Who knew that Monty Python predicted so long ago what Internet flame-wars would be like. 🙂
Humor
Streisand is metal
More Futurama, yea!
Good news everyone!
Amusing tho how Comedy Central totally neglects the fact that it was really Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim that was largely responsible for Futurama staying alive. Heck, wasn’t it Adult Swim that was also responsible for Family Guy coming back from the dead?
Cell phones as defensive weapons
Davis has a good posting about how you can use your cell phone as a defensive weapon.
But of course, it’s not quite what you think. 🙂 Quite a good strategy for what he’s getting at however. It reminds me of those gadgets you can keep in a pocket. You are entering some situation you don’t want to deal with, slip your hand in the pocket and press a button on the gadget. In a couple minutes the gadget will go off, like a cell phone ring or a pager or some such thing and then oh, I’ve got to take this, sorry, gotta end the conversation with you or I need to leave the room to take the call or whatever. Amusing.
Still tho, there is potentially a bit of serious self-defense application here. The key point is being aware of your surroundings.
Funny search term
I like to check my blog stats. What can I say, I’m a numbers geek.
Most of the search terms that get to my blog tend to be what I expect: guns, self-defense, martial arts, kuk sool, maybe the various bands from Sunday Metal or music-related posts.
But today I had my first funny search term:
hand placement when making out
I do have some articles that discuss hand placement, but not in relation to making out. I put the search phrase into Google and gave up trying to find my blog in the search results after clicking through a number of pages. So I guess this person was doing a lot of reading for them to get to me. 😉
Now, I find some humor in this; not depreciating humor, but more finding it cute and innocent as I imagine some young awkward teenager behind this (but who knows). I figure the person searching on the term was honestly looking for some advice. Maybe it’s just the old fart in me but… back in my young awkward “first time making out” stages of life I didn’t have any Internet to look things up on (get off my lawn while you’re at it). You just happily and awkwardly stumbled into it all and did whatever you did. Maybe it got too intense for her and she stopped things, or maybe it got too intense for you and you stopped things. And hopefully if you’re wondering about just where to put your hands while making out, yes there will be a stopping point not much further down the road from there! But you just did what you did and dealt with the awkwardness and the joy. If you did get any advice it’d usually be from some friend telling you something like “put on side one of Led Zeppelin IV“.
So to whomever was searching for the answer, if you’re still searching for an answer, the answer is to stop geeking it up by searching for answers online. Go do a more uh… “direct line of searching”. I’m sure they’ll be just as awkward and unsure as you. 🙂
This seems familiar
Living in the same city as Lance Armstrong, this attitude is rather pervasive:
(Dang it… image is too wide to fit within the current blog theme. Well, click on it and visit the main site if it’s difficult to read.)
George Carlin videos
George Carlin is one of my favorite comedians. I do think he was better in his younger years, as some of the stuff he did prior to his death I thought was less funny and sounded more like a pissed off old man (tho he always still had a great point).
My morning reading ended up taking me to this one:
and from there I just had to go find and watch some of my favorites:
Baseball vs. Football is great material, but it also showcases how Carlin used delivery effectively.
Of course, today farts are all over TV… still can’t say “fuck” tho.
Tex Avery
I was just lamenting with a buddy of mine about how we have multiple cartoon TV channels dedicated to 24/7 cartoons, yet some of the best cartoons aren’t shown on them (much anymore). Things like the old Warner Bros. Bugs Bunny cartoons. I do recall they used to have “The Tex Avery Show”, and it’s a shame that went away.
Tex Avery (or “Fred A-very” as Bugs once called him) is truly one of the best. This article (h/t to Fark) takes you on a tour through his cartooning career, and was a wonderful walk down memory lane. Tex’s cartoons always had the best gags, the most ridiculous but exciting pacing, just totally screwball. I may have watched his cartoons hundreds of times, but they still make me laugh because the jokes are just that good and just that well done. Many of the characters became who we know and love because of Tex.
One of my favorites was Screwy Squirrel. Shame he was only in five cartoons, but damn they’re good. Tex really took things to the extreme in them.
Screwball Squirrel:
Happy-Go-Nutty:
Big Heel-Watha:
The Screwy Truant (This has some of the best collection of gags. I love Screwy’s laugh at 4:56 and 5:28.):
Lonesome Lenny
Iggy and the Stooges tour rider
I love reading tour riders. Some are boring, some are just interesting, some demonstrate how “out of touch” the star is with the rest of the world, and then there’s the rider for Iggy and the Stooges which …. well, you’ll just have to go read it for yourself. Warning: not for the easily offended or those lacking a sense of humor.
Twitter is informational malnutrition
Twitter is informational malnutrition.
George Carlin had a small rant about “sound bytes”, basically equating them to malnutrition. Twitter, the sound byte of 140 characters or less.
Stuff From Hsoi 