August 2010
24 posts
Today in Words That Sound Like Compliments But...
Fabulist.
86 Rules of Boozing
A while ago I started an Evernote list of the various bits of bar-related wisdom I’ve acquired from near nightly drinking excursions and my habit of befriending bartenders. Then I realized I was just replicating this: The 86 Rules of Boozing from the surprisingly useful Modern Drunkard Magazine.
Some highlights (well, I actually just edited out the ones that bore me, this is still most...
Dear Coke Talk: On sex ed. →
Dear Coke Talk,
My grandma wouldn’t sign the sex ed form so my friend Ricky and I had to play tetherball outside. What the heck were they talking about in there?!
Thanks a bundle!
-Tom Oatmeal
P.S. This is more for Ricky. I know what they were talking about, but I thought maybe you…
I used to hope that one day, if I wished hard enough, Airwolf would guest star on Knight Rider. This...
“ A measly trip to taco bell caused me to overdraft in my checking account.”
– im gonna make t shirts if anyone wants them. I’m sure I’m not the only person this has happened to. (via lookoverherelaura)
Not that this is a competition, but I got home one Saturday evening from a four month trip to Montreal, and wanted nothing more than a Jack in the Box Ultimate Cheeseburger....
The fucking Ground Zero Mosque story
I’ll admit to having a certain “they’re going to do WHAT?” reaction when I first heard of plans to build a mosque on the grounds of the former WTC. It seemed like a pointlessly inflammatory idea.
But then I got my facts straight. It’s not at ground zero, it’s four blocks away, which, for me, case closed. None of my business. I used to live six blocks away from the site, only then might my opinion...
Watchericalba:
#VFX Guy vs. Producer.
I have no idea who made this. NSFW
I laughed and cried because of the flashbacks.
(via VFX Guy vs. Producer)
I did more sighing and shaking my head. A lot of this hits pretty close to home.
Fun bit of trivia, though: xtranormal, the company that makes the text-to-movie software that powers these little bits of genius, was started by Richard Szalwinski,...
The problem with doing crosswords from British newspapers is that half of the words are complete gibberish and the other half are spelled wrong.
KATY PERRY X GENESIS →
(Click through for a surprisingly listenable mash up of Katy Perry and Genesis)
The only real problem I have with this is that they chose a picture of the Lamb Lies Down On Broadway Genesis instead of the Invisible Touch Genesis.
Peter Gabriel does not appear on Invisible Touch, nerds! Nor does Steve Hackett.*
*Holy fucking shit, I totally just pulled Genesis’ obscure second guitar...
Perspective
So, if you ever get depressed, or feel like your life isn’t working out the way you’d planned, just remind yourself that you’re not sitting at a pay-by-the-minute computer in a Williamsburg bodega at 145am on a Monday, checking your match.com account, like THE GUY I JUST SAW.
It Might Get Loud
What an utter waste of time this doc was. I didn’t really care for Jimmy Page’s role, though he told a couple of good stories. The Edge was amusing, but only because of his utter guitar boffinism. It was clear, however, that they set up the conversation/jam session between the three players and expected it to produce magic, which it completely did not, and thus the rest of the movie...
Meta sandwich
I know I’m about two years late to this whole This Is Why You’re Fat phenomenon, and at least a few months late to making fun of the KFC Double Down, but I was just struck by an intense desire to create a sandwich involving a blue cheese burger patty and two Monte Cristo sandwiches. Preferably the sandwiches would be deep fried, like they make at Prune or Disneyland, but I feel like that might run...
The club at the Standard in Hollywood
It’s as if my senior prom threw up on a Persian rug.
