Monkey Self-Portrait. That is all.

Best "before-and-after" home makeover ever: http://brute-ish.blogspot.com/2011/06/this-post-is-going-to-launch-me-into.html

Yes, it's my own. Just go with it. I need the self-esteem boost today.

Samuel L Jackson is narrating the kids' book Go the F**k to Sleep

Check the audio sample here.

real estate listings aren't getting better. in fact, with the current housing slump, they're only getting worse. but this one takes the cake.

shirtless fat man + small dog + stolen park bench = $38,500 of awesomeness

source: curbed

"Even from his earliest days, he was a hateful little fuck."

~ biography of Roald Dahl

via Kottke (as per usual)

New York in the 70s.

Facinating for many reasons. Some of which are picked up in the comments.

via Kottke

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE GENTLEMAN BLOW-DRYING HIS BALLS IN THE GYM LOCKER ROOM

"Does the courage to do this in public come with age? Perhaps it's something a young man like me can't understand. But you, you are on in years; gray and spotted like a ham in a paintball fight. Your scrotum reminds me of boardwalk taffy. Maybe you've been building up to this day your whole life and I'm witnessing the birth of a phoenix. You are no longer a man that blow-dries his balls in secret. You have transcended that station and now fall into an elite group of Spartans that blow-dry their balls wherever they God damn please. If caterpillars emerged from their cocoons as butterflies with heavy, sagging testicles I'd imagine they'd feel the same as you might right now."