From Elitaste

I took this photo on Wednesday night on the 1 Train downtown when I was heading to the 10Deep Holiday Party. This was about 10:30PM. I don’t think I’ve ever seen this in NY. Thought it was picture worthy.

I guess this is a British soft drink company. They mention a “Ronson family.” Thought it was kinda funny.

Saw this on Kanye’s blog…really amazing. It’s the dude Brains from Thunderbrids dancing like Napoleon Dynamite (the way he drinks the water) meets D-Quan’s Dance Moves (the way he dances) meets like Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker (it’s a marionette). Definitely better than Citroen’s Dancing Robot-Car commercial

This is both hilarious and mildly offensive.
“Connecting to your server. No, your server is not your waiter or waitress at your favorite coffee shop.”
“Let’s search for listings about embroidery”

From Elitaste

I saw this as a banner ad on myspace today (it was animated) and just thought it was ridiculous.

Times are rough. I got fired from a management company I was working at a year ago; a week before Christmas. That was scary. And that was before this economic recession. I’m just so thankful for what I have going and to be making a living off music. According to some of my friends and Gawker.com:
The 850 layoffs at Viacom today—including hundreds at MTV—are claiming the livelihoods of tons of hardworking people who did their jobs well without ever receiving fame and fortune. And just like when a jumbo jet crashes with hundreds of souls aboard, the first question is: “Were any celebrities involved?” You know you were thinking that, you heartless swine. Well (according to an unconfirmed rumor from an inside tipster), your third-favorite MTV correspondent-for-life, John Norris, was laid off today. After the jump, we’ve got other reports from the Viacom scene.

* “Its bad at Vh1 on Hudson Street. Dozens let go. Security guys on each floor “observing”. Lots of staff across the board gone, some that have been here for many years. The mood is bleak.”
* “Awkward day here at MTVN. I’m a humble Production Assistant for Nickelodeon, and we just found out all we low level staff are okay for the time being. The layoffs on our floor were pretty dramatic: an entire department laid off, and our senior vice president, and a department head at N@N. Looks to be more of a management/higher-up bloodbath from here. And Nickelodeon is one of the few brands actually making money…”
* “I work at 1515 Broadway (the Viacom building) and in the elevators, the newstory about the 850 layoffs keeps coming up on the captivate tvs. Pretty classy…”
* “So far at least 5 people have been let go from MTV.com. Mostly producers and associate producers who were supposed to be creating original content. Well, they haven’t been producing anything for awhile and the writing was on the wall.”

Sean Avery of the Dallas Stars is suspended by the NHL for making comments about a Calgary Flame dating his ex-girlfriend Elisha Cuthbert (see above). Mind you this is the same guy who had a new NHL rule named after him: The Avery Rule

Straight up Plaxico Burressed himself. Dude tries to play it off but the guy in the back calls an ambulance and then he tells someone to grab his stuff. Kinda reminds me when I took my dog Brady to an obedience class and the trainer was trying to get him to sit and Brad bit him. Dude was dripping blood from his arm trying to go on with the class like nothing happened. He finally got a towel and a band aid. His name was Michael Chill. No joke. Classic.

This clip is just weird.