Social-Creature

Big news in Mobsterville this week. My favorite boy-band ever (and also friends, and clients) have officially signed with Windish as their new agency. As their original booking agent, Arin Ingraham, a.k.a The Ringleader Herself, says of this big move: “Watch out world The Glitch Mob has gained access to your sound systems.” Could not [...]

Have you ever been in a meeting where everyone in the room is using a Mac except one person? Ever notice what happens when suddenly everyone starts to get on that person’s case about the fact that he’s the only one not on a Mac? I have, and it kinda looked a little bit like [...]

Wow! Alan Cumming has a fragrance line, and guess what it’s called!! As if that wasn’t awesome enough, there’s also a body lotion called Cumming All Over, and the bar soap is called Cumming in a Bar. I am seriously cracking up writing this. (PS. If you are a fan of Alan Cumming, I’d highly [...]

My friends over at Skin.Graft Designs just discovered some way shady thief has been blatantly recreating exact replicas of their original clothing designs and selling them on Second Life. Skin.Graft Designs Originals: Sinistyle Designs counterfeit knockoffs: Skin.Graft Designs Originals: Sinistyle Designs counterfeit knockoffs: This is the first I’ve ever heard of anything like this, though [...]

It’s pretty interesting that at this year’s MTV Video Music awards the biggest controversy came from Brit comedian, host Russell Brand messing with the Disney-sponsored teen pop boy-band the Jonas Brothers for wearing Purity Rings. Purity rings, or chastity rings/promise rings originated in the U.S. in the 1990s among Christian affiliated sexual abstinence groups. The [...]

Last night, for no discernible reason, the whole MYSQL database for this site turned into oatmeal and was eaten by a goat. Everything from the last dreamhost backup (6 weeks ago) was restored. I will be working to get the goat to cough up the last two months worth of posts, which will be getting [...]

Amanda Lepore in an ad for the Jawbone headset. Just saw it in Vanity Fair (the one with Marilyn Monroe on the cover). The image on the opposite page, was of a “surgeon”: Definitely makes you look.

Beatles fans Vs British police. Right after writing about how cool I thought it would be to bring fictional characters to life on social media, I discovered that the employees of Sterling Cooper, the Madison Ave. advertising agency where the characters on AMC’s series Mad Men work, were all up on Twitter. For anyone unfamiliar, [...]

My dad is an inventor. He’s got a bunch of patents, from two different continents, and an EPA award. He talks to me on instant messenger sometimes, which I find pretty impressive since he’s 76 years old and English is not his first language by more than 50 years. That half-century was spent in the [...]