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welcome to tobyspinks.com **if the comments function doesn't show up after the entry, reload your browser. January 31, 2006 Tuesday is now phobia day... Today's phobia is Novercaphobia. Novercaphobia is a fear of your step-mother. [pip1] Oscar Nominations are in... I still have quite a few movies to see. (* = should win of what I have seen) Best Picture... "Brokeback Mountain" * "Capote" 
"Crash""Good Night, and Good Luck." "Munich" Notice anything missing? "Walk the Line" perhaps?! Also, where is the "Constant Gardener"?? I thought for sure it'd be up there. The Gardener got a best supporting actress nomination for Rachel Weisz, best musical score, film editing and screenplay. Note: "Crash" was not a good movie. It was way to obvious. Other movies last year did a much better job than that. Matt Dillon is up for a supporting role for "Crash"?? Please. "Capote" is on my list to see and I haven't seen "Good Night, and Good Luck" or "Munich"... should I? "Brokeback Mountain" should win but I can't say for sure until I see the other three movies. I want to be fair. I am a little biased but I did think "Brokeback" was one of the best movies I've ever seen. I want to live in that movie. Brokeback done got me good. Best Actor... Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Capote" Terrence Howard in "Hustle & Flow" Heath Ledger in "Brokeback Mountain" * Joaquin Phoenix in "Walk the Line" David Strathairn in "Good Night, and Good Luck." Best Actress... Judi Dench in "Mrs. Henderson Presents" Felicity Huffman in "Transamerica" Keira Knightley in "Pride & Prejudice" Charlize Theron in "North Country" Reese Witherspoon in "Walk the Line" * Best Director... "Brokeback Mountain" Ang Lee * "Capote" Bennett Miller "Crash" Paul Haggis "Good Night, and Good Luck." George Clooney "Munich" Steven Spielberg A female ex-postal worker opened fire at a mail processing plant, killing six people before committing suicide, authorities said early Tuesday. Postal employee Charles Kronick told KEYT-TV in Santa Barbara that he was inside the building when shots rang out. Some 50 to 60 employees were seen running from the plant. "I heard something that sounded like a pop, and then I heard a couple seconds later, another pop, pop, pop," Kronick said. His boss came running over and told him to get out of the building, Kronick said, adding "We all hightailed it out real quick." I bet you did. Another worker goes postal. What is it about the Postal Service? flickr - my fotolog back to top - home January 30, 2006 
"Crash" pulled off an upset win over "Brokeback Mountain" for the overall cast award at the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) awards last night. One of my favorite actresses on "Grey's Anatomy", Sandra Oh, beat out Patricia Arquette and Geena Davis for outstanding performance by a female actor in a drama series. You can see the full list of winners by clicking here. Ang Lee was named filmmaker of the year by his peers, winning the Directors Guild of America award for the epic romance "Brokeback Mountain". "It took a delicate man to tell this story, and that's you," Health Ledger said. "I don't know about you," Lee said with a laugh, "but that feels a little gay to me." Gotta love USAToday.
Watch the PETA ad with trent reznor at TMZ... Nine Inch Nails star Trent Reznor fronts this graphic PETA ad about the Chinese fur trade. It's very graphic. flickr - my fotolog back to top - home January 27, 2006 It's Friday!... that was a fast week. Winter Restaurant Week Review: Steak Frites   Out of a possible 5 stars... Service: 4; Food: 4; Decor: 4; Overall: 4; Streak Frites was a treat. It was just what I needed after Tuesday's disappointing meal (but great company!) at the Beacon. Vivian and I started out with dirty Stoli Martinis in front of the fireplace in the back of the Coffee Shop. After much conversation we sauntered over to a very crowded Steak Frites. We had an 8pm reservation and got there at 7:55pm so we were told to get a drink at the bar and relax for a few minutes. We sipped on a smooth Côtes du Rhône while our table was prepared. At 8:20pm we were seated in the back room at a four person table. A perfect seat. The back of Steak Frites is where you want to sit. It's private and it's where all the fun goes on. 
