tweet of the day, II
I’m going to make a viral video called “Shit No One Has Ever Said to Anybody.” You’ll laugh your ass off in nonrecognition!
— Tim Carmody (@tcarmody) January 12, 2012
from the moderated comments
It’s a fantastic dicovery, it’s mean that another species other than human that can understand permenantly the concept of death! But, it’s cruel, the poor gorilla is sad and because he understand it too well, he is experiencing the same desperate feeling that us when we face death … where’s the ethic ? I hope they confort him well … and that he can be a happy gorilla! :\
photo out of context
On a related note
from the comments
Is Casey Affleck pretending to make a film out of this?
Yelping with Cormac
And so. This is how the uprising began. How in the towns of that country under the cobalt vault of the sky impassive and immutable the villagers took to arms under the banner of the halfeaten taco. What was to come was not man’s doing but of some celestial machinery. Who are we to ask why? For once the taco was eaten it could not be uneaten nor could the tragedy looming be diverted or waylaid.
Excerpt from “Taco Bell, 2nd Review”, Yelping with Cormac
(via Coudal)
The Tug Toner
It’s what the Shake Weight thinks about when it’s by itself.
(thanks, Derek)
Tomorrow, it’s one day closer to the White House
If you haven’t already seen this Herman Cain campaign ad, you owe it to yourself to take a look. It’s no Demon Sheep, but still.
photo caption out of context
Week Five of the Occupy Wall Street movement finds couture-and-pearls-bedecked actress Elizabeth McGovern preoccupied with America’s growing income disparity at the New York Film Festival premiere of “My Week With Marilyn” in a swank New York City hotel on Sunday.
(via @tcarmody)
Siri can learn…
…how to hate you.
headline of the day, II
Capitol Police investigating The Onion for fake hostage crisis tweets
Las Reinas Chulas: “Que Suave Patria”
Please don’t turn aside take a look even if no hablas español (not even dumbass texan spanish).
¡Las Reinas Chulas reglan!
Dozens of plastic foam heads rain onto the stage. Four drug traffickers in fringed jackets and sparkly pink cowboy hats bat them into the audience with toy AK-47s. All the while, the cast croons, “Let them slit our throats, let them pack us up . . . let them not ask any questions, let them not investigate.”
This is cabaret, Mexico style. Las Reinas Chulas, or the Beautiful Queens, parody drug violence in a show the women first produced in 2005 and that still fills nightclubs around Mexico, including a performance in the tourist town of Taxco this weekend.
Enter title here
The first video is Miss USA contestants discussing whether evolution should be taught in school. The next is smart people making fun of them.
You probably won’t be able to watch much of the official one, but make sure you stick around for Miss Vermont in the spoof.
(thanks, Tim)
headline of the day, II
Jon Stewart accidentally slashes wrist during Weiner sketch, receives stitches
The Life Zone
Three women have been kidnapped from abortion clinics and are being held for seven months–until they all give birth. The film, which appears to cut right down the middle, examining the topic from both sides, offers a powerful, anti-abortion climactic twist.
And no, this isn’t satire.
For those who hate musicals…
…you might become a believer. So certainly NSFW.
Hockern is German for Competitive Sitting
This is a spoof, right?
car review of the day
Stick some flags on the front fenders and you’re halfway to running your own banana republic. Or, in the case of Americans’ actual S.U.V. assignments, running to Banana Republic.
Visibility is always a problem in a full-size S.U.V. You’re sitting up there in the wheelhouse and your bumpers are somewhere down below the cloud ceiling, possibly in different counties. You’re always getting home and finding small items like A.T.M.’s and hot-dog carts stuck in the wheel wells and wondering, “How long has that been there?”
The system really works; I drove the QX several hundred miles and didn’t crash into a single thing.
Sarah Palin, Battle Hymn of the Republic
Let this wash over you.
The Most Amazing Press Release Ever Written
CHICAGO, Jan. 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Mitch Delaplane of PitchPoint Public Relations has issued the most amazing press release ever written. While hundreds of press releases are distributed daily, Delaplane feels this particular release will go down in history as the most amazing press release that has ever been written.
“I’ve been in the business for over ten years and have to say, I’m speechless,” claims Delaplane. “The title alone grabs you and demands that it be read. Then there’s this quote that completely takes things to an entirely new level. I’m proud of this press release. In fact, I think it is [really] amazing.”
Father Christmas fucked my pussy (Christmas pussy song)
(thanks, Aaron)
Time for a slurp
of Duck Soup, you think?
Being a Hand Model
Most people are still really amazed that I can make a living off about, oh, five inches.
This is better, and worse, than you think.
(thanks, Aaron)
The Payoff in Letting It Go
I’ll stress the incredible part, because much more than my colleagues I can remember when McCain seemed to be a potentially Eisenhower-ish, as opposed to an increasingly Bunning-like, figure in American public life. Broad-minded, tolerant, eager to bridge rather than open divides — this was the way he seemed to so many people starting from his arrival in the Congress in the 1980s.
Seeing him now is surprising not simply because it reminds us: this man could be the sitting president, but also because it again raises the question, how did he end up this way? Even if his earlier identity had been artifice, what would be the payoff in letting it go?
– James Fallows, The Mystery of John McCain.
(image via)
Plastic Jesus
It occurred to me, after making my Plastic Jesus reference in the comments, that most of you would have no idea what I was talking about.
Consider yourselves educated.
