oh, marilyn.

my favorite Marilyn photograph in the Warhol exhibit (for obvious reasons).

maybe it's because i've been to the Warhol 3 times in the last month, but i've been on such a Marilyn Monroe kick lately. with that in mind, please enjoy the following video of Marilyn belting about diamonds. she was such a class act.

mcdonalds hamburgers: the cockroaches of food.

Artist Sally Davies has undertaken an experiment where she literally just leaves a happy meal lying around to see how long it will take for the food to exhibit some sort of physical change. so far, after 137 days, the most that has happened is that the burger patty looks just a wee bit dehydrated. pretty amazing. i knew i was right all those years ago when i tried to convince my mother to stop feeding us mcdonalds.

check out a write up at ny magazine.
and you can see a slideshow of the progress here.

hamburglar, 1977.

when i was a kid we had a bunch of these amazing mcdonald's drinking glasses. sadly only one survived (from the odd mcvote '86 series), but luckily i salvaged it from the reckage that is my childhood home. it is a prized possession, as you might imagine. as luck would have it, i was recently browsing through an antique store, and i came across a small collection of other vintage mcdonald's glasses. being who i am, i just couldn't pass up the opportunity to give mcdlt a friend. especially since it's the hamburglar. i would burgle hamburgers too, if i ever got desperate. although, probably not from mcdonald's. i'm more interested in their paraphernalia.

happy birthday, andy warhol

BURGER. GREASE. ART.

this guy is amazing:


so is this:


too bad it's an ad for arby's:
www.burgergreaseart.com