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Saturday, December 31, 2005 Blue haired women with robots invade San Francisco. Its a marketing ploy, probably for some videogame, but it must have been especially weird to witness. Ideally, there would be two or more robots fighting, perhaps with an occasional godzilla thrown in. I write using too many commas.
@ 01:49 PM CST [Link] Friday, December 30, 2005 German new year tradition is watching an old brit sketch comedy piece. It sounds crazy, but all new year traditions sound crazy to me. Dropping giant balls? Getting piss drunk? An old man in sash? Selling high quality ecstacy to the neighor's kids. Oh wait... But why? How did a sliver of British humor come to dominate another culture's holidays—with apparently no connective thread back to its source? First, the slapstick of Dinner for One transcends the language barrier. Second, it offers a slight thrill of the verboten: After all, it features a very crazy old lady, a bevy of lecherous male friends, a big stench of post-WWII death, a hell of a lot of drinking, and senior-citizen sex. A third notion, floated by Der Spiegel and the Guardian alike last year, is that the film plays to Germans' worst idea of the British upper class: dotty, pigheadedly traditional, forever marinated in booze despite titles.It could be worse. In france they set fire to random cars. Also: New Years around the world. @ 09:46 PM CST [Link] Thursday, December 29, 2005 Someone's list of 50 top videos. They still make videos? The Cardigans are still a band? Lots of goodies here, especially the Cardigans video. Malkmus's stop motion video isn't bad either. Slight problem with #1, its not an aphex twin video its a short film with aphex music and RDG. @ 08:21 AM CST [Link] Wednesday, December 28, 2005 Gang members outnumber police 5 to 1 in Chicago. Last year Chicago has the highest homocide rate. Its pretty sad the gang problem is so bad here it makes the BBC's frontpage. With an estimated 68,000 gang members in Chicago, the city's 13,000 police officers have a difficult and sometimes deadly task. @ 11:14 PM CST [Link] 2005 assholes of the year nominees. Nothing like some righteous indignation. @ 11:19 AM CST [Link] BelugaCam. I find this pleasantly relaxing. @ 08:10 AM CST [Link] Tuesday, December 27, 2005 World's flags given letter grades. Qatar gets a B? Its the worst flag out there. @ 11:54 PM CST [Link]
@ 10:58 PM CST [Link] Also: Two new rings discovered around Uranus. Looks like the Hubble still has life in it. @ 10:52 PM CST [Link] USO hurting for acts. Fear and not wanting to endorse the war is supposedly keeping big acts away, so no-names are taking advantage of this odd opportunity. @ 10:45 PM CST [Link] Sunday, December 25, 2005
Also: Don't miss, hilarious Jesus the Musical. QT file. Also: Santa fights off mallrats using his bag as a shield and a Xmas tree as a stick. I love the quote. I guess when you're dressed as Santa you just gotta kick some ass. "They were calling me a fraud and a fake. If it had happened on the street I might have acted differently - I'd have given them a few choice words, but you can't do that dressed as Santa. "My bag made quite a good shield, I waved and pointed the tree to keep them at bay. All I wanted to do was keep a distance until I got security." @ 06:27 PM CST [Link] [Archives] Search entries: |