The crowd was a good mix of diners. All very relaxed and all very polite. There was a lot of conversation going on, a good "vibe". Wine was being poured and everyone was enjoying their meals. I started with the Frisee Salad with Lardons & Goat Cheese and Vivian took on Scallops with risotto. The Frisee salad was very bitter but went well with the soft goat cheese. It also had candied walnuts scattered through it. The Scallops were very nicely cooked, tender and very flavorful.
We both had the Steak Frites au Poivre (of course) and while the cut of meat was fatty it was delicious and well cooked to our specifications. The frites were crisp and we got a side of mayo to dip them in. When I go back I will get the Steak Frites but I might get a different cut of meat. For dessert Vivian got Profiteroles Arabica which is a Puffed Pastry with Coffee Ice Cream with Dense Dark Chocolate Espresso Sauce and I got the Creme Brule. I learned I'm not really a fan on Creme Brule but Vivian's Profiteroles were incredible. The chocolate espresso sauce went prefectly with the fresh puffed pastry. 
Overall it was a wonderful treat and I will go back for a regular dinner there sometime soon. The atmosphere is great, the service was great but a little bit rushed, and the food was excellent. It's fun to go out in Union Square. The area is bustling with a whole range of people from locals to tourists to students. Bravo Steak Frites! This is what restaurant week is all about.
This Sunday, the Chinese usher in The Year of the Dog. "Here's a fun game to play. The object of the game is to move the red block around without getting hit by the blue blocks or touching the black walls. If you can go longer than 22 seconds you are phenomenal. Reportedly, the US Air Force uses this for fighter pilots. They are expected to go for at least 2 minutes. Give it a try!" [vicki] flickr - my fotolog back to top - home January 26, 2006  Which sports car are you? I'm a Chevrolet Corvette! I'm a classic - powerful, athletic, and competitive. You're all about winning the race and getting the job done. While you have a practical everyday side, you get wild when anyone pushes your pedal. You hate to lose, but you hardly ever do. Take the Which Sports Car Are You? quiz. [thanks lurch]
Microsoft announced Wednesday that it would license parts of the source code for its flagship Windows operating system to other companies. Under threat of daily fines by European Union antitrust regulators, Microsoft Corp. agreed Wednesday to let competitors examine some of the blueprints to its flagship Windows operating system.  GAZA CITY, GAZA STRIP - JANUARY 25: Supporters of Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement embrace as they celebrate unofficial results that indicate victory for their party in several vote stations in the Palestinian Legislative Council outside a polling station on January 25 2006, in Gaza City, Gaza Strip. The newly elected Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) will be expanded, and half of the seats will be allotted by proportional representation of all parties that gather more than two percent of the vote. (Photo by Abid Katib/Getty Images) Click the image for a larger graphic. [thanks sharilyn] The Islamic fundamentalist group Hamas, which has said it favors the destruction of Israel, won an apparent victory in Palestinian legislative elections, officials said Thursday, reshaping the political landscape of the Middle East. President Bush is going to be having a live press conference at 10:15am. The current situation leaves the Bush administration facing a Palestinian government led by an organization it has labeled a terrorist group. Interesting things are a float... HAMAS was formed in late 1987 as an outgrowth of the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. Various HAMAS elements have used both violent and political means, including terrorism, to pursue the goal of establishing an Islamic Palestinian state in Israel. It is loosely structured, with some elements working clandestinely and others operating openly through mosques and social service institutions to recruit members, raise money, organize activities, and distribute propaganda. HAMAS’ strength is concentrated in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. flickr - my fotolog back to top - home January 25, 2006 HaPPy HumPday!   Actor Chris Penn (left) found dead?! Sean Penn (right), his brother. Chris was found in his bed by his housekeeper. There was no sign of foul play. Chris' big break came in 1984 when he played Kevin Bacon's charming but "leaden-footed chum" in "Footloose". Winter Restaurant Week Review: Beacon Restaurant 
 Out of a possible 5 stars... Service: 2.5; Food: 2.5; Decor: 3.5; Overall: 2.5; Thinking about writing this review makes me think it's not worth the time (for me to write and or for you to read). Last night I went to the Beacon Restaurant on 56th between 5th and 6th avenue in Manhattan. Because it's restaurant week I figured I'd try out some midtown restaurants that are usually too expensive to even enter without taking out a small personal loan. Appetizers were in the $20 range and entrees ran $33 and higher. Cocktails were in the $14 range and bottles of wine were not cheaper than $50 a bottle. I started with a $14 Ketel One Dirty Martini followed by the Wood Roasted Oysters with Shallots. My Aunt Brenda (MFA) got the Arugula Salad with Crisp Potatoes (potato chips) with herb vinaigrette and parmesan. I enjoyed the oysters but wouldn't get them again. They came out tasting a little like steamed clams and a little like the bottom of the ocean. The Arugula Salad was a good salad. There was a lot of parmesan which always makes an arugula salad great but the dressing was a little oily for my taste. 
