There are tons of ways to calm down/feel less stressed at work – taking a break to chat with a coworker friend, listening to music, organizing a company yoga class – but poetry isn’t one I normally think of. A new website called Fiscal Haiku encourages readers to submit haikus about the economy and the current financial climate. Here are a couple of my favorites:
Food court smells so good
But my wallet is empty
It sucks to be broke
Pour water through seives
Wanting and spending money
Yet life can’t be bought
a college degree
can’t afford health insurance
unpaid internship
This is fun! I might have to work on some STA-related ones.
Remember when Conan hired a zombie to be his personal assistant on The Tonight Show? Well, he’s keeping the bit going – and mocking Twilight in the process, which is always fun. Enter the brooding vampire, the hot werewolf, and … the sexy mummy?
This weekend, SNL brought back one of my all time favorite recurring Weekend Update segments – “Really?!” with Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler. The deserving target of this week’s tirade was finance behemoth Goldman Sachs, who got H1N1 (that would be the Swine Flu) vaccines for all their employees, even though there’s a nationwide shortage. In case you were wondering, this means that bankers are more deserving of, well, everything, than we regular folks are.
Bethany Cosentino loves music. Last year, she worked as an intern for cool music magazine Fader. Now, she’s the lead singer for up-and-coming band Best Coast and getting love from – who else?- her former employer:
She is now nearing full-on diva status with many, many jams under her belt and many more on the way. We don’t even remember that one time she FUCKED UP OUR COFFEE ORDER. JK we don’t send interns to get coffee, it’s the only time we get outside. But for real, if we had known Bethany, and her bandmate Bobb Bruno, were capable of music this good, we would’ve fired her instantly. “The people need to hear this!” we would’ve said as we pushed her out the front door. But we didn’t so we just enjoyed her non-musical presence for the short time she was here. And now we enjoy her presence wherever we can find it.
You can download a new Best Coast single at Fader or check out one of their videos after the jump.
Taylor, the peroxide-haired “senior assistant” who seemed to hate her boss Rachel Zoe, has been fired. There was no reason offered by either Rachel or Taylor (who Ashley likes to refer to as “the awesomely bitchy one”). Along with Rachel and fellow assistant Brad, Taylor was one of the stars of The Rachel Zoe Project on Bravo, which just finished airing its second season. Today, Taylor emailed all her contacts the following note:
After four amazing years at Rachel Zoe Corporation, I’m saddened and exhilarated at the same time to announce my departure. After much thought and consideration, I have decided to take the challenging leap to go off and style on my own.
After the jump, let’s revisit some of Taylor’s finest (and most disgruntled) moments.
Late night talk show host Jimmy Fallon needs an intern. But instead of sifting through boring applications and reading countless resumes, he’s decided to make the search a little more interesting. Potential interns have to submit a video of them saying nothing but “Oh, hello. I didn’t see you there.” Watch as some of the applicants get super creative with the contest:
Did you ever read R.L. Stine books when you were a kid? I did, and the trailer for the upcoming movie Cirque de Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant gave me a lot of Goosebumps flashbacks. While the premise is kind of flimsy – a kid who is bored with his life agrees to become an apprentice vampire – it looks like a lot of fun. John C. Reilly plays the vampire who teaches his young pupil how to suck blood properly, and Salma Hayek and 30 Rock’s Jane Kacmarek both appear as members of the titular “Cirque.” The movie comes out, obviously, just in time for Halloween.
Have you ever thought it would be fun to Xerox your butt on the office copier? Well, one artist took that idea to a whole new level by creating a high-tech chair with a photocopier in the seat – in other words, you can copy your ass and get work done at the same time. Here’s a video that shows how the chair works, in case you want to get one for your boss.
