Shanghai Tang has a line of T-shirts themed after old kung-fu movies, like the Flying Guillotine and Eight Diagram Pole Fighter shirts above. They also have a really funny one for One Armed Swordsman that only has one sleeve.

Now, I know that Shanghai Tang is a really fashionable store established to exploit the well-to-do Asian fetishists like, say, Wesley Snipes, but these shirts costs $80! That is just a scam. I could sell bootleg pole fighter shirts for $25 and make a killing.

Lots of good stuff here at the Best of Still Photojournalism, 2004.

In the past two years, Layne has discovered she’s bisexual; fell in love with a Spanish go-go dancer; made room in her home for her cousin’s pregnant girlfriend and now her newborn infant; met up with one of her birth parents for the first time; recounted a fling she had with a former boss (who had a girlfriend at the time); hinted at a rape she endured in Mexico (which turned her into a lesbian); charmed a straight woman co-worker into sleeping with her, becoming her girlfriend and then fiancee (!); broken off the engagement with said co-worker; frequently hooked up with one of the ex-fiancee’s friends (another straight girl, if you can believe it); most recently slept with three women in the same week; and somehow, as all this was going on, held down a job at a large corporation working 80 hours a week managing a very successful IT group.

Now… how the hell does anyone think that’s real? It just makes me wish I was reading Plain Layne all of last year. Good god.

A fun and fact-filled adventure of the most appalling presidency in the history of the United States

Take down the Bush administration before they use Voltron to destroy everything. The resistance includes Hulk Hogan, Mr. T, Howard Dean and Jesus. Recommended for everyone except Phil, since he’s a Republican.

The pair have been hitting the lecture circuit lately. They did a session at Royce a little while ago, but I think the tickets seemed really expensive just to hear dudes talk, so I passed. Luckily, someone transcribed the University of Minnesota experience into an 80 page monstrosity for anyone to read!

Chris Ware: There’s plenty of miserable, lonely people in the world and there’s not enough art about it, I don’t think. I, you know – I get tired of reading stories about sexual liaisons and, you know, and conquests and all that kind of nonsense, it just gets tiresome. There’s plenty of stuff, I mean. I don’t know, I guess I’m nuts or something.

Ira Glass: Happy-happy people have the Friends.

[some audience hissing]

Chris Ware: What?

Ira Glass: Happy people have the TV show Friends.

[audience chuckles]

Chris Ware: No, but I mean, you ride the bus, you ride the train and you see so many people that you know they’ll never meet anybody. I mean, you can tell. And it’s, I mean it’s–

Ira Glass: So you’re saying happy people have enough art? There’s enough art about the successful and happy.

Chris Ware: That’s all there is, it’s just art to make you feel better about yourself or something.

Ira Glass: David Sedaris has said that one of the things he liked about reading Jimmy Corrigan is that it was a book that when you were done, you could feel like your life was better than the guy in the book.

[audience laughter]

He said he found that kind of uplifting.

Chris Ware: Oh, that’s nice. That sounds … fair enough.

If you don’t know who these people are… you’re probably better off not clicking through. It is a bit dry, but I thought it was pretty neat.

[via Kempa]

That said, what the hell is going on here? Are they tweaking each other’s nipples? How did Dirk party foul all over himself? Does Mark Cuban know?

It’s a long download, but really, really worth the wait. It’s starts off slow and ramps up continuously until it’s the best thing ever. Who said Germans couldn’t be funny?!?!?

Official site for Staplerfahrer Klaus (Forklift Driver Klaus)

The only real problem with Kinja is that it saves me tons of time on reading internet web crap, and one of my primary objectives with reading internet web crab is to waste as much time as humanly possible. Can’t be perfect, I guess.

The trick, of course, is washing it down with a nice diet soda.