I’m going to start a new series of posts on the blog introducing my friends in Brazil (lifted from my friend Sarah, although I’m not going to interview anyone. I don’t really care what they have to say) and it’s a goddamned treat to present to you Miss Carmen Burns.
Carmen is Matias’s girlfriend (Matias, who will never make it on here. He’s got some ego problems) and is equal parts charming, hilarious, angry, beautiful, helpful, don’t take no shit from nobody, volatile, thoughtful and…angry. I know I said it twice …

And by popular (Sarah) demand…videos coming soon.

Matias drinking beer in the gas station at 2 in the afternoon on a Saturday. Quality of life.

Third world ingenuity.

McCain at the debate:

[Obama] voted for nearly a billion dollars in pork barrel earmark projects, including, by the way, $3 million for an overhead projector at a planetarium in Chicago, Illinois.

Um, really? An overhead projector? God, What a dick.

Photo: Dave Bullock / eecue
Three million dollars of pure fucking awesomeness. And there’s one in Oakland. From Wired:

The projector, which has 60 motors and 130 projectors, can project an image of what the sky looked at any time during the past 10,000 years, or what it will look like during the next …