I give you this sad and tender song about GI Joe and Cobra, at the end of the day.
Which is freaking hilarious! I wish I were better at recognizing all the stars doing cameos here.
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Order of the Stick makes me laugh and cringe.
For them what don’t know, OOTS is a funny webcomic in which the stick figure characters live in a D&D universe–which sounds dreadful, but isn’t.
Three visual items
StandardFirst: Seattle pranksters/vandals have been altering billboards around town. For instance:
Hee. See more.
Second, Jonathan King, the director behind the hilarious and underrated BLACK SHEEP, has a new movie coming out. Check out the trailer.
Third, a buddy dropped me an email pointing me toward these short romantic comedies. The series is called Turbo Dates, and they’re terrifically funny. Start with “Potion.” Seriously.
Rather than
StandardRather than struggle with Man Bites World for a moment, I’m going to post some links.
1) The 15 Creepiest Vintage Ads of all Time. Some of these have been circulating for a while, but there’s some all new, all disturbing images there. Via eeknight.
2) Bamboo Bikes from Zambia. Too cool.
3) Ten Ways to Take a Bad Author Photo. Pretty funny. I used my author photo on the front of my Facebook page.
4) The only part of the NY Times Book Review section I read religiously is the Crime Section, but there’s something about Marilyn Stasio’s style that annoys me to no end.
Ever hear of those 48 hour film events…
StandardFilmmakers are given a prop, a line of dialog, and whatever else and have to write, shoot and edit a film in 48 hours.
Here’s one written by a funny writer I know:
*Ahem*
StandardDidn’t I say I this would be my best post ever?
StandardIn case you haven’t noticed, the President has been appearing in a lot of comic books lately. You don’t need me to link them–or maybe you do–but considering the appearances he’s made so far, I guess I should have realized that this was inevitable:
Yes, it’s “Barack the Barbarian” a retelling of the 2008 presidential election in the form of a Conan comic from the ’70’s. It’s full of bloody murder, girls in leather bikinis, and a barechested Barack high-fiving the Amazon warrior “Hilaria.”
America: A country so fucking crazy, even Johnny Depp had to leave.
The best part is that it’s actually funny. Continue reading
The Trouble With Deep One
StandardI can’t resist this one.
I dreamed that my son and I were at a beach house vacation with a couple buddies of mine. While my son was out, we were attacked by a Deep One; the three of us killed it, but we had no idea what to do with the body in broad daylight–I was half convinced there was a real person under a suit I couldn’t find.
Then my father arrived for a visit. He was much different than I remember when he was alive 18 years ago (he seemed like an old man) and there was some farcical rushing around as he cleaned up the place and my buddies had to hide the boy from him. Then, suddenly, we were having a big party; my father wanted to hang with me, my son kept misbehaving and I had no idea where the Deep One’s body was. In that room? That one? Where could I give my son a time out where my father, trailing behind, wouldn’t trip over a monster’s corpse?
Links ‘n Stuff
StandardBoring! What you need is an action scene! a webcomic about writing. :)
Why I read Savage Love. (Link NSFW, in case you didn’t realize. Check out the first letter). It’s not for the advice which is sometimes so-so but is absolutely perfect for that letter. It’s because those letters are a window into people’s private lives that I would never see otherwise–especially the crazy, twisted thought processes they go through.
Mother fails to recover custody of her children when she showed up for a psych evaluation with 13 beers in her. Apparently, the psychologist did not put much weight behind her claim that it was no big deal since she could “drink like a fish” and therefore wasn’t drunk.
Book Marketing 101: an introduction by Andrew Wheeler. A book marketer talks about his trade. It’s the first in a series, and I plan to follow them closely.
Huh. I appear to have left out the “stuff.”
Awful and awesome
StandardJust as I was about to post about a single awful thing, I came across something to disturbingly awesome that I had to post about it. I leave it to you, the reader, to recognize a connection between the two.
First, the awful: Bacardi hits new lows of misogyny with its new “Ugly Girlfriend” ad campaign, which strangely seems to be targeted at women. Has to be seen to be believed.
Now, the awesomely disturbing–or disturbingly awesome… I can’t tell which this is, because it’s so freaking insane: Kid finds out his mom is cancelling his WoW account and goes nuts.