Monthly Archives: September 2012

Phwaor! check out the detail in that coat.

For the day what’s in it.

Sibling of Daedalus writes:

This is Gemma McNabb who was Miss Ireland 1967. Dressed in early [Thomas] Wolfangel [Irish designer] (top) and above with Miss UK in Trafalgar Square, London. Note that clothes actually fit properly (as opposed to cling or billow), and that the accessories do not look like they’re going to eat the wearer. Those was the days.

 

Pics via here and here

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLMD0DbDVvg

“…but she’s listening to the song too, so she knows she’s not beautiful therefore following the syllogism of the song she’s instantly beautiful again. it’s like an infinite fractal recursion, a flickering quantum state of both hot and not.”

 

Stephen at The Colbert Report dissects One Direction’s ‘That’s What Makes You Beautiful’.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv48b4cpLCA

What you may need to know:

1. It’s JESSIE PINKMAN! AKA Breaking Bad legend Aaron Paul.

2. Freeze Frame Alert: classic Pinkman face @ ’30.

3. Who she? It’s Mary Elizabeth Winstead from Sky High (2005), Death Proof (2007), Scott Pilgrim (2010) and the last Die Hard flick.

4. Ultimate sitcom couple in the house. Smashed co-stars real-life couple Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally: yes, Ron from Parks And Recreation is married to Karen from Will & Grace.

5. In America, they’re alcoholics. Here, they’d be classified recreational drinkers.

Release Date: October (US)

Spanish fresco artist Cecilia Gimenez’s restoration of Ecce Homo (Behold the Man) by Elias Garcia Martinez at the Sanctuary of Mercy Church near Zaragoza.

The question is: could you do any better?

The Cecilia Prize for amateur restoration.

Go there now.

We already done one and it’s grate.

(Thanks Gulfam Choweddi)

(Video via housemartin)


The Prime Minister said that 164 police statements had been amended and 116 negative comments removed and that South Yorkshire Police had been part of a deliberate attempt to smear the dead fans with false claims they were drunk and ticketless on the day of the match.“It is right for me to make a proper apology to the families of the 96 for all they have suffered over the past 23 years,” said Mr Cameron

Hillsborough: 23 years On, Finally An Apology For The Cover-up (The Independent)