Daisy Duke was “talented”, but I don’t think she could do this. If nothing else, at least skip to the end to view their finale. (I wonder how long that potato salad had sat out in the sun?!)
(via Manny!)
This is an interactive post, sort of a musical S.L.A.M book. Instead of trying to review some new music, I thought I’d list a few new ones I like, and find out what everyone else is listening to lately. So please respond in the “comments” (or ‘Dillas, as a post if you’ve got a big list!). Maybe we can broaden our collective musical taste (I need to help mine). I didn’t want to write about music that sucks, but if there are any CDs you’ve bought lately that you wish you hadn’t, feel free to warn us (ya know, Pirates of the Caribbean 3 style).
New-ish Stuff:
New Stuff From the Old School:
Old-Old School:
(gracias al Timbotron por el cuadro)
What’s up with all the freakishly large, and/or ancient, animals coming out of the wood work lately?! Have they been super-sizing it? Is it the Al Gore effect? Are we going to see Loch Ness and Bigfoot soon?
Check out this 550 lb, 26 ft long, squid that washed ashore in Tasmania a few days ago. WTF?!
What about “octo-squid”, the half-squid half-octopus that was discovered off the shore of Hawaii last week?!
And the 40,000 year old, almost fully intact, baby mammoth found in Russia. Amazing.
[Update, by Timbotron]:
Here’s a nice brief video of the giant squid (from Reuters and Scientific American).
Maybe you have to watch the show “Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends” (from Craig McCracken - the guy who created the Powerpuff Girls) for this to be funny, or maybe not. Or, maybe, I spend too much time with kids. Help me.
Maybe I’m a dork but this made me cry laughing…have your sound turned on.
http://youmakemetouchyourhandsforstupidreasons.ytmnd.com/
I think we should make a game out of this using “Found magazine” letters…Karaoke-interpretive-reading.
(via hypocriticalmass)
A while back a friend introduced me to the world of book swapping/recycling via “PaperBackSwap.com”. This maybe old news to some, but it was such a great idea I thought I’d share it with you blogsters.
You take all your paper back books that your willing to trade and list them on the site. It’s real easy, you use the bar code numbers and it just knows what you talking about, and even how much postage to use. When someone requests a book from your list, you print out the wrapper at home (the site does it all for you!), attach stamps, and let the mail carrier pick it up. Then you earn credits for each book rec’d and you get to pick from what’s available or make a “wish list”.
I love it. I got rid of a ton of crappy self help books (they were my mom’s I swear!) and now I have a whole shelf of awesome literature I’ll never have time to read! PBS will even show you a map of where all your books have traveled - making you feel all the more hippie and world beat. There’s also “SwapaCD.com” – now I have a way to get rid of that Living Colour CD…
Mmmm, all edge brownies. Now, if ‘they’ can only come up with an ‘all butt bread loaf”, an “all dark meat chicken”, and an “all skin pudding” I can die happy. Baker’s Edge is also in the process of making an all edge lasagna pan too.
Does anyone else remember this kid show featured on Captain Kangaroo? I think it was the only reason I watched CK (I hope anyways). The little theme song has been stuck in my head since 1976 and I still love it. It was a 5 minute long show about Simon and how his chalk drawings came to life. He’d draw about something that had been on his mind, like having the measles or rocket ships, and then would interact with them and his chalk friends in a magical, alternate universe. It’s similar to it’s predecessor Harold and the Purple Crayon (1955) and definitely not a bad theme idea given the therapeutic effects of drawing. I really hope they put them on dvd.
On another note, I came across a video of Tony Hawk on Captain Kangaroo from 1981. He must have been 13!
Remember as a kid trying to find the ultimate latch-hook rug kit with rainbows and unicorns OR if you were lucky, some disgusting blend of both?
Well now you can graduate to the soft porn version. At MadeWithSweetLove.com you can buy latch-hook rug kits and make your own porn rug! This one is fabulously gigantic (and not for sale), but you can buy smaller ones and make some nice throw pillows for your couch.
I have to thank my sick friend Hollie for introducing me to this smut!
Aside from auctions for things like “Some Lint I Found in My Belly Button” and “I’ll Be Your Online Girlfriend” (there’s a LOT of that), here are a few gems I came across while looking for um, well, some stuff.
INSANE HORNETS NEST WITH MASSIVE KILLER YELLOWJACKET!
(featuring free shipping, lots of exclamation points and ALL CAPS!!!!!)
POTATO BUTT COME LOOK, WOULDNT YOU LIKE A BUTT LIKE THIS
(a whopping 10% of the final sale will support the NAAF Foundation, the National Alopecia Areta Foundation)
BECOME INVISIBLE & walk unseen among people or CROWDS
(I thought this might just be a copy of Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” and some black face paint, but apparently it involves making Susanna Hoff eyes)
(It’s a f’ing emoticon drawn on a piece of paper, currently going for $20.50)
Real Roasted Heart Shaped Peanut - love wife gift shell
(I don’t know what “love wife gift shell” means but I don’t think that peanut is sanitary)
Abraham Lincoln’s Image on French Toast
(I would love to pour some Aunt Jemima’s all over that b%$#@)
Help me Bring Back * ICE ICE BABY * Rob Winkle, This Is The Hottist Song Ever - Help Me Cool It Down
(This one is my favorite, read this excerpt)
“That is the song that is blarring on my truck stereo if I am at a red light ( well my friend Selena says it’s not blarring cause I am stuck in the 80’s and I have it on tape) So the bass is not all that great. But people get the point when they are sitting next to me at the light. All money will go twords new speakers for my truck & I am going to burn the song on CD. Once this auction is over & my system is kicking I really feel bad for those people who live in Maryland near me. I will ride around all night long (with Selena of course ) Blarring ( yes I can say blarring now)”
Real life or The Onion?
