While the University of California marching band is sometimes overshadowed by Pac-10 nemesis Stanford, you’ve got to hand it to Cal for their recent Nintendo-themed half time show against Washington State. As a friend pointed out, in the “Pong” sequence, the people must have had to run at least 40 yards in each direction!
(Thanks Ben!)
Paris Hilton’s latest cause: stopping binge-drinking elephants in India. I’m not kidding. Read this story from the Associated Press.
An elephant waits for Paris to buy him a real drink. (Photo courtesy of JohanJ1.)
Two books I am currently in love with (and they have no words, only pictures):
“Wanderlust” by Troy M. Litten - A wonderful collection of travel photos that sum-up a profound principle: the journey can be as dynamic as the destination. Litten’s photos capture the world of transit around the globe: an orange-tiled hotel bathroom, cryptic restroom signs, airplane meals, greasy food carts on the street, vivid taxi paintjobs, cups of coffee in 18 different hotels and restaurants.
“Point It” by Dieter Graf - this book just may be the most brilliant travel tool ever devised. Graf has created a language-free travel dictionary; namely, it is a pocket-sized book of photos of nearly anything that one would need (or one might encounter) while travelling. You don’t know the Russian word for “eggplant” - just point at the picture of it on the vegetable page. You can’t speak Mandarin and you want to know what meat you’re eating - the waiter can point to the deer, the cow, the goat, the bunny, the elk . . .
Dieter Graf, thank you for saving my ass in Estonia more than once.
I had to buy paint a couple of days ago.
Is it just me (I saw a lot of Cheech and Chong movies as a kid) or do all of these paint colors sound like drugs?
[these are actual Benjamin Moore paint colors]:
Red Rock • Pink Fairy • Powder Pink • Warm Comfort • Pink Harmony • Cancun Sand • Mellow Yellow • Moonlight • Yellow Flash • Fresh Cut Grass • Aspen White • Stem Green • Lucky Charm Green • Paradise Green • Bud Green • Leisure Green • Amazon Moss • Hazy Blue • Egyptian Green • Crystal Clear • Bahama Green • Waterfall • Yukon Green • Fairy Tale Blue • Serenity • Icy Moon Drops • Turquoise Powder • Blue Angel • Caribbean Mist • Costa Rican Blue • Utah Sky • Windmill Wings • White Heaven • Polar White • Whisper Violet • Purple Lotus • Bunny Nose Pink • Crushed Velvet • Aztec Lily • Baby Dreams • Brown Horse • American White • Appalachian Brown • Smoke Gray • White Diamond • Black Tar • Lily White • Moonlight White • Cloud Nine • Spring Dust • Aztec Yellow • Sugar Cookie • Durango Dust
[If any of these, besides Black Tar, are indeed drug names, please let us know in the comments section below]
A hilarious series of Uncyclopedia articles - famous historical wars retold as online gaming dialogue. For example, the American Revolution:
(via Richard)
No joke.
Bacon . . . and Chocolate.
Two great flavors that go together like . . . snakes and planes.
The Vosges Haut Chocolate Bacon Bar.
I recently tried it* - it has small bits of applewood smoked bacon and alderwood smoked salt in it. Imagine smokey and salty (and bacony) with chocolatey. It’s not bad, it’s just unexpected: meat and candy. Imagine eating bacon and then shoving chocolate in there.
[*a birthday present from Blogadilla author and friend Aardvark]
Who da man?? You Da Man! Spray that tongue you bad-ass mofo!
From the people who brought you the “Lookin’ Good for Jesus” line of products, get your Gangsta Tongue Spray today!
(via Fritz, via Babblin5)
Two of the many fine cartoons from the Sarah Silverman Program. I don’t even know where to begin with these. . .
‘Woodlice’ [a.k.a. - 'Pill Bugs,' 'Sow Bugs,' 'Potato Bugs,' 'Roly-Polies'] are a common sight in piles of moist rotting wood, and are perhaps the most well known examples of an Isopod [an order of Crustaceans, they're related to crabs, lobsters, and shrimp].
