The Stuff

By the way folks, the Valentine’s Day candy is in the stores, so go out and get it while it’s fresh.

Target has plenty of candy, as well as wacky ads like this one:

That’s some “target”.

Photo taken by Bennett 4 Senate as seen on Flickr.

I keep getting this black screen on my Wii. Unplugging the unit, letting it chill, and then re-plugging it seems to work. For now.

In the past I’ve had internet arguments with folks about the Muppets singing Mah Nà Mah Nà. I’m old, and I remember them singing it on Sesame Street, but the know it alls on the interweb said it only happened on the Muppet Show. F the know it alls because they are wrong. Thanks to the Wikipedia, I have documented proof!

The song became familiar to many from its renditions by the Muppets on national television. On November 30, 1969, “Mahna Mahna” was performed on the The Ed Sullivan Show by a Muppet also known as Mahna Mahna, and the Snowths. Also in 1969, “Mahna Mahna” was performed on Sesame Street by a character that was later known as Bip Bipadotta, along with two Anything Muppet girls.

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In 1976, the first episode of The Muppet Show to be recorded (featuring Juliet Prowse), used “Mahna Mahna” as the first sketch. It was performed by the Muppets “Mahna Mahna and the Snowths”. As a result, the original Piero Umiliani recording finally became a hit in the UK, where the Muppet Show soundtrack album featuring the Muppets’ version went to number one.

Here’s the Muppet Show version on the YouTube:

Bonus (thanks to The J-Man): the Muppets perform Pulp Fiction:

Here’s a sweet video of a dude who accidentally turned his skin blue by taking some kind of silver-based solution. Papa Smurf. I feel sorry for him. I accidentally turned my belly fat by taking too much pizza and beer, so I can relate!

Anyone know what this thing is? It looks like a happy space alien lama. It’s been all over the web, for years now, and I don’t know what it is.

Before I watched the video I thought “this is going to be cool”, but then after watching the video I thought “that’s kind of sad”.

Yahoo is running a story about the Silver Bridge Collapse: W.Va. town remembers 1967 bridge failure. One part of the story was left out: the Mothman.

One of my favorite places to get my drunk on was a bar called McCormicks in New Brunswick, New Jersey. McCormicks was known for its large selection of beers on tap and one of the better jukeboxes in North America. Time moves on, and I stopped hanging out there. Over the past half decade or so the place has gone downhill. I’d heard rumors that patrons were bringing in and selling their own beer, and that the owner had painted the carpet red in a sad attempt to spruce up the place. Well, local “dinosaur blog” The Star Ledger has confirmed that the painted carpet rumor is in fact true:

Wallpaper? How about the flattened six-pack cartons at McCormick’s in New Brunswick, where owner Jack Schobert painted the carpet instead of installing a new floor. Saved him $12,000.

It’s Christmas time, so I’m dragging out my infamous Santa photos and adult Christmas jokes.

I guess I wasn’t the only person to endure the Transformers movie over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Spandex Justice has an excellent review of the Transformers movie, which is, without a doubt, a bad movie. Just read the review: it’s an entertaining read and may save you money if you were thinking about renting or buying the movie.

I was describing the general awfulness of the film to a friend, but I finished my remarks with “the special effects were good”. My friend correctly pointed out that if all you remember about a film are its special effects, then it isn’t a good film — at this point in time special effects are supposed to good, so good that you shouldn’t have to think twice about them. No special effects can fix bad writing, pathetic character development, and annoying actors.

Here’s a list of my demands after seeing this film:

1. Stephen Spielberg will never produce or direct a science fiction film again. Never. Ever. What a string of dogs: Deep Impact, AI, Men in Black II, Minority Report, War of the Worlds, Transformers; an average rating of 6.72 on the IMDB, which equals a D. The world has spoken: Stephen Spielberg makes D grade science fiction films.
2. Shia LaBeouf needs to shut the fuck up. The only way Spielberg can redeem himself after executive producing this film, would be to have a boulder crush Shia’s skull in the first 5 minutes of the new Indiana Jones movie.
3. No more “urban stereotypes” in films. Did Jazz the space robot grow up in the Cybertron ghetto? Can someone delete all copies of the new Chipmunks film before it is shown to children?
4. A ten year ban on hackers or hacking in films and TV.
5. Slow down the damn robots so I can enjoy the detail of the design, ’cause it isn’t like I’m enjoying the plot, or acting.