The strangely satisfying Symmetry video from Everynone on Vimeo.
Weird Al Yankovic - "Bob", where each line of the song is palindromic. Compare to the iconic video for Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues".
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Was It A Car Or A Cat I Saw?
The strangely satisfying Symmetry video from Everynone on Vimeo.
Weird Al Yankovic - "Bob", where each line of the song is palindromic. Compare to the iconic video for Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues".
Saturday, April 16, 2011
What Is... Freaking Insane?
J! Archive has the answers and questions to every Jeopardy! show since Alex Trebek started hosting 27 seasons ago in 1984. I'll take Holy Crap! for a thousand, Alex!
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
Ice Ice Baby
Pretty funny ad from the Bic Shaver folks. I have sympathetic shrinkage just from watching... (via Colossal art + design)
Jonathan Coulton - Curl
Scary Ice Hockey Accident
Clint Malarchuk was goalie for the NHL Buffalo Sabres in 1989. During a game against the St. Louis Blues, Steve Tuttle of the Blues and Uwe Krupp of the Sabres became entangled while chasing the puck and crashed into Malarchuk's goal, Tuttle's skate caught Malarchuk on the neck, severing his internal carotid artery.
Thanks to some quick action by the team's trainer, Malarchuk survived the incident, though surgeons needed over 300 stitches to close the wound.
Saturday, April 09, 2011
Sunday, April 03, 2011
The Words Below
The most elaborate commercial ever for... well, you're just going to have to watch and find out. (via Copyranter)
Jeez. Those guys are so touchy.
Friday, April 01, 2011
Long Romantic Walks on the Beach: You're Doing It Wrong
There's a grain of truth in this. And it's stuck in an uncomfortable spot.
Agreed.
The 16 Largest Insects in the World
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Sunday, March 27, 2011
That Synch'ing Feeling
Looks like these guys got an entire apartment complex to participate in a lipdub of The Beatles' "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da".
Here in Furniture City, it was recently announced that Rob Bliss, an event coordinator and promoter in my home city of Grand Rapids, MI is planning a massive lipdub as well to happen sometime in 2011. It's going to be set to Don Mclean's nearly nine-minute-long 1971 epic "American Pie", and is supposed to feature marching bands, a large pillow fight, a football game, kayakers in the Grand River, Metro Cruise cars, swing dancers, Fifth Third River Bank runners, a helicopter take-off, and crowds spelling out “Experience Grand Rapids,”to name a few things. While I'm not wild about the song choice (can't we update to something a little more recent than this 40-year-old chestnut?), it still sounds like a fun experience that I might try to get in on.
As long as I'm giving shout-outs to local lip-synching, I found a pretty good video ("So Much Love" by The Summer Rockets) done by the students of Calvin College, also here in Grand Rapids, which, judging by this video, seems to have the most wholesomely attractive student body I have ever seen...
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Episode IV: A New 'Trope
There's always something strange and wonderful to be found over at arts blog This Is Colossal. Here, animator Tim Wheatley creates The Cyclotrope, his very own zoetrope out of a bicycle wheel.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Sunday, March 13, 2011
If your nose runs and your feet smell, you're upside-down!
One of the best gifts I got last Christmas was this Easter Island Head Kleenex holder courtesy of my sister. It still cracks me up. Thanks, Krista! Dum-Dum dispenses on-demand nasal maintenance in our bathroom to this day.
My birthday is just around the corner. I still wear an XL. Hint.
Tuesday, March 08, 2011
Defunct-y Chicken
A somewhat poignant list of defunct restaurant chains in the US.
How many do you remember patronizing? I can come up with nine for which I have (sometimes) fond memories :
1) Burger Chef - Burger Chef and Jeff were the cartoon mascots. The Yumbo, a ham-and-gloopy-cheese on a toasted sesame seed bun, rocked my world.
2) Chi-Chi's - I know I've eaten at Chi-Chi's, but I other than the episode below of WKRP In Cincinnati, where news director Les Nessman pronounces pro golfer Chi Chi Rodriguez's name as "Chy Chy Rod-wa-gweeze", I got nothin'.
3) Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour - There was a Farrell's at the Scottsdale Mall in South Bend, IN, and we used to beg Mom and Dad to go there on a semi-regular basis. We always wanted to but never had the courage to order The Zoo, which was comprised of 8-and-a-half pounds of ice cream (I remember it was supposed to be 21 scoops), and was brought out with sirens and alarms and run out to you in a stretcher by two Farrell's employees.
I've tracked down one of their old commercials from their heyday in the mid-Seventies.
4) Henry's Hamburgers had over 200 locations in the early 1960s, even more at that time than McDonalds. When I was but a wee lad, I used to beg my parents to stop at the one in nearby Benton Harbor (MI). Sadly, it was around that time in the mid-1970s that Henry's fortunes took a precipitous fall, and that Benton Harbor store is the sole remaining Henry's. They kept their sweet neon sign, though.
(image source All Things Michigan)
5) Kenny Rogers Roasters - If it's good enough for Kramer, it's good enough for me.
6) Mr. Fables - mostly confined to the West Michigan/Grand Rapids/Holland area. Ate there maybe twice. Meh.
7) Sambo's - Come for the pancakes, stay for the quasi-racist overtones!
8) Showbiz Pizza Place - In the 1980s, Showbiz was a competitor with, and was eventually subsumed by, Chuck E. Cheese's. At this point I was really too old to be there for the creepy animatronic bear band or the crappy pizza, but it was the height of the video game arcade era (younger readers, think of the abandoned arcade in last year's Tron), and there was a pretty extensive arcade within the friendly confines of Showbiz Pizza Place (or as we smart-assedly dubbed it, Slowbuzz Pizza Face).
9) York Steak House - In the mid-80s, my friend John and I used to frequent the York Steak House tucked inside the now-circling-the-toilet Orchards Mall. Chopped steak and a baked potato. Cute waitress that John asked out once or twice, if memory serves.
How many do you remember patronizing? I can come up with nine for which I have (sometimes) fond memories :
1) Burger Chef - Burger Chef and Jeff were the cartoon mascots. The Yumbo, a ham-and-gloopy-cheese on a toasted sesame seed bun, rocked my world.
2) Chi-Chi's - I know I've eaten at Chi-Chi's, but I other than the episode below of WKRP In Cincinnati, where news director Les Nessman pronounces pro golfer Chi Chi Rodriguez's name as "Chy Chy Rod-wa-gweeze", I got nothin'.
3) Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour - There was a Farrell's at the Scottsdale Mall in South Bend, IN, and we used to beg Mom and Dad to go there on a semi-regular basis. We always wanted to but never had the courage to order The Zoo, which was comprised of 8-and-a-half pounds of ice cream (I remember it was supposed to be 21 scoops), and was brought out with sirens and alarms and run out to you in a stretcher by two Farrell's employees.
I've tracked down one of their old commercials from their heyday in the mid-Seventies.
4) Henry's Hamburgers had over 200 locations in the early 1960s, even more at that time than McDonalds. When I was but a wee lad, I used to beg my parents to stop at the one in nearby Benton Harbor (MI). Sadly, it was around that time in the mid-1970s that Henry's fortunes took a precipitous fall, and that Benton Harbor store is the sole remaining Henry's. They kept their sweet neon sign, though.
(image source All Things Michigan)
5) Kenny Rogers Roasters - If it's good enough for Kramer, it's good enough for me.
6) Mr. Fables - mostly confined to the West Michigan/Grand Rapids/Holland area. Ate there maybe twice. Meh.
7) Sambo's - Come for the pancakes, stay for the quasi-racist overtones!
8) Showbiz Pizza Place - In the 1980s, Showbiz was a competitor with, and was eventually subsumed by, Chuck E. Cheese's. At this point I was really too old to be there for the creepy animatronic bear band or the crappy pizza, but it was the height of the video game arcade era (younger readers, think of the abandoned arcade in last year's Tron), and there was a pretty extensive arcade within the friendly confines of Showbiz Pizza Place (or as we smart-assedly dubbed it, Slowbuzz Pizza Face).
9) York Steak House - In the mid-80s, my friend John and I used to frequent the York Steak House tucked inside the now-circling-the-toilet Orchards Mall. Chopped steak and a baked potato. Cute waitress that John asked out once or twice, if memory serves.
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