For entrees, MFA had the Grilled Filet Mignon with wild mushrooms and cabernet reduction and I had the Ten Herb Chicken with herbed bread and mushroom salad. The "herbed bread" that came with my chicken consisted of ten or so tiny croutons. I'd be hard pressed to tell you which ten herbs they used but I know that there were sprigs of rosemary and sage sticking from the breast. I saw 3 mushrooms with my herb chicken and there were two slices of cherry tomato hiding on my plate (not sure why). The reduction sauce that came with both entrees was too sweet. I am not a fan of sweet reductions. I think reductions should be salty, not sweet. MFA's filet was cooked rare (as was asked) and it was a great cut of meat... too bad it was drowned in that sweet reduction sauce. Queen Sirloin makes a mean reduction.
For dessert I got House Made Vanilla Ice Cream that was sitting on a pool of chocolate syrup and MFA got Mochacchino Cheese Cake with hazelnut biscotti crust and white chocolate crema. Good but nothing extravagant. Service was horrible. We waited about 40 minutes for our check and it seemed we had 3 waiters. I'm not sure if it was because we were there for restaurant week or if is just the way things work there. The clientele consisted of older people at their age of retirement and younger people that looked like they just came down from Columbia for a quick bite to eat. There were a few tables of angry men in suits who put their legs in the isle and didn't let you pass without asking them politely ... to which they would reply, "Grunt." Lovely. Wouldn't go back and wouldn't recommend it. Total prix fixe price for Restaurant Week as advertised: $35/each + taxes + tip; Our total with drinks and additional charges ($4 for oysters + $6 for filet + $14 Martini + tip + taxes): $121.00 flickr - my fotolog back to top - home January 24, 2006 
Most Depressing Day of the Year! Hooray! A British psychologist calculated today as the "most depressing day" last year, January 24, 2005. Midwinter weather wearing you down? Sinking in debt after the holidays? Angry with yourself for breaking those New Year's resolutions? Well congratulations, you are suffering from seasonal depression. Hey, speaking of New Year's resolutions: all of you "new year resolvers" in the gym that are taking over my machines during my lunchtime workout because you made some sort of "resolution" to yourself, just remember, it's a scientific fact that the majority of people break their healthy resolutions six to seven days into the new year.
The equation is: [W + (D-d)] x TQ M x NA The equation is broken down into seven variables: (W) weather, (D) debt, (d) monthly salary, (T) time since Christmas, (Q) time since failed quit attempt, (M) low motivational levels and (NA) the need to take action. Are you depressed? [q.sirloin] Peter Braunstein, the fashion writer that dressed as a fireman to obtain entry into a former co-worker's apartment for 13 hours of molestation says he did so because New York had turned its back on him. New York, being a place and not an actual person, had no comment to the allegations. [via gawker] Gossip... Jude Law broke up with Sienna Miller after he was the cheater and she took him back, what a prick; Jennifer Lopez is preggers... take that Ben; Prada store in New York caught fire, screams heard around the world; Bobby Trendy and Jeffree Star are still gay... flickr - my fotolog back to top - home January 23, 2006 The Steelers (Pittsburg) are in the Super Bowl for a sixth time. The Seahawks (Seattle) will be making their first appearance. 
Drew Barrymore on SNL, Saturday ... Drew didn't wear a bra to the Golden Globes and some of the gossip rags and gossip websites were picking on her so she decided to show up on Saturday Night Live with extra-large fake breasts to lighten the gossip surrounding the whole situation. JustJared posted the television clip and some good shots of Drew acting out on Weekend Update with Tiny Fey and Amy Poehler.
