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Was the BANKSY Wall On eBay Auction Sabotaged?
While the media is abuzz today with news of the BANKSY spray-painted wall that was just auctioned off on eBay last night for $409,206 (£208,100), no one’s taking the winning bidder’s relatively short and shoddy transaction history into account. A member since December 2007, 999toyota, has only bid on a total of 7 items, with the most recent and bigger ticket of them—damaged Toyota Corollas—not even being paid for, leading to this bit of negative feedback:
So naturally, if this eBayer can’t even pony up $1200 for a hoopty what’s the chances of them shelling out almost a half million dollars for a wall? We’ll bet this one gets relisted any minute now.
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Party Animal Is Not Sorry for Partying
This kid is freaking hilarious. A news reporter tries to get him to take off his sunglasses—which he claims are famous—and apologize to his neighbors and parents for throwing a 500+ person party that caused over $20k worth of damage. Unrelenting, the semi-burnout refuses to not only remove his shades, but he also won’t give the heartfelt sorry the feisty blond is begging for. As ridiculous as this kid looks and stupid as he sounds, you have to respect ‘em on some juvenile level.
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Even Larry King’s Wardrobe Sucks Up To Guests
America’s favorite geriatric-ridden talking TV head, Larry King, is notorious for asking guests softball questions, but he may have slunk to all new brown-nosing lows in his interview last night with former-funnyman Jerry Seinfeld. The semi-comedian was on King’s program promoting his new B-movie, “Bee Movie,” and Larry King thought this must be the perfect opportunity to break out his honey bee tie and suspenders while slobbing Seinfeld. Plus what’s with that chip on Larry’s shoulder, it looks like it’s about to break off.
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The Media Continues To Paint BANKSY Story Wrong
Either BANKSY is absolutely genius at disinformation or the media is completely hopeless at this point. Most every news outlet that copied the BANKSY being re-unmasked story from the Londonist has still somehow managed to get the most important part of the story wrong: identifying BANKSY. Everyone from the BBC, to the NY Post, to ThisIsLondon are all assuming that the guy pictured above is BANKSY. They must not have read this clue provided by the Londonist:
However, we’ve seen that flower shape before, around Shoreditch—perhaps Banksy is here teaming up with someone else.)
Even with that tidbit, every media outlet has gone with the obvious and assumed that the guy caught yellow-handed is BANKSY. After the jump, we point you in the right direction for correctly identifying the artivist.
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Bill Maher Is Increasingly Becoming A Prick
Fake tough guy and smug-minded comedian Bill Maher got exactly what he deserved the other night when hecklers from a 9/11 truth organization needled him about not recognizing the extremely peculiar collapse of WTC #7 during a taping of Real Time this past Friday night. Maybe Bill doesn’t watch YouTube or doesn’t really know how many buildings fell that day. But he should, at the very least, acknowledge that conspiracy theorists are not talking about #1 and #2, his common diversion, they’re talking about the one building that wasn’t hit by planes and still fell like a deck of cards. In case Bill and the rest of America missed it, watch the collapse for yourselves.
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Pop Mech Thinks You’re A Wuss If You Can’t Fillet A Fish
The arbiters of mainstream testosterone, Popular Mechanics, has just released a list of the ‘25 Skills Every Man Should Know‘ and we’ll be the first to admit to not knowing everything on it. Does that make us any less manly? Here’s at least five things we’ll admit to having no idea how to do:
-Fix a dead outlet
-Perform CPR (correctly)
-Fillet a fish
-Change oil and filter
-Bleed brakes
But we’re not total girly-men. We do have some skills:
-Paint a room
-Build a campfire
-Fix a bike flat
-Back up data
-And one of the most manly on the their list: Protect your computer.
So looks like we can pee straight after all. According to their list, how bitch are you?
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Did Owen Wilson Throw 8th Kind of Smoke?
While we wish Owen Wilson Godspeed in his recovery for taking way too many valiums (original reports said heroin) after an alleged suicide attempt, we ain’t buying the official version of this story. Let’s face it, Wilson is one of those happy-go-lucky kind of guys and these accounts appear to be an expedient attempt to cover up a good ol’ fashioned Hollywood overdose.
New reports claim he had a falling out with a close friend. Sounds like bullshit to us, especially from a guy who appreciated some jarring from his buddies. This is the same guy that embraced the lewd nickname for someone who likes to lick ladies bottoms, “The Butterscotch Stallion,” without any kind of shame or embarrassment. Not known for being a super-sensitive sap, he didn’t even care that his closest friends were calling him it:
I love that. It’s so funny. Because a friend said it to me like a month ago; it was on the internet or something. (Drawing it out with that wonderful, leisurely Texas drawl:) “The Butterscotch Stallion.” That has to be one of the most ridiculous, insane nicknames. But some of my friends have really picked up on it. I think that they know it’s so humiliating to me, kind of, “The Butterscotch Stallion.”
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Jane (Publisher) Was A Lying Bitch!
We usually don’t wish death on any of Condé Nast’s magazines (barring Cargo of course, when they folded Complex’s ad pages went especially through the roof), but genteel Jane was one of those girly-girl mags we always hoped would go away. Not only did she disappoint us with that boob shoot, but she also never gave her flock enough ‘Love Giving Fellatio Daily’ features or other tidbits that could specifically benefit us. So we laughed when our associates once removed over at Ecko sent us this letter from the publisher of Jane that was inserted in “comp issues” to solicit advertisers before it went belly up. After reading all the upbeat predictions, we can’t help but wonder whether publisher Carlos Lamadrid was completely in the dark or entirely delusional about Jane’s imminent demise. Probably had to do with the whole keeping up appearances thing. Either way, it serves as a fitting tribute and even better example about just how full of shit publisher’s letters are in the first place. Read the full spin after the jump, or check out the highlights here:
- Welcome to the Jane Beauty and Body Issue. Because here at JANE, things just keep getting hotter.
- Ad pages are up more than 20% for the first half of 2007 and we show no signs of cooling down.
- Expect our circulation mix to change as a result of so many individual subscriptions coming in (allegedly due to posting breast thing online).
- We’ll keep you posted on this tremendous growth.
- What’s next? Don’t miss JANE’s annual Naked issue in August.
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Winding Down: Too Much To Handle?
Michelle Marsh does a great job of holding ‘her girls’ and our attention! [Hollywood Tuna]
Streetwear magazine’s 21st issue drops: Yawn! [High Snobiety]
Nike Floor Hockey sounds like a great way to get the kids motivated. But this is just a concept, so don’t expect the little dirt devils to think cleaning is fun just yet. [Ubergizmo]
Cover up your top with a new Mishka x New Era collabo. They drop at the end of the summer. [Mashkulture]
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50 Covers Vibe And XXL
Even with word that his album is being postponed, Fifty still has got enough pull to land himself on the covers of two Hip Hop magazines: Vibe and XXL. And he ain’t afraid to rock the black wife beater and baseball cap look on both. Of course the Vibe cover stands out with that horribly scowling 50, but we don’t think that’s a good thing. Dude looks like he just drank some really bad pineapple juice or something. At first we could of swore it was Charlie Murphy doing a parody. And despite the rhinestone ‘Curtis” emblazoned shirt, XXL is clearly the winner with a less-is-more look.
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