someone is twenty.

I won't name names, but someone (not me) who writes for this blog was born twenty years ago today.

Happy birthday woman, live it up.

xoxoxo
PF(c.)

ps.

this me singing Happy Birthday to you while you play along on your kazoo.

disco ball mouse.

number one Christmas Gift of 2k8: A light-up disco ball mouse. I mean I picked it out, but I seriously love it and am using it currently. It looks a little something like this:

thank u, Mom (you also rule for buying me the last two packs of polaroid film in Geneva).

In other news, I think you need this for your newly decorated room:

They're freaking awesome and look cool and are cool and I want you to have them. Unfortunately I've been saving them for a couple of days and now I can't find the link to the designer. Oh wait, I just did. Here.

I also think you might need these knife hooks:

you can get them here.

also, someday my prince charming will buy me this lamp:

I know this picture is really small, but click here and check it out. I need it. Badly. Anthropologie also has some ridiculously awesome wallpaper, which I know you are banned from using but a girl can dream, can't she?

I mean Anthropologie, can you just donate one of everything to me? I just love pretty much every single thing you make. Like, check out this coat rack:

and this dress:

I mean, hellooooooo! Anyway, enough gushing about things I can not afford.

furthermore, I think this is something you should really think about while doing over your room. It's obviously really important... hahaha.

Finally, a few weeks ago I was checking out at Old Navy and the flamboyantly gay cashier said that he liked my glasses and that I looked like I was, "straight from Portland, Oregon or something." I was puzzled because I have never been to Portland and I had no clue what my glasses had to do with such a place.

Then the other day it all became clear to me when I read that Portland recently named itself the "beard-iest" city in America. He must've thought I had a beard. Maybe he needs glasses.

that's all for now
Merry Christmas to you and your hipster dust bunnies.
xoxo,
Uncontaminated Alien

ps. "A beard is a bullshit filter. It keeps me from working at lame places and 
interacting with lame people."

pps. I realized when I halfway started cleaning out my room today that I always find some pretty interesting/kooky things when I deep clean my room. I think you should share with us the weirdest things you found in your room overhaul.

Dust Bunnies

Dear Pure Foreigner,

That little girl is so cute! She knows more of the dance than you even. I've been trying to convince everyone at home to learn the dance with me, but no one wants to! Rage.

Anyway I'm sorry I haven't written in awhile. I've been busy cleaning my room, moving everything out, dusting, getting ready to paint, etc. It's proven to be a bigger project than I thought it would. I've had some serious allergy attacks from moving everything out, especially my rug. 

Dear dust bunnies, It's me, Dark Stranger.

I'm allergic to you, and you suck terribly. 

h8 u 

luv u alt-dust bunnies

I found this fantastic wallpaper that I want to put in my room, but my parents tell me I can't put it up. Something about "devaluing the house, blahblahblah" I think it's pretty sweet:

COLORING BOOK WALLPAPER!

Anyway that's all I have for now. I'm off to prepare to paint.

xoxo, 

Powerful Master (Mysterious Outsider)

I take it all back.

I know that in the past few posts I have written about many things that I love and many things that are very important to me. However, none even come close to this:

I mean, I'm pretty much positive that if "Single Ladies" had come when I was five, I would be doing the exact same thing. The girl's got steeeeeeeze. It gets really good at about 1:44 and then again at like 2:02.

That is all.

PFPFPFPF

Walrus: Worst Nickname of 2k8...

...but I accept it.

speaking of Walrus, can we talk about this amazing gift that Cameron got for me?

yup, a walrus ornament, proudly displayed in my car. I love thee Cameron Winkstern, and all of your kooky ideas.

that's all for now, just desperately needed to share.

xoxo.
Pure Foreigner

this is important to me:

also so is this:

and this:

that is all.

ps. this is important to both of us.

Hanson, YouTube and the Scent of Man.

Have I ever told you how much I love Hanson? Well I do... and I'm doing this thing where I fall back in love with them all over again. Like srsly, they are so good. I need to see them live asap. I have three times already and I become truly reduced to tears. I turn into a screeching tween, and I am not ashamed. Dear Hanson, tour upstate sometime soon please. xoxo.

It certainly helps that they are so so so hot. haha, really though. straight studly.