A 150-year-old Lower East Side synagogue's roof collapsed Sunday afternoon. Rabbi Spiegel said Sunday night that he hadn't been allowed back in to check on the Torahs. However, he believes they were under a section of the roof that is still intact. Yesterday's collapse forced the evacuation of around 100 people from four adjacent buildings. DJ... Finbarr Massi ... Check him out. NYC WINTER RESTAURANT WEEK STARTS TODAY! All this week and next you can sample food at some of the city's hottest restaurants for a fraction of the price as Winter Restaurant Week kicks into gear today. Restaurant Week last ten days, starting today and running through Friday, it then picks up again next Monday and runs through February 3rd. Some restaurants started taking reservations the day after Christmas and are already booked. Dinner will cost $35, before drinks, tax, and tip. I will be hitting the Beacon Restaurant on Tuesday and Steak Frites on Thursday. You can expect expert reviews from both restaurants on tobyspinks.com ... flickr - my fotolog back to top - home January 20, 2006 It's Friday!... thank god Whale spotted in central London: The northern bottle-nosed whale, which is 16-18ft long and is usually found in deep sea waters, passed Parliament and was moving upstream in the river Thames earlier today. Specialist equipment, including inflatable tubes to re-direct the animal downstream, are being sent. Tony Woodley, of the British Divers Marine Life Rescue, which will be handling the rescue, said the animal's welfare was the main priority. He said if attempts to re-direct the whale downstream failed, it may be necessary to put it down to prevent from suffering further. Paris Hilton's Publicists... are trying to silence a Hawaiian taxi driver who claims the socialite urinated in his cab. Any way you can make your money I guess... Harden Jameison tells American tabloid National Enquirer, "They were all drunk and abusive. I kicked them out and flagged down a cop." The cab driver claims one of Hilton's pals offered him $200 for the towel which Jameison is threatening to use for DNA evidence. This is the same publication that told us years ago that Elvis was still alive on the moon? flickr - my fotolog back to top - home January 19, 2006 Last night I went to Joe's Pub to see a couple friends from out of town play a show. It was my second time in Joe's Pub but my first time in Joe's Pub for an acutal show that friends of mine were in. New Bin Laden tape offers truce? "...it is better not to fight the Muslims on their land," he said. "We do not mind offering you a truce that is fair and long-term ... So we can build Iraq and Afghanistan ... there is no shame in this solution because it prevents wasting of billions of dollars ... to merchants of war." The tape has not been verified yet. flickr - my fotolog back to top - home January 18, 2006 HaPPy HumPday!!   
Beards.... It seems that the championship game for the NFL is starting with a beard contest... at least, according to the New York Times. It's the "championship game featuring quarterbacks whose mugs look more at home in a saloon than a salon". It will be "a face-off of facial hair, where ZZ Top might be logical halftime entertainment". Get me a beer, immediately! They are talking about Plummer and Ben Roethlisberger, the two quarterbacks of the competing teams for Sunday's American Football Conference (AFC) championship game. Denver's Jake Plummer and Pittsburgh's Ben Roethlisberger have been growing beards and their teammates are trying to figure out who's is better. "He's got a nice one, a real nice one," Broncos tackle George Foster said of Plummer and his beard. "I like it. It's better than Ben's." Is it for good luck? Or does he just not feel like shaving? No one knows! It's quite a mystery! "It's absolutely a revolution," said Phil Olsen, the self-appointed captain of Beard Team U.S.A., which competes in the biannual World Beard and Moustache Championships. All this fuss and it's only a beard. Cute.
