She recently saw a lifehack about lightly tracing words on banana peels with a toothpick; over several hours the tracing darkens and the words appear.
The person writing the tip suggested writing sweet notes for your kids on their bananas. I promptly went and traced notes on all of our bananas and then immediately forgot about it, until the next day when I heard Victor screaming about how the bananas were talking to him.
She details the rest of the story here and also solicits readers’ suggestions for paranoid-sounding things to write on bananas at the grocery store. There are well over 400 comments so far, with some of my favorites being:
that shirt? really?
The monkeys scare me.
No, I’m not happy to see you.
You’re being followed. NO! Don’t look!
This banana intentionally left blank.
Fuck Apples.
I can foresee a news item about mysterious banana notes popping up in grocery stores worldwide in the very near future.
The subtitle of this post is, “Aaaaaaaaaaargh,” since I’m feeling rather thwarted at the moment.
For those not familiar with Pinterest, it’s a “virtual pinboard:” A visual bookmarking tool that lets you collect stuff from all over the Web and put it all in one place. It’s great for things like planning a redecorating project or putting together an outfit. It also lets you browse pinboards curated by other users, so you can piggyback off others’ inspiration.
What it doesn’t do worth a damn, however, is preserve original source information.
So, I found this lovely tattoo on a tattoo pinboard, and I’d love to give you more information about the artist, but it’s credited to “Tumblr” and that is not exactly useful.
Anyway, I think this is lovely and wish I could tell you more about it. I really like the creepy tree and the gothic-looking tombstones, and am curious whether it ends at the haunted house or extends further along her back. If a tat of this size wouldn’t win me an instant divorce, something similar would definitely be at the top of my wish list.
Update: Jessica, whose Google-fu clearly exceeds mine, tracked down the original photo here. It’s a self-portrait by Stephanie May, a photographer in Nashville. Still no information on the tattoo artist, but if you’re in the Nashville area I suppose you could go ask her. Thanks, Jessica!
This trailer premiered at Comic-Con, and the description alone is worth the price of admission.
In this comedic fantasy adventure, Joe (Ryan Kwanten) is a heavy metal rocker who’s just gone through a painful breakup with his girlfriend, Beth (Margarita Levieva). His concerned roommates (Steve Zahn, Peter Dinklage) kidnap him to their LARP (Live Action Role Playing) gathering, where he enters a realm of fantasy escapism in which pretend knights, elves, and barbarians clash with foam weaponry on a mock battlefield. When Joe’s “sorcerer” roommate (Zahn) inadvertently summons a deadly succubus that takes Beth’s seductive form, bloody reality crashes down upon their fantasy world. Once LARPers start to turn up dead, the make-believe wizards and warriors must join forces with other adventurers (Summer Glau, Danny Pudi) to become the real life heroes they have been pretending to be and conquer the unleashed evil.
Between Ryan Kwanten displaying his core competency of looking slightly addled and Peter Dinklage in chainmail, how could this possibly be any more awesome?
