The heart of Parks and Recreation was the relationship between Leslie Knope and Ron Swanson, two people with diametrically opposed perspectives on life who still respected and cared for one another. Let’s bring them back together for a competition show, please!
Last Thursday, Ben Hines, a guy from North Carolina, was visiting the National Portrait Gallery when he saw a tiny little girl just mesmerized by Michelle Obama’s portrait. He was so taken with how taken she was with the painting that he just had to get a picture with his phone. He tried to find the little girl and her mom, but couldn’t see them, so he posted the picture to Facebook and it almost immediately blew up online, just one of those internet things. Eventually, the internet did its work and the tiny girl fascinated by the beautiful painting was identified as Parker Curry, a two-year-old who lives in DC with her mom, Jessica, and her little sister Ava, who is one and whose artistic sensibilities are as yet unknown. In the meantime, it seemed like half the people on the planet were retweeting that fantastic photo by Mr. Hines:
Jessica Curry told CNN she kept trying to get Parker to turn around so she could snap a picture, but no, that wasn’t happening:
Parker was in front on the portrait, and I really wanted her to turn around so I could get a picture with her, and she genuinely, honestly would not turn around,” her mother, Jessica Curry, a small business owner from Washington DC, told CNN on Saturday. “She was uncooperative with me because she was just so focused on the portrait and studying it, and she was just so fascinated.”
Ms Curry learned, after talking about the painting more with Parker, that the girl decided that Michelle Obama was a queen. Which means both that she’s right, and that there need to be more Disney movies about democratic leaders and spouses.
CNN adds that Mr. Hines was visiting the gallery with his own mom, and it is quite possible we would be dead of being in love with every part of this story now, except here is the part to really finish us off for good: Michelle Obama, of course, saw the photo on the Instagram feed of the artist, Amy Sherald. So it was pretty much inevitable that Ms. Obama would have the little girl and her family over for a dance party Tuesday:
Parker, I'm so glad I had the chance to meet you today (and for the dance party)! Keep on dreaming big for yourself…and maybe one day I'll proudly look up at a portrait of you! pic.twitter.com/faUVTsYWun
Was there an equally beautiful Instagram pic as well? Of course there was:
Parker, I'm so glad I had the chance to meet you today (and for the dance party)! Keep on dreaming big for yourself…and maybe one day I'll proudly look up at a portrait of you! pic.twitter.com/faUVTsYWun
And then Jessica and Parker Curry got to be on CNN, and Parker was excited about EVERYTHING, because wow, what a day!
Don Lemon is a smart fella — “We know she’s a talker, let her talk” is exactly what you say when a cute toddler is the focus of the story. No cutting off THAT baby’s mic. Jessica Curry: “The Parker that you all are seeing is the Parker that she is all day, every day.”
We are dead now and just feeling all melted from what a fantastic first family this country had back when things were sane-ish.
That’s all, at least until Ava has her own gallery opening, The End.
This is the blender I have. Three times a year, Vitamix has a friends and family sale, and the refurb models go for about $225 during the sale. #TheMoreYouKnow
There are blenders that will handle milkshakes and soup just fine, and then there are blenders that tackle just about every possible job under the sun with ease. When it comes to the latter, one name looms large: Vitamix. An industry standard, Vitamix blenders can grind up nut butters and flours, and even make hot soup without a stove. Similar models can run up to $600, but today you can get one for less than $300 on Amazon.
They should be removed from the Academy if they refuse to watch nominated films, for real. I am unsurprised though.
Despite being nominated for four major Oscar awards this year, including Best Movie and Best Director, some long-time Oscar voters still haven’t watched Get Out because they don’t deem it Academy Award material.
They have had grocery stores in wisconsin for decades. They're not the best though, I shopped at Pick-N-Save when I lived there (same owners as Mariano's).
Back in January, we heard that Kohl's was looking to partner with a food retailer to help drive traffic to its stores. Department store execs have been tight-lipped on what exactly that means for shops and shoppers, but we've been poking around and here's what we've managed to dig up so far.
Holy shit! The wingnuts can't possibly boycott the Walmarts. What are they gonna do?
In a statement released Wednesday, Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, announced it would raise the minimum age required to buy firearms and ammunition from 18 to 21.