Also, this seems important. As members of the blogosphere I think we should share.

also, because the music sucks, I provided this song for you to listen to while you watch:

In other news: Burger King has a scent for men called "Flame". Really it's real. "the scent of seduction with a hint of flame-broiled meat." Check it out here. Click the spray three times... it's disturbing/hilarious.

Starting my Christmas cards tomorrow... I'll let you know how they progress. Also, send me your address.

That's all she wrote,
PF

ps. There's an online museum of art museum toilets. It is awesome. Here it is.

dude, bro! 2 OV MAH FAVORITE THINGS.

PURE FOREIGNR

I DISCOVERD WEBSIET DAT COMBINEZ 2 OV MAH FAV THINGS... LOLCATZ AN HIPSTERS! HEERS SAMPLE OV 2 OV TEH BEST PICTUREZ:


WIF LUV,
GREAT LORD (DARK STRANGR)

Come on America! Be green! Refill your 40 oz.

Dear Pure Foreigner,

I hope you do well on your final tomorrow! G'luck mate.

On a sadder note however, no, I am not in Vermont. My friend's car got a flat tire, and she has to go to the French consulate in NYC to get her visa to spend next semester in France. So I guess Marlboro (the college, not the cigarettes) is out of the question for now.

So instead of packing for a trip to Vermont, I've been tearing apart my room to get ready to paint/redecorate. Since you're so great at finding cool decorating ideas Pure Foreigner, will you help me think of a few cheap ideas for redecorating? Thankee so muchee.

I was google-ing bottle caps to think of creative ways to use mine, and I found a few cute, (somewhat) practical, do-able pictures:

(I really do like the bottle cap wall art one)

Then, I found these:

Cher, in bottle cap form. (h8 u)

A bottle cap bedroom collection. (miss u)

A sick dress (<3 the shoes, h8 the face).

To be able to accomplish some of these thing

I'd have to drink a lot of beer.
Probably enough for this many bottle caps:

By the end I'd probably look like this:

(miss u)

I've decided to stick with picture frames,
mirror frames, and possibly a beer pong table.

So... after looking so long at bottle cap art, I stumbled upon ideas of how to make stuff out of used plastic bags (apparently I was on a recycling-useless-shit kick):



With "fabric" out of plastic bags you can make all sorts a things:

ANYWAY... Did you hear the great news? Someone tried to kill Bush with a SHOE!

Here's a picture of our glorious hero:

I guess in Arab culture the greatest insult is slapping someone in the face with a shoe. Too bad he missed! I would have loved to see a serious brawl to go down. I mean really. Our politicians are not as interesting as some other countries'. It seems like there's always political fist fights happening in other nations. Here's an interesting smack down in Bolivia:



If you check out related videos it seems like Taiwan, the Czech Republic, and Russia (oh the Duma... always has crazy fights like these. so ridiculous) all have entertaining beatings in parliament. I guess I shouldn't be complaining that the U.S. doesn't have fights like these... it probably means our government is a little more "stable."

Though, I feel as if it's a trade off... a stable government, or great You-tube worthy videos? I'd choose the later. Let's stop fighting other people, and just fight each other!
Come on America!


With love,
Great Lord (Dark Stranger)

Hey, STFU Boy.

Check out PB&J's peppy new song and video here.

Oh hell Great Lord, there's only so much African American History studying I can take. I just don;t care why cotton was such a valuable crop in antebellum America, ya know? Also, I'm not sure whether my final is at 8 or 9am tomorrow so there is a great chance that I'll get to Geneseo an hour early tomorrow morning. boo.

In other news, my hair is straight up green. I think because I went so brown straight from blonde without using color-saving shampoo. I'm treating myself to a re-dye tomorrow in celebration of all my shit finally being done... wish me luck and remind me next time to not dye my hair.

Are you in Vermont???

Also, I know we're on an insane SNL kick lately, but last night I was watching while studying annnnnd... on Weekend Update Utica got that shout out:

go to about 2:10... also, he hates on New Jersey the whole time, but it's okay, we're used to it.

Oh, remember that time you were born in Arkansas...

soooo VOGUE has tons of different editions worldwide. L'Uomo Vogue is the Italian Men's edition and in November the whole issue was focused on Africa, which I think is sweet.

read all about it here.



