Pacificapocalypse

I hab a code… Couwtny hab it tube.

photo credit: vanherdehaage

Ok this is just creepy. An East Bay High School holds a car wash to raise cash for the school water polo team… by having the team stand on the street corner wearing nothing but their regulation Speedo’s luring passersby. Who thought this was a good idea? Would the cheerleader squad in bikini’s washing cars be okay then? There’s so much wrong here.

From SFist:

The kids at Northgate High School in Walnut Creek had a money-making scheme this past weekend. One that, for better or for worse, involved the school’s water polo team wearing only regulation Speedos, standing on a street corner, and luring passersby.

Now that we have your attention, this car wash benefit, at right, has stirred much controversy. It seems before Saturday’s incident, area girls — underage women, mind you — have done the same thing, too, in high school-fundraising efforts.

Hm. Anyway.

The Mayor of Claycord, who writes one of the finest blogs on the other side of the Bay, posed a question: “High school kids standing on a busy street corner while wearing speedos, is it inappropriate, or just a harmless way to promote a high school water polo team’s fundraiser?”

What say you, readers? Are you OK with a business model that uses high schoolers’ budding sex parts as a way to raise funds? Is it OK for schools, just like Disney, to prostitute their underage students for cash?

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Okay my True Love had nothing to do with this outrage, but I couldn’t pass up a good post title.
Continuing the Wedding/Halloween countdown, I give you: Clown Last Supper *shudder*

Click to embiggen… if you dare.

Catholic iconography?
Check.
Clowns?
Check.
Unending parade of waking nightmares?

Oh you better believe it… check.

Yay! New Walt Disney Family Museum just opened in the Presidio!

Boo! They won’t let you take pictures there.

WTF? I thought we were over this nonsense; when are museums going to learn that a ‘no photography’ policy is absurd, almost impossible to enforce and absolutely pointless? What are they protecting? I see art students all the time at the De Young or the SFMOMA sketching or painting from the art there. Why is a photograph any different?
Thomas Hawk has some great takes on this and other such ridiculous photography polices.

Let’s start this thing right, shall we?

100% Guaranteed Weapons Grade Nightmare Fuel™
Joshua Hoffine’s horror photography blog. Creepy. Uncomfortable. Awesome.
Full gallery here.

I wonder if he does wedding photography?…

“Did you hear something?”

Via Boing Boing

And so… the countdown starts. Everything is (fingers crossed) all good to go.

I think.

photo credit: laffy4k