Motörhead vodka. Yes please! Oh…right.
Posted: December 12, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized 1 Comment »
Here is another example of a booze we will never get in Canada because our choices are controlled by government. Gah! This makes me so freaking mad.
File Motörhead vodka next to Whitesnake wine and fluffed marshmallow vodka on the list of things I can’t have. Not that I NEED more kinds of vodka. It’s a principle of the thing.
Well, it’s only available in Sweden at the moment anyway, though I bet if an American person ordered some they wouldn’t be charged 106% of the price in duty on top of shipping etc.
I hate the world.
Speak like Kristen Stewart (a how to guide)
Posted: December 8, 2011 Filed under: Entertainment, pop culture, Random Stuff, Uncategorized Leave a comment »
I’m always trying to figure out what bugs me so much about Kristen Stewart (even though, not being a watcher of the Twilight movies, I don’t actually see much of her). Well, I think this woman has pretty much nailed it in her how to speak like K-Stew guide with tips like “look nauseous.”
For the record, however, I disagree VEHEMENTLY with the statement that K-Stew is “hot.” It always makes me feel like I’m taking crazy pills when people talk about this woman is though she’s a raving beauty. Look, she looks fine. I’m not mad at her looks. If you brought her out to dinner as your new girlfriend, I’d think she was cute. But the very idea that the WHOLE PLOT of Snow White and the Huntsman is supposed to be based around the notion that Kristen Stewart is better looking that Charlize Theron is so stupid it got fired from the M&M factory because it kept throwing out all the Ws. Just had to get that out there. (Video actually went up in July but I just discovered it via Doobybrain)
(Image: lukeford.net)
Cheeseburger wrapping paper
Posted: December 7, 2011 Filed under: fashion, pop culture, Random Stuff, Uncategorized Leave a comment »
This is Cheeseburger wrapping paper. But it only exists in prototype and will only be available if the people of Gift Couture, which also only exists in prototype, I think, raise $7,900 by January 1.
The burger paper is Gift Couture’s kickstarter project, for real, it’s their first project and they have a Kickstarter page to raise funds.
They explain: “We created this project to launch Gift Couture, a creative and innovative wrapping paper company. Gift Couture will offer high-quality wrapping paper sets that feature original photography and design. Our main goal is to produce unique papers that coordinate together into conceptualized themes and sets. This is exemplified in the Cheeseburger set that we chose to use as this initial project. This includes 5 different wrapping paper designs; a bun, hamburger, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes, all of the components of a Cheeseburger!”
If you think the world needs cheeseburger wrapping paper and more conceptualized wrapping paper thingamies, go here.
H&M admits using computer generated bodies in its ads
Posted: December 6, 2011 Filed under: fashion, pop culture, Random Stuff, Uncategorized Leave a comment »
Hilarious. H&M has admitted it doesn’t use real people in its ads, but model heads pasted onto fake bodies.
I cut and pasted the Swedish article in the Aftonbladet - found via Jezebel – into the Google translator and it says “The shapely form is manufactured – in the computer….different girls’ heads have been on a computer animated body.”
A spokesperson says the company does it to “show off the clothes.”
Google translator goes on “At H & M’s online store shows up models wearing giant panties [HAhahahahaha!], bikinis and other clothing. But the girls are not in reality. They are cutting and pasting works created in the computer.”
Someone named Helle Vaagland says “This illustrates very well the sky-high aesthetic demands placed on the female body. The demands are so great that H & M among the poor photo models can not find someone with both body and face that can sell their bikinis.”
Hey, at least they made one of the fake bodies black.
It’s all digital now.
India’s Got Talent is farking insane
Posted: November 30, 2011 Filed under: Entertainment, pop culture, Random Stuff, Uncategorized Leave a comment »
These dudes are everywhere on the web over the past couple of weeks. So, I can’t imagine you missed it, but if you have just woken up from a coma or returned from outer space (and in either case, congratulations!) The Warriors of Goja were recent contestants on India’s Got Talent.
They remind me of this guy my friend once had a one night stand with who used to hammer himself with nails and walk on swords and stuff, on stage, as part of a show. Those freakshow and sideshow things were everywhere in the 1990s. I won’t share either of their names because she is SUPER embarrassed about it and if I ever want to shut her up about anything I’ve ever done, all I have to do is remind her of it.
Anyway, I can’t figure out if the Warriors of Goja have a philosophy or anything but I can note that India’s Got Talent looks like a lot more fun than America’s Got Talent.
Stinkers the superfriendly porcupine is full of love
Posted: November 22, 2011 Filed under: Random Stuff, Uncategorized Leave a comment »
Gah! I never saw a porcupine interact with people before! I didn’t know you could keep them as pets. His name is STINKERS and this video is two years old. He WAS a pet and now he lives on a wildlife conservation. Come for the snuffling. Stay for the spinning in circles. Le sigh. (source PBh2.com)
Guy makes music with 1000 pairs of jeans
Posted: November 13, 2011 Filed under: Entertainment, fashion, music, Uncategorized Leave a comment »
I think this is the coolest jeans ad you will see all day. If you have seen a cooler jeans ad today, please share it with me, as I would like very much to see it.
It’s like Stomp but with one dude and 1000 pairs of pants.
The guy who is making this music on 1000 pairs of jeans is named Andrew Huang, and, as I just discovered, he will create songs based on people’s ideas. His YouTube channel songstowearpantsto is pretty funny. He also has very interesting eyebrows.
Image: Wikimedia Commons
The freaking GEORGIAN NATIONAL BALLET
Posted: November 7, 2011 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »Holy cats. The fucking GEORGIAN NATIONAL BALLET. ARE THESE DUDES MADE OF MAGIC??? Check out Spinning Guy at 1:20. I’d so be barfing after that.
Six guys live in a tiny capsule for 520 days, don’t kill each other
Posted: November 7, 2011 Filed under: pop culture, Random Stuff, Uncategorized Leave a comment »Two days before these guys emerged from their capsule, I learned of them for the first time in a Wired mag article.
The Mars500 mission saw six volunteer astronauts go into isolation on a simulated space mission (at first I accidentally typed that as “stimulated” space mission, which would maybe be a little different…). They spent 520 days in a capsule the size of a bus, just outside of Moscow, completely cut off from the outside world, as part of an experiment to see how people will really deal with the long trip to Mars, when we eventually go.
The crew ate nothing but canned food, showered once a week and was subjected to rigorous testing. There was a LOT of peeing into containers. They didn’t kill each other, apparently, though it seems quite possible that psychological effects will become apparent in the coming months. See them emerge from the capsule on Saturday, November 5, and read more about the mission here.
Below is their video diary at the one year mark.
Appalachian snake handlers. A normal Sunday with the copperheads
Posted: November 1, 2011 Filed under: pop culture, Random Stuff, Uncategorized Leave a comment »The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs, a chronicle of the year during which Jacobs attempted to live by the rules of the bible, introduced me to Appalachian snake handlers. Apparently, they live in the mountains and take one sentence from the Gospel of Mark very literally. “They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.”
