Brandon Scott Gorrell

The problem with weed is that it gets into your head and starts making you ultra self-aware to the point where your sensitivity to social cues is literally tormenting. It also makes you so aware (as David portays so well in the video) of yourself that you begin mentally berating yourself for all the “wrong” things you’ve done in the recent past.

Brought to us by film maker Terje Sorgjerd, here is a beautiful time-lapse of the environment surrounding El Teide, the highest mountain in Spain. Reaching over 3,000 meters, El Teide is home to “one of the world’s best observatories.” Video inside.

It’s weird that my self-consciousness is experienced anticipatorily and retroactively because I don’t feel self-conscious/ self-shamed/ embarrassed while I engage in such behavior that I later find unseemly. So in effect there’s this weird threshold of perception/ non-perception; before I cross the threshold, I am aware of myself, but once I cross the threshold, I become unaccountable to myself.

This very lifelike, semi-animatronic baby t-rex recently brought the pain to the kids at an elementary school in Australia. Simultaneously horrified and delighted, the cute children were privy to this relatively awesome puppetry courtesy of “Walking With Dinosaurs,” an educational show performed internationally. Wish they had these kind of puppets when I was a kid!

Last Thursday, 19-year-old Kipp Rusty Walker killed himself in front of a crowd of about 15 people at an open mic hosted by Strictly Organic Coffee Company, a locally-owned cafe.

From my perspective, when you talk to your friend on your iPhone, you are only Talking On The Phone. When you eat a tofu scramble, you are Eating A Meal. When you’re having a heated discussion with a female, you are Having A Fight With Your Girlfriend. There are no specifics to these actions – instead your behavior appears as is: “Human is cleaning now,” “Human is writing now,” “Human is expressing anger now,” etc.

Earlier this week, I received an email response to an article I wrote last week called “The Thing About Hitting on Girls” from Danielle Binler, a graduate student at Columbia. I found it particularly well thought-out and illuminating, and so definitely worthy of sharing (with her permission, of course) with those involved in the original conversation. Here it is, then, for your consumption.

Uh-oh. Did someone just discover the inherent paradox of human consciousness within the context of limited lifespan and the physical laws of the universe? Is someone going to be our next Sartre? This 6-year-old existential poet is Julian, the son of a redditor, and soon to be among the ranks of Camus, Pessoa, et al.

TORONTO – A 27-year-old Toronto man died on Monday after he fell into an industrial pasta machine. The employee of a Toronto pasta factory called Pasta Quistini, the victim’s first name was Justin, and he was dating the company owner’s daughter.

Age 2: You’re in your high chair. It’s your birthday. Cake is all over your face and your arms are outstretched. You have literal fistfuls of cake. You’re grinning. You’re wearing one of those Burger King crowns that come in kids meals. The background of the kitchen is vintage, darkened, crisp, and soft at the same time. Your parents were still young.

“Arc Island” is a concept by English “serial entrepreneur” Ben Way that promises to be “the largest civil engineering project in history.” Basically, dude wants to build a floating superstructure the size of Manhattan where we can all live in sustainable harmony. On top of the ocean. And when we all want to go somewhere, we can like, just float the “island” there.

This just in from the Monster Ball at Houston – Lady Gaga ate shit. No – not like, a “performance art” piece where she ate actual human feces (although, one would be stretching it a bit to put her above that) – just like, Lady Gaga, in all her larger-than-life glory, falling awkwardly off a flaming piano.

How to be an Artist: Start an Etsy ‘store.’ Draw small robots, animals or ‘things’ on printer paper. Add minimal color using the markers you used in grade school. These drawings’ overarching theme should be one of ‘cuteness’ or ‘twee.’ Frame these drawings and list them on Etsy for $20 a piece. Facebook status update that you’ve “finally” started an Etsy page “so [you] can FINALLY start selling [your] art.”

Wow. According to Gizmodo via The Daily, the Saudis plan on building a skyscraper that will be one mile high. Expected to cost upwards of $30 billion, the tallest-structure-in-the-world-to-be will house a giant hotel, office space and apartments in the Saudi city of Jeddah.

Cute video for your Saturday morning/ afternoon hangover: a cat playing with dolphins. I usually try to avoid posting the more basic/ dumbed-down memes, but this is an exception, because it actually seems sort of… incredible. Video inside.

Perhaps we disdain those who Hit On girls. Picture the bro and his wingman at a bar, strategizing. This picture seems predatory. Creepy. Right? But what is this other than Hitting On girls with a bit more of a logical, perhaps less oafish focus? Girls do not want to be Hit On; but girls want to be Hit On.

OK so I know we’ve moved past ’80s nostalgia and are in full-on ’90s nostalgia mode, but this new remake of the video “Fight For Your Right” by Beastie Boys (posted just hours ago) is pretty sweet, and it’s chock-full of our favorite celebrities (Ted Danson, Will Ferrell, Rainn Wilson, Jack Black, Elijah Wood, more). Worth the watch!

Eugene ‘Stonner’ Ashley, 26, of Georgia, was given one year in jail and issued a $300 fine for tattooing “DB” – short for “Daddy’s Boy,” on his three-year-old son’s shoulder blade. Ashley reported to police that he had been drunk at the time and as such does not remember tattooing his boy.