Here’s a quick list of things that distracted me from productivity today:
Top Chef Continues to Rule: Lisa, The Mean Self-Serving Hack, Lives To Cook Another Day {via Gawker}. Awesomely angry Dale gets the boot while flavor-free Lisa gets a stay of execution! How dare you, my sweet Padma! Despite this large misstep, the show [...]

Our pal Michele Melcher pointed us to this oddly enjoyable website where people post photos of life’s simple failures. Enjoy a little schadenfreude watching the world FAIL around you.
Website: www.failblog.org
Enough about failure, let’s talk success. The aformentioned Michele Melcher has an upcoming illustration exhibition at the brand spankin’ new PRIMER Microstudio! on Friday, June 6th [...]

Our boy Todd has another spectacular show for art lovers and bibliophiles alike: Withdrawn. Straight from the mouth of Marrone:
“A few of the over 75 outdated, antiquated, library books that I’ve hand-embellished over the past two weeks. The works will be on display throughout the month of June at Milkboy Acoustic in Bryn Mawr, PA [...]

The two covers of the latest issue of The New Yorker should make you happy. (The first cover flaps over the second cover.)
Author and cartoonist, Daniel Clowes (Ghost World), made himself a spiffy retro robot and put it to good use. Allowing technology to be as exciting or mundane as its owner pleases the emerging [...]

If I could have any pet, besides my insane dog, it would most definitely be a Bjork. They’re super cute, sing like angels, house-trained and you can dress them up in the silliest of outfits. Be careful though, I’m pretty sure you can’t feed them after midnight or evil things might happen.
Sadly, after some research [...]

Guest: Illustrator Michele Melcher. Topics: Motorcycles, Twittering = Stalking, What is an Illustrator? Mike Rowe, Ghost Hunters, Philly Roller Girls, The Bluto/Brutus Issue, Abandoned Amusement Parks, Iron Maiden. Playlist: The Boroughs, Ghosty, Fourth of July (Daytrotter Session), Writer and The Night Marchers.
Preview: “Reading through a person’s Twitter…it’s like a story that you know isn’t going [...]

Suitable for Framing: Missed out on grabbing the Shepard Fairey Obama Hope and Progress posters (or don’t want to spend $$$ on eBay for them)? Don’t fret, you can still help out the cause by printing out your own Obama posters.
Coolest Lost Theory? I’m on board with this reasonable and nifty [...]

Who Are All These Tools? And Why is My Favorite Bar So Crowded Now? “From upscale to down home, we really know where to knock ’em back,” so says Philly Weekly as they give you:
Philly’s Top 50 Bars!
I heard numero uno, Grace Tavern, is quite awesome (watch the video) and I agree with numbers: 2, [...]

Ted Alexandro is a very funny man, just click the big play button below (disregard No Longer Available message):

More Ted Videos.
Website: www.tedalexandro.com/