Musings from the God of Cities: December 2007

Thursday, December 27, 2007

things my sister bought that i love*

my sister teaches autistic children, and one of her therapy tools is something called a bodysox. a bodysox (uhm... bodysok?) is basically an oversized lycra pillowcase that you can climb into, and develop body awareness and motor planning. it's also just supercool to goof around in. that's why my sister got one for each of my nephews for christmas. they totally went ape-doody over them, and played with them all day, as you can see here:

*i love you, mindy!

# posted by Sweatpants Money : 12/27/2007 08:35:00 PM 3 comments

Friday, December 21, 2007

he admitted it!

red arrow (roy harper) and cheshire are the britney spears and kevin federline of the dc universe (Justice League of America 16). if the issue had come out next week the joke would have been about jamie lynn spears.

# posted by Sweatpants Money : 12/21/2007 07:29:00 PM 0 comments

Thursday, December 20, 2007

puppy videos, you guys!

last night the manpanion and i got into a discussion about puppies which lead to me looking up "lab retriever puppy" on youtube. There was the standard assortment of incredibly adorable videos of puppies all snuggled up, lazily pawing at each other, and generally being entirely too cute. What I also found was that there are loads of music videos featuring puppies. Apparently this is a thing. There are tons of people out there who take videos of the pups and set them to pop songs, people! Sometimes the music was a bit distracting, but ultimately, who cares... it's puppies! Anywho here is a random sampling of totes adorbs puppy videos set to music. Enjoy!

from katierooney

from saintlovers

from pterolab

from rudzhouston

for more dog love, click here.

Labels: dawgsz

# posted by Sweatpants Money : 12/20/2007 01:51:00 PM 0 comments

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

sharp dressed man

san gennaro festival, new york city

# posted by Sweatpants Money : 12/18/2007 10:49:00 PM 0 comments

Monday, December 17, 2007

coutdown to bad writing

i've been so disappointed with dc comics' countdown series for so many reasons. i think the last line (from countdown to infinite crisis 21) is awful and the only way this could have been worse is if piper looked at the 'camera' as he delivered the line.

Labels: comixxx

# posted by Sweatpants Money : 12/17/2007 10:33:00 PM 1 comments

Friday, December 14, 2007

koo-koo-bananas

from The Encampment, by Thom Sokoloski and others, on Roosevelt Island, NYC

More pictures from the Encampment here.

# posted by Sweatpants Money : 12/14/2007 11:47:00 AM 0 comments

Sunday, December 09, 2007

Santacon 2007, you guys!

i was walking around the east village yesterday and came across the 2007 new york city santacon santas hanging out at tompkins square park, ~~drinking and getting high~~ being jolly. i didn't know santacon was going on, and i hadn't planned on being out all day taking pictures so i didn't take a shit-ton of pictures like i would have had i been a bit more prepared. here's what i did get pictures of:

southern gentleman santa

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"naughty" shirtless santa who goodnaturedly gave me shit about taking his picture because he had his shirt off. (he totally rubbed his nipple and everything!)

this trio of make-up santa, wonder-woman santa and uhm... kinda totally over this whole thing santa

i took this picture of the wonder woman santa climbing over the fence

and had to rationalize to myself that it's not mean to post because she's wearing a star on her hiney, and you know... no pants. i think she's ok with people seeing her tush. besides, like 4 people look at this blog.

there was this lady santa making out-ish with a humbug santa.

but (apparently) santacon isn't just about santas and ~~drinking beer and smoking weed in the park~~ spreading holiday cheer. it's also about ancillary christmas characters and things such as

rudolph the red nosed reindeer... who is on strike or something