Last Monday, October 13th, “Mother” of Mother’s Cookies was found dead in her home - she died at 92 years of age.
Although she appears to have died of natural causes, authorities have not ruled out foul play: Stella d’Oro and several Keebler Elves have been taken into custody for questioning.

The distraught company, Mother’s Cookies, has closed its doors, never to open them again.

Farewell Iced Oatmeal.
Farewell Taffy.
And farewell Circus Animals. . . I loved you most of all.

Frosted Bonus Round: News of the closing of Mother’s has caused a panicky hoarding at grocery stores in my neighborhood - the last bags of “Circus Animals” are already gone from the shelves, bought-up by grieving shoppers.

(via SF Gate, via Susan)

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If you happen to have the last name Jones, and if you happen to have a PhD, you get a free XL Explorer Pizza at Papa John’s Pizza (until October 26th) - a tie-in to Papa John’s “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” DVD sales.

(via Media Post’s Marketing Daily)

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“The October newsletter by the Chaffey Community Republican Women, Federated says if Obama is elected his image will appear on food stamps . . . Fedele said she got the illustration in a number of chain e-mails and decided to reprint it for her members in the Trumpeter newsletter. . . “

Press Enterprise article link

(via Angie, via Susan)

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“Tests on leading brands of bottled water turned up a variety of contaminants often found in tap water . . . including bacteria, caffeine, the pain reliever acetaminophen, fertilizer, solvents, plastic-making chemicals and the radioactive element strontium.”

Freep.com link

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McCain and a Medieval Werewolf

(via Wonkette, via Susan)

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“Dear God, whose name I do not know, thank you for my life. I forgot HOW BIG. . . Thank you, thank you for my life.”

- Joe Banks (Tom Hanks) in “Joe Versus the Volcao.”

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As Mr. B of BaconToday points out, strips of bacon are almost identical in size to unrolled cinnamon rolls.

How to:

Step 1: Buy ready-to-bake cinnamon rolls and some bacon.

Step 2: Pre-heat oven to 425 degrees.

Step 3: Unroll cinnamon roll on baking sheet.

Step 4: Roll up each cinnamon roll with one strip of bacon inside

Step 5: Bake cinn-o-bacon rolls for 15 minutes

Step 6: Drizzle icing on rolls as directed; let cool enough so you don’t burn your face off.

Step 7: Eat & Enjoy.

Step 8: Post on Blogadilla to let us know how these worked out for you.

(via Laura; via BaconToday)

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What a fantastic expression, captured for all eternity.  My question: what is McCain doing??

(via Katya; via Reuters & Yahoo News)

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Perhaps the most disturbing 1:20 of my life. So of course I’m sharing it with you! (Depending on who you work with, possibly NSFW)

(via Manertainment and Laura)

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An unknown Alaskan hockey mom becomes Vice President in the craziest comedy of the year? Matt Damon called it– sounds just like a Disney movie!

(via Karen)

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In case you don’t know what this refers to, I don’t recommend it.  Blogadilla had made a sock puppet version of the video, but apparently YouTube took it down.  Blast!!

Note: Apparently since the creation of this image and ensuing linkage in the blogosphere, original Google search results no longer accurate. Still Amusing.

(via SteveB, via xvcd)

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These Stella d’Oro cookies just look so damn good that I want them on my laptop.
[click on photo for downloadable wallpaper]

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(chicken image by Rick from Holyoke, Wikimedia Commons)

Every time I order Chinese Food, the question arises:

“Who the hell is General Tso of General Tso’s Chicken?”

For those of you inexperienced in the ways of General Tso’s Chicken - it is a deep fried chicken dish, usually spicy with a sweet sauce, and a near universal of American Chinese Food restaurants.

General Tso is actually General Zuǒ Zōngtáng - a military general of Qing Dynasty China and a native of Hunan Province. In 1860, Zuǒ served as a military leader during the Taiping Rebellion and is accredited for driving the Taiping rebels from Hunan and Guangxi Provinces.

According to Wikipedia, General Tso’s Chicken does not exist in General Zuǒ’s hometown of Xiangyin, nor in the Hunan province capitol of Changsha. Also, descendants of Zuǒ still living in Xiangyin report that they have never heard of this dish.

