“Ever wonder why White people can date the friends of exes and so on? It’s because they don’t let the past hinder the present.”
–8 Reasons To Date A White Man. (Also known as “8 Reasons to — WHAT? NO SHE DID NOT.”) (via)

Superb! There’s a new trailer for Burlesque! It’s as empty as the day is long! I sure hope this movie ends with the lead showgirl leaving Las Vegas after beating up a rapey Michael Bolton look-a-like!

Great Scots Belle & Sebastian played Jimmy Fallon’s show last night, before they become the next band to get soaked by New York’s monsoon season at their outdoor show in Brooklyn tonight. Questlove, the drummer and leader of Fallon’s house band, The Roots, joined them for the title track to their new album and the old nugget “Piazza, New York Catcher” and it all sounded really nice.

The continuing saga of the Commonwealth Games: “BRITISH athletes set to compete at the blighted Commonwealth Games have been struck down by a contagious vomiting bug…. Worried team bosses have quarantined up to 14 athletes from Team Wales — fearing the bug could spread to the whole party, including Team England and Team Scotland, and ruin British medal prospects. The setback comes just days before athletes from all three nations were due to fly to New Delhi for the start of the Games in India this weekend.” On the bright side, maybe the vomiting will scare away the monkeys.

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“Incidentally, being from England, I had never heard of the ADL until today, but I have googled them and I see from their mission statement of 1913 that their brief is not only to defend the Jewish people from defamation, but also, ‘to secure justice and fair treatment to all citizens alike and to put an end forever to unjust and unfair discrimination against and ridicule of any sect or body of citizens’. Why don’t we all focus on that lofty ideal and stop throwing stones at one another.”
-Roger Waters rejects ADL head Abe Foxman’s accusations of anti-Semitism in the former Pink Floyd frontman’s stage show. Foxman is probably trying how to figure out a way to turn “throwing stones” into some kind of pro-intifada message from Waters as we speak.

This is a really cool photo series from backstage and the fitting rooms from the Spring/Summer ’11 Proenza Schouler show. (And I’m even like the only person in the world who doesn’t like this collection!)

Is your waitperson still working on that cold? “More than 60 percent of restaurant employees choose to show up for work instead of staying home when they’re sick because they have no insurance and no paid sick time, according to a report issued today by a restaurant workers’ advocacy group.”

It is the 50th anniversary of “The Flintstones,” which actually seems kind of low, since it feels like it has always been around. Anyway, celebrate with this list of the show’s ten craziest inventions or skip to the 1:23 mark on this video to watch Branford Marsalis force Sting to sing the theme song. Either way, have a gay old time.

Oh, to be in England: “An explosion in the number of late-opening supermarkets and bars has left ‘binge Britain’ with the largest number of premises licensed to sell alcohol. There are now 166,000 venues allowed to sell drink, many open long beyond the traditional 11pm closing time. It is the equivalent of one licensed outlet for every 280 adults in England and Wales.”