Gary Oldman Prick Up Your Ears, betty, dorian & I are all airheads

betty, 4:20 in is for you.  4 minutes 20 seconds into the video i mean.  hahahah

L.A. tops cities ‘meanest’ to homeless, Florida has 4 in the Top 10

UPI.com

LOS ANGELES, July 15 (UPI) — Los Angeles is the “meanest” city in the United States when it comes to the treatment of homeless people, advocates for the homeless say.

The AIAS, The Guild Hall At SMU And GameStop Announce The Indie Game Challenge

The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, The Guild Hall at Southern Methodist University, and GameStop are combining forces for the Indie Game Challenge, a huge game development contest with hundreds of thousands of dollars on the line.

Anything but Sue

‘Boys growing up with popular names such as Michael, Joshua and Christopher have a good chance of leading law-abiding lives.

But young men named Kareem, Walter or Ivan could run afoul of the law.

That’s according to a recent US study that claims the more unpopular, uncommon or feminine a boy’s first name, the greater the chance he will end up behind bars.

While Shippensburg University professor David Kalist’s report in Social Science Quarterly shows that “unpopular names are likely not the cause of crime,” he explains that factors often associated with those names can “increase the tendency toward juvenile delinquency.”

Boys with unpopular, girlish or uncommon names often are ridiculed by peers, come from families of low socioeconomic status and face discrimination in the workforce based on a preconceived bias about their names, according to the study, which analysed more than 15,000 names.

Jay Corzine, chairman of the University of Central Florida’s sociology department, said, “Some kids could have a name that leads to teasing and being picked on and, in return, that child could become aggressive with others.”

Top 10 bad-boy names

Alec, Ernest, Garland, Ivan, Kareem, Luke, Malcolm, Preston, Tyrell, Walter.’

Wow. Alec?  Luke?  Malcolm?

Artist of the Day – Odilon Redon

Self portrait 1880

Bertrand-Jean Redon better known as Odilon Redon (April 20, 1840 – July 6, 1916) was a Symbolist painter and printmaker, born in Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France. Odilon was a nickname derived from his mother, Odile.

Redon started drawing as a young child, and at the age of 10 he was awarded a drawing prize at school. At age 15, he began formal study in drawing but on the insistence of his father he switched to architecture. His failure to pass the entrance exams at Paris’ Ecole des Beaux-Arts ended any plans for a career as an architect, although he would later study there under Jean-Leon Gerome.

Back home in his native Bordeaux, he took up sculpture, and Rodolphe Bresdin instructed him in etching and lithography. However, his artistic career was interrupted in 1870 when he joined the army to serve in the Franco-Prussian War.

At the end of the war, he moved to Paris, working almost exclusively in charcoal and lithography. It would not be until 1878 that his work gained any recognition with Guardian Spirit of the Waters, and he published his first album of lithographs, titled Dans le Reve, in 1879. Still, Redon remained relatively unknown until the appearance in 1884 of a cult novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans titled, rebours (Against Nature). The story featured a decadent aristocrat who collected Redon’s drawings. In the 1890s, he began to use pastel and oils, which dominated his works for the rest of his life.

Elizabeth Hasselbeck, Handbags, Cockroaches, Dinosaurs, Intelligent Design

the volume on this video is very loud and it is “the view” so turn it down.

but i think elizabeth lays out a “really convincing argument”….

that nothing intelligent is going on here.

(i wonder if she plagiarized that from anyone.) 

this may seem irrelevant but, ‘ALIENS ARE PLANNING ON EATING YOUR BRIANS’

I SAW THIS ON TV THE OTHER NIGHT AND IT MADE ME THINK OF SECRET CHRISTIAN SOCIETIES

 AND 2012 PROPHECIES AND ALL THAT OTHER FUN STUFF.

Bill Keller calls President Obama a ‘boy’.

HERE IS AN INTERESTING EMAIL SOMEONE FORWARDED

IT APPEARS BILL KELLER IS MAKING A RACIAL STATEMENT AGAINST PRESIDENT OBAMA.