I could use a friend like this sometimes....

And he is from Dedham!



More from the Globe.

Oh, Euro Pop

The Numa Numa guy



the original sung by Moldovans, in Romanian.



it keeps getting weirder....now a Taiwanese version



And an Afrikaans version



Apparently this is the world's favorite song.

Halloo up north

How goes it Charles?

Your customers

And the British take on our obsession with Halloween.

Holy Shit!

I can't believe my store is only open for three more days.

Things I will not miss:
1. lack of sleep
2. 13-hour days
7. 7-day work weeks
8. the hiring process

Things I will miss:

1. Conversations like this:

Employee: Oh my god Esmee, do you like what I'm wearing? (presents outfit of skinny jeans and 80's style boyscout camp sweatshirt)
Me: Holy shit you're such a little hipster, I love it.
Employee: I hate hipsters.
Me: All hipsters say that. It's part of their M.O.
Employee: *sigh* I've had this sweatshirt since I was nine years old.
Me: I really just want to smuggle you in my suitcase and take you to Silverlake with me.
Employee: Oh my god, can you? My ex-boyfriend moved there and he'd love you! We'd have so much fun just bitching about stuff every day!
Me: Why are you only 17???
Employee: Life is tragic that way.


I think I'm going to miss my 17-year-old gay hipster employee most of all. Le sigh.

For those of us who lust after the books of others

Bookshelf porn tumblr. I want your books. Le sigh.

You're on the homestretch

Can't wait to see you again, Es!

From your set, I presume

Posted by Dodai (of course). you think what we were saying before is true, charles???

I bet he was fun to interview

From Elle. I think he is trying to be Heathcliff in this photo...

I'm getting that bad feeling

About Haiti. And the cholera outbreak. One of my Cassandra doom feelings. Sanitation is a joke in the capital. I mean I visited patients who were living in a government camp set up on a pig farm, literally a pig farm. If cholera spreads in Port-au-Prince, it will be a humanitarian crisis like no other. I've got some time off in November and I'm thinking I'll try to get back down there if it gets bad. (Don't worry Charles, I'll bring hand sanitizer and ORS).

Do either of you guys have this album yet?

"You mock my pain"

"Life is pain, Keanu."

Would a guy like this make the list Es?

Right now a certain poufy haired dude is plotting your twee hipster wedding video right now.... Let's just hope you don't have to reenact Hotel Chevalier.

If I was at Rolling Stone, I would be pissed

Heard about this on the Beeb this AM and I am OUTRAGED. Some horrible upstart "newspaper" in Uganda printed the names of 100 people under the headline "Hang them" because they are gay. The BBC interviewed a Ugandan LGBT activist (and probably one of the bravest men on earth) who said that people on the list are already being attacked. Glad to see the real Rolling Stone condemn the paper so strongly describing it as "one of the most vile and hateful anti-gay screeds we have ever read". The Ugandan government has shut the paper down based on a technicality, but still the damage is done.

Recognize this?

As covered by Shakira.

Instant Obsession

So according to my iTunes I have listened to The Age of Adz 40 times in the week since I got it, but of course that doesn't include the number of times I've listened to it on my iPod or the CD in my car.



On the short list of people I'd actually agree to marry, Sufjan Stevens is pretty near the top. Of course he's probably that weird artistic recluse who would want his own cabin up on a mountain to live in every other month of the year, so I think it would work out pretty well.

I am also really fucking excited about seeing him live next month. Like really excited.

Foreign Aid Revolution

Good article by Nicholas Kristof on female social entrepreneurs/activists. He seems to have taken up Bill Easterly's argument that we should support small projects that work rather than pouring our money into large development projects created by developmental economists sitting in armchairs. Have you guys read his book Half the Sky? It is pretty inspiring. Quick read with many memorable stories. I have it if you want to read it.

Three Imaginary Girls

I think you guys would like this blog, Three Imaginary Girls. I mean the name alone grabbed my attention. And I was totally won over by the comment "Adorbs, non?" Total soulmate blog over on the West coast. They like Cat Power, She & Him, hate Fox News. Do you like the Black Swedes, Es? I've never heard of them, but then again, I am always the last one to know anything. And through them, I discovered this video.

I would never do anything this cool with an iphone

But I still kinda want one.



I know, Charles, I need to get a new phone that doesn't drop calls like every 3 seconds. I'll get a new one when I get back from Rwanda. Promise.

Yay Spirit Halloween

Getting some good press in the HuffPo (courtesy of the Herald) for your campaign to bring Halloween to kids in the hospital. :) yay esmee! good work!

There I was, there I was, there I was, IN the Congo...

So la mere was nattering on about her many, many upcoming dates when she mentioned this awesome commercial from the 90s.



We had to find it on youtube, of course, and guess who is in it? Our second favorite dude from hot con man shenanigans! (also, love the cell phone.)

I seriously have a crush

On this reporter! He uncovered the fact that Sen. Coburn was blocking US aid to Haiti and continues to report on the desperate conditions that Haitians face every day.

Another street artist for Es

Knowing your love for Shephard Fairey and Banksy, I thought you would like the work of artist JR. Very cool.

A lucky escape

So there are many reasons that I am happy not to be a housewife in Virginia. (And I am sure you guys are happy about this as well. Fewer sobbing phone calls from Dodie complaining about her mundane, isolated life, for example.) This article confirms all of my hesitations about bringing up my kids in the South. "VA Textbook Claims Blacks Fought For South In Civil War. Source? The Internet."

And I wanted to get another Bridget Jones

But I resisted. Despite the awesomeness.

And cool new covers for P&P and The Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne never looked so hip!

So we need another copy of Wuthering Heights

I know, I know. I need another copy of Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre like I need a hole in my head, but I was really, really tempted to buy these when browsing through the bookstore today. (also, note to self, do NOT buy more heavy books to cram into your overstuffed carry-on.) But seriously, these are frickin' awesome.

Sherlock

Oddest cover ever

PBS childhood redux

I am loving Masterpiece Mystery (and not just because the fabulous Alan Cumming is the host). First more Wallander and next a modern take on Sherlock Holmes.

For all you cat lovers out there

This is an amusing defense of cat ownership in the New York Times by Sloane Crosley. Thought you two would enjoy it.

Rodrigo y Gabriela

Was listening to the River in my car the other day and heard Rodrigo y Gabriela. I swear that they must have a copy of my itunes.

Reason number eleventy one on why we need to all visit London

Apparently Julian Schnabel has an exhibit on display there

We need this

He apparently couldn't be bothered to shave...

...and for some reason looks really shifty/shady. Oh dear...

http://io9.com/5659983/they-live-remake-might-ditch-the-infamous-alien-sunglasses

This trailer makes my heart ache

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809945752/video/22346938

So I heard on NPR

this story about this guy who had to hunt down this huge man-eating tiger in Siberia. And I thought it would make a great movie. (Key Charles groaning) But apparently, B and A agree. http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=29155

TGIF

Did you see this?

I always wanted to shop at Whistles

and Marks and Spencer and all of those clothing shops mentioned in my beloved Brit chick lit. Apparently so did the fug girls.

"OMG. We rarely mention stuff like this in Fugs and Pieces, but you guys need to know this: ASOS, the awesome British clothing store, has just opened a US e-commerce site. This is going to make spending my money so much easier. I can buy stuff from Whistles now, just like the perky heroines in charming British romcom novels! "