At around 2,000 feet beneath the sea, isopods have gone from the size of a pea to the size of a f%&$ing lapdog. Behold the ancient looking Bathynomus giganteus - the Giant Isopod. Their large size may be the result of living on the deep ocean floor, which permits small creatures to evolve to gigantic proportions.
If you’d like to see Bathynomus giganteus in person, you won’t need a submarine: the James R. Record Aquarium [Fort Worth, Texas] has live Bathynomus giganteus on exhibit.
Prepare yourself folks, this is a Blogadilla exclusive.
Based on Timbotron’s inspiration, I’ve crossed Tay Zonday’s YouTube hit Chocolate Rain with one of the classic rap songs of the 1990s: Busta Rhymes’ “Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See.” The result? You be the judge.
Put Your Chocolate Rain Where My Eyes Can See - Remix by Johnny Haze, 2007
(right click the above link and choose “Save As…” to download the mix.)
McCandless was right,
with great quotes and bad music,
about feeling strong.
Every one should,
go into the wild sometime,
but do leave a trail.
Now you can adorn your livingroom with hand-crafted Apocalyptic figurines. Creepy characters from the works of 16th century Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch are available as figurines, by Parastone: “The Garden of Earthly Delights,” “The Last Judgement,” and “The Temptation of St. Anthony.”
(via Susan)
I paint [on] naked people, when time and people permit. Every Halloween, I paint less-naked/more-clothed people. Here are some highlights of friends and family that I’ve painted over the last 3 Halloweens (including this Halloween).
-This is me and what my skeleton probably looks like (2007).
-My neighbor Jeff, the living dead (2007).
-My sister, the Waitress of Doom (2006).
-My neighbor, FrankenTravis (2006).
-Heather, Prom Queen of the Damned (2006).
-Adam, the Shrunken Head (2005).
-Cindi, Nice Kitty (2002).
-Me, BeelzeTimbo (2005).
The Latin American holiday Dia de los Muertos “Day of the Dead” is today, November 2nd. It is a Precolombian celebration to honor deceased family and friends . . . and Frida Kahlo. This year Redwood City made a great first attempt at a city-sponsored Dia de los Muertos celebration. Traditional dancers, sugar skulls, Oingo Boingo album artwork, pan de los muertos ["bread of the dead"], taquitos de los muertos ["little tacos of the dead"], Chihuahuas de los muertos ["lapdogs of the dead"], churros de los muertos ["breadsticks of the dead"], and tons of enthusiastic dead ancestor fans.
Well done, Redwood City.
Now please make the rest of the year in Redwood City suck less.
Mortified is the live show where real people tell their own life stories through the lens of angst injected personal relics. Performers share journal entries, home videos, song lyrics and other souvenirs from their stretch on Hormonal Row with hilarious end results.
With regular performances in major cultural meccas such as New York, San Francisco and L.A. and a companion book (with a second installment due early next year), Mortified proves to be more than just a frivolous jaunt through the annals of pre-adulthood jack-assery. Beyond the knee-slapping, Mortified succeeds by not shying away from the heavy stuff and allowing audiences to share in the catharsis.
Mortified lives in the same brilliant head space as Postsecret.com and Found Magazine; where humor and reality have a happy accident and we all get to take a little comfort in the ubiquity of the human condition.
Enjoy this animated interpretation of William Patrick Nolan Jr.’s excerpt, I Hate Drake.
UPDATE!:
There’s going to be a Portland show! PDXers, let’s hit it up November 17th at the Someday Lounge!
This halloween, my mom sent me some photos of pumpkins she carved. Pretty cool, I say!
Come to think of it, we should have done a Blogadilla pumpkin! I guess I’ll have to wait for Halloween ‘08…
If you’re feeling inspired, check out PumpkinMasters.com- they started the pumpkin stencil craze. Or, if you’re cheap like me, do a google image search for “pumpkin patterns” and see what you get back. Lots of cool stuff you can paste onto your leftover pumpkins and make cool pumpkin art– much better than I could ever do on my own!
