Friday Roundup: grody, gallant, parsimonious and faux-Sapphic edish

This is so narsty. Read this before lunch if you're trying to lose weight.

From BoingBoing comes possibly one of the most disgusting sentences I've ever read:

A curator at NY-MOMA had to euthanize a living leather jacket made from human mouse stem-cells -- the art-work had grown out of control and threatened to overflow its containment unit.

Only enlarge this photo if you dare.

This brings to mind the New York Times article about Peta offering $1 million prize to the first person who invents commercially viable in vitro meat.

Technology is getting out of hand--don't they know this is how horror movies happen?! That curator may think he euthanized the mouse jacket. But now it's crawling out of some Dumpster outside the MoMA, and it's not happy. Working title: My Mousy Jacket Euthenasia Gone Wild. Also, how exactly does one euthanize a mouse-meat jacket, if it doesn't have a central nervous system, heart or brain? Chop it up? Hope it's not like starfish!

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So apparently Madonna staged another "titillating" "lesbian" "kiss" on stage. ZZZzzI'm sorry--what's going on? I just dozed off.

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Hey, speaking of My Boyfriend Jack White, as we did on Monday, did you guys hear about how he carried a fan to safety who fainted at his show recently?

Why couldn't that have been me!? I faint at concerts!

I'm pretty sure this makes up for the time he punched that guy from the Von Bondies in the face really hard.

What a dreamboat.

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Here's something I wish was around when I was younger--anyone under 30 who has a car and wants to go somewhere this summer should visit the Road Trip Nation site to apply for road-trip grants! Very cool organization.

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Does anyone have advice or leads (helpful websites, etc.) for finding affordable accommodation in Europe during the high season? Please don't say "hostels." I've seen enough random gross nude dudes to last a lifetime. (Cut to: a month from now, we're staying in a hostel dorm room surrounded by inappropriately nude international travelers.)

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Sorry so little bloggy, but that's all for the week--the garden is starting to bear veggies and in the garden of my brain, I've been on a modest writing spree. Let's hope the trend continues (hopefully yielding better phrases than "in the garden of my brain.")

Comments

[Lioux]

OMG!!!

There's a dumpster HERE outside the temporary offices of Whorporate America Headquarters!!!

I'm afraid to go outside now.

[roopa]

Dude, that mouse jacket is disgusting.

What are you growing in your vegetable garden? It's not warm enough up here to plant my garden, but it will be in a couple of weeks, hooray!

[Kartek]

It's sad that I've seen Madonna kiss girls more times than her actual husband. Maybe they can throw a wig on Guy to help him out.

[cokane]

roop, we have all kinds of herbs, two kinds of tomatoes, three kinds of peppers, eggplant, red lettuce, and I forgot what some of the other plants are, so those'll be a surprise.

[emily]

okay, I'm a little embarrassed to admit this, but I swear by Rick Steves. Check out his book for wherever you're going, and you can't go wrong with his suggestions for affordable places to stay. This has held true in Spain, Morocco and Ireland, most recently.
And I think you're allowed to buy a Rick Steves book even if you don't wear a fanny pack and sensible shoes. I think.

[andrea]

"WHEN EUTHENASIA ATTACKS" might be another
title. ew.

yay for gardens! i love home grown salad bars with a passion!

and jack white~ swooon.

[Beth]

I want to be disgusted by the mouse jacket...I really do. But I am kind of intriqued. Maybe if I saw it and then witnessed the euthanizing I would be. Yeah I would be. But still without that...
Are there going to be any orginal ideas left when I am capable of thinking an orginal idea again someday? Mouse jacket-done!

[Austin]

i wonder if a living leather jacket would hang itself up when you took it off? that would be awesome.

is it weird that that was one of my first thoughts when i read that?

[Laurel]

I think you should know about

www.meatgrowingrobots.com

Meat robots are the future.

[shannon]

Hey Colleen, I'm a long time lurker (not in an icky way) but wanted to give you an idea for cheap(er) lodging abroad. My bf and I are going to London this summer and instead of paying an outrageous amount for a crappy hotel room that might give us crabs, we're renting a studio apartment for a week and its only ~$800 US. Thats not supercheap I know, but it's a lot cheaper than a hotel and it has a kitchen so we're hoping to save money by cooking. We went through euracom.com. They're reputable, University of MD uses them for their travel abroad program. Not sure where you're going, but it may be worth checking out apartment rentals in whatever city you're traveling to before going the way of the hostel which I am waaay too old for. Anyway, I hope this helps! :) Thanks for all of the hilarious stories!
Take care,
Shannon

[shannon]

the actual website is: http://www.euracom.co.uk/index.html
hope it's helpful!
:)
Shannon

[cokane]

shannon, thanks for delurking, this is so helpful! After looking at hotel rates, the F figured out the apartment idea, too--he found one on craigslist, but we didn't know about this site. xo