SARAHSPY is a Brooklyn-based blog of pop culture nonsense.
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- October 2007
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“The Leech Woman” vintage movie poster (via)
Sunny day, chai tea, windows wide open and a nice breeze through. Getting psyched up to get some writing done w/ this Jay-Z track courtesy Miss Amy the Slyyyy kamikazepaperairplane: Jay-Z “Lucifer”
Designer Rob Matthews reproduced all of Wikipedia’s featured articles in this 5,000-page tangible volume “to question its use as an internet resource.” (via
The last portrait Andy painted at the old Factory in 1974 was of his mother, Julia Warhola, who died two years before, though Andy avoided telling anyone about it, including Jed. Julia had been in a Pittsburgh nursing home for nineteen months before she died, at age eighty, on November 28, 1972...
Ooh, enjoying Coconut Records’s new video for “Microphone.” (“A very faux-Gondry effort,” says Dave Rawkb
“Bleeding tooth is an inedible salmon pink fungus – often found under conifers. The spongy body exudes droplets of red fluid which contains a mushroom pigment called atromentin which has anticoagulant properties.” —via Scienceray’s “Five Freaky
Ft Laudy vacation photo 9 of 12: What a nice t-shirt.
Ft Laudy vacation photo 12 of 12: Nuts afternoon thunderstorms the last 2 days prevented us from beaching & sent us to a mall that featured this awfully badass seahorse carousel.
Ft Laudy vacation photo 11 of 12: Joanna sunbathing— an activity I am too antsy for. I get bored after 2-3 minutes & start slyly photographing my friends with “hot reading dudes” in the background
“I have often thought that the best mode of life for me would be to sit in the innermost room of a spacious locked cellar with my writing things and a lamp. Food would be brought and always put down far away from my room, outside the cellar’s outermost door...
$5t-shirt sale happening at Threadless through Friday. Been considering this sandwich one since November ‘07. Does its lowered price mean I’m supposed to buy it finally...
Ft Laudy vacation photo 1 of 12: My first time at a drive-in movie...
Lionel Richie “All Night Long” Highest highlight of last week’s tacky timeshare vacation was this song suddenly blasting in the shitty beachfront Ft Lauderdale bar where me & my friends were the sole patrons, and wastedly had ourselves a back room beer pong tourney for the first time in...
What do ants’ subterranian structures look like? Ignore the annoying pop-up notes at this video’s beginning. The elaborate cement mold gets dug up around 1:25, and is so nuts. (via)
Venus Zine’s currently featuring some huge dweeb as Reader of the Week. Kinda digging this lil header graphic they made for it. Sassy 80s font’s got me looking all hip despite my douchey interview answers.
Now playing: Little Joy “No One’s Better Sake” What’re we waaaaiting for, what’re we waiting
Vintage Pitney-Bowes postage meter advertisement (via)
Now playing: Maia Hirasawa “Hush Now” I think this is a very pretty little song.
“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.” - Eric Fromm, via Tony Robbins’s Twitter statu
Vintage Chase & Sanborn coffee advertisement (via)
Now playing: Thom Yorke “Rat’s Nest” (off the Spitting Feathers EP) Love that spooky backwards whistle sound
“I’m no longer phased by the shady exit. It’s part of you and I accept it.” - My Pal Ray, Re: my apology for leaving another show without goodbyes last ni
“LOLO” by French photographer Bernard Pras Original photograph Cibachrome print
“It’s terrible. Biblically terrible. Possibly the worst new car money can buy. It’s the first car I’ve ever considered crashing into a tree, on purpose, so I didn’t have to drive it any more.” - Times Online writer Jeremy Clarkson’s review of the new Honda Insight 1.3 IMA SE Hyb
Grilled cheesecake sandwich. Wow. Recipe at CakeSpy
Like a mama you birthed me! Brooklyn you nursed me! Schooled me with hard knocks! Better than Berkeley!
A Peruvian fisherman takes a paiche, a giant South American tropical freshwater fish, to sell at a market in Iquitos, Peru, in 1993. Photo by Alex Webb/Magnum Photos, via BBC News.
"Shel loved women and had a voracious appetite for them. But he never lied to them - he was very..."
“Shel loved women and had a voracious appetite for them. But he never lied to them - he was very straightforward that he was all about his career and just wanted to have fun flings, never a relationship...
Turning 28 today. Dealt with weird anxiousness in the weeks leading up to it, but feeling more chill about the number now. Essentially realizing that every year I become a little more aware of what a huge tool I am & over time, I’m feeling more willing to just kinda roll with it...
HAPPY B-DAY TO MY PAL RAY Hey RAY remember the time you fell off a trapeze onto your head at that random party...
