The Stuff

I found this critter this weekend:

See more beach finds on beach comber’s delight, a Flickr group.

Bettie Page passed away last week. Very sad. She was a true American icon. I feel kind of weird because I had just listed my copy of the Bettie Pages 2 on Amazon, when I heard the news.

Some web memorials:

Juxtapoz: Bettie Page Passed Away at Age 85 .

No Smoking in the Skull Cave: Bettie.

PCL Linkdump: Bettie Page, 1923 - 2008 .

retro CRUSH: BETTIE PAGE REMEMBERED.

The Total Recall: Pinup Legend Betty Page Dies at 85.

Neatorama: RIP Bettie Page: 1923-2008.

And some memories:

LP Cover Lover: The notorious Bettie Page. Bettie in a Leopard skin swimsuit posing with a cheetah.

Gorilla Men: Gal and a Gorilla. Bettie vs. King Kong.

Not Very Pretty Music (how can they say it’s not pretty when Bettie is on their page?): An Hour with Bettie Page. An interview.

LP Cover Lover: Bizet: Carmen. Bettie on the cover.

Time for a blast of Christmas cheer!

Satire: Christmas 2008: Lucifer’s Toy Chest! This Year’s Annual List of Banned Christmas Toys.

Satire: Angry Mob of Baptist Children Attack Santa Claus Outside Local Mall!

Political cartoons: Christmas cartoons.

Political cartoons: Holiday Shopping cartoons.

Music: Have a Blue Christmas at the Thirft Store DJ.

Satire, humor, pop-culture: I-Mockery’s Christmas Favorites. A decade of Christmas mockery?

Humor: Modern Drunkard’s ‘Tis the Season to Get Falling Down Drunk.

Bookman! Most excellent Christmas dance!

True or False, Myth or Not Myth: Snopes Guide to Christmas.

Kitsch: Inflatable Fruitcake!

Toy: Santa Dreidel.

Tasty: Santa Pooping Candy toy or the dog from the grinch pooping candy.

Spacey: Santa Space Capsule.

Geeks! LED Motherboard Xmas Tree.

Star Wars: Boba Fett Christmas Display.

Music: Cheerful Earful has many Christmas albums including one by Korla Pandit (who you might remember from the Ed Wood movie).

Music: 8-Bit Jesus. Christmas songs performed in the style of 8-bit video game music.

Music: Paul’s Ramblings has Vintage Christmas Wax.

Music: The Santastic 4! Super Holiday Mashups!

Music: Marijuana Christmas! Zoinks!

Thanks to Spandex Justice for introducing me to a super-hero parody web comic called The Non-Adventures of Wonderella. If you’re a fan of super-hero comics, particularly DC, and you have a sense of humor, check out Wonderella today.

You wouldn’t know by the 7 year old Honda I drive, but I love Top Gear, and now they have a Top Gear fan site just for American fans. The site has Top Gear videos; not that YouTube doesn’t, but you’ll be getting them straight from horses’ mouth. am I mixing metaphors? I’ve lost my mind.

I can write or talk about my adoration for Top Gear Ad nauseam, but I won’t, because right now I’m more interested in eating dinner.

Chao! Or rather, chow.

Here’s a very cool find: The design website Well Medicated has posted 45 “space age” illustrations. You’ll be wondering: “where’s my flying car, or giant-wheel motorcycle (they have these now, BTW), tree decorating robots, ski-tables, rocket subways, boat horses, jet packs, and fan powered cars?”

Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe season 5 is rolling on YouTube.

GB is currently going through debates about the moral sanity of their TV content (kicked off by comedians Banks and Ross). Interesting.

People talk on and on about documentaries like An Inconvenient Truth or Bowling for Columbine, but they all pale in comparison to the Hatfield Hotdog Launcher Documentary.

I might be biased as a Phillies fan, but a cannon that shoots hotdogs: what’s better than that?

This is my favorite joke:

Got Any Grapes?

A ducks walks into a bar and asks, “Got any grapes?”

The bartender, confused, tells the ducks that no, his bar doesn’t serve grapes. The duck thanks him and leaves.

The next day, the duck returns and says, “Got any grapes?”

Again, the bartender tells him that, no, the bar does not serve grapes, has never served grapes, and, furthermore, will never serve grapes. The duck, a little ruffled, thanks him and leaves.

The next day, the duck returns, but before he can say anything, the bartender begins to yell: “Listen, duck! This is a bar! We do not serve grapes! If you ever ask for grapes again, I will nail your stupid duck beak to the bar!”
The duck is silent for a moment, and then asks, “Got any nails?”

Confused, the bartender says no.

“Good!” says the duck. “Got any grapes?”

Commercials with scooting dogs.

AT&T’s scooting dog commercial:

Stanley Steamer:

Christmas time is here…

So it’s time for Christmas music, and since most Christmas music is cheesy by default, it’s no wonder there’s tonnes of it on Dr. Forrest’s Cheeze Factory. David Hasselhoff, Jingle Dogs, Chipmunks, Jingle Frogs, Jingle Cats, “Dark Side of the Christmas Tree”, PacMan Christmas… the list goes on and on. This site has it all.