Angeline Vuong creates -- mainly words, pictures and fuzzy feelings.
She currently crafts strategies and social media & community-based ideas for Citysearch. She writes strange things at Second City, takes photos that have been published in the New York Times & USA Today, and is working on a cookbook with her father, a French pastry chef.
She can most likely be found in Los Angeles, sitting on her couch with her wonderful boyfriend and adorable puppy watching "Curb Your Enthusiasm." Say hi if you see her.
Found behind Pizzeria Mozza. I wonder if this is a problem.
Hmm. This totally doesn’t surprise me at all. I’d never met so many drunks / semi-alcoholics in my entire life until I moved to the Midwest.
Red dots represent locations where there are more bars than grocery stores, based on results from the Google Maps API. (FlowingData)
The High Life
Tired of being terrestrially housebound? Four homes go out on a limb and find their place in the trees.
Read more: http://www.dwell.com/articles/the-high-life.html#ixzz0hLLBAP4u
Thanks, NPR, for your enthralling investigations. Especially “Snake Vs. Dinosaur Deathmatch Preserved in Fossil Find.”
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124217483&sc=fb&cc=fp
Los Angelites — Gold Motel (@gretamorgan) plays the Bootleg Theater tonight at 10pm. File under: jangly pop, sun-soaked warmth & rollercoasters— the fun kind that won’t make you puke. See you there.
Here I go again on that good ol’ food reform…
robot-heart-politics: abcsoupdot: joyshapes:
Why Americans don’t need the government telling them what to eat. This graph shows the US federal subsidies for food production over a decade ending in 2005. As we can see, there is a HUGE contrast between what the US federal government recommends and what they subsidise. According to the Federal Nutrition Recommendations, meat and dairy should comprise approximately 25% of our intake. So why do these industries receive a full 75% of subsidies? In stark contrast, we see that fruit and veg only get 0.37% of subsidies!
The lower the subsidies, the higher the pricing as it costs more for the industry to produce. So is it any wonder the US have an obesity problem? The solution is not to tax junk food, it is to ELIMINATE SUBSIDIES and accordingly eliminate price controls. Incentives do a lot more good than penalties.image seen in Good Medicine
An electric piano dining table. Putting this on my “need” list…Once I have $6,000.
Feels good, man.
[reddit.]
I Can Haz A Short Comedic Film? Thanks to our friend Adam of the directorial genius that is The General Assembly, we have our first beautifully shot short film for Second City’s Saturday Shorts. Now, it’s up on the chopping block for editing. The full thing to come very soon. I’m quite excited!
(via fuckyeahcourtneylove)
Jamie Oliver at TED. A man after my own heart. I don’t understand how we’ve created a culture where people feel so uncomfortable about knowing where our food comes from. I am far from wealthy, but one thing I will never skimp on is quality, un-processed food. It makes me so angry that agribusiness has made it so much more lucrative for you to spend so little on over-processed, pure shit like a dollar menu burger versus an apple.
We can make a difference and save each other by being aware of what we put in our bodies. Our ignorance is killing us. Nothing has ever made me so frustrated, so sad or so passionate than the way we treat food in America. It boils my blood that we turn a blind eye to the very things that are making us unhealthy and making these corporate pigs who don’t give a shit about you, me or the people or animals they harm, so much wealthier.
Did his college friends suspect he may be their future president? Freshman year. Photo by Lisa Jack.
Blogs are silly. and amazing. BABIES WITH LASER EYES.
Look at that awesome baby. He’s a track star!
Oh…and he’s me. That’s right, I was a laser baby.
If I had this teepee, I would spend lots of time writing in there. And playing with My Little Ponies.
Wonderful photo set via thedailywhat:
Photo Series of the Day: “Halloween in Harlem” by Amy Stein.
[nerdcore.]
My friend Matthew Allard just signed up to #vanish. I wholeheartedly support him if there are disguises involved.
By Devon Smith. Probably the most accurate visual depiction of how I feel every day.
My favorite Super Bowl commercial. (As if anyone would be surprised…)
I don’t need friends. What I need are more FarmVille neighbors.
A sneak peak of what’s to come if you show up to the Viper Room at 10:15. Debate Team will rock your face off…gently.
You know, just in case.
(I personally wouldn’t even bother—meeting Jon Stewart would render me completely intimidated and useless.)
Salvation. (Gamble House at the Silverlake Lounge)
Debate Team captains.
What a sight to see. I love this type of dreamy outdoor lighting.
How can one not love Tina Fey? This made my morning.
I wanna thank my daughter, Alice, for being the funniest person in my family. For coining phrases like “I want to go to there” and sometimes just putting on pretend make-up in the mirror, and she’ll turn to me and say, “I look like Barack Obama.” She has somehow gotten it in her head that it’s a good thing to resemble a famous politician. I don’t know where she got that idea.
Living Bath Mat. Sign me up.
“Aside from its ability to liven up any old shower space, the Moss Carpet also gets major bonus points for being a wonderfully low-maintenance addition to your loo that features a non-slip grip and resistance to mold. Plus, you’ll never have to worry about washing it!”
(via Environmental Graffiti)
As if I really needed another reason to love Jeff Garlin.
In 2003, a survey of female veterans found that 30 percent said they were raped in the military. A 2004 study of veterans who were seeking help for post-traumatic stress disorder found that 71 percent of the women said they were sexually assaulted or raped while serving. And a 1995 study of female veterans of the Gulf and earlier wars, found that 90 percent had been sexually harassed.
