There’s no URL, I have no idea what it’s selling, it was in plain text (i.e. it didn’t have a web beacon to probe for receipt) and… well… it is just plain weird.
“I’m not going into the Zone. What instructions do you have?”
As simply and as quickly as that, Kirk Maynard Gull spread his wings,
“What?”
forty miles per hour! And under control! If I dive from five thousand feet
In a story by London’s Daily Mail earlier this month we learned something new about the Queen’s main squeeze: a tribe of 400 on the South Sea island of Tanna revere him as the human face of an ancestral spirit who, according to legend, left their island and married a queen.
I think the water bottle is the coolest.
Steve got tired of having his bank charge him fees so he instituted his own set of fees… when the bank called him to verify a wire transfer he informed them of the $5 fee for calling him to verify the transfer. Read the transcript on his blog for the exchange he had with the bank rep.
Six minutes of inspired dancing by “Inspirational Comedian” Judson Laipply.
While waiting for Windows XP to install on my freshly installed Virtual PC I found my way over to YouTube and fell under the spell of this David Hasselhoff video. The concept for the video obviously came from a poor translation of something Tommy Chong wrote in his own vomit after an all-night bender. The special effects appear to have been done by the creepy geek who hangs out in the computer lab (and not the smart geek you want to have fix stuff, the other guy with the really poor hygiene).
And yet… I couldn’t take my eyes off it…
Ever see people standing around a lobster tank trying to decide which one they should request?
Always one to be prepared, my parents have had a living will in effect for many years. My dad just forwarded me his latest copy:
I, __________________________, being of sound mind and body, do not wish to be kept alive indefinitely by artificial means.
Under no circumstances should my fate be put in the hands of nitwit politicians who couldn’t pass ninth-grade biology if their lives depended on it or lawyers/doctors interested in simply running up the bills.
If a reasonable amount of time passes and I fail to ask for at least one of the following:
______a Glass of Wine,
______a Margarita,
______a Cold Beer,
______anything Chocolate,
______a pork chop
______shrimp, lobster, crab legs or fish,
______the remote control
______a bowl of ice cream
______a culinary magazine of any kind
______a hot dog, hamburger or bologna sandwich
______Sex
it should be presumed that I won’t ever get better.
When such a determination is reached, I hereby instruct my appointed person and attending physicians to pull the plug, reel in the tubes and call it a day. At this point it is time to call the New Orleans Jazz Funeral Band to come do their thing at my funeral, and ask all of my friends to raise their glasses to toast the good times we have had.
Signature: ___________________________
Date: ___________________________
Do you like movies? Do you like spoofs? Are you just tired of the hype around Brokeback Mountain?
If you answered yes to any of the questions above, here’s a little Friday diversion for you: check out the movie trailers for “Brokeback To The Future” and “Top Gun 2, Brokeback Squadron”.
I found the pointers to these clips in a great NPR article on spoof movie trailers (and for you etymologysts, it has an interesting little sidebar on the origin of the word “satire”). The NPR story links to a number of spoofs, including my favorite, a trailer for a nice, uplifting comedic drama, “Shining”.
(note: don’t bother watching the trailers for “Big” or “Taxi Driver”, they fall short)
Some more wonderful web kismet today… wismet, if you will.
I was looking for a link I had tossed in my “interesting” folder in favorites and noticed another link in there I didn’t recognize (it was an old link to an indi comic site). Through that link I found Andrew Bell’s “the creatures in my head” page. This site, full of wonderful, expressive creatures, sucked me in. I highly recommend checking out his site.
You can navigate Andrew’s pictures chronologically, but I recommend hitting the “random” button on the page (go to his site, click on the creature on the homepage to get the navigation, then click “random”). Andrew creates the pictures then ads a delightfully appropriate caption, take the time to read those too (the picture below-right is titled “but… you said no one would get hurt.“)
