Filed under: In the News, Weird | Tags: balloon boy, balloon boy video, heene music video
I tried to refrain from posting anything about Balloon Boy because that was just too obvious. BUT apparently the Heene boys made a music video called “Not Pussified” that jumped to about 500,000 views as of today. They kind of sound like the Beastie Boys meet the Moffats. How can someone let their kids do this, you ask? Why not let your kids do this?! Check it out after the jump.
Filed under: In the News, Politics, Weird | Tags: australia, black face, harry connick jr, hey hey it's saturday, racist australians
A reunion episode of popular Aussie variety show Hey Hey It’s Saturday featured an act dressed entirely in black face that called themselves “The Jackson Jive.” Bet they didn’t that one was going to piss anyone off.
Actually, no one was pissed off except for singer and guest judge on the show Harry Connick Jr., who gave The Jackson Jive a ‘0′ and told them that if they “turned up lookin’ like that in the United States… it’d be like Hey Hey There’s No More Show.”
Host Daryl Somers was completely oblivious, asking Connick if he could redeem them a little, “just for turning up, maybe a two or a three?” So was the stupid lady sitting next to him, who gave the act a ‘7,’ calling them “cute” with “great choreography.”
The Sydney-based hacks who called themselves a “Tribute to Michael Jackson” were actually a group of medical professionals (including a therapist, I think!). More racist Australian television and Daryl Somer’s half-assed apology to Connick after the jump.
So after a year’s hiatus, I’m back. I’m sure this website and all 10 posts were dearly missed by my eight readers.
In celebration of my highly-anticipated comeback, here’s an episode of Kablam! after the jump.
Filed under: Food, Weird | Tags: Food, game, holiday dinner ideas, meat consumption, pigeon, pigeon control, pigeons, times online
A school district in Carlsbad, New Mexico will hold a very important public meeting tomorrow discussing plans for pigeon control. Apparently there is an enormous problems with these birds on their campuses, as well as everywhere else in the universe. According to an article in Business Week last year, scientists predicted that the world’s pigeon population would reach 400 million in the next ten years. Let’s see, since pigeons produce 12 kilos of poop a year in their present numbers, we’re looking at a future with a lot more white stains on our cars (if we still have cars.)
Animal rights activists make it hard to legally shoot the pests without a great reason, so I think we should either come up with good reason to get rid of pigeons or just get rid of animal rights activists.
So before I start sounding like a gun-totin’ redneck, perhaps I should point totoday’s Times Online article for its suggestion of using the pests in place of turkey for the holidays. I mean, why not? Less hassle, and you can get ‘em fresh from your sidewalk!
They take less than half an hour and it’s more fun discovering the different flavours, making the whole process into a bit of a ceremony, accompanied by bread sauce and game chips (crisps).
Snaps for Times Online on making international pests sound like chic holiday cuisine. Check out your local Wegman’s this holiday season for your fresh, free-range “game birds” soon!
Filed under: In the News, Recession, Weird | Tags: begging, homeless, laid off, lay offs, Recession, us economy
Image courtesy of daylife.com
A former executive in New York has the bright idea of passing out his resumes while wearing a sandwich board that says “Almost Homeless: Looking for employment. Very experienced operations and administration manager.”
Paul Nawrocki, who was laid off in February, worked in the toy industry. His wife is disabled, his daughter’s tuition is at stake and he says he’s running out of money.
Nawrocki is one of thousands losing their salaries, as companies across the nations make cuts to afford costs. If a former executive with decades of experience can’t find a job selling his pride on the streets, it doesn’t leave much hope for the soon-to-be-college-graduate typing out blog posts with a mediocre grade-point average and thousands of dollars in student loans. Where’s that call girl who got that senator in trouble? Didn’t she make almost a million dollars a year? Does she have a business card?
Check out the CNN article of this sad man here.
Filed under: In the News, Weird | Tags: cow manure, cow methane capture, emissions, energy, environmental, farms, fart, farts, flatulence, green, meat, meat consumption, methane, methane capture, power
According to this story in the New York Times, a farm in the Netherlands is responding to the rise in meat consumption by cooking animal poop and harnessing the methane to produce electricity.
This week countries from all over the world will gather in Poland to discuss the problems of methane emissions from the trillions of animals in meat and dairy farms, which United Nations estimates say contribute to 18 percent of emissions raising global temperatures. Overrated Musician Dave Matthews reports:
More vegetarians around the world are realizing their silly ways, as shown in the rising meat consumption of over 30 percent. And as this percentage rises, so do emissions from said farms and methane is 22 times more potent than regular carbon dioxide. While “methane capture” aka “fart-tricity” sounds like a wholesome, self-sustainable alternative to farms, this is America and convenience and saving money prevails all rational decisions.
With the moral, anti-capitalist mumbo-jumbo aside, power through flatulence? I am in full support. Do you know what this means? Perhaps this could replace the remote control–just let ‘er rip to turn on your favorite program. Power outage? Never fear! Just use the generator in your ass!
To check out more benefits of fart-tricity, check out this article from the International Herald Tribune.
I went to lunch with my old neighbor today. Over burritos and Styrofoam cups of ice water, we talked about his current job. He’s a neuroscience major and wants to work in research. Right now, he is has a student worker position with a prominent local anesthesiologist’s study on the brain.
I made the mistake of asking what he does in the lab. He answered my question by telling me that he kills rats, takes out their brains and cuts them into little slices to be placed on slides. I made another mistake of asking to elaborate.
“In order to preserve the brain, we load the rats with ketamine to numb the pain. While they’re tripping balls, I put them in a vice so they don’t move while I cut them down the middle (Keep in mind, they’re still alive) and inject poison into their hearts. It was cool at first, but after a while, it gets depressing.”
I wonder if I should ask him to lunch again.