flickr - my fotolog back to top - home January 17, 2006 Ow. "Brokeback Mountain" won the Golden Globe award last night for best drama. Brokeback also won for Best Screenplay and Song. Acting winners were Felicity Huffman ("Transamerica"), Philip Seymour Hoffman ("Capote"), Joaquin Phoenix ("Walk the Line"), Reese Witherspoon ("Walk the Line"), George Clooney ("Syriana") and Rachel Weisz ("The Constant Gardener"). Queen Sirloin and I were on a flight from Buffalo watching television (JetBlue) when Reese took the best actress in a drama award. Sarah teared up because Reese deserved it for sure and then whenever I heard that song from "Brokeback Mountain" I welled up too. We were both padding our eyes last night in seats 7B and 7C. I'm glad Joaquin won because it was probably the best acting I've seen him do in his career. Another great victory was when Mary-Louise Parker of "Weeds" beat out the four lead actresses of "Desperate Housewives". The "Desperate Housewives" don't deserve Globes in my opinion and they acted like idiots when the show won for best musical or comedy series. Get it together ladies... being all over Us magazine doesn't make you famous (or good at your jobs). Use the links at the right to get more Globe gossip... Touched by an Angel: Last month in the Lower East Side a 7 year old girl named Nixzmary Brown was killed by her 27 year old stepfather, Cesar Rodriguez while her mother, Nixzaliz Santiago, sat by and watched. Rodriguez, 27, savagely beat the 36-pound girl after accusing her of taking his yogurt. Nixzmary was starved, tied to a chair and tortured - and forced to use a cat litter box as her bathroom. Mourners are coming from all over the city to pay their respects at the small R. G. Ortiz Funeral Home in the East Village. More than 1,000 people lined up yesterday. On the subway this morning I was approached by someone who was reading the story in the NY Daily News. Her eyes welled up with tears as she said that she didn't understand how anyone could do that to their child. Having someone come up to me on the subway with an tears in their eyes is a new thing for me... so it must be a big deal here in New York. I think her stepfather AND her mother should both go to jail for a very long time. flickr - my fotolog back to top - home January 12, 2006 Today is my Friday!... no posting tomorrow, going to Buffalo. Trouble. I'm in trouble. Last night was trouble. 24 days until the SUPERBOWL XL!!! Wings, Sauces, Dips, Fatty Foods, Pizza... YUM!! Cutest baby blog! My cousin, Jen, put up a blog with pictures of her "little princess, Kamryn Janae". Super cute. Check it out! Interior Department to Open Alaskan Land to Oil Drilling... Just when you thought it was safe to go Alaskan crab fishing now we have to drill for oil. I have never been to Alaska but I've seen pictures and dag-nab it... we should keep the world beautiful. When are we going to get cars that run on bananas. B-A-N-A-N-A-S! 
Speaking of crab fishing... "The Deadliest Catch" is the BEST reality television show ever! Malibu and I watched it over a 3 day period last weekend and it's incredible. Men die! Men get hurt! Men work for 48 hours STRAIGHT! and all they want to do is "spoon". Super fun. And ... the "boat mother" is the BEST. She makes great meals, "Honey, do you want me to make a plate for you". and she cries when people die. You have to see it. It's amazing.
flickr - my fotolog back to top - home January 11, 2006 Happy Humpday! Two of these things are not like the others...  Retraction! Tobyspinks.com has been had! Yesterday I posted: "Cellphones to be hit by marketers". That email seems to be a scam. I'm sorry if I misled anyone. I should have checked to see what the deal was before I posted the information in the first place. There doesn't seem to be any reason why it's not a good idea to put your cellphone number in the do-not-call database but the government is not releasing your cellphone number so it's not necessary to do so. If anyone has any more information on this scam and why scammers would want you to do this particular scam, comment below. Thanks to Sandy who found that we were all puppets of the scam from "Senior Journal". Sandy, why do you read Senior Journal? Oscar winner Hilary Swank and husband Chad Lowe split... duh. And only 9 months after their New York Times Home & Garden section blowout about their $3.9 million apartment on Charles Streetin the west village. "Hilary Swank and Chad Lowe: Oscar's Retreat" is probably about to go on the market. Get out your checkbooks! "Angelina Jolie is expecting a baby this summer with Brad Pitt, PEOPLE has confirmed. 'Yes, I'm pregnant,' Jolie told a charity aid worker in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Monday. The pregnancy has since been confirmed by representatives of both stars.This is the first biological child for Jolie, 30, who is already the mother of son Maddox, 4, whom she adopted from Cambodia, and daughter Zahara, 1, adopted from Ethiopia in July. Jolie, who has often spoken about expanding her family, added that she'd like to adopt again. In October she told PEOPLE: 'There's something about making a choice, waking up and traveling somewhere and finding your family.'" The two "hottest people" on the planet are having a baby?! Watch out. Those are some serious genes. flickr - my fotolog back to top - home January 10, 2006 
