Finally! Lebowskifest is coming to San Francisco Sept 5-6th, 2008!

Tickets go on sale June 27th, 10AM PST.

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“Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil” (Loren Bouchard, H. Jon Benjamin) - perhaps one of the funniest shows ever to air on [adult swim]. Already done with its first season, and perhaps already done with its last season - it looks like [adult swim] may not pick “Lucy” up for a second season. Perhaps because it is a little too controversial at times: DJ Jesus (the second coming) and his love interest Lucy (the Daughter of the Devil) live the 20-something hipster life with their friend Judas, while Lucy’s father makes regular attempts to overtake the world. Plus a never-ending supply of priest jokes.

The credits of “Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil” are funnier than an entire season of “Family Guy.”

Watch some: “Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil”

Or buy some: iTunes link

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And speaking of Indiana Jones - no home is safe from looters and grave robbers without the ancient Mesoamerican booby trap kit: one idol drops plastic spiders on unwary looters, the other shoots darts from its eyes.

Bonus Round: The Chachapoyan Fertility Idol pencil cup and the Ark of the Covenant business card holder.

Super-Mega Bonus Round: The Crystal Skull Adventure Projector (man I wish I was making this one up).

All of these can be found at The Indiana Jones Shop.

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Head over to BarackObamaIsYourNewBicycle.com for randomly generated, positive sentences (often with a geeky tinge) about Barack Obama that are amusing even if at times non sequitur. A few amusing ones that were just generated for me:

• “Barack Obama wanted you to have some cupcakes.”
• “Barack Obama followed you on Twitter.”
  
• “Barack Obama picked you up at the airport.”
• “Barack Obama carries a picture of you in his wallet.”
  

OK, OK, moderately funny and definitely bizarre, but like so many other web phenomenons, this site’s success has brought along its fair share of copycats, my favorite of which has got to be HillaryIsMomJeans.com. The site’s format is nearly identical to Barack…Bicycle.com, but instead of Pro-Obama phrases, HillaryIsMomJeans contains non-sensical negative Hillary-phrases.

It’s not that I hate Hillary, or even that I think what makes this site funny is about being negative to Hillary, but rather, identifying with the things other people seem hate. Hillary Clinton just happens to be a vehicle for this hillarity. A few choice phrases I’ve come across so far are:

• “Hillary folded the map wrong.”
• “Hillary always says ‘Knock, Knock’ when she enters your office.”
• “Hillary asked you to pick up her drycleaning.”
• “Hillary did not make lemonade out of lemons.”

So, the question is whether these are subliminally effective. I’d say very likely. It might be easy to just laugh at the ridiculousness of such a proposition, but at the same time, it’s so easy to click through the phrases on these sites, that one can’t help chuckling, and ultimately leaves the site with a slightly more positive feeling for Obama, or in the latter case, a negative sentiment toward for Hillary, for things she didn’t even do.

I’m waiting now for JohnMcCainIsYourGreatGreatGreatGreatGreatGreatGrandfather.com.

(via Eliot)

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Folks, if you’re ever in need of some groovy music and/or video or are looking to expand your musical horizons, particularly on a slow working day, check out my boy Max Abelson’s Super Groovy Music/Video Spectacular (aka “Max Abelson and His Funktified Flying Fortress of Fantastic Videos of Music”– these phrases are copyrighted, folks!).

Each day, Max and his gang of Oompa Loompas over at Tumblr pour through the series of tubes that is the Internet and find awesome, old media content that I personally could never find on my own. The programming schedule roughly breaks down as follows:

• Mondays: ’60s
• Tuesdays: ’70s
• Wednesdays: ’80s
• Thursday: ’90s
• Friday: ’00s
• Saturday/Sunday: ????

Today, for instance, check out the throwback to Gilberto Gil, from 1967. The video quality may not always be great, but the material Max comes up with certainly is.

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The best part of making your own Alien costume: wearing it in public.

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Head over to mashup.starwars.com to make your very own Star Wars mashup out of both their clips and your own. Originally this was part of a SpikeTV contest and the winners were posted on Spike. Even though the deadline has passed, you can still do some funny stuff. Here’s a hilarious one my buddy Ralph made– Greedo’s Gangsta Ebonics. Enjoy!

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It’s good to know someone out there has this base covered:
Bob Truby’s treasury of brand name pencils.

(via Notcot)

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I know this may be stale for many of you, but it is still funny as hell: Chuck Norris Facts.

•“The chief export of Chuck Norris is Pain.”

•”When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Chuck Norris.”

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18to88.com, an Indianapolis Colts fan website, gives their take on the upcoming NFL season, using Star Wars characters as representations of each team’s predicted fate in ‘07-’08. The predictions are pretty funny and mostly well-reasoned, though is anyone surprised that a Colts’ website deemed Bill Belichick “The Emperor”?

(via Scott)

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“Club Bill Gates.”

(via Digg; via The Brennanator on Flickr)

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[For those of you who are not knee-deep in geekery]: Cthulhu (usually pronounced KThoo-Loo) is a sinister ancient deity from the works of early 20th century science fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft. Cthulhu is described as being gigantic and green, with rubbery skin, having an ‘octopus head’, a large belly, claws on its hands and feet, and thin wings emerging from its back. In Lovecraft’s universe, Cthulhu came to Earth (from somewhere in the distant cosmos) hundreds of millions of years ago and currently rests undead and “dreaming” among the remains of the buried alien city of R’lyeh, which lies beneath the most desolate area of the South Pacific (47° 9′ S, 126° 43′ W). In Lovecraft’s story “The Call of Cthulhu,” Cthulhu is described as contacting people in their dreams (usually in mid-March), and by these means Cthulhu generates cults of human worshippers around the world who await his eventual awakening; according to Lovecraft, the powerful leaders of the Cthulhu cult live “in the mountains of China.”

Needless to say, Cthulhu has serious geek appeal. There are Cthulhu role-playing games, Cthulhu is a figure in the Dungeons & Dragons universe, there are numerous Campus Crusade for Cthulhu movements, and the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society has created an awesome 1920’s black-and-white ’silent movie’ of “The Call of Cthulhu.” They do a good job of following the original story and their visuals and musical score are stellar (watch the trailer). The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society also offers a number of cool Cthulhu downloads, including the kick-ass cellphone wallpaper above.

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Thyla.com is a website dedicated to the homoerotic relationship between Capt. Kirk and Mr. Spock.
No joke.
An entire site dedicated to the subject of their relationship - including the minutiae of the <nerd>Klingon</nerd> term “t’hy’la”, which refers to the “man love” that can only be shared by a captain and his Vulcan sex-machine.
This awesome site is complete with wallpapers, haiku, fan art, and stories.
Set phazers to “gay lovin’.”

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A fansite is not necessarily measured by subject matter, but by depth and enthusiasm. Perhaps one of the most impressive fansites is this - a site dedicated to the 70’s gameshow “Match Game.” “Match Game” was the meat and potatoes of the gameshow world from 1973 to 1979. Contestants were challenged to match the answers of celebrity panelists such as Betty White, Nipsey Russell, Brett Somers, and Charles Nelson Reilly.

This impressive site offers a cornucopia of wallpapers, trivia, video clips, and even the hypnotic gameshow background (funk) music. Even if you aren’t old enough to remember this show, take a moment to:
•See what smoking on a gameshow looks like.
•See a time when feathered hair ruled television.
•And learn some words of wisdom from host Gene Rayburn.

(via [adult swim])

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