At the Horse Feathers show at Brooklyn’s Bell House last Saturday, the only thing more annoying than the girls talking loud over the (otherwise beautifully subdued) set was the angry woman in front who kept yelling, “EVERYBODY SHUTUP & LISTEN TO THE BAAAAND.” Besides that, one of the...
Trailer for The Road Gonna keep my expectations for this adaptation low, since there’s absolutely no way it’ll live up to the book. Also, Movieline asserts this trailer is inaccurate and features scenes not even in the final cut, so. (via)
“I remember once, years ago, I was walking out a door — I’d been having a conversation and I was walking out the door, and this guy said to me, “Chris,” and I stopped and I turned, and he said, “Be careful.” And I never forgot that. And it comes back to me often: Be careful...
Fat unicorn t-shirt, on sale for $15 at Woot Shirt
“Dolphin sex can be violent and coercive. Gangs of two or three male bottlenose dolphins isolate a single female from the pod and forcibly mate with her, sometimes for weeks at a time...
Overplaying: Foreign Born “It Grew on You” Can’t tell if Person to Person’s gonna continue to grow on me, or if I’m just gonna get intense about this 1 song for 4 days & be
New love stamps released for the rate hike this week to 44 cents. (via)
“We are not psychedelic rappers, and we are not hippies. We’re just peaceful guys, and we like to wear peace signs in our hair.” —original De La Soul press kit for 3 Feet and Rising (1989) (v
The Earthlings behaved at all times as though there were a big eye in the sky— as though that big eye were ravenous for entertainment. The big eye was a glutton for great theater...
A map of worldwide drinking habits— the darker the country, the drunker. (via The Daily Dish)
John Roberts’s Mother’s Day video (via). Love his mom character so much. See more hilarious shorts
sourlips: sienna miller and kelly osbourne
Obsessively revisiting: The Black Keys “Lies” Anytime I walked somewhere this weekend, I alternated between this + “Psychotic Girl.” Maaan, wish so bad I could be at that nuts Dan Auerbach show aga
“It’s about just the general sense of feeling like a fraud. I think anyone who is creative or self-aware in any way, there’s like a humility to it, or I should say a humiliation to it. But there’s also a self-delusion — the provisional ego, as my uncle would call it...
New reality show “Hipsterhood” is casting now in Williamsburg, Brooklyn— seeking 18-25 year old participants who, perhaps: “tap the family trust fund every time [they] need to make rent” or “barely make it into Manhattan three days a week for ‘college’.” More in
Shaq flirts with a box of Krispy Kreme donuts (via) Are Krispy Kreme donuts really this delicious? I’ve never had one.
Afghanistan’s only known pig has been put in solitary confinement at Kabul zoo after visitors expressed alarm it could spread the new swine flu strain. The pig was a gift to the zoo from China. (via Foreign Policy Passport and Reuters)
“L.A.’s dopest attorney” is Allison Margolin, a Harvard Law School grad who handles criminal cases “from murder to medical marijuana.” She can be reached at 1-888-DOPE-LAW or via the web at www.LAsDopestAttorney.com. (via Above the
“Gloomy Bear Arm Pillow” on sale now at Funnypulse via Super Punch
“Yeah, we still hang out all the time, but he’s not ever gonna be my boyfriend. Once he started texting me, I realized he’s actually kinda stupid. I mean, do you want to date a guy that can’t spell ‘chill’?” —catching up w/ my oldest friend via cell phone
Currently overplaying: Grizzly Bear “While You Wait for the Others” Took a couple phases of gross “Two Weeks” fixation before I felt ready to move on to a 2nd favorite Veckatimest track...
Took this photo when I was wasted & waiting for the bus. Remember thinking, “This is gonna be one of the most beautiful photographs anyone has ever seen.”
“The Chihuahua [from Crif Dogs in the East Village] is pretty intense, but definitely a crowd favorite. First the wiener is bacon-wrapped, then deep-fried, then covered in avocado hunks and a sour cream swirly.” — Serious Eats: New Yor
Whoa. Peter Gabriel performs “Games without Frontiers” ON A SEGWAY. (via Eric Wareheim’s Twitter status
“Leafy & Weedy Seadragons” underwater video via ColourLovers Found this video super calming, ‘til I reached the nuts guitar solo that builds up midway through. It was around that point I realized seadragons are the ocean’s response to early Bowie/glam ro
Sparky Campanella: 40 over Forty: syntheticpubes: Sex is part of who we are...
1st place “Fish or Marine Animal Portrait” category winner, in the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Scienc
Amanda knows this dude who is “still really mad” that I “wrote down a blog address instead of a phone number” the time he tried to ask me out. I know this because he screamed it to everyone at Amanda’s last party...
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Canned Whole Chicken (fully cooked!) via So Good
“Sarah Palin joins Twitter. First post introduces herself. Second post tries to correct the AP. http://tr.im/k4o3” - via Jay Rosen on Twitter
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