(photo credits: Warner Bros./Turner, David Furtney)
I grew up in a neighborhood nearly identical to Cuesta Verde in the movie Poltergeist. And oddly enough, I grew up in a neighborhood 20 minutes away from Steven Spielberg’s childhood home.
David Furtney found the actual house from Poltergeist, in Cuesta Verde Simi Valley, California.
Clown Doll Bonus Round:
The Cuesta Verde Estates T-shirt.
(via Poltergeist: The Website)
The Dapperstache Periodic Table of Awesoments - the elements of awesome in this universe.
Bacon, with an awesome weight of 1, is the most fundamental element of awesome in the universe. Ninja is 2 and Batman is 3.
(via Neatorama)
(photo from Ambient Images)
Sailing in a watercraft made from junk, from Los Angeles to Hawaii, the JUNK team is raising awareness about plastic junk in our oceans.
(via Notcot)
The Deep Impact/EPOXI probe took rare video footage (May 28-29) of the Moon transiting (passing in front of) the Earth. From 31 million miles, we look pretty small.
(photos: stolen from Sabbah.biz)
The “vintage” look has been around long enough to make nearly every college student look like a garage sale.
But there’s “vintage” and then there’s “VINTAGE.”
On July 30th, a pair of Levi’s 201 jeans dating from ~1890 sold for $36,099 on eBay to a guy named “vintboy1″ (pet hypothesis: it was Vin Diesel or Vincent Price). The jeans were found in a mine in California’s Mojave Desert, near the town of Randsburg.
These jeans may bear the world’s oldest skidmarks, and in the back pocket: perhaps the world’s oldest pocket lint and the world’s oldest receipt from a 7-Eleven. Goldminers were fond of Slurpees and not wearing underwear.
(images from Trummerkind.com)
This is awesome:
Michael Townsend and Adriana Yoto had a nicely decorated 750 square foot apartment in Providence, Rhode Island, for nearly four years. Until the Providence Place Mall security caught them - they made this secret apartment inside the shopping mall.
Their site is rendered in hilarious ‘real estate sales’ format.
“During the Christmas season of 2003 and 2004, radio ads for the Providence Place Mall featured an enthusiastic female voice talking about how great it would be if you (we) could live at the mall.”
(via Make: magazine)
Pro Wrestling + Japanese Monsters = Kaiju Big Battel!.
They make me so wish I lived on the east coast.
‘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.
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:
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.
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?”
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.
They call her La Gringita (”The Little White Girl”).
She is only 8.
Turn up your volume.
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.
“Eddie Murphy’s Giant Head on the Interstate.”
From AhhhItsHayley’s Flickr Photostream.
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)
(©2007 Toothpastery)
This is amazing.
Toothpastery’s Flickr Photostream.
Name a toothpaste, and Toothpastery probably has a photo of it.
This month’s wallpaper from CityShrinker.
Yes . . . this is a photo of an incredibly detailed tiny model.
Micro-Coolness!
Rocky Knight - Blogadilla.com: 
