My new flying, remote control inflatable shark
Posted: February 2, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »
I have a new toy. I bought it in Las Vegas with Lisa, Kristy and Gabriella, where we wound up at an outlet mall because that’s where everyone seemed to think we should go. The people in Las Vegas are very much about the “outlet mall.” When we were trying to find a place to have breakfast that wasn’t underground – Vegas is like a city of mole people – the woman at the concierge desk sent us to the iHop adding that “it’s near the outlet mall!” like that was a BIG BONUS! And then at least three other people, including the doorman and the cab driver, were all “Oh, you’ll be near the outlet mall!” So, as you can imagine, I was excited about this magical place called the “outlet mall,” because I’ve never been to an “outlet mall” before. Well, we went there – but not before breakfast at the iHop, where I’ve also never been and where the waitress almost had a panic attack when Lisa asked for Earl Gray tea, because she didn’t know what it was. She didn’t know what “black tea” was either, so Lisa finally settled on “Tea tea. Lipton’s tea,” because that’s what the waitress said they had – and it turns out the outlet mall is just a collection of stores with cheap, shitty clothes, so I was pretty disappointed. However, and this is a big however, there was a booth selling flying inflatable remote control sharks. Of course, I had to buy one and I’m going to call him Feargal Sharkey. Lisa just looked at me blankly when I said that. Why do I even hang out with her?
The shark is one of these, this is gonna be fun:
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I don’t know what this means…
Posted: January 27, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized 1 Comment »But it’s got Matthew Broderick in it announcing he’s Not GoooooING TO WORKTODAYYYYYY! What? Yep.
Awesome new menswear line from Thom Browne
Posted: January 25, 2012 Filed under: fashion, pop culture, Random Stuff Leave a comment »I was gonna get this outfit for David but I’m not sure he’d have anywhere to wear it. How come nobody ever invites us to Fetish parties at Eton? Or to Pinhead’s Oxford graduation? My friends suck.
See the rest of this guy Thom Browne’s menswear collection here at Super Punch. (via Laughing Squid)
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Zombie garden gnomes
Posted: January 25, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment »I’m generally sick of zombies. You guys, we’ve done ALL WE CAN with the zombie apocalypse. There are dozens of movies – like Zombieland and Sean of the Dead – and books on how to survive the zombie apocalypse – like The Zombie Survival Guide – and cutesy reimaginings like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and a TV show about the zombie apocalypse called The Walking Dead, there’s a zombie walk…and there’s ONLY SO MUCH YOU CAN DO WITH ZOMBIES. They are not that multi-purpose. They eat people, often brains. They…are scary? They…what? What do they do? They’re not even as flexible as vampires, which are already limited, if you’re not a 15-year-old girl. I’m sick of the farking zombie craze.
Generally.
But today I saw this.
Zombie gnomes. I think. And well, there are some people out there with original ideas after all. I wish I knew who they were. (Link)
Totally the best effing hardcore song by an 8 yr old you will hear today
Posted: January 20, 2012 Filed under: Entertainment, music, pop culture Leave a comment »
This is Juliet. She’s eight and Australian she wrote a hardcore song and it is the best hardcore song by an eight year old you will hear ALL DAY. The YouTube page reads:
“8 yr old Juliet teamed up with the hottest producer ROB SHARPE this school holidays and smashed out this BRUTAL track.. Juliet takes you on a journey of her love for her dog, Robert and how her pet fish stink even tho Juliet has zero sense of smell. The Australian Hardcore scene will never be the same!!”
Robert, the dog is really cute.
You can buy the T-shirt here…and the song will soon be available for purchase.
Let’s open up this pit. (via Laughing Squid)
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R.I.P. Johnny Otis…of Snatch and the Poontangs (among other things)
Posted: January 20, 2012 Filed under: music, pop culture, Random Stuff Leave a comment »
R.I.P. Johhny Otis, bandleader, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, producer, talent scout, deejay, “Godfather of R&B.” Otis died Tuesday in Los Angeles at age 90.
Here’s a 1969 recording Otis made as Snatch and the Poontangs with his son Shuggie on guitar and Delmar “Mighty Mouth” Evans on vocals. Yep. Snatch and the Poontangs.
Florida: Call # on sign to report missing sign. Wait..what?
Posted: January 19, 2012 Filed under: Entertainment, music, pop culture, Random Stuff 1 Comment »
This is an actual thing, and not a hoax.
John Stossel of Fox Business called The Florida Department of Revenue and asked for an explanation. He was told, “A vending machine operator that does not place the notice on the machine presumably is not in compliance with the other requirements such as registration and payment of the tax.”
So, it just like Van Halen’s famous rider clause demanding no brown M&M’s anywhere in the backstage area on penalty of forfeiture of the show with full payment to the band. This has gone down in legend as an example of the band’s diva behaviour at the height of their career (late 70′s-early 80s). But in reality it was a test to see that producers were paying attention, since VH gigs were so technically complex for the time. David Lee Roth explained in his 1997 book Crazy from the Heat, “ if I saw a brown M&M in that bowl . . . well, line-check the entire production. Guaranteed you’re going to arrive at a technical error. They didn’t read the contract. Guaranteed you’d run into a problem. Sometimes it would threaten to just destroy the whole show. Something like, literally, life-threatening.”
See? The same! Sort of.
But the question remains…if the sign is missing, how do we know what number to call?
(Image via popehat)
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Supercut of Lionel Richie’s Hello!
Posted: January 17, 2012 Filed under: Entertainment, music, pop culture, Random Stuff, Uncategorized Leave a comment »
This made my day. Ha! Someone took the time to go through all these movies just so they could put together a video of actors saying the lyrics to Lionel Richie’s “Hello,” It’s so weird that this is a thing.
Last week I found one of Obama “singing” Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way.” Who. Has. This. Sort. Of. Time? WHO? (Oh, actually, I have an answer. For the first one, anyway. This guy)
I sometimes wish I wasn’t the sort of person who needed eight hours of sleep a night, as I often think one thing that’s holding me back from incredible success is my sleep requirements. The things I could accomplish with three or four more hours in a day! Is the work of an insomniac? Is this what people with extra time on their hands do? Or is there some sort of software that does it for you?
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Awesomely weird rural girl clogs to The Cure, Siouxsie, Bowie
Posted: January 16, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized 1 Comment »
I love this girl. Spinner.ca is calling her videos “viral” which seems like a bit of a stretch, considering they’ve only got a few thousand views each…still, they brought her to my attention. This 17-year-old from “somewhere in central Georgia” is letting her freak flag fly and is my WTF of the day. She calls herself the “Rocker Clogger” and makes videos of herself clog dancing in her backyard to music like The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Johnny Cash and David Bowie, then posts them on her YouTube channel. And she has a pet donkey. I am totally jealous of her weirdness. I bet she doesn’t care what kids in high school think of her, because there’s no WAY she’s popular, right? I wish I’d had the guts to be this weird at that age and didn’t give a damn. Of course, there’s the problem that I wasn’t NEARLY this interesting. My main interests were smoking, boys and um…I think I might have been reading some Anne Rice novels. I didn’t have much substance…also, I’m probably off. All the cool kids in rural Georgia are probably clogging it up to eighties alternative and little Rocker Clogger here is going to be the damn Homecoming Queen.
I also really want to know what lives in the coop behind her. Chickens? Badgers? Adam Ant?
