I love this. I'm imagining a version of this scaled up to the size of a person, installed at an EDM festival.

While I do like conservation and restoration efforts, I consider them neither critically vital nor excessively valuable. I like that paintings fade and flake. I like the temporary nature of objects.
I like that no matter how hard we try, when we restore something, it becomes a changed object even if it appears to be the same thing.
The painting of Jesus in a Spanish church that was damaged by an enthusiastic parishioner is a favorite of mine. Not because I think that anyone should be able to "restore" an artwork whenever they want. I think the lady who did that is a criminal and should face whatever local justice applies. But I like it anyway.

Pretty much distilled hipster.
I do admire the commitment to the theme. We all should be so focused.

NOTHING in this world needs more Yackety Sax. If ever there was a played-out piece of music that makes anything less funny, that would be it.

It's just like how every stupid "zany" holiday comedy is promoted with the music of the Russian Dance from the Nutcracker.

The commentary is enough.

I don't remember where I've seen that photo before, but I do recall it definitely was the inspiration for some fantasies when I was a teenager. The pose is perfect for her physique.

Does anyone know where it was originally published?

Anyone who thinks a cap would remove the incentive for Wall Street bankers to stay with the company has absolutely no idea how many thousands of bankers there are around the nation who'd leap at the opportunity to earn that much.

That, combined with the fact that OTHER $400,000 jobs don't grow on trees in this economy would be PLENTY of incentive for any decent hardworking Wall Street bankers to stay.

Pull out the cardboard core, and use as normal from the center of the roll.

Smack your so-called "host" on the way out. ;)