Monday, June 7, 2010
Smackdown!!
Posted by Julia Fitzgerald on Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 11:41 AM
When I look at this picture, I can't help but wonder how bad that poor guy's teeth hurt. They gotta hurt, right? It looks like his whole HEAD was curbstomped. I can't imagine coming out of that with your chompers feeling pristine. Poor guy. Poor teeth.
— Julia Eff
Friday, June 4, 2010
It's Still Wrestling Week...
Posted by Julia Fitzgerald on Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:17 PM
I think they're fighting over who spilled the tacos.
Wrestlers really like tacos...
...so much they would KILL for them.
(That, or they're trying to jerk apart that table into a series of smaller pieces so they can go back to beating each other's heads in. With the aid of weapons! Look at that blood...)
—Julia Eff
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Bring the Pain
Posted by Julia Fitzgerald on Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 12:00 PM
Back in the day, wrestling used to be cool! Dudes punched other dudes straight in the head and bled all over the place and it was fun. Nowadays, it's a bunch of juiced-up overgrown teenage men doing effing choreography to a soap opera script, and photos like these make us long for the days when real men with bleached hair beat the daylights out of each other in saggy blue panties.
—Julia Eff
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Live Every Week Like It's Shark Week
Posted by Julia Fitzgerald on Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:38 AM
And so begins our series of creepy old-school wrestling photos we found on a shelf in Ashley's old cubicle. We think this photo is a good metaphor for the journalism industry—it kicks you when you're down, and then you're standing dazed against a brick wall, while somebody takes photos that people will then find in thirty years and simultaneously cringe and laugh at.
I can't help but wonder what this poor dude's face looked like the week after, though. I'm too much of a pansy to be a wrestler. This guy's bloody visage is why.
—Julia Eff
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Monkeying Around
Posted by Julia Fitzgerald on Tue, May 25, 2010 at 4:37 PM
One of the wonders of working in the RealD office are unexplained photos of monkeys. When we went to move, we found loads of them. Some are more terrifying than others. This one, for example, has a lovely National Geographic quality to it. Lookit the monkeys!! I just want to cuddle them, but they’re probably rabid or have some kind of terrible monkey fever and will eat my face off.
These monkeys, on the other hand, look nice and docile. Kiki’s Kooks! Look at their little boat hats, and those instruments! So color-coordinated to their outfits! The one up there’s playing an organ! Or something. I think the scariest and most bizarre part about this picture is knowing we found it in the office. Makes you wonder what happened before we got here…
—Julia Eff
Monday, May 10, 2010
Detroit A gift that keeps on giving
Posted by Ashley Woods on Mon, May 10, 2010 at 4:14 PM
- Pre-teenage wasteland ...
I love other people’s awkward photos. I dunno if this was Christmas or this poor kid’s birthday, but everything about this photo screams 1995. Which is probably when it was taken, so his baggy jeans and oversized shirt were probably very fashion-forward at the time. As you can see, he’s absolutely thrilled that somebody out there likes him enough to have gotten him the skateboard with the large-boobed anime chick on it, and will probably now go sit in his room, listen to his The Beavis and Butthead Experience cassette tape, and think up some totally sweet moves. And we'll sit here, staring at this decidedly awkward "HOLD UP WHAT YOU GOT AND SMILE!!" moment, and be glad our moms don't make us do that anymore.
- Julia Eff
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Detroit White Castle Candles ( Scent of a Redneck)
Posted by Ashley Woods on Thu, May 6, 2010 at 3:14 PM
From the Associated Press:
Now you can buy a candle that smells like the greasy, onion7 4am calorie bomb I like to call the White Castle slider.
Proceeds will benefit Autism Speaks. They're $10, or about the cost of a Crave Case.
No word on why you want your house to smell like a night gone wrong ...
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Detroit Urban Archaeology: May 5, 2010
Posted by Ashley Woods on Wed, May 5, 2010 at 4:47 PM
- Julia Eff
- They really want you.
When we were moving our offices, we had to take down the years of ephemera covering every flat surface. Buried in the rubble, this photo peered back at me, all thirteen sets of cold, plastic eyes staring deep into the inner workings of my soul. …yeah. I’m going to back away slowly now, and go hide under my bed where the dolls can’t get me.
-Julia Eff
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Urban Anthropology: May 4, 2010
Posted by Ashley Woods on Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:51 PM
We're keeping a list of the weird and wacky wonders which somehow make their way to the RDW offices ... and maybe a few things we find in our new digs.
This is an oldie but goodie we found cleaning out our old offices. I'll let editorial assistant Julia Eff take it from here...
Friday, April 30, 2010
Found: 4/30/10: Sleeping Nazi
Posted by Ashley Woods on Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 6:21 PM
- Disney Gone Wrong?
Let's take this one side at a time: First we have Maleficent from Disney’s Sleeping Beauty, with the head of a pope superimposed on top. With a swastika superimposed over that. All of this is on a spiffy psychedelic background! We have no idea what the artist was trying to convey here, other than maybe the Pope has an awesome hourglass figure and a sweet cape hidden under his pope-robe. Or something.
It’s laminated together with this clipping from the Freep a few weeks ago. A clipping about Detroit rapper Mu's father, who was shot an outrageous number of times by the FBI during a raid in Dearborn (we're not trying to get political here, but google this if you're interested).
The sheer scale of craziness is a little awe-inspiring. We have no idea what this person is trying to tell us, but they probably aren’t inviting us to their birthday party anytime soon.
- Maybe they thought we had a news department?
-Julia Eff
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