Spy style. Shamus tells you how.
Category: Humor and horror
Length, width, height …
Brined Opossum with a Turnip-Infused Gravy, and other lunchtime treats
Toward more picturesque speech
From Thog’s Masterclass:
`Big boogers of uncertainty were beginning to form.’ (Vernor Vinge, Rainbows End, 2006)
Also from Ansible:
Martin Morse Wooster was deeply thrilled by junk mail from `a company called Hawthorne Village, which has the Official Lord of the Rings Express Diesel Locomotive. This heirloom quality train — richly adorned with scenes and characters from the movie trilogy including Elven text and a working headlight on the diesel locomotive — will have you reliving this epic saga every time the train journeys around the tracks. You know, when I mentally visit the rugged, primeval landscape of Middle Earth, I think to myself, “You know, these trees and rocks are OK. But WHERE are the toy trains?”‘
Beware of very clever people who are slightly bored
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(Via Peeve Farm.)
Addendum: See also Whitespace.
(Via Chizumatic.)
Not-so-new math
Mars needs penguins
An interview with Berkeley Breathed:
QS: An Opus film had been announced awhile back – what is its current status? Are plans for it to be live action or animated?
BREATHED: Wonderfully dead. As it shall remain.
QS: Doonesbury was a musical – why not Bloom County?
BREATHED: The first part of that question is the answer.
(Via Cartoon Brew.)
“… a frustratingly unrealistic effort at creating balance and strategy”
Exotic and silly
Time for some eccentric videos. Even without sound, this is the greatest shampoo commercial ever made:
Interview with a dwarf planet
Be sure to come back next week …
… when Cthulhu will swallow your soul! This is how to do a talk show:
Find more episodes of Calls for Cthulhu here.
(Via From the Shattered Drum.)
Giant belts of delicious ammunition
I don’t much care for Mexican food, but I’m nevertheless quite impressed by the The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel.
(Via Haibane.info.)