of the media to wake up a little, but it also caused Sarah Palin — who, by the way, isn’t even a politician anymore…so…? — to take things too far, her specialty, and now it’s Friday and it’s tempting to say, What the fuck next? while hoping no one or thing responds. Monday is the day we honor the man pictured, and given the state of things, why not start early? But if what you really want to do is distract yourself, by all means:

• Danielle Roderick’s eyewitness account of Colin Firth getting his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
• Rich people talking about how they get by with a little help from their money
• An account of the rise of the t-shirt bra (with survey!)
• Photographic evidence that Gucci Mane got a tattoo of an ice-cream cone that is both cold and high-voltage, or just so cold it feels like a lightning bolt to the gums, on his face
• A thing that lets you see which books were bestsellers the day you were born
• Emma Barrie’s ways to successfully be unemployed
• Wine disguised as perfume
• Old forgotten things, brought back into our lives with the help of the Internet and Laura Hazard Owen
• The preview of a Hulu reality competition show called Genuine Ken
• A convincing argument in favor of getting pedicures in winter

Peace! (I mean it.)

Photo from the National Archives via Wikipedia