I'll save you a click through. The options they list for you are: 1. Sell them 2. Donate them to a charitable organization 3. Offer them to friends/on craigslist for free 4. Recycle them I never would have thought about doing any of those things with items I no longer use. Thank Dog for the kitchn.
As much as we all love cookbooks, sometimes you hit a point where you just have to let a few go. But unless a cookbook is totally trashed or something flimsy you put together in grade school, you don't really want to just throw them in the garbage. Someone else could get use out of them! Here's what to do with cookbooks you don't want anymore.
I wish I lived closer to DC so I could go spit on this shitweasel's ugly fucking corpse.
Congressional leadership announced last week that it would commemorate the life of evangelist Billy Graham by having him lie in honor this Wednesday, a rare accolade for any American and an official embrace of the religious leader from the halls of government.
Do not read this if you haven't seen it (and if you haven't, Jesus Christ, get ON that shit, it's the best). But if you are caught up through the season 2 finale, it's a great read.
Let's be honest: By all accounts, The Good Place shouldn't work.
It's a primetime network comedy – NBC, former home of Outsourced and Sean Saves the World – that breaks every primetime network comedy commandment, having spent its sophomore season blowing up its own premise every Thursday night. Other than Ted Danson and Kristen Bell, the show features an
It's going to take some nerve to attach yourself to a zip wire, then whiz at velocities of close to 100 miles per hour down the UAE's highest mountain.
1. Of course it is, they are your friends 2. You don't even have to, just look it up on Zillow FFS
My husband and I are in the process of saving for a house. We're among the last of our friends to buy their first place and, since friends know we're looking, we're getting some great advice about home ownership. The people in our lives have been very forthcoming about their budgets and payments, something that's tremendously helpful as we figure out exactly how much house we can afford.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck Quentin Tarantino so hard in the goddamn nose.
In October of 2017, director Quentin Tarantino spoke out about his longtime collaborator Harvey Weinstein and the mounting accusations of sexual assault against him, telling the New York Times, “I knew enough to do more than I did. There was more to it than just the normal rumors, the normal gossip. It wasn’t…
LOLOLOLOLOLOL. I'll have to add this to my shopping list, along with razors for women, pens for women, and pocky for men.
Men consume chips with a vigor reserved for those who have never feared for their safety on an open-air bridge; who have never thought their right to vote could be revoked as a clerical error because they got too shouty in the SoHo Apple store; who don’t know what it feels like to scream at their skin until it absorbs…
A few years ago TiVo rolled out SkipMode for its DVRs that would allow viewers to jump past ads (on certain prime-time programs) with the press of a button. This year, for Super Bowl LII it's flipping the technology around with GameSkip that works fa...
Just days after video game high score champ Todd Rogers was stripped of his Dragster title for mathematically impossible times, the man who was the Donkey Kong king for almost 20 years has also come under scrutiny. Billy Mitchell's 2010 high score fo...
I am more excited for this than anyone ought to be.
Ever since the return of Trading Spaces was announced in March of last year, we've been nothing but excited for the "mother of all design shows" to be back. Now, we finally know when to set our DVRs: TLC has announced a premiere date for the reboot.
This is the scariest contract I have ever seen. It seemed too good to be true and it is. They can cancel your subscription at any time and do not need to refund any unused portion. If you cancel and you have used more than your contribution, they can demand you pay the difference. If they think you are using it too much, THEY can cancel and make you pay the difference. What a fucking racket.
The $9.95 MoviePass subscription has been incredibly popular and soon the company will invest in films itself, but because the company pays full price for each ticket, it's subsidizing each customer's theater visit. AMC execs called the plan "unsusta...
Glad I won't have to look at his smug fuckin face during the show.
Casey Affleck, alleged sexual harasser and general fucking creep, has withdrawn from the upcoming Academy Awards ceremony because he did not want to become a “distraction,” which is secret Boston dirtbag code for “a man who reportedly disrespects women, allegedly abuses them, and yet still gets to keep his day job.”
After Neil Diamond announced he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease – canceling concerts in Australia and New Zealand – fans responded by overwhelmingly donating the refunded money to Parkinson's research and other charities.
"This makes me smile. Thank you. Thank to you everyone
I hope the prison pipes the victim statements over speakers in the ceiling of his cell 24/7.
Once a world-renowned sports physician treating America's foremost Olympic women gymnasts, Larry Nassar now will spend the rest of his life behind bars.