No Parking 10am-3pm Mon-Fri
However, invisible people are apparently allowed to stand whenever they want.
On 03.08.10, In Pics & Toons, By Riley
On 03.08.10, In Pics & Toons, By Riley
Chew on this:*
At a get-together this past weekend, I took notice off a wall. Once barren, it is now covered in dozens of sheets of paper.
Portrait of 149
“Where did this come from?” I asked Rob – who lives there, spilling some Beast foam on his Adidas.
“It’s a site called rasturbation.com” I didn’t hear it right. “Like masturbation, but with an ‘R’,” he tells me.
“Ohh.”
You just upload a picture and choose how big you want it. This one is 10×10 – all you’ve got to do is staple or tape all the pages together and voila – you’ve got your portrait. And it’s cheaper than a poster, that is, if you print it on campus. Just try not to get caught rasturbating in the computer lab.
So of course when I get on to my computer I enter rasturbation.com into my browser, assuming this seemingly new-age artform is hosted by some bohemians creating a website based on some wordplay (who does that anyways?) Turns out, the aforementioned site doesn’t exist, and the correct spelling is rasterbation.com, and the tiled artform has been around for years. (Almost makes me think of the museum scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.)
*
. . .
This might become pretty popular. It might even replace tapestries as the most common piece of room decor and also as the most flammable textile to be hung from a wall.
On 02.17.10, In Pics & Toons, By Riley
National Anthem? National Ant-Hem?
Get It?!
On 01.20.10, In Pics & Toons, By Riley
There are few things so simple, and so reassuring that there is peace in the world, as pictures of children with animals. Take this for example
cute
or this,
silly
And what’s better when the animal is even more bizarre than a beluga whale? When it’s miniature!
?
But sadly, there are those pictures of children with animals that convey loss, desperation, and sadness. This is one of those pictures…
dear god
Just imagine…
Hey Dad! Can we take Mr. Snuggles on the tube with us?
- Oh, I’m not sure if that’s such a good idea, kids.
Ahh, come on Dad! We’ll hold him tight. He’ll be safe.
- You know, if we hit a wake…
Please Daddy!
- Cat’s hate water, kids. You have to understand that…
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!
- ALRIGHT!
Definitely a “told-ya-so” moment.
On 01.17.10, In Pics & Toons, By Riley
snow-per hero
I found this guy while I was shoveling snow over break.
lord of the garage
I saw this face as I shuffled into breakfast on New Years Day. Illegal, sure. Artistic? Definitely.
faint and dark
Faint, as it was done solely in ballpoint pen, and dark, as it is in a bathroom stall. Hill Center, first floor.
ere ere
Pink Cat DJ, aka PCDJ, as seen at Urban Outfitters, Downtown Ithaca.
he's sleeping
Lastly, here eess a Mexican. Hee got tired from being a salt shaker, so he took a napp.
On 01.10.10, In Pics & Toons, By Riley
On 01.03.10, In Pics & Toons, By Riley
I’d consider myself a creative person. I did after all develop, design and utilize the shopping cart grill:
The coals are supported by a series of empty beer cans, to bring the heat closer to the cooking surface, which is where you’d put your groceries if you were using this in its normal context. The rear part of the cart was taken out, to facilitate burger-flipping and wiener-rotating. The concept of using the upper section (where you’d put yer eggs or yer mom would put her purse) as a bun-toaster didn’t work out too well, but the thought was there. Best of all, the Shopping Cart Grill (patent not pending) is portable! And it cooks a damn good burger. Please, don’t knock it until – or unless – you’ve tried one.
delicious
Here’s an awesome drinking vessel I’ve seen on the Internet:
bombin'
This cup combines a shot glass and a drinking glass. Granted, having the two separate cups would allow for Jager-bombs, but this combines it into one. Got some girls over that want to take shots, and some guys looking to pour some black-and-tans? These glasses would be clutch!
Then there’s this creative thing I’ve seen. A little more utilitarian, practical, but still ingenious…
stand up!
This foot-holder allows you to sweep up yer dirt without getting on your hands and knees to do so. Simple, but helpful. Maybe I’m drawn to it because my summer ‘job’ requires me to do a lot of sweeping and I’d be glad to put this dustpan to work.
This last product here, is pretty much an emoticon at work.
ralph!
Besides the fact that it looks like a frog vomiting unholy things, I’d say it’s pretty cool!
On 01.03.10, In Pics & Toons, By Riley
If you were in Ithaca over the summer, and you love America, it is probable that you were behind a humble apartment on Coddington Road to eat meat, drink beer, and celebrate the birthday of our nation. It was there that couches were burned, the National Anthem was sung on repeat, and meat was cooked to sustain such efforts.
If the flags, portable grill, and empty beer boxes weren’t enough to manifest the axiom that America is the land of the free and the home of the brave, the gaze in the distance has to do it.
Oh Say Can You See...
But America must be celebrated more than just once a year. For that reason, the Internet has brought us motivational pictures, one of which, features this woman…
...or man?
I anticipate that this next image matches the above person’s worldview:
god bless us
These images of course represent a righter more conservative-ish side of America. In this country, a melting pot of opportunity and suburbia, there’s a whole lot more than big business, oil and SUVs… there’s also Fast Food. And with fast food comes bitching leftists… Here’s an illustration by one of them:
come of think of it, Morgan Spurlock?
And of course, with bitching leftists, comes pacifism, opposition of war, and more comics…
game over
I must stress, again, readers, that thacant does not support nor abandon any political biases. We’re students, writers, idea-ists. If we offended you, just settle in around the middle.
On 01.03.10, In Pics & Toons, By Riley
Dogs on the Internet, while not as popular or beloved as cats, are still a humorous subject. Here are some worthy pictures I’ve extracted from CyberSpace…
This first one is a little reminiscent of the Halloween costume which gives the illusion you are riding a horse or dragon, while in reality, your costumed legs function as the legs of said dragon or horse.
Up and Away~!
This next dog picture features a monkey, which may be an unfair advantage, but the effectual message being sent from finger to hand says so much:
Monkey: "eh, excuuuse me!"
Lastly, this sweatered dog has a request, or rather a demand…
clothes on animlas = funny
On 01.01.10, In Pics & Toons, By Riley
It was about a year ago that I was leaving the sixteen-degree wind and snow of New England for Los Angeles. There was a beautiful pool at the end of my building, a convenience store stocked with beer a stumble away, and the first week welcomed us with a heat wave of eighty- and ninety-degree afternoons. These were obvious perks of the ICLA program. The apartments were nicer than any students deserve, and there was just something about those counters.
They were about waist-high (for someone who stands six foot two), with white tiles and a large counter space below it. Remember the pull-out cutting board? We didn’t find ours until April! Social gatherings centered around these counters. Bottles of rum, pens, cell phones, keys and old copies of the Ithacan’t were common.
Looking through old cell phone pictures from the past year, I’ve been reminded of the fun we had around the counters.
similar colors about the counter
truly, a work of art
These creations atop the counter are the result of tinkering, malt liquor, and wonder, really.
Three cheers, this new year, to an unsung hero of Los Angeles – the Oakwood Apartment countertops!
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