A selection of scans from a journal and sketchbook I kept while traveling in Ireland, as well as notes about my trip. More at my journal -->http://akikotree.livejournal.com/41830.html

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/celebuzz/Kggb/~3/eZxwpNx2088/fugs-and-pieces-june-1st-2012-06-2012

http://gofugyourself.com/?p=602942

Happy first day of June! I hope all your monthly horoscopes promise big love and good luck. As a reminder, our novel MESSY comes out on TUESDAY, but many of you are seeing it out and about in bookstores now and Amazon and Barnes and Noble are shipping it now! So go get yourself something Read More ...

http://aurgasm.us/2012/06/thrupence/

http://aurgasm.us/?p=5171

electronic // downtempo

Supple beats marry shimmering coral chords in seaside bliss amid warming, caressing petals of sky to rendezvous your senses and massage on contact. Transposed emotions from Melbourne form piano flute cloudscapes, dazzling luminous sunsets, and curious blips washed in reverb flowing uptempo or downbeat. Jack Vanzet’s Voyages casually bloom into euphoric rewards for your ears, and his Unfinished Business is a 19-minute dopamine symphony of calming awe.

Dreamy audio estuary.
Thrupence – Synchronous Bloom
Thrupence – Folds
+ Purchase/Visit

http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/TP-PopCandy/~3/p71s7UdOKgE/1

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/popcandy/post/2012/06/The-Week-in-Pop-My-pop-culture-picks-706694/1?csp=34life

Take a look at Whitney's favorites from this week.

http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/TP-PopCandy/~3/twSlKJ7x4fo/1

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/popcandy/post/2012/06/The-Candy-Mailbag-Answering-your-questions-706519/1?csp=34life

Whitney addresses your pop-culture queries; submit questions now.

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/dearcrissy/~3/n-BFB3Gzu3Q/

http://dearcrissy.com/?p=12246

The cute Relic sunglasses above? I found them at JCPenney this week for $15.

Since having Kara in December, I really don’t get out to shop much locally. I’ve been doing most of my shopping online, so it was a really nice treat to pop into JCPenney this week to look around — it had really been too long!

We’re in full swing summer mode around our house, and Evan is even enjoying his blow-up pool already. We’re spending a lot of time out in the sunshine. I needed some lighter colored shoes, and picked up these white cute St. John’s Bay sandals. They are really comfortable, and I found them for only $25.

I also realized while I was shopping that I needed to pick up a few beach towels for the kids to dry off with after a swim, and found these really adorable, bright towels for just $13. I grabbed a few of them.

I also couldn’t resist picking up a cute little outfit for Kara while I was in JCPenney yesterday. What is it about little girl’s clothing that is just so darn irresistible? This little Carter’s 2-piece skirt set was only $9.

So, my little JCPenny shopping trip was really fun, and reminded me how much I needed some personal time to just… </em>shop!</em> I didn’t have time to look for a new bathing suit while I was there (I have to be in the right frame of mind for that task, too haha) but I am going to stop back in this evening to find a suit so I can jump in the kiddie pool this weekend too!

I received a JCPenney gift card to facilitate this review.

http://www.bestweekever.tv/2012-06-01/neutral-milk-hotel-hip-hop-mashup/

http://www.bestweekever.tv/?p=140233

8-Bit Radiohead albums, meet “Neutral Bling Hotel” – all the songs from Neutral Milk Hotel’s iconic album In The Aeroplane Over The Sea mashed up with various hip-hop songs. It’s as predictably awesome as it is predictable that someone on the internet would eventually do this. Keep up the good work, boys dot com!

Here’s the first track, “King of Ante Up, Pt. 1″:

You can download the entire album “In My G4 Over Da Sea” here on a pay-as-you-want basis. Personally, I’m fanning bills onto the album not unlike the lady in the album cover.

(via AV Club)

http://www.bestweekever.tv/2012-06-01/facebook-news-perfectly-summed-up-in-one-gif/

http://www.bestweekever.tv/?p=140224

This needs no explanation, it’s perfect:

(@kevinroose, via @jimbecile)

http://www.bestweekever.tv/2012-06-01/the-two-most-amazing-panels-in-spider-man-history/

http://www.bestweekever.tv/?p=140213

The Spider-Man daily newspaper comic still exists and is new every day (I assumed they’d just been rerunning old panels since 1969), and our friend @natekushner drew our attention to yesterday’s actual Spider-Man newspaper comic, which features the creation of a new terrifying supervillain who’s certain to be a HUGE HIT.

This is the entire comic for the day, and may be the greatest two panels in the history of Marvel:

CLOWN NINE! Because he’s on Cloud Nine when he wears a clown suit! That is both Amazing and Spectacular (to put it in pun-terms that Clown Nine would appreciate).

Aaaand sure enough, here’s today’s pun-tastic follow-up comic. Needless to say, I will be continuing to read the Spider-Man newspaper comic every day until Clown Nine is defeated, or until Clown Nine defeats Spider-Man and takes over the comic and renames it “Clown Ten” because he’s even more on Cloud Nine. Tim Curry movie pending.

(via Van Full Of Werewolves)

http://www.bestweekever.tv/2012-06-01/krispy-kremes-best-friends-video-is-pretty-much-friendship-101/

http://www.bestweekever.tv/?p=140200

I looked at the sky and cried one tear when I saw there was a new Krispy Kreme video. It was of joy. Then I cried one more tear when I saw Krispy Kreme’s best friend Money Maker Mike had been kidnapped by a 17-year-old drug lord named James. It was of sadness. Then I cried some more tears when I remembered that Krispy Kreme would probably get shot 500 times and use his infinity knives to defend his buddy. Oh, and also it occurred to me that:

• Putting Money Maker Mike in a hood is really unnecessary when James is clearly just taking him back to his mom’s house.
• That burned-out house behind Krispy Kreme is probably where he lives, right? For cred?
• The lines “I knocked him out with one punch/yup, yup, he had a knuckle sandwich for lunch” are just adorable.
• It’s okay for an adult to nearly tear up at these goofy bros making videos and being buddies, right? Right? I’m going to say yes.

Rest in peace, Tupac Shakur. You missed some great stuff being gone, but mainly this video.

(Videogum)