July 2010
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“If you have time I have a small research project for you. Can you tell me if any...”
– An email from my dad, who doesn’t know how to use Google but is quite proficient with Leugle. 
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“For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity’s affair, they greeted one...”
– From the book “The Ghost Downstairs” and winner of the Bulwer-Lytton prize for the worst opening sentence of a novel.
Jul 1st
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June 2010
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Jun 7th
Wisconsin Man Arrested For Stealing Dirty Diapers →
If you’re a dirty-diaper fetishist, why would you have to steal them? It seems like it’d be an easy DIY paraphilia.
Jun 4th
“Madison plays soccer. Tootie would never play soccer. If Madison and Tootie were...”
– Madison from “Toddlers & Tiaras,” whose pageant alter-ego she calls “Tootie.” Can we just start calling this show what it really is, “Nine-year-old Drag Queens”? Related
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May 2010
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Thanks to the Renegade Accordion for making all my Star Wars-on-squeezebox-in-the-subway dreams come true.
May 20th
My Boyfriend, The Grim Reaper of Greats
On Sunday afternoon, Adam took me and his sister to the gospel brunch at Cotton Club in Harlem, where the emcee gave us a bit of history on the club and its performers, including Lena Horne. “Lena Horne, who’s going to be 93 soon, got her start here,” he said. A few hours later, she was dead. I thought it was just a weird coincidence, until I remembered that back in January,...
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April 2010
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Eleven Questions for Crafty People: Laura Leu →
lialia: Yesterday I interviewed Laura Leu, who runs the Tumblr blog The Navigeaters, with her b/f Adam Winer. They’re like the most low key media peeps ever - she writes for TONY, Maxim and others, and he writes for NY Mag and used to be on Best Week Ever. As far as I know, they haven’t been in the Times yet, but I’m sure it’s coming. They blog about their culinary adventures and Laura pickles...
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March 2010
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Mar 31st
The Little Hoarders/The Little Intervention
The only way I’m ever going to be interested in a show about little people is if the little people are also hoarders or self-destructive alcoholics. When is TLC going to realize that well-adjusted midgets are no different than regular people—in that they’re just as fucking boring?
Mar 18th
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Diane flippin’ Sawyer interviewed me and Adam about Navigeaters (video above)! And here’s the ABC News article that goes along with it. I really hope this means Ms. Sawyer will consider eating cow dong with us. If you haven’t started following Navigeaters on Tumblr, now’s your chance! We’d also very much appreciate you recommending us for the food blog category in...
Mar 10th
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February 2010
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This video is one of the culinary adventures from Navigeaters.com, a blog in which Adam and I document our quest to eat a meal from every country in the world without leaving New York City. (4 down, 190 to go!) If you’re on Tumblr, would you do us a solid and follow us and maybe re-blog a post when you like it? Also, would you be a lamb and recommend us for the food category? And then, will...
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At Pig Butchery 101, we also learned how to make a ham. The recipe is as follows: Ingredients: 1 pig ass 1 baseball bat Seasoning Directions: Beat ass with bat until tender. Season and let sit for 20-27 days, and then hang in cool, drafty area of your apartment for 16 weeks. If anyone asks why you have a bloody pig stump hanging from your ceiling, just tell them it’s art noir.
Feb 5th
January 2010
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Jan 20th
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My friend Phil is getting married, and in celebration of his impending bethrothal, the lovely Rebecca started a blog to display our favorite Phil moments. This one is mine. Christa, Phil’s soon-to-be missus, is one lucky lady. thisisyourphil: This video is part of a series of stupid videos Phil and I took in one night, after going to Crazy Legs’ birthday party and then spending half the...
Jan 19th
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Please welcome the newest members of the Leu family, Noelle and Holly, two tree frogs I found inside my dad and stepmom’s house when I was home for the holidays. (Occasionally, frogs will stow away on outdoor plants that are brought inside at the end of the summer.) I found Noelle sitting under the Christmas tree, and Holly was hiding out in a Poinsettia plant. I believe that classifies them...
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Honeybee Coitus: Gangbangs and Snuff Sex
I’m reading Plan Bee: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Hardest-Working Creatures on the Planet, and I just got to the sexy part: A virgin queen does all her mating within just a few days during her lifetime, and she hooks up with about a dozen drones in all … A drone attempting to mate with the queen uses his first four legs to grab her back, and then he quickly latches...
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December 2009
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Dec 23rd
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The Night Before Santacon By Laura Leu Twas the night before Santacon, when all through Gotham, People were buying Christmas costumes, even Jews and Muslims. The Santa suits were hung on their hangers with care, In hopes they’d attract slutty elves and reindeer. The friends were nestled, all snug in their beds, While visions of tequila shots danced in their heads. And oatmeal in the...
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November 2009
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“You’re a smart kid, you know. Even though you sometimes look like a bimbo.”
– Tony, my 70-year-old super, to me. I’ve started writing down the nuggets he says to me, and this one is still my all-time favorite.
Nov 12th
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October 2009
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Oct 27th
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Like I said, there were bats up the wazoo at the Royal Botanic Gardens. I was all like, “Begonias? More like BOREgonias,” because the real sights weren’t the plants but what was hanging in them—and they were everywhere, despite the groundkeepers attempts to discourage roosting with this inflatable man (which frightened the hell out of me, but not so much of the bats). Flying...
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This weekend I became Jay Z and drank champagne on a yacht sailing around Sydney Harbour. Southern hemisphere, represent! Where my hoes at? Music by The Lonely Island (ft. T Pain), who sail on boats way better than I do.
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Wish You Were Here! (To Die.)
This is The Gap, a cliff over Watsons Bay in Eastern Sydney. In 1857, a ship carrying 114 passengers crashed into the foot of the cliff, killing all but one. Onlookers watched horrified as some of the bodies were brutally slammed into the jagged rocks and the others were carried into the harbor and eaten by sharks. Now, it’s become a popular suicide spot, visited each year by around 50...
Oct 6th
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A Dingo Ate My Blog!
G’day, mates! I’m in Sydney for the next month. Please enjoy (or ignore) my Oz-specific blog posts while I’m here. Unlike American blogs, they swirl in the opposite direction when posted.
Oct 5th
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