Another study concluded that 90% of all women serving are sexually harassed. Another one estimates that 90% of all the rapes do not get reported, despite supposedly easier ways to report the crime with confidentiality since 2005. Either way, this appears to be an epidemic that needs to be dealt with.
An online discussion from a former soldier whose identity is being protected had this to say, “At least a rape ends. It’s the day-to-day degradation that eats at you. None of my friends who were raped on active duty reported it. Or if we tried, we were told to shut up for ‘morale.’ Working with your rapist on a daily basis isn’t a lot of fun, believe me.”
How the military is dealing with this appears to demonstrate a pattern of sweeping it under the rug. In 2008, 62% of those that were convicted of sexual assault or rape received very lenient punishments such as demotion, suspension, or a written reprimand.
fucking disgusting.
Los Angelites: check out the magic, the wonder, the gloriousness (and the manliness) that is Debate Team, next Wednesday at the Viper Room. I can promise that there will be hand holding and tears involved.
Debate Team is Ryan McNeill (Director, The General Assembly), Drew Brown (Guitar, One Republic), Robert Morris (Guitar & Vocals, The Hush Sound) and Dan Konopka (Drums, OK GO). They sound like if your Grandma knew how to get down with some distortion for good measure.
Very old, antiquated demos can be found at myspace.com/debateteam. Otherwise, just trust me.
Leaving Las Vegas. Piles of snow later.
Fellow Los Angelites, Angelenos & brethren of the nearly 10 million of you in Los Angeles County: Check out tumbLAngeles for local love, events & updates from your fellow more-than-microblogging friends. I recently started posting there as well, and it’s where all the kids are. And by kids, I mean me.
Songs for this windy, dreary LA day. Enjoy.
Jacket & Bookmark by Igor “Rogix” Udushlivy. What a wonderful concept.
More strange foodie art love. (via tulletulle)
where the wild things are
Watermelon shark? Yes please.
More snapshots from this weekend at Joshua Tree…
Cholla Cactus Garden. Joshua Tree National Park, CA
En route to Joshua Tree National Park. Lots of still, breathtaking beauty. I unfortunately didn’t get my hike on due to a bum knee, but I still enjoyed the wonderful atmosphere. Feeling truly lucky right now.
I’m normally mum about this, but guess what:
IT’S REALLY FREAKING CREEPY WHEN YOU STEAL PICTURES OF PEOPLE OFF OF THEIR PROFILE PAGES AND POST THEM ALL OVER THE INTERNET.
If you’re going to extensively snoop through my Facebook photos, then at least do so with a little dignity and attribute some sort of source vs. me randomly encountering them and being weirded out. Or at least have the common sense to space ‘em out so you don’t look like Creeper McCreeperson.
Well, I guess the pup’s outta the bag. Mr. Winston Beans, my sleepy, adorable, new man.
Kind of obsessed.
Dear Creatures “Nine to Five” dress, available via Jac Boutique in good ol’ Atlanta.
Update: I opted not to get this dress (sigh) & donated the would’ve been cost to Doctors Without Borders’ Haiti fund. You should give what you can as well.
Brian Williams: Why Jon Stewart Is Good For News : NPR
You know what would be even better, Brian? If you and your ilk were to make Stewart’s job really hard for a while instead of resigning to this, “Ha! Yeah, he got us! We are terrible..” attitude that you guys seem to all take.
Anyway, here he is doing that media takedown thing he does so well:
i listened to this on the radio on Sunday. Brian Williams has a creepily perfect timbre in his voice.
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What English Sounds Like to Foreigners:
via ryanmcneill:
When my family kept an exchange student from Germany for a year, one of my favorite past-times was playing the game “Is This a German Word?” with him. I always felt like it was so easy to make up German-sounding phrases, however I could never really get him to play along on making up English-sounding gibberish. Finally, here is the video I’ve been waiting for…an Italian professor singing made-up English to demonstrate what our language sounds like to foreigners. The song is pretty rockin’ too.
The Nation’s Food Democracy issue from last September. Food democracy and the eradication of factory farming is a cause that’s near and dear to my heart. It isn’t about being a vegan or vegetarian to me (of which I am neither), but rather stopping these huge corporations from continually destroying our quality of life and demolishing what we know as honest, independent farming.
Why should we have to suck up high fructose corn syrup and other processed foods because it is cheaper for big food companies? Why should our cows be forced to eat corn, when they are naturally made to eat grass?
And most of all, why should you or me have to settle for meat that’s unhealthy, genetically mutated and hormone-pumped to the point where they will keel over and die by day 13 of their lives anyways?
Eating locally, organically and consuming free-range animal byproducts cost more because it’s done the right way. It will also cost you a lot less in the long run than a dollar menu drive thru diet that’s been washed in chemicals that will take ages to disappear from your body.
Don’t be ignorant: know what you consume, and either face it with acceptance, or do something about it.
For more information:
Food Democracy Now
Food Inc.
Eating Animals
Totally down.
Buy This: Customized mini-branding iron from Shapeways.
Fits most disposable lighters.
Heat the lighter and the text will get hot. After a minute, press your text against an object to tag it.
I can see this going one of two ways, and both ways involve emergency skin grafting.
[bookofjoe.]