This dish first appeared in the American Chinese restaurant pantheon sometime in the 1970’s and may be a creation of American restaurants.

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In 1947, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists created the Doomsday Clock as a way of representing humanity’s proximity to “catastrophic destruction.” Midnight represents the point of destruction and since 2007 — when the clock was moved ahead two minutes due to North Korean nuclear weapons testing — we’ve been at 11:55.
Five minutes to midnight.

As a means of measuring the surreal stupidity of our nation, we at Blogadilla have created the Clock of Stupid - if the clock strikes midnight, it’s official: we are a hopelessly stupid nation of open-mouthed breathers who will collapse under the weight of our own fat ignorance.

We are living in potentially great times and this clock will be a way to visually measure the changes that may come. Here’s the last few years of changes in the time of the Clock of Stupid:

2000 - plus 5 minutes (11:35) George W. Bush is elected president.

2002 - plus 1 minute (11:36) American Idol debuts and soon becomes America’s top television show.

2003 - plus 5 minutes (11:41) America’s response to the attack on the World Trade Towers: we invade Iraq.

2004 - plus 7 minutes (11:48) George W. Bush is re-elected as president.

2005 - plus 1 minute (11:49) Tyra Banks is given her own talkshow.

2005 - plus 3 minutes (11:52) The Kansas State Board of Education adopts new policies about teaching evolution and creationism in public schools.

2007 - minus 5 minutes (11:47) Senator Barack Obama announces his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.

2008 - plus 3 minutes (11:50) Soccer mom and human publicity stunt Sarah Palin is announced as Republican vice presidential candidate.

2008 - plus 1 minute (11:51) David Zucker releases the jingoistic film An American Carol.

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Blogadilla reader Melissah has come up with — or at the very least, championed — a great way of writing on her blog: every day, write a story of no more than 100 words. The random snapshots of worlds she provides are great; this particular story, “Megadik,” convinced me to blog about her project. Caution: not for the faint of heart (and be advised that much of her work is tame).

Mikey sat in a corner of his bedroom, surrounded by a moat of his own vomit and covered in Veronica’s blood. In fact, there was hardly a corner of the room that wasn’t smattered with gore or bile or pieces of torn entrails. The bed was the worst, of course. That was where Veronica – what was left of Veronica, lay on either side of the bed. She had been torn in two.

Between his legs, Mikey’s artificially enhanced member throbbed. It had ripped her apart, just as the spam message had claimed it would. His penis had killed Veronica.

Upon further review, it appears this project died October 12, 2008 — a year ago to the day. Bring it back, Mel!

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“CNN has to get rid of that stupid voter reaction graph… At least while McCain is talking. Every time I look at the screen I think, ‘Oh my God, he’s dead.’”

- Bill Maher

(quote via Jacob; image via DailyKos)

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Kazoo + Ukulele + Baby Piano + Greasy Bowl Cut + The Final Countdown = VIRAL!

YouTube views as of 10/10/08: 61,086. Prediction of over 1,000,000 by Friday, 10/17/08. Report to follow.

(found on JSTN.cc - blog from Justin Ouellette, the guy who started Muxtape. Read the story of what happened to Muxtape here; it’s very enlightening)

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Think it isn’t possible to go from “best man” to “guy we’ll never talk to again because you destroyed my special day” in 10 seconds? Think again.

(via Andy)

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Fancy yourself a little Sarah Palin? Think she’s winking at you through the TV? You betcha she is.

With the Sarah Palin Shepard Fairey-style MILF tee, you can show the world what you think of The Barracuda.

Buy yours today for only $20– proceeds go to hosting fees, site maintenance, the creation of more sweet merchandise, and of course the Blogadilla beer/slush fund.
(Art by Timbotron, 2008)

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Recently seen around New York, anonymous artist PosterBoy slices and dices subway posters as social commentary and to create very cool mashup pieces of art. Read the New Yorker article on PosterBoy here, and check out his Flickr album, including this great piece:

(Thanks for the link, Katya!)

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