Pro Wrestling + Japanese Monsters = Kaiju Big Battel!.

They make me so wish I lived on the east coast.

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‘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.

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For one state in the dirty south, today is election day. This year I decided to get involved with rocking the vote and all that nonsense, and so I volunteered at a local voter rights organization. One of my duties involved calling registered voter to inform them of their voting location, and on my umpteenth call, I reached the voicemail of a 70s era pimp, named Rocky Knight. Here’s what pimps have to say on their voicemail:

 

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You have reached the home of the Rocky Knight, the Rocky Knight is not available at this time. However, if you are close to the Rocky Knight, you know his cell phone number – use it at this time. Secondly, if you are calling to borrow money, to ask about money, or to look for money, don’t call the cell number. If you owe me money and wish to pay me my money, call the cell number. And, have a nice day!

I pity the fool…. who owes Rocky Knight money.

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The name says it all: Weirdo Toys

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Jewelry by Black Sheep and Prodigal Sons.

(via Tokion Magazine)

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Both the Photo of the Week and the Bacon Product of the Week:

I followed this guy for 15 minutes to get a good snapshot of his vanity plate.

Dude, we love that you love bacon.

Unless you’re actually just a fan of Francis Bacon, which is still cool.

Jason from GorillaSushi:
“He might have wanted to memorialize the time he saw Kevin Bacon in Las Vegas.”

Heywood:
“Or maybe the guy is from the small Eastern European town of Bacon, Latvia?”

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This is the 4th of July celebration in Santa Cruz, California.
Imagine Apocalypse Now with more explosions and more severed heads.

The song is “Star Spangled Mojo” by Mojo Nixon - perhaps the best rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner” ever.

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They call her La Gringita (”The Little White Girl”).
She is only 8.
Turn up your volume.

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Having recently finished Max Brooks’ World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, I’m thrilled about this:

Lost Zombies: A Community Generated Zombie Documentary

Become a member and submit evidence/proof of the zombie outbreak in your area (this project has evidence from around the globe).

Undead Bonus Round: The Lost Zombie sticker campaign.

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“Eddie Murphy’s Giant Head on the Interstate.”
From AhhhItsHayley’s Flickr Photostream.

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Cool free Indiana Jones Icons, from IconFactory.

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Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

And if you haven’t seen Matt’s earlier works (better music).

(via Where the Hell is Matt?, via Notcot)

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(©2007 Toothpastery)

This is amazing.
Toothpastery’s Flickr Photostream.
Name a toothpaste, and Toothpastery probably has a photo of it.

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This month’s wallpaper from CityShrinker.

Yes . . . this is a photo of an incredibly detailed tiny model.

Micro-Coolness!

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The movie War, Inc. finally came to a theater in my neighborhood.

Two words: “kick” and “ass.”

I loved it.

Brand Hauser (John Cusak) is an assassin on a mission in the war-torn mythle-eastern nation of Turaqistan. Hauser is posing as the producer of an arms convention, promoting Tamerlane military industries - the very corporation currently occupying the nation of Turaqistan. At the convention, Hauser meets journalist Natalie Hegalhuzen (Marisa Tomei) and obnoxious middle eastern pop star Yonica Babyyeah (Hilary Duff) . . . and all hell breaks loose in this Douglas Coupland-esque world.

War, Inc. has several of the best qualities of Cusak’s previous assassin dark comedy Grosse Pointe Blank - clever dialogue, a great soundtrack (that does not yet exist on iTunes, dammit), and several stellar fight/action scenes worthy of Martin Blank. This film also smelled heavily of Douglas Coupland and Naomi Klein’s “Baghdad Year Zero” (both of which are good smells).

Locate a showing at a theater near you.

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

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

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My serious lust for red velvet cupcakes has drawn me to these . . . behold the Red Velvet twinkie-type thingy! I hate to admit that I found them at Wal*Mart . . . mmm . . . redness . . .

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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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This month’s issue of Wired magazine ran an article about MegaPhone - turning big-screen billboards into giant game screens, your cellphone becomes a game controller, and all you have to do is call the phone number posted on the screen and you’re playing video games on the side of a building.

Recently, Palo Alto based product engineering firm MindTribe has placed a 65″ plasma screen in a front window with the same idea in mind. You dial the phone number on the screen and you are now playing a version of Tetris while standing in the middle of the sidewalk (and it’s free). Bonus: if you get a high score, your snapshot goes up on their website.

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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks

[I just finished reading it (and yes, I know this book has been out a while)]:

By title alone, you are probably thinking one of two things:
a). “Cool! Zombie fiction!“
b). “Dear God . . . Zombie fiction?!?“

Here’s the catch: it’s not so much about zombies, it’s about how different societies would react to a global pandemic. However, the pandemic in this story happens to be the reanimated dead. And author Max Brooks didn’t get lazy about it either - he did his homework, he left no technical detail to chance. The only real fiction is the zombie part: no Deus ex machina, no laser guns invented to save humanity.

Topically, Brooks found a fascinating subject, flush with interesting questions:
“How would China or Canada react to a pandemic?”
“What is the best way to stop a pandemic from spreading across the globe?”
“What would happen to the average person when their town/city is overrun?”
“What would our government do?”
“How would we rebuild?”

Brooks also chose the perfect format for this type of story - the story is told through interviews (dozens and dozens of interviews) with different people around the world who were at significant events/moments during the spread of the disease and/or the subsequent war.

Bonus Round: It’s already on its way to being a feature film in 2010.

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