The is the cover art for the Baby One More Time single!
That’s right, almost ten years have passed since the mega-hit — and one of my biggest accordion hits —Baby One More Time was released (the release date was November 3, 1998). I think we need to find some way to commemorate this anniversary, especially in light of all the differences between Britney then and now.
Oh, those halcyon days of lost innocence…
In case you’ve forgotten how the song goes, here’s the video.
This might make you feel old: ten summers ago, the single The Rockafeller Skank with its repeating “Right about now / the funk soul brother / check it out now / the funk sould brother” mantra was released by Fatboy Slim, a.k.a. Norman Cook. Here’s the video for old times’ sake.
Also for old times’ sake, here’s the video for another single off the album, Gangster Trippin’.
Here’s the best-known video to come from the album, the Spike Jonze-directed video for Praise You (one of the first things I ever played on the accordion):
And while not off the album, here’s a Fatboy Slim remix of Cornershop’s ode to Bollywood, Brimful of Asha, from the same era:
I’ve been enjoying Cake Wrecks, a blog devoted to some of the most hilariously cringe-worthy cake decorating.
One major cause of cake wrecks is incompetence on the cake decorator’s part. This is especially true for cakes purchased at a grocery store, where the people in the cake department are more likely to be repurposed shelf-stockers or deli counter people than pastry chefs.
Here’s a cake from a grocery store, decorated by an employee who:
This grocery store-decorated cake shows a little more effort than the previous one, but this time the decorator confused instructions for text:
Another major cause of cake wrecks: bad taste on the part of the person ordering the cake.
(I will be the first to admit that bad taste is sometimes called for. “Good taste is the first refuge of the witless,” as Harley Parker said.)
C’mon, admit it: there’s at least one person you’d love to send a cake like this to:
This one was apparently brought in by someone’s boss to the office to explain their sexual harassment policy and still keep the message delicious:
And finally, there’s this wonderful baby shower cake:
There are many more such cakes at Cake Wrecks — go check ’em out now!
…because old comic books now seem so twisted:
Found at Photobasement.
Click the photo to see the original.
In photography, placement is everything:
This one isn’t so much a story as it is a photo:
American Airlines neon logo at Logan Airport’s Terminal B.
There are a couple of these neon signs in the north pier of Logan Airport’s Terminal B. These face large banks of windows in the terminal so that passengers both in the lounge as well as in taxing planes can see theme.
I’m sure there were more signs like this in older airports all over the world, but in the rush to make airports more modern-looking, grand old artifacts like this got removed. I’m glad to see that the Massport folks either kept or restored these neon signs, as I think they’re gorgeous.