A 25-year-old maid was heading toward a sixth-floor utility closet in the W Hotel at Lexington Ave. and 49th St. when an attacker bashed her head against the wall near an ice machine. A security guard delivering guests' bills spotted the victim lying unconscious on the ground, partially clothed, about 4:30a.m. Cops said the victim's head struck the wall so hard that she was unconscious during the attack and has not been able to provide a description of her attacker. The attack comes weeks after an employee at the hotel, where rooms can cost more than $500 per night, was arrested for fondling a guest from Alabama inside an elevator, sources said. Oprah Winfrey book clubs's enthusiastically endorsed book, "A Million Little Pieces", has drawn some scrutiny lately because of a report (titled "A Million Little Lies") that was posted on The Smoking Gun Web site. James Frey, the author, says that events "were embellished in the book for obvious dramatic reasons." The Smoking Gun quotes him as saying he did not spend nearly three months in jail after leaving an alcohol and drug rehabilitation center in the mid-1990's, as he contends in his book, but rather only a few days, at most. When Ms. Winfrey announced "A Million Little Pieces" as the first work of nonfiction she had selected, she called the book "a gut-wrenching memoir that is raw and it's so real." It's not. Poor Oprah book club. The questions about Mr. Frey come at the same time as revelations about the identity of JT Leroy, another writer whose "autobiographical novels" draw on a lifetime of prostitution and homelessness. I read "Sarah", an excellent book written by JT Leroy, and I loved it... flickr - my fotolog back to top - home January 9, 2006 Howard Stern is a free man... Today was Howard Stern's first day on Sirius satellite radio. Stern exited regular radio on Dec. 16, a year after signing a five-year, $500 million contract with Sirius. Last week, he was rewarded with another $200 million-plus in stock for helping boost Sirius' subscriber ranks to 3.3 million. Stern estimated his former audience on broadcast radio was five times as large. According to a few listeners, today's broadcast was not unlike Stern's regular radio show. Instead of saying the actual word f*ck, he said "The F-Word" like he used to on "regular" radio. Other show highlights: Stern announcing that he'd wed longtime girlfriend Beth Ostrosky; Stern revealing that he was only kidding about getting married; Playboy bunny Heidi Cortez, host of the new Stern Sirius show Tissue Time with Heidi, offering up phone sex; and "a butt trumpet pumping out the sounds of farting," in the words of Radio & Records, to the classical theme from 2001. [pip1] "Hostel" is No. 1 at box office... "Hostel," a tale of buddies who stumble into a den of violent depravity, debuted at No. 1 with $20.1 million. Expanding to more theaters, Focus Features' "Brokeback Mountain" finished at No. 9 with $5.75 million, raising its total to $22.5 million. "Brokeback Mountain" is only playing in 484 theaters and averaged an unprecedented $11,881 per cinema, compared to $9,157 in 2,195 theaters for "Hostel." A movie theater owned by Utah Jazz owner Larry Miller changed its screening plans and decided not to show the film "Brokeback Mountain." Male Utah residents let out a collective sigh of relief and went back to their 16 wives and honky-tonk religious beliefs. 
Meanwhile... Gene Shalit, veteran Today show critic, says Jake Gyllenhaal's character in "Brokeback Mountain", Jack, is a "sexual predator" who "tracks Ennis down and coaxes him into sporadic trysts." Maybe Gene is speaking from a personal experience or maybe he's just trying to get some press. The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLADD) said that Shalit's comments promoted "defamatory anti-gay prejudice to a national audience." GLAAD has demanded an apology from both Shalit and NBC News and urged supporters to contact the network and complain. The Today show telephone number is 212-664-4602. Ask for the viewer comment mailbox. Their fax is 212-664-7209 and their email is today@nbc.com [thanks anthony]
Two postal workers suspected of stealing Netflix DVDs... Ever wonder where that copy of "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie" went off to when you didn't get it in the mail when Netflix said you would? Well, the postman may have taken it. The U.S. Postal Inspection Service says that two postal workers in Colorado stole hundreds of DVDs intended for Netflix customers in Lyons, Colorado. Netflix told investigators the loss represents 23.33 percent of all DVD movies mailed to that postal area. [via consumerist] flickr - my fotolog back to top - home January 6, 2006 It's Friday!! 
