Are you going to feed him with your boob?
It looks like Beavis and Butt-Head are back:
The
belowfootage prepared for Mike Judge’s Comic-Con panel is pure fan service, featuring the return of Cornholio and plenty of idiotic double- and single-entendres, while the characters remain unchanged right down to Stewart’s Winger shirt (a joke that will probably be lost on younger audiences, but screw them). Pretty much the only sign that this was made in 2011: As a reflection of MTV’s near-total banishment of the music video, the duo now also comments on UFC fights, movies such as Twilight, and, of course, MTV reality shows like 16 And Pregnant, Teen Mom, and—as seen here—Jersey Shore.
How do I feel about this?
(thanks, Josh)
headline of the day
Fast-food manager accused of punching mom with service dog
quote out of context
Important! You are not buying a visible piece of art; you are buying the title and description card for the imagined artwork.
the porsche bong
A subsidiary of the company that makes the cars, Porsche Design just produced a bong.
from the comments
I wrote a poem once called “The Church Camp Kids Dry Hump the Summer to Bits.” Doesn’t really matter what the poem said.
the circle of life
Two drunken men from South Jersey were arrested after they climbed into the back of a police van to take pictures of themselves being ‘arrested’.
(thanks, Joel)
from the moderated comments
Dallas needs to stop being so lily-livered about the event that defines it. Okay, we’re the City of Hate. Yes! That’s us. We love to Hate. I love how our Roller Derby league calls itself Assassination City. It’s perfect.
You know something, the people this offends are all old and stopping buying anything a long time ago. We need to bring in people with money who are interested in that very colorful phase of our history and cater to it, DAMMIT!
I’ve written articles on this for D Magazine. go to my website and read them
Remembering Scott, 6
From Mark:
Remember those “basic skills” tests we took as TX school children (they were probably administered everywhere) where you’d bubble in the answers? Scott told me that he read the first question, then bubbled in the rest of the test booklet in a design that resembled an eyelet dress fabric that he liked.
Don’t Forget the Motor City Lawndale
I was looking at pictures of Detroit (from my Flickr friend Jan Normandale and from the archives of the Reuther Library at Wayne State University), and now I have to stop looking for a while.
I’ve visited Detroit a couple of times, and in truth there’s a lot I like about it, but I can’t think about it anymore. This afternoon I’m recollecting a blisteringly hot afternoon in Chicago, late July, when I thought to avoid the expressway and take a parallel route down Roosevelt Road to where I was going.
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Lucian Freud died last night
From the late 1950s, when he began using a stiffer brush and moving paint in great swaths around the canvas, Mr. Freud’s nudes took on a new fleshiness and mass. His subjects, pushed to the limit in exhausting extended sessions, day after day, dropped their defenses and opened up. The faces showed fatigue, distress, torpor.
The flesh was mottled, lumpy and, in the case of his 1990s portraits of the performance artist Leigh Bowery and the phenomenally obese civil servant Sue Tilley, shockingly abundant.
Previously on clusterflock…. This is more indicative of his characteristic style.
Dear Clusterflock
What book(s) are you reading?
Texas Theatre Oswald T-Shirts
A little local controversy.
Jason Reimer of Aviation Cinemas, who operates the Texas Theatre and created the T-shirt, says it is about accepting history. For better or worse, Oswald’s arrest at the theater (which Reimer prefers to call “the incident”) has defined the theater’s identity. “Dallas has not come to terms with a lot of its history,” he said. “Oswald is a part of the theater’s history. Everyone knows it. We are acknowledging it.”
quote out of context
One of the things you learn as a college president is that if an undergraduate is wearing a tie and jacket on Thursday afternoon at three o’clock, there are two possibilities. One is that they’re looking for a job and have an interview; the other is that they are an asshole.
from the moderated comment spam
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put a squirrel trap on it and you have yourself a customer
Alexander Trevi muses on treebots:
When a more advanced version is developed, one that has greater maneuverability, adaptability and durability (plus the ability to harness the metabolic energy of trees), drop thousands of them to the Amazon, each one with the instructions to recreate Notre-Dame out of the rainforest.
Once deployed, they’ll link up together to form a chain: one treebot gripping another. This chain will in turn knit itself with other chains to create a lattice binding trunks, branches, vines and canopies together with each other. It is also anchored to the forest floor. Simultaneously, the treebots will attach themselves to theses future columns and buttresses like a full-body orthopedic brace of facehuggers.
‘Leopards are protected in India, though more are straying into villages for food’
Eleven people were injured in an attempt to drive a male leopard back into a wildlife sanctuary in India. The report is skimpy on details, but the incident didn’t end well. I make the post primarily out of respect for the animal.
question out of context
You gave your talk at the TED conference last week wearing your mushroom death suit. How does the suit work?
Hidden Treasure: Lost Photos From the Set of American Graffiti
In March, the Magnum photo agency stumbled onto a remarkable find: Nearly two dozen lost photos from the set of American Graffiti.
fake Apple stores
Being the curious types that we are, we struck up some conversation with these salespeople who, hand to God, all genuinely think they work for Apple. I tried to imagine the training that they went to when they were hired, in which they were pitched some big speech about how they were working for this innovative, global company – when really they’re just filling the pockets of some shyster living in a prefab mansion outside the city by standing around a fake store disinterestedly selling what may or may not be actual Apple products that fell off the back of a truck somewhere.
Clearly, they had also been told that above all, they must protect the brand. As I took these photos I was quickly accosted by two salespeople inside, and three plain clothes security guys outside, putting their hands in my face and telling me to stop taking photographs – that it wasn’t allowed. And why wasn’t it allowed? Because their boss told them so.
from the comments
I once saw a rancher–straight and tall, weathered brown skin, piercing blue eyes under a straw cowboy hat–gazing at a Donald Judd outdoor sculpture. The experience of seeing him in that context was larger than anything Judd could have hoped to produce.
if the world’s population lived in one city
(via @mattyglesias)
from the comments
I got slightly inebriated at a dinner party right after this record came out and kept repeating “All you want to do is be the fire part of fire” and everyone kept asking me what I was muttering about because apparently hanging out in a kitchen and muttering about fire is disconcerting.
headline of the day
IF YOUR WEBSITE’S FULL OF ASSHOLES, IT’S YOUR FAULT
negation by inflation
From a Browser link to a review of The Trip:
Recent Michael Winterbottom film, “The Trip”, with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, is a masterpiece worthy of Joyce, or Borges, or Godard, or Beckett.
Um, no. Not at all.
Previously on clusterflock.
Kicking and Screaming
It’s movie night, y’all!
Andrew and I will be watching Kicking and Screaming on Netflix Instant watch and gchatting during at 9PST/11pm Kansas City Time. That’s in about 20 minutes. Pour yourself a cold one and join us!
