Do trends change the way you feel about the items you own? Do you like something less, just because so many others like it now, too?
50 years of Mold-A-Rama at Brookfield Zoo. (Which reminds me — we don’t have one for Calvin yet! Eleanor has an elephant, and August has a gorilla.)
The meal delivery start-ups are coming for your dinner. To help you make dinner.
Blame Brandon for this one: the Toilet Sarlaac.
“Happy birthday to you” is in the public domain!
A little over a decade ago, Mayor Daley had GIANT Xs carved into Meigs Field under the cover of darkness, effectively closing the little airport on Lake Michigan.
It was kind of a dick move (do you guys remember this story outside of Chicago?), but he wanted a park, not an airstrip for private planes. And now, all these years later, we have Northerly Island Park.
Happy Force Friday! I trust we’ll all be sleeping soundly in our Millennium Falcon beds tonight, yes?
Goodwill’s new boutiques are taking a page from Urban Outfitters in an effort to draw in new customers.
A kitchen “retrovated” into The Simpsons’ kitchen IRL.
The weather needs to change so I can dress my baby like a little pointy-headed cutie. Swedish gnome chic!
The parodies of high fashion ads by French photographer Nathalie Croquet are spot-on. I actually dig the look more on “the average woman” for some, but others highlight the absurdity of the original images. [via]
Instructions for a super cute DIY balloon animal plushie!
So looking forward to Mindy Kaling’s new book. Have you seen this excerpt yet?
“People’s reaction to me is sometimes “Uch, I just don’t like her. I hate how she thinks she is so great.” But it’s not that I think I’m so great. I just don’t hate myself. I do idiotic things all the time and I say crazy stuff I regret, but I don’t let everything traumatize me. And the scary thing I have noticed is that some people really feel uncomfortable around women who don’t hate themselves. “
The amount of thought that goes into costume design to create a believable character is always amazing, from the serious shows to the silly. Here’s a look at some of the decisions behind the outfits in Wet Hot American Summer.
Check out my entryway, switched up and reorganized for the start of the new school year! That new coat rack has been the most useful addition.
The Vanna Venturi house is for sale for the first time in a long, long time.
Dot’s full name is Princess Angelina Contessa Louisa Francesca Banana Fanna Bo Besca the Third. There’s so much we didn’t know!
Half a pan plus an induction stovetop (plus banjo music) equals an interesting demonstration.
The Muppets’ pilot presentation! Fans at Comic-Con demanded its release to the internet, and now here we are. Hooray, and thank you, nerds!
OMG. ‘The beach’ is a giant (10,000 sq ft) ball pit architectural art installation in D.C.
A look at the celebrity PR machine. It’s all so calculated.
I never knew about the Coney Island sideshow babies. I also found an old article about the incubators from 1928.
“The babies respond to affection like flowers to the sun — they sense it somehow.”
And speaking of babies (segue!), two sets of identical twins were partially switched at birth and raised as fraternal twins.
A reader sent this my way: a pink kaydid!
All wallpapered-out on your walls (or afraid of the commitment)? Peekaboo wallpapered drawers, people. Adorable.
An exit interview from a guy who blue himself for 12 years.
A $1.5 million former barn in Oak Park, in case you’re in the market.
Actually, this looks like a sweet home for about 1/3 that price.
American Beauty — all of it — has been in my head all week. GET OOOUUUTTT.
Just a couple of millennials.
“I ran an 8-minute mile in 2009…”
I don’t know if it will “change the way you decorate,” but this colorful home is a fun change from the neutrals + black + white palette that dominates these days.