Real! As reported by CBS 5: “…a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting….documents show the Air Force lab asked for $7.5 million to develop such a chemical weapon.” There’s so much wrong with this I don’t even know where to start. Read the full story or watch the news cast here on CBS 5.
I wonder if this idea came about before or after 300?
I never thought I’d want to order something that’s essentially flavored sugar but these Shag “Cocktail Candies” look damn good. Now I can make a “chocolate choo-choo“.
And, Shag has a show at the Shooting Gallery in S.F. that looks fun called “The Merchant of Menace“. It started today June 9th and runs through July 7th.
God help us. A recent shopping expedition with a friend for wedding attire made me want to punch a baby. Now, my friend works out 4-5 times a week, has an amazing shape, and knows what silhouettes flatter her best (in other words; a slinky, bias cut, bombshell dress). We looked everywhere (East Bay, SF, online…). Nothing. The only look available is empire waist dresses, empire waist everything.
Do you know this look?! If you’ve ever been in a maternity store you do. I guess by putting a seam under your boobs it’s supposed to make them look bigger and create some sort optical illusion to hide everything else. But really, there’s no better way to look pregnant. Why wasn’t this f’ing look in style when I was pregnant?! You could be beautiful Jessica Alba, size 1, and still look dumpy in this hideous concoction. And when coupled with those hideous gigantic graphic prints of the seventies, and some ballet flats, WOW, you can really look retarded. Haven’t you always wanted to look like a pregnant ballerina?
Wow. It was like Us magazine threw up in my TV. If you didn’t watched the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday make sure to TiVo it when it airs again. The all seeing eye of Viacom has blocked most of it from YouTube, but you can see some highlights here on MTV.
Comedic dominatrix Sarah Silverman rips Paris Hilton a new one (and she’s in the audience), Will Ferrell and Sacha Baron Cohen make out, Nicholson is his usual smarmy, drunken self, Amy Winehouse looks as if she’s about to cry during her musical performance, Johnny Depp is just getting weirder by the minute, AND there’s an assload of Vitamin Water advertisements for Tim. Good times.
This is one of those words you almost can’t help but form by mistake. It sort slips out the side of your mouth when discussing Paris, Linsey, Britney, etc…
Celebutard. (ce•le•bu•tard) noun.
1. “A famous stupid person. Typically refers to the current crop of vapid celebrities.”
Sentence: “Celebutard Paris Hilton got the name of her own videogame wrong.”
See also celebuskank. Courtesy of Urbandictionary.
There are many great inventions and gadgets to make things easier on new parents. These are not those inventions.
For your little future tile setter or carpet installer:
In case your child is cute, here’s a way to stop that (oh, and to keep them from bumping their head):
If you have too much money and not a single towel of any kind in your house:
And finally, if you have a wino for a child the best solution to the problem is this gem:
You have to see this to believe it.
The 11 year old Alabama boy said, “It’s a good accomplishment. I probably won’t ever kill anything else that big.”
You couldn’t get that much bacon at Costco. What I want to know is, what was the wild boar eating?!
I love Lily Allen. I know, I’m kind of late on the Lily Allen train, but here’s why I love her music and you should too. A shit-talking British accent, blown out dance hall beats, horns (in case you miss the Specials), Holly-Golightly-meets-Pink ensembles, and she has the most annoying background ever on MySpace.
Anyone who’s not a rapper and says fuc$ing in the first stanza, on the first song, of their first album, is my new best friend. Who doesn’t want to sic a bunch of British dirt bags on their ex-boyfriend and then “Smile” about it? She’s vicious and adorable. Oh, and who doesn’t love that “old school” cd loading sound that seems to be so popular now.
Here’s the downside. Listening to her gives me hopeful chicken skin just like Liz Phair used to. Ah, I loved Liz Phair. Scary loved. Liz Phair had those two excellent albums and then, she got happy, or married, or whatever, and started to SUCK. I was lost. Whenever a new, talented, smart-mouthed, female artist comes along I fall in love all over again, BUT now, I can’t help but think, “Just don’t disappoint me bitch.”
Anywho, there are some cool little mp3’s at the bottom of this Pitchfork interview where you can also read more about how supremely awesome she is.
I had no idea you could send your ashes into outer space when you die. Starting at $495, your ashes can be hurled to the edge of space and then will “return” to earth hopefully not taking anyone out on the way down. You can also be launched into earth or the moon’s orbit, or just straight up chucked into deep space for around $45,000.
“Scotty” has been “beamed up” and now his “payload” has returned to earth and is somewhere in “tough terrain”, probably in Kalahari with the !Kung.
