I do not know where to begin in excerpting “Cracked Officially Starts Feeling Sorry for MAD Magazine:” I’m not sure that I can, effectively. In some ways, it feels like a situation where wiseass killeth wiseass in a narrow, dusty room – that just happens to have a webcam in it to record the gory details. And they are gory. Gory, deliberately puerile, and hysterically funny.
But not to be a killjoy about this: remember that Silverlock
Because I think that I can say with some certainty that, on the Great List of People and Groups Whose Economic Status I’m Worrying About*, the wives, girlfriends, and mistresses of suddenly-anxious Wall Street financial types is somewhere on the part of the sheet still left in the printer when I ripped out the list in a hurry on my way out the door. Extra credit for the blog, which I cannot make myself link to. I’ve tried. It just ain’t happening.
I suggest that they start dating electricians. If the electricians are interested, of course. Although Allahpundit’s apparently willing to take the hit for the team…
Moe Lane
Not just the evidence of the second and third photos, which are subtly wrong in that freaky Lovecraftian cosmic-terror sort of way. Not just the way that “rourke” is now a verb.
That that there may actually be a “Book of Bai” in the future… Continue reading Truly, the End Times are upon us.
You probably already knew about it. Thanks to skipping around Ain’t It Cool News, now I do to. The movie is going to be directed by Andrew Stanton – click on the name to see why the animation fanboy behind you is cooing, or just contemplate the mystical and wondrous Power Word: “Pixar” – but apparently it’s not going to be animated:
Discussing the move from fully 3-D animated movies to live-action, Stanton added: “I think that’s the only way. I mean, there are so many creatures and characters that half of it’s going to be CG whether you want it to be [or not], just to realise some of these images that are in the book. But it will feel real. The whole thing will feel very, very believable.” Continue reading Animated “John Carter of Mars” movie scheduled for 2012.
…but when it comes to movie poster design, they’re kind of nuts.
This is a movie poster for Weekend at Bernie’s
No, really.
If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.
I got the tip from fellow RedState gonzo blogger absentee that Susette Kelo’s house – the one that the Supreme Court ratified the City of New London;s taking away from her, in what was frankly not liberalism’s finest hour – still hadn’t been replaced by anything. If that post by This Woman’s Weblog is accurate, it sure looks like it:
As you know, Susette’s little pink house and the homes of her neighbors were seized through eminent domain in a landgrab sanctioned by the U.S. Supreme Court. New London promised to put a glitzy new private development project on the land, but now, nearly four years after the ruling and $78 million in taxpayer money spent, literally nothing has been built on the land; it remains vacant, the neighborhood bulldozed.
Continue reading Kelo’s Little Pink House is still a bulldozed lot.
Which I like, even if it is designed to be a wallpaper and not a blog background. I mean, I liked the old one, too; but I found out that it wasn’t actually public domain after all and the artist never got back to me.
Still, if somebody has a good one that is public domain – or that the artist doesn’t mind me using – by all means, feel free to present it.
If you haven’t familiarized yourself with DHMO.org yet, please do: it’s a invaluable website that gives you the facts about a silent threat. From the FAQ:
Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) is a colorless and odorless chemical compound, also referred to by some as Dihydrogen Oxide, Hydrogen Hydroxide, Hydronium Hydroxide, or simply Hydric acid. Its basis is the highly reactive hydroxyl radical, a species shown to mutate DNA, denature proteins, disrupt cell membranes, and chemically alter critical neurotransmitters. The atomic components of DHMO are found in a number of caustic, explosive and poisonous compounds such as Sulfuric Acid, Nitroglycerine and Ethyl Alcohol.
To give you an idea of just how widespread this problem is, consider this: when Charles Sullenberger landed his plane safely, his primary concern afterwards was making sure that all of the people in his charge had as little exposure to DHMO as possible – and that plane was positively dripping with the stuff, thanks to the crash knocking things around.
Yes. It’s that much of a threat to us all.
It was also a political kind of day. So here’s a Babylon Five video clip:
…and let me go see what else happened today.
