Friday, July 17, 2009

Questionable Advertising: Death by Fruit-by-the-Foot

Doesn't anyone else find this disturbing?







Teenager found dead; victim of horrible witchcraft

The culprit then proceeded to replace his sister's blood with Tang and both his parents' lungs with Dubble Bubble. The deadly warlock is still at large.

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Happy BANG 4th of WOOSH July

This neighborhood is just FULL of pyromaniacs. Every New Year's and every 4th there's a tremendous amount of noise that night, and the occasional random explosion almost each day in the weeks leading up to both, and a good amount some days afterward. For years now, the local police have circled the neighborhood on those days so that their presence keeps everyone from blowing up something or setting somebody's roof on fire. They've pretty much given up on trying to keep them from buying and setting off rockets.

Gad, I can almost smell the sulfur already.

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Down

Now that I've seen Up, I think I can safely say that anyone who doesn't at least enjoy the movie must be either of the undead or some kind of android. Or at least, realistically, can never know happiness.

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Do Beatles songs ever make a musical good?

As far as I'm concerned, Across the Universe is Sgt. Pepper the movie with a way bigger budget and a marginally better cast and script. And a whole lot of digital pitch correction.

I really don't care for Julie Taymor's work in general, from what I've seen of it.

And Bono, God, why did it have to be Bono??

Friday, June 5, 2009

Ignorance and squirrels

Sometime last year while riding the train, we overheard the conversation of two little boys playing their DS (I believe it was New Super Mario Bros.). They constantly referred to it as the "Nintendo". Of course, we both thought this was pitifully ignorant of them, maybe even a little stupid.

It would have been nice to go up and tell them that they should call it the "DS", and that "the Nintendo" is really only used to refer to the NES. But of course, you just can't do that sort of thing these days. They probably never heard about the NES. I wonder if they even know what New Super Mario Bros. is inspired by. Did they ever wonder about the "new" in the title? Even then, why not call it the DS anyway? Don't they realize that "Nintendo" is the company that makes it, not the name of the thing?

This is an odd request, but if anyone's reading this, does anyone have a better copy of this image?:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/tymime/squirrel_stretched.png