This is a nicely executed music video of a remix of that classic olde tyme song “Singing in the Rain.”

TINA FEY.

LOVE HER.

While I was outside chopping wood which was followed by a workout at the gym (chest, biceps and triceps today), Chris, you know who is a big John Mayer fan, e-mailed me this wedding vows write up from today’s New York Times.  This will probably send all brides and the recently engaged into a fit of jealous rage (For those that don’t know, to get mentioned in the New York Times Weddings section is a competitive sport except to the death in the Big Apple), but couple Miho Walsh and Roy Prieb received two Times articles.

What brought them together?  Dim sum.  And World of Warcraft.

Remember that movie with Marky Mark and Jennifer Aniston where Marky Mark plays the lead singer of a cover band who by twist of luck and talent becomes the actual lead singer of the very band he covers and idolizes before eventually becoming subsumed by the sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll lifestyle?  Yea, me neither.

Anyway, Journey found their new lead singer on YouTube.  SO meta.  His name is Arnel Pineda and is the lead singer of a Filipino band called “The Zoo” and in addition to original stuff, they also cover Journey and the Arnel absolutely kills it.

Scene: Friday night at bar.

P: I order vodka and grapefruit juice because the grapefruit prevents hangovers.

Me: …

Scene: Saturday morning.

P: I’m so hungover.

Me: …

Ms. Allison aka total babe blogger extraordinaire (she’s the one who was recently on the cover of NY Time Out) posted one of my favorite all time party photographs ever. Throwaway joke warning: It’s the breast best. My future bachelor pad will probably have it hanging on the wall framed in a rococo era frame next to my shelf of colognes.

As a semi-veteran of party photography, this snapshot below to me is the apex or pinnacle of what all party pictures should aspire towards because it’s so dynamic. There’s an entire story that grows from a second of time, which is quite remarkable I think.

The worst party photos in my opinion are the ones that come from the Patrick McMullan school of photography. I really despise that held posed look–it’s a party, not a gawd damn studio. I mean, yea I know PM is a legend, but for a man who’s been doing this for so long and been to so many great parties, I think it’s telling he doesn’t have that definitive inimitable image yet. Heck, if the Sartorialist shifts from the streets to the parties, he’ll end up running circles around Patrick McMullan. It’s not about the pose people, but the moment.

And this one is the most interesting red carpet photo I’ve ever seen:

Tangent: We all know Justin Timberlake is dating this woman, Jessica Biel. If there was a Harvard Business School for PR then JT would be a required case study for students. Who would have thought that during the heyday of N’Sync that the blond pube haired Justin Timberlake, who wasn’t the most masculine of fellas back then, would be able to escape the boy band and pop music black hole and become a completely legit artist and A-list lady slayer? I mean, I don’t truly know what’s going on behind the scenes, but based on my best guesstimate other dudes in the music and entertainment game respeck him and his talents. And we all know the ladies love him.

But I wonder if dating Jessica Biel has pushed him now into a whole new stratosphere even among the top dogs. Like Diddy now texts JT to see what’s good for that night and when Diddy is having a party, to ensure the right and the nicest girls show up he tells them that JT will be there as well. And Usher…Usher used to be JT level or rather JT was moving up to Usher level, but now Ush is tied down legally in the eyes of the law to a baby momma who…I don’t know…a word that sounds like “train” with a “y” after it comes to mind. But you know who I think is the secret dark horse playa of this whole bunch? John Mayer. Yup, John Mayer.

Update

Trust me, I’m not seeking these photos out but in my Internet peregrinations I’ve been very randomly coming across similar images as the ones above:

Watch this.

And this.

The image below is the correct one that should have accompanied that New York Times hackjob on McCain and his allegedly close relationship to that LILFWSWY lobbyist.  As any long time or even recent reader of Mrod knows, I’m no McCain fan.  In the tone of Chandler from Friends, “I couldn’t BE any less a fan of McCain.”  OH, don’t act like you’ve never seen the show.  You know exactly what Chandler tone I’m referring to.  Jackass.

Anyway, the lobbyist’s name is Vicki Iseman.  McCain’s nickname is the Maverick.  Vikie Iseman.  McCain the Maverick.  Iseman.  Maverick.  Iseman. Maverick.  ISEMAN MAVERICK.  ISEMAN AND MAVERICK!  CUE SONG.  CUE F-14s!  CUE COLD WAR ’80s BADASSNESS.  MR. GORBACHEV TEAR DOWN THESE WALLS!   GOOOOOSEEEEEE!

Thanks to the legal eagles at Poplicks for dropping this knowledge on me.

1. 9pm ish: Botanica

2. 10:30ish: Cake Shop

3. Drop Off Service?

4. ??

5. Pizza.

6. More pizza.

7. Kimchi hot dog man (….Stop.  Act your age.  You people disgust me).

8. Cabbie wakes me up in front of my apartment OR I wake up on the last stop on the N train in Coney Island.  Both equal possibilities.

First noticed by the Us Versus Them crew on the 20th floor of our building (the floor incidentally where fly models always come in and out of the elevator at…), this video from the Jerry Springer Show left me speechless. I didn’t laugh at all, except for well, a couple or few times. I want to qualify this entry by saying that I don’t condone this behavior or form of entertainment, but I’m merely the editor and is it really my place to stop posting things, nay censoring things just because I don’t like it or wasn’t amused by it? Should I be telling you what to and what not to watch? To do so would do a great disservice to the thousands of people who sacrificed and toiled to provide and uphold the very liberty and freedom we’ve been so fortunate, so very fortunate to enjoy in this country.

To not post this would mean…yes, the terrorists have won and I nor Chuck Norris can allow that to happen.

Without further ado, little person on littler person fighting.