One of the best ads I’ve seen in forever. Love the Bilbo Baggins song, and the fact Nimoy is rocking some kind of Snape hairdo.
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A short film full of win
This is insanely well done.
I salute you, filmmaker peoples with remote-control car collections, Michael Bay obsessions and creativity oozing out of your pores. GIVE US MORE.
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Guy – Photo by Suhyoon Cho
Reformed journalist. Scribbler of speeches and whatnot. Wrote a thriller that was a finalist for some award.
Filed under The Glowing Tube
Dogs driving cars, I kid you not
This isn’t one of those joke photos where somebody puts Spot on their lap as they’re cruising down I-5.
This is a BBC news report from New Zealand, where they’re teaching dogs to truly drive cars.
Related post: Cats who open freezers and dogs who fetch COLD BEER
Three things:
1) Anything said with a British accent is — by definition — 15,923 times more awesome.
2) It is official: New Zealand raaawks.
3) When can I hire a trained Schnauzer chauffeur from New Zealand, and does he require health benefits and a 401(k)?
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A BOWL OF WARM MILK AND MURDER
Page 2 of A BOWL OF WARM MILK AND MURDER
Random passages from A BOWL OF WARM MILK AND MURDER
Psycho killer raccoons terrorize Olympia … and Tacoma, and Seattle
Shapeshifting owl is seven separate flavors of awesomesauce
The scariest fish IN THE WORLD
The cyclops piglet with two snouts and other REAL MONSTERS
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Guy – Photo by Suhyoon Cho
Reformed journalist. Scribbler of speeches and whatnot. Wrote a thriller that was a finalist for some award.
Danish commercial makes Michael Bay look like an AMATEUR
Epic slow-motion. Soaring music. Stunned reaction shots — this commercial from Denmark has it all, and they do it better than Michael Bay without even resorting to 593 explosions.
Think of what they could have done with an explosion or seven.
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Guy – Photo by Suhyoon Cho
Reformed journalist. Scribbler of speeches and whatnot. Wrote a thriller that was a finalist for some award.
Filed under The Glowing Tube
Jimmy Kimmel pranks THE WORLD with iPhone 5 shebang
If you show people an iPhone 4s, and tell them it’s the new iPhone 5, how will they say it compares to the last iPhone?
The crazy thing about this video is some of these people can’t tell the difference even though they OWN an iPhone 4s, and are holding it in their other hand as they say, “Oh, this is much lighter and faster.”
Also, this:
Funny? Yes. Accurate? Well, yes. There is much Truthiness in here.
Filed under 5 Random Thursday, Muffin chokers
Good things come in small, funny packages
Long is the enemy of all that is funny and good.
Writing long will suck the life out of your words and ideas. Embrace short and pithy. Hug the glory of writing short tightly to your bosum, even if you’re not sure where your bosum may be, or if the FCC will fine you for using that word on the Series of Tubes.
Take photo memes, which are really one-liners with an illustration. They’re boiled down and refined, without a word wasted. That’s why they work. Extra verbiage would drown the funny.
Filed under 5 Random Thursday, Fiction, Red Pen of Doom
TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART is totally bonkers
Guest post by Abby Wilson
Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart” was released in 1983 and sold about 6 million copies.
If I remember correctly—and I might not since I wasn’t alive at the time—that was achieved without iTunes. People actually had to leave their homes to purchase that song.
Unfathomable. Those 6 million listeners must not have seen this nonsensical montage to the stuff of which my nightmares are now made.
I needed a glass of wine to make it through the whole video. I kept waiting for the hook, for the melody to diversify and draw me in, but it was as if the first 45 seconds of chords had been looped through that visual assault of ridiculousness. PAINFUL. But it was probably painful for Ms. Tyler as well since her vocal chords are partially damaged.
Let’s review:
- Demon-eyed choirboys who FLY (see Guy’s post on the Swamp Demon of Louisiana — cousins?)
- Scantily-clad back up dancers. In loincloths. When is a loincloth a bad idea? (A: Always)
- Ninjas and gymnasts
- Football players
- Men in swim goggles
- Fencing
- A formal toast in which they spill wine (cardinal sin)
- Throwing birds
Do I even need to address the vast chasm between the lyrics and the visuals? How many times does the demon-eyed boy ask her to turn around, bright eyes? SHE NEVER TURNS AROUND. How hard would it have been to coordinate that?
And is she wearing lingerie or a really ugly wedding dress? I can’t tell.
Just when we think ritual animal sacrifice would be the only thing to make this video creepier, we see the ninjas and choirboys lined up for school with Bonnie as their teacher. So in the end, we find ourselves accomplices in a terrifying teacher-student prep school fantasy. At least that explains the loincloths…
Thankfully, someone has remade the music to match the video.
What a relief. Stock footage of the moon and NINJATIME go down so much easier with a spoonful of heavy-handed mockery, don’t they?
You can find Abby Wilson on the Twitter @blueeyesburn and at her blog, http://abbyandeva.wordpress.com
Filed under 2 Music Video Monday
A dose of Friday Fail
I used to do a lot of Fail Fridays, because there’s nothing better on a Friday than watching people from around the world do really, really dumb things on video.
This video is (a) French and (b) special, because it has (c) clips of fail I’d never seen before, (d) doses of amazing win to cleanse your palate and (e) subtitles in French.
Filed under 5 Random Thursday, Muffin chokers
Shapeshifting owl is seven separate flavors of awesomesauce
This is the Best Owl Ever.
If he’s just chilling on a tree branch, he looks normal.
Bring a beefier owl around and he puffs up into Hulk Owl.
Show him a taller owl and he transforms into Evil Count Dracula With Feathers.