Performance Artist vs. Urinal, Take 2: A 76-year-old performance artist was arrested after attacking Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain" – a porcelain urinal – with a hammer, police said. The work of art was chipped in the attack at the Pompidou Center in Paris. The "performance artist", who's identity is being protected by police, had already vandalized the work in 1993 by urinating into the it when it was on display in Nimes. A 2004 poll ranked "Fountain" as the most influential work of modern art, followed by Pablo Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon," Andy Warhol's screen prints of Marilyn Monroe and "Guernica," Picasso's depiction of war's devastation. "Fountain" is estimated at $3.6 million and is now being reparied in Paris.
Learn about "ephemeral artwork" here. Double Oscar for Sale... If Brokeback Mountain gets the Oscar you can always buy this double Oscar from eBay (pic on right). It features two vinyl dolls that are covered with gold paint, gold glitter and gold confetti. It even plays the soundtrack from the movie. Now that is a good deal! Here's a couple larger pictures. flickr - my fotolog back to top - home January 5, 2006
The job of hosting the 78th Academy Awards will go to Jon Stewart, the Emmy-winning writer-host of "The Daily Show" and a host of the Grammy Awards in 2001 and 2002. Jon will be using some of his own "Daily Show" writers to help with material for the show and will take a week off from the Daily Show. Hooray Jon Stewart! The Oscars are obviously worried the Golden Globes have them beat this year... they are pulling out the "big guns". Trying to get popular with the "kids".
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will remain sedated until at least Friday, and remains in serious condition in intensive care following a major stroke, the director of Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital said Thursday. You can't say you didn't see this coming. Sharon's been sick for awhile and it was obvious that he wasn't going to last long after he pulled out the settlers from the Gaza Strip. His one last deed of good will before the inevitable. flickr - my fotolog back to top - home January 4, 2006 HaPPy HumPdaY!
Lindsay in the hospital... saying she had an asthma attack this just after she admitted to being bulimic in this month's issue of Vanity Fair. Actor Joaquin Phoenix visited inmates yesterday during a visit to a cell block at Folsom Prison prior to a screening of his film Walk the Line. [via justjared] If you'd like to waste some time you can check out the Top 50 (Indie) Videos of 2005 [via goldenfiddle] You can get a Canon PowerShot A400 Silver 3.2MP Digital Camera for $105.95. [via consumerist] Regardless of what you were left with on your metrocard from the holiday fare reduction you can still put "other amounts"
Mooning Deemed 'Disgusting' but Not Illegal in Maryland: Acquitting a Germantown man who exposed his buttocks during an argument with a neighbor, a Montgomery County Circuit Court judge ruled yesterday that mooning, while distasteful, is not illegal in Maryland. "If exposure of half of the buttock constituted indecent exposure, any woman wearing a thong at the beach at Ocean City would be guilty," Judge John W. Debelius III said after the bench trial, reversing the ruling of a District Court judge. Debelius made clear his disdain for the defendant, calling the alleged act "disgusting" and "demeaning." Google goes braille... to celebrate the birth of Louis Braille: 4 January 1809. Click here for a screen shot.
January 3, 2006 HAPPY NEW YEAR! I trust you all had a great New Year. Live this year as though you have a clean slate. I wish you all a great year... Coal Mine Explosion: Rescue teams are searching for 13 coal miners trapped 80m underground in the state of West Virginia. High levels of toxic carbon monoxide in the mine have officials discouraged in their quest to rescue the men. flickr - my fotolog back to top - home the contents of this website are intended for entertainment purposes only. i do not assume responsibility for linked content, i just probably find it interesting. if you have a comment or would like to voice an opinion, please write to toby at tobyspinks.com. |
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