…but I’m a Lego.
In honor of Lego’s 30th anniversary, the company has immortalized celebrities such as Amy Winehouse, Madonna, David Beckham and Simon Cowell. I’m told that the celebrity plastic collection will not be available to the public, so why even bother to make these?
(via popcrunch.com)
The “Nicolas Cage Suck Factor” is approximately .75 (75%).
In recent years, the chance of a Nicolas Cage movie sucking is about 75% - only one in every four of his films will not suck.
I was at the movies last night and noticed the poster for Nicolas Cage’s new movie “Bangkok Dangerous” and a couple questions came to mind:
• ”Will Nicolas Cage show up in any movie offered to him?”
• “Since Leaving Las Vegas (1995), which Nicolas Cage movies haven’t sucked?”
Based on the films he’s appeared in since 1995, here is a running list of Sucked and Not Sucked (though not necessarily great, either). This is the data pool I used to generate the “Nicolas Cage Suck Factor.”
Not Sucked:
• Leaving Las Vegas
• City of Angels (almost sucked)
• Adaptation
• Lord of War
• National Treasure (almost sucked)
Sucked:
• The Rock
• Con Air (yeah, I know, some liked it)
• Face/Off
• Snake Eyes (really sucked)
• 8mm (semi-sucked)
• Bring Out the Dead (semi-sucked)
• Gone in 60 Seconds
• The Family Man
• A Christmas Carol: the Movie
• Matchstick Men
• The Wicker Man (semi-sucked)
• Ghost Rider
• Next
• National Treasure II
• Bangkok Dangerous
Update: To be scientifimical about this, post your own Nicolas Cage Suck Factor in the comments below, based upon the movies listed above and we can create a more accurate general public Nicolas Cage Suck Factor number.
Heywood: .67
Rabbi VonSydow: .67
Timbotron: .75
cmdrtebok: 1.00
Rebecca: .71 (she added a movie)
Allison: .80
In conjuntion with the Democratic National Convention, MoveOn.org held “Manifest Hope,” a Barack Obama-inspired art contest, and is now auctioning the proceeds to charities aimed at social change. The winning piece from the contest, by New Orleans artist Phil Fung, is for sale on ebay for $1525.00 and counting….check it out!
Another, larger piece is on sale for $3,050 here- very nice. Both auctions have almost 5 days left, and if I had to predict, both will crack $10k. Anyone else care to take a guess?
(via Eliot)
The newest addition to John McCain’s crusade to convince even the reddest of Republicans to vote for Barack Obama: losing to Paris Hilton in a battle of wits.
McCain’s new ad comparing Barack Obama to celebrities like Paris Hilton and Britney Spears:
And Paris Hilton (I hate to say this) brilliantly retaliates via Funny or Die:
Bert N’ Ernie N’ Kid N’ Play
Rubber Duckie Bonus Round:
Zombie Bert and Ernie by Killer Napkins.
(Thanks Angie N’ John!)
(photo by Kirk Aeder)
A New Zealand judge made a 9-year-old child a ward of the court so he could change her name to something normal.
Her given birth name: Talula Does the Hula.
Apparently this case is not unique; previous New Zealand examples include: Fish and Chips, Yeah Detroit, Keenan Got Lucy, Number 16, Bus Shelter, Violence, and (a personal favorite) Sex Fruit.
What happened to naming your kid something normal like Kal-el, Zowie, Piper Maru, Jett, Gaia Romilly, Sage Moonblood, Justice, Christopher Sargent Shriver, Essenz Astral, Hopper, Tatum, Brawley King, Zola Ivy, Frances Bean, Saffron Sarah, Tito Joe, Prince Michael, Alchemy, Phoenix Chi, Fifi-Trixibelle, Pixie, Satchel, Calico, or Guggi Q. Hewson?
(via Angie, via Yahoo! News)
(image from DailyMail)
For Sale in October at Bonhams Auction House:
The item is an ancient Roman marble “acroterion” - a decorative bust from a sarcophagus, tomb, or tombstone. It is expected to fetch £25,000 - £30,000 in the October auction.
*And this is the awesome pompadoured, sequined, lambchoped, fat Elvis.
(via DailyMail, via Susan)
A nice David Blaine street magic spoof (and proof that he hides cards in people’s asses - language NSFW).
(via Travis)
‘Nuff said - if you’re into that kind of thing. Here’s a skit from the ESPN Espy’s Award Show that broadcasted on Sunday. I’m choosing to believe that Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly ad libbed this skit, because they’re each funny enough to do it.
Like “The Matrix” but
without the Matrix. And the
good guys are all d!cks.
Jolie was like “Aaaagh!“
and her car went “Errrrrrrrtt!” and her
gun went “Psshhhiiiiw!” . . . Kick Ass!
The Wall Street Journal reports: Hasbro Games is taking its products to Hollywood with the intent of making feature films based on their acclaimed boardgames - such as Monopoly, Ouija, and Candy Land.
Casting Suggestion: Monopoly’s Rich Uncle Pennybags should be played by Wilford Brimley. And yes, this also counts as a Blogadilla Look-Alike.
Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Bonus Round: A Monopoly themed Reebok Reverse Jam Mid, coming out in late August 2008.
If you blew on Phil Spector’s head, would his hair would fly off like a dandelion?
(Spector photo by Elke Sisco, via CoolMensHair)
“Eddie Murphy’s Giant Head on the Interstate.”
From AhhhItsHayley’s Flickr Photostream.
Throughout gradeschool and highschool, English teachers repeatedly stated that it was our civic duty as Americans to adore and admire the works of Mark Twain. Years later and I still hate him.
Here is a revised list of the many reasons why I think Mark Twain is a douche:
• Tom Sawyer Island and the Mark Twain Riverboat are the lamest rides at Disneyland.
• He gave his characters dippy names like Huckleberry and Pudd’nhead. No kid would have gone by the name Huckleberry - classmates would have called him Hucklefairy or Fuckleberry. And Pudd’nhead already sounds dirty.
• Mark Twain impersonators (”Twainies”) are the lowest strata of the nerd pecking order - even Star Trek geeks and Renaissance Faire nerds make fun of them and beat them up.
• He was overly fond of the word “Yankee,” and often used it as an obscene verb.
• Mark Twain and Colonel Sanders used to go to parties together dressed the same. They thought it would get them chicks.
• Both Ernest Hemingway and Jack London could have taken Twain in a fistfight.
• At a time when people were dying of cholera, the standards for humor were pretty low. Frog jumping contests and suckering someone into painting a fence = SO NOT FUNNY.
• There are dozens of public schools and parks named after Mark Twain, but there isn’t even a single parking lot named after Elmore Leonard.
Here we see MSNBC moonlighting as Captain Obvious. I know they’ve been trying, but get with it, mainstream media! How is this “breaking news” ??
(via Susan)
Oh Heywood, you did beat me to it. But here’s the background that makes these early 80s clips worth watching: this video has only recently been released, and was shot by Juan Martin, who shot the footage for Spanish television. He has been holding onto it for years, and for MJ fans like myself (and Heywood), old video like this is digital gold!
Every Christmas, children college students around the world write letters to Santa Claus Christopher Walken asking him for toys and treats swift punishment for their enemies.
