2009 TIME 100

2009 TIME 100
Before I begin, I'd like to point out the fact that if the group of photos above were the Brady Bunch grid, Sarah Palin would be Alice and Zac Efron would be Marcia. Anyway, this year's TIME 100 list isn't that surprising or unusual. They had Ashton Kutcher write the article for "The Twitter Guys", a top pick for the Builders and Titans section. Kutcher (twitter.com/aplusk) will probably have nearly 2 million followers by the time I'm finished writing this entry, but that doesn't change the fact that he used the wrong form of "too" in this post from earlier today...

"A reason to wake up, to much sleep can cause death http://bit.ly/sE1o8
about 12 hours ago from TweetDeck"

Jeff Bezos, one of my personal favorites, made the list again this year under "Heroes and Icons", while he's actually the brains behind Amazon and an entrepreneur at heart. While I was watching Barney in the early 90's, Bezos was giving the finger to Wall Street and sketching his plans to essentially invent e-commerce during a cross-country road trip from New York to Seattle.
Suze Orman- notorious lesbian, liar, and Jew, is one of my least favorite monsters to make the the list. I won't even start with this one.

hipster grifter

It was just over a week ago when a friend of mine first told me about Kari Ferrell, the infamous Hipster Grifter. I'm ashamed for being approximately one week late on this story, so I'm making up for it by being obsessed. This whole thing is already sort of played out, but I don't care...this is much better news than swine flu. Who is she? What will happen next? Why can't I be a psychopathic Asian 20-something with a chest tattoo?
Meet Kari Ferrell: Criminally Hipster
Where In the World is the Hipster Grifter?

Die Brücke

When I learned about transcendentalists in high school I pictured Brook Farm to be a cross between a nudist colony in Roselawn, IN and an Amish settlement...full of hippies. Now I imagine Die Brücke as the original 20th century hipsters...who actually contributed to society. If Bleyl, Karl, Heckel, and my big old crush Kirchner were born in 1985, I think they'd exist in the form of Gaspard Augé, Cory Kennedy, Cobrasnake and Urban Outfitters.

meek beak

I wish all birds looked like this. A parrot which lost part of its beak is seen in its cage in Cali April 18, 2009, after being rescued by Ana Julia Torres. Torres is a teacher whom for the last 16 years has been adopting and helping injured animals. She founded the Villa Lorena shelter for injured and mistreated animals which cares for at least 680 animals, including some that have been dismembered by hunters. heheehe

diplomatic gifts

With Obama's recent trips around the globe, we are reminded yet again of the hilarty that ensues when the richest and most powerful people on earth decide to swap trinkets. Heads of state have been exchanging gifts for centuries. The Pharaohs of ancient Egypt presented engraved stone vases to the Hittites, and in the Middle Ages an emissary of Richard the Lionhart presented a flock of birds (my worst nightmare) to the representative of Saladin. Anyway, these gifts started to get even weirder this March when Hilary Clinton gifted the Russian foreign minister with an over sized button labeled "reset" in Russian, to symbolize new Russian-American relations. A poor and feeble attempt at humor rapidly morphed into international humiliation when it became clear that some state department genius had mistakenly slapped the Russian word for "overcharge" on it instead. This was only the beginning. Obama gave British Prime Minister Gordon Brown a boxed set of Hollywood movies during his recent visit to the White House. American DVDs are apparently incompatible with British players. Obama also gave Queen Lizzy an iPod packed with Broadway tunes. She already had one. Whoever is playing "Santa" for the Obama administration really needs to get their act together.

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