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shape of things to come
it hit us like a ton of bricks this weekend (ok, pun intended) - the Avalon Chrystie Building has arrived! we have to admit we're pretty psyched about Whole Foods, a swimming pool and hopefully some good restaurants coming in. but there's no denying the landscape of our lovely, old fashioned, tenement lined East Houston has been changed forever...

cult of the ukulele
clicking around BoingBoing, we caught a note on Mark’s page that he’s “a ukulele fanatic" and has a site dedicated to this passion. our grandfather played a uke until he died at 99, and we love Hawaii, but never really considered the idea of “ukulele fanaticism” – seemed worth a quick click…

2 hours later on Ukulelia.com we'd...
- read tons of uke trivia, viewed beautiful sites by passionate Hawaiian’s and other people dedicated to this great instrument.
- became absorbed in the cult of unusual custom ukes
- ordered the coolest uke kit for only $30 delivered! (we’re seriously psyched)
- and then, yesssss!, we found a page with easy cords for Beatles tunes
(if this all goes well, we will be retiring in one year to Anguilla we’re we'll be in high demand for bar entertainment!)

local color
east village graffiti

swear by it
a cool site we found last week, HappyScrappy has some great posts and fun stuff to click on, but it was this little unassuming page of pun filled drawings called "I Can't Draw" that hooked us. (link via ThighsWideShut)

hairy scary

we *heart* kids who fight back
blowin it up like napoleon dynamite, this short video of a nerdy kid getting pegged with food and then taking down one of the culprits in one swing is gut wrenchingly awesome!!! each time we watch the clip we fall more in love with it.

it's from a killer site found on eBaum's world called Wimp.com - a clean and simple list of links to funny and cool stuff updated daily, yum!