Men's Wallets:

those little slots are for guitar picks. here.

black exterior, white interior. here.


strap is cumbersome, but tweed is cool. here.

again cumbersome, but cool. here.

I must get back to studying. This is gonna be my hardest final, so send me good vibes if you see this before I take it.

<3 Pure Foreigner.

ps. THIS is what I want to do:

<3 U, MISS U

I'm officially home. I hope you are too and I hope you made it safely.

To ward off post-semester blues I'll........... blog!

Recently I had a project for 3D Design where I had to deal with an object's surface and form. I covered a lamp completely in match sticks. Base and all. It took effing forever, but looked really cool. Also, my mom has this hugely extensive collection of matchbooks that she keeps in this huge glass pig in our family room. I mean, match sticks are really cool. Anyway....

This necklace is really cool. This designer is really fucking cool. She makes jewelery shaped like match sticks, candy necklaces, bottle caps and there's even a cigarette butt necklace, which actually looks pretty cool. Scope her steeze here. Really scope all around the site, she does some sick shit. Oh also, you can get that cool match stick necklace in a box that looks a little something like this:

(jvh, you seeing this?)

Also, I decided I am on a quest for the perfect gloves. I lost my purple ones somewhere in my life and for a short time I was devastated. Actually I'm still really sad/pissed about losing them. Anyway, enough bitching... the following is a short collection of gloves that I want/think are cool.

One. Long Leather Gloves.

Two. Lambswool Fingerless Mitten.

Three. Cranberry Fingerless Fleece.

I kind of really like the idea of layering a softer fingerless glove over leather ones. Someday I'll buy each and try it.

In other news, Tom Ford, who I am madly in love with (he's gay!), offers us these ten Rules of Style. Oh Tom Ford.... xoxox.

Finally, check this out:the HempMote!

Next up: Christmas card ideas and the quest for the perfect men's wallet.

-PureFor.

ps. Kristen Cavallari, the mysterious blonde who has the haircut you want, was on Laguna Beach, which is something completely different from The Hills. God, get your lame MTV reality shows right!

Mmm Marshmallow Mateys.

Oh Marshmallow Mateys, how I love you in all your Lucky Charms-knockoff glory.

Today is a sad day.
Reason One: both of us had finals in our language of choice (you-Spanish, me-English, duh.) at 8 o'clock am today. As I was walking up to Wells (oh I love thee Wells, building of languages and love...) those stupid pseudo-Ivy League bells on

Sturges were singing "I'll Be Home For Christmas" to me... and I wanted to throw a rock at them. Geneseo, seriously, you are not Ivy League, stop pretending to be by having maximum climbing vine and annoying bell levels. anyway...
Reason Two: it is our last day together in this, the first semester of our college career... ahh the good times, the bad times, what a journey it has been...
Reason Three: how am I supposed to move my fridge halfway across campus? Still a mystery...
Reason Four: I'm really really sad that it's my last day in Monroe 2A218... NOT!

anyway, Tis the season, yeah? So I made us this absurd potentially really embarrassing thing. I hope Cam and Suez don't mind being featured. Here goes:

[idea credit: slip/slip's apartment mate]

That is like one of those things that anyone who isn't us would feel uncomfortable watching by him or herself. But it is so effing funny! Happy Christmas!

And I would also like to take the time to thank those who have helped me move my shit over to Seneca Hall. I offer my deepest gratitude to:
you, Great Lord (Dark Stranger)
Susen Shi, the woman who is less asian than I
Bruna Garcia, in all her poop-story filled glory
and Meg McKeown, the provider of all thing Mario (Kart/Party/64)

in other, more important news: Bettie Page died today at the age of 85.

and finally, how do we feel about this PVC leggings/pants thing that's going on?

I mean I know those Disco Pants I want are borderline PVC looking, but I think they're a little different... thoughts?

really finally this time:

This is pretty cool I think. I mean I could easily make it, but we, who love neck wear, could easily rock this I think. Here's some more pictures and options.

That's all she wrote,
PF

Take a bite outta crime

Dear World,

We have decided that we hate boys who wear their pants too low (ya know? like right at the line where their penis is?). Really. It's too much gentlemen. I found this excellent video demonstrating how boys should not wear their pants:


Pants Too Low - More amazing videos are a click away


Going along with the whole beard thing mentioned below... I found a list of 10 good reasons why men should have beards (even if sometimes they have red patches in them).


