Every day at noon Et (or 9 Am here in marine-layered California), Gilt.com offers up a variety of goods for purchase at a discounted price. Before I continue, I’m being paid exactly nothing for this post, and am indeed writing about it because today I was faced with a real dilemmz. (How the kids are saying “dilemma.”) See, for the first time in my life, I had a chance to live a dream of mine… Owning a taxidermied goose. Behold: Yes, this antique Goose, who looks like an Auguste or a Claude, was born and stuffed somewhere around the year 1900. He is clearly in remarkable goose-like shape. According to his description: * Claude is an early 20th century taxidermy goose on wooden stand (duh) * He’s a rare Parisian flea market find (Indeed, there is only one Claude.) * He measures 35 inches in width by 12 inches in depth by 25 3/4 inches in...
- 9/15/2011
- by Michelle Collins
- BestWeekEver
Every year in Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland, woman of Irish descent from all of the world are chosen to compete in a competition known as the Rose Of Tralee. The annual event, named after a song by the same name, seeks to find a woman who lives up to song’s lyrics of being “lovely and fair.” It is also one of the most popular televised events in Ireland every year. Think of it as American Idol meets Non-Prostitutey Miss America meets Miss Subways. And while they say the winner is based mostly on “personality,” you can probably guess that the contestants are also pretty. It’s a “ladylike” beauty pageant, one that shuns a swimsuit competition but gladly welcomes its contestants to show off their talents. And Show Off Their Talents They Did. Specifically in the case of a contestant named Siobheal Nic Eochaidh, which is pronounced like this:Siobheal...
- 8/24/2011
- by Michelle Collins
- BestWeekEver
Some of you might notice that this list is coming at your almost a week after Coachella ended. Well, there’s a very good reason for that. You see, I actually got so f*cked up at Coachella, so brain scrambled, so sun poisoned, so covered in dirt, so Od’d on hipster assh*les, that it was physically impossible for me to put this list together any sooner. So for those of you wondering what it’s like to give yourself to the desert for 3 days, but don’t have the time, energy or mental rereness to actually do so, allow this list to suffice. Here are the 20 Things I Learned At Coachella. 1. People Are Assh*les. Sure, this is a pretty standard rule in general, right? Most people are, in fact, assh*les. All over the world even! But Coachella is to assh*les as under the kitchen...
- 4/22/2011
- by Michelle Collins
- BestWeekEver
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