Brightest Young Things

• Look at this fucking hipster John Thornley-and look at what tumblr just got a book deal

• I know you've been quivering with excitement since you read on Rise & Shine that Mikhail Gorbachev cut an album... Finally! Mikhail Gorbachev track leaked! DJs- please remix

• Super sexy album covers from Russia!

• Demographics 101: How we grow older with concerts

• The Governor of South Carolina had a nervous breakdown and ditched town

• Italian Vogue has the best photoshoot ever featuring "over it" mothers- not to be outdone by this French Vogue shoot with airborne infants and pregnant women smoking

• Britney Spears to star in movie about time travel and the Holocaust

• An entire English hillside gets coked up

• Great White Sharks are serial killers

• Kid gets all pervy with his Ice Cream in public (0:19)

• Ponies surfing!!!!

Previously in Misc/Awesome:

• 12/28: Terrible Boyfriend/ Girlfriend Generator.
• 12/1: The John Waters Advent Calendar-it starts today
• 11/28: It Chooses You: All I Want for Christmas is Everything from Miranda July's Pop-Up Shop
• 11/3: Things I'd Move to Minnesota For
• 9/6: PHOTOS: Maloof $$ Money Cup
• 9/2: PHOTOS: Chantilly Model Train Show
• 9/1: Libby's List: 5 Things I Want Right Now...
• 8/22: PHOTOS: Best Friends Day
• 8/10: PHOTOS: Lawn Mover Racing, Eastern Seaboard Regionals @ Bowles Farm
• 7/26: Special List: Things the BYGays Want Now That We Can Marry In DC (and NY!)