On a lighter note, Pure Foreigner, you know how tonight I was telling you about "the dog that fought crime" and you didn't know what I was talking about? Well, I was talking about Scruff McGruff.
The cartoon dog figure that started appearing in 1980 in commercials encouraging people to "Take a bite out of crime." He touched on issues such as robbery, drug addiction, and "trouble on da bus" in his commercials. He encourages people to call the police if they see any fishy behavior about.

Interestingly enough when I wiki-ed him I discovered that his character's voice was done by John M. Keil, a guy from Rochester! Groovy, right?

I think those girls at FIT could take some advice from Scruff McGruff and stay away from drugs. Luckily there was someone at FIT who "took a bit out of crime" and ratted on them.

Here's the sad news however, Scruff McGruff is great at saving us from buying a dimebag of weed, or from beating kids up on the playground, or wiring our neighbors house with explosives, but he doesn't really seem to care about kids (I think he's just in it all for the fame). This video shows the sad proof.

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

xoxo,
Great Lord (Dark Stranger)

p.s. note that Scruff McGruff keeps running. What an arse hole.

AWESOME PANTS!

PPS. WHY IS EVERYONE VOTING 'NO' ON THOSE PANTS!?!? I mean I really do like them... they're ninety bones which I could never justify, but I really do think they're pretty cool. boo to you all.

Beards,Ellen,Champs,FauxFur,VOSS

"I just want to move out of the dorms and be in my own space. I have a Container Store gift certificate.” -Me, as quoted on HRO... hahahahahaha. I am cracking myself up at the thought of such a thing.

Also that entry reminds me of when I said that the InterFaith Center was a really nice space and you guys all made fun of me. ha!


Now, as promised, I will delve into the age-old question of why most men have a little red in their beards.
Not like this much:
I mean why men (like JVH et al) who have dark hair on their domes and in their armpits etc have mysterious patches of red hair in their beards....

Basically, what I found out is that its either due to having half a chromosome for red hair and the rest for the dominant hair color, or something like that.
But this explanation seems way more plausible: The growth and the distribution of hair are under the influence of the sex hormones. At and following puberty, longer, coarser, more heavily pigmented hair, called terminal hair, develops in the armpits, genital regions, and, in males, on the face and sometimes on parts of the trunk and limbs. The hair of the scalp, eyebrows, and eyelashes are of separate type and develop fairly early in life. These differences in stages of the development of hair on different parts of the body account for the condition of some men having facial hair that is not the same color as the hair on his head (answers.yahoo.com 1). haha, like that in-text citation?

I mean this makes pretty sound sense to me... another thing one must consider when pondering beardhair-domehair matching is that not every human has eyebrows that are exactly the same color as his or her hair. Ya feel me?

N E WAYZ... Can we talk about how much I love Ellen DeGeneres? I mean I want to be exactly like her not only when I grow up, but pretty much right now. Like really really she is great. To add to her greatness, she is now a CoverGirl and I love her for it... Check her out:

Oh how I love thee, Ellen.

In other news, according to the New York Post (our favorite newspaper, ha!), so FIT skanks got busted for being coke dealers (our favorite drug, ha!) last night. As two people who have spent considerable amounts of time at FIT, I thought we might find this intriguing. Read it all here.

Also, I found this:

Remember that time Hey Champ played at our school and we didn't really like them? Well now they're second to only Justice on NYE in NYC.... what the hell!?!?! "Either way, big ups to SUNY Geneseo" - Direct quote from Hey Champ's blog... maybe I'll change my mind about them...

And finally, I know how much you love that brown bear blanket you have, so I found you this.

A how-to! Just in case you ever lose it or accidentally burn it. And I think I might make myself/someone it for christmas this year.

Thats all for now I think..... wait.... I have one more quick question...

Great Lord,
ARE WE HUMAN?
OR ARE WE DANCER???

its all just to epic and deep and heavy for me to handle. you gotta let me know...

-Pure Foreigner.

ps.

I love thee Michael Cain. I love thee VOSS water. That is all.