Gil Unfiltered

Texting while walking PSA

I Gotta Feeling, I’m hanging out in the ‘burbs. Evidently this is one of many videos this 14 year old makes…

Nice take on LD relationships.

Beware the owl that drives a Nissan! See the other photos at the link below. Kudos to the rescuer.

guillee:

Tiny Owl is not impressed with your shenanigans. (Owl in a box, by Reynen.)

Here’s an excerpt from a hilarious application to NYU by Rob Gallagher.

3A. IN ORDER FOR THE ADMISSIONS STAFF OF OUR COLLEGE TO GET TO KNOW YOU, THE APPLICANT, BETTER, WE ASK THAT YOU ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTION: ARE THERE ANY SIGNIFICANT EXPERIENCES YOU HAVE HAD, OR ACCOMPLISHMENTS YOU HAVE REALIZED, THAT HAVE HELPED TO DEFINE YOU AS A PERSON?

I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I’ve been known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat retention. I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees, I write award-winning operas, I manage time efficiently.

Occasionally, I tread water for three days in a row.

I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute Brownies in twenty minutes. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru.

Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. I play bluegrass cello, I was scouted by the Mets, I am the subject of numerous documentaries. When I’m bored, I build large suspension bridges in my yard. I enjoy urban hang gliding. On Wednesdays, after school, I repair electrical appliances free of charge.

I am an abstract artist, a concrete analyst, and a ruthless bookie.

Critics worldwide swoon over my original line of corduroy evening wear.

I don’t perspire. I am a private citizen, yet I receive fan mail. I have been caller number nine and have won the weekend passes. Last summer I toured New Jersey with a traveling centrifugal-force demonstration. I bat .400.

My deft floral arrangements have earned me fame in international botany circles. Children trust me.

I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy.

I once read Paradise Lost, Moby Dick, and David Copperfield in one day and still had time to refurbish an entire dining room that evening. I know the exact location of every food item in the supermarket. I have performed several covert operations with the CIA. I sleep once a week; when I do sleep, I sleep in a chair. While on vacation in Canada, I successfully negotiated with a group of terrorists who had seized a small bakery. The laws of physics do not apply to me.

I balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic, and my bills are all paid. On weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full-contact origami.

Years ago I discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down. I have made extraordinary four course meals using only a mouli and a toaster oven.

I breed prizewinning clams. I have won bullfights in San Juan, cliff-diving competitions in Sri Lanka, and spelling bees at the Kremlin.

I have played Hamlet, I have performed open-heart surgery, and I have spoken with Elvis.

But I have not yet gone to college.

### It turns out that it’s not real but that Gallagher allegedly wrote it in high school for an essay contest.  Nevertheless, I would have voted for him if I were on the admissions committee!

Thanks to Rob Bell for sharing this as part of his great imagery in his Drops Like Stars Tour!

Why didn’t I think of this approach when I applied for college!!!?

Life

1. iPhone update via iTunes
2. La la la
3. Ooops. $#@%! Botched it right before it was done by accidentally disconnecting.
4. DOHHHHH!
5. RESTORE iPhone.
6. Yikes.
7. Sweat.
8. Nervous.
9. Panic.
10. Voila! EVERYTHING was returned to my phone (save the most recent Facebook app) through the backup done by iTunes.
11. Success! 2 thumbs up to Apple!

The End.

If you’re into altercations NYC cabbie style here’s a Cab vs. Pedicab brawl! From our friends at Huffington Post

Recession: Been there done that

Amazing 1-take unedited video lipdub to the Black Eyed Peas’ “I Gotta Feeling” (For the uninitiated, that means they’re lip synching to a great song). OK, I admit it. I’m a closet Black Eyed Peas fan, but after all, this is Gil Unfiltered. That merits an OOC!!

Why couldn’t we do fun thinks like this when I was in school? Also, see the CNN story on this.