The Stuff

What is the greatest company in the history of the planet earth? The Pabst Brewing Company of course. Pabst owns not only Pabst Blue Ribbon, but also, Old Milwaukee, Colt 45, Schlitz, Schlitz Malt Liquor (Bull), Schmidt, Stroh’s, McSorleys, Schaefer, St. Ides, Blatz, Piels, Pearl, Ballantine (”with the puzzool on the cap”), Champale, Olympia, and Black Label. No one company has brought more joy to grandfathers, blue collar workers, poor college students, people who wear ironic tshirts, and bad MFs than Pabst.

By the way, for people on the fence about these beers: the best way to drink them is ice cold in a glass, while sitting in an easy chair after you just cut the lawn.

What one company owns the Cisco, Wild Irish Rose, Paul Masson, Arbor Mist, and Manischewitz brands? The Centerra Wine Company, that’s who. Thanks to Bum Wine for the tip.

Speaking of fun, check out these classic Orson Welles outtakes:

Obviously Orson enjoyed Paul Masson’s excellent sparkling wines.

We don’t have Honey Badger in the USA, and thank goodness we don’t! Watch this clip from my favorite non-fiction TV show, TopGear, to see why a beast with such a sweet sounding name is in fact quite scary.

Hey! Time for a new song, I think. The new Phoenix spacecraft landed on Mars and is taking photos.

NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft landed on Mars Sunday, May 25th, to begin three months of examining an arctic site chosen for its likelihood of having frozen water within reach of the lander’s robotic arm. Check today’s story for details of the landing and first pictures beamed back from the landing site.

“So called chosen, frozen.” What do you know, the songs already been written, and by Public Enemy! Maybe Chuck wasn’t taking about water. Hmmm…. oopsie!

Of course my album is still free and available for you to download. It’s about probes, satellites and rovers.

Peep Show E0504 is up on the YouTube, and it just keeps getting better. This episode revolves around Jeremy’s chance to inherit a small fortune (20 pounds — which he thinks will make him a millionaire), and Mark’s chance to be a war historian.

“Older people are still people, they’re just people who think when they open a new window on the computer, the previous window is disappeared for good.”

The humor is crass and offensive, but the situations are completely believable, and of course, hilarious.

part 1, part 2, part 3.

Bikini Kill almost made the fanny pack cool with this video:

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Penn and Teller have been around for what, 20, 25 years? I’ve always found them entertaining, particularly Penn’s interviews.

Now Penn is doing a video blog on Crackle.com, and if you like the guy, they’re worth a listen.

Here’s his take on New York and San Francisco — the 2 most pompous cities in the world.

$12-15-a-Gallon Gas is on the way according to this article. That’s the ultimate craziness. I’m paying about $45 a week on gas, and I have a 4 cylinder car. At $15 a gallon, that’s $145, which is $7540 a year. I have friends that pay over $100 a week now. And don’t forget, when fuel prices go up, so does the price of everything that gets shipped — food, clothes, Xbox games. And food prices go up because tractors use fuel (time to buy mules). Not a pretty picture.

I’m not a cop, so I guess I’ll be the guy with the Mohawk hairdo who attacks tankers full of gas.

The Gong Show is coming back to American TV, and it will be hosted by comedian Dave Attell (not original host and CIA agent Chuck Barris). It will air on the Comedy Network, and Dave promises it will be edgier than other talent audition shows like America’s Got Talent.

This could be good news.

Here’s some classics from the old show:

Pee Wee Herman on the Gong Show:

The Unknown Comic on the Gong Show:

David Letterman on the Gong Show:

WALL-E is real! It’s the WALL-E robot from the Pixar movie set for release this summer, but it’s real! (Can it serve me beer???)

Wall-E Spotted in LA! from Blink on Vimeo.