To all of those haters who think that my sense of humor is juvenile, I just say “Phuket.”
Category: Weird & Wacky
Corey Feldman, Cole Hamels, and Arthur Kade
Happy 38th birthday Corey Feldman!
I think we should trade Hamels for Halladay. There, I said it.
Arthur Kade, a marketing ploy? Say it ain’t so!
One of the Ugliest Buildings on Earth
There was a question in the wildcard round: This Parisian skyscraper was voted 2nd ugliest building in the world in 2008 by virtual tourist (Here’s the complete list). As you can see above, it is an embarrasment, and perhaps even uglier than the hotel in North Korea I have an unhealthy obsession with.
Buzz Aldrin Records A Rap Song
The planet Earth gets weirder every goddamm minute. I can’t believe Buzz Aldrin is chilling with Snoop Dogg and recording rap songs. What a badass. Remember, we’re gonna be putting on a space show on Monday at the Khyber. It’s gonna be out of this world.
Dolphin 56
As you are well aware, I have a history with dolphins, and have a lot of worthless knowledge about bottlenose dolphins. I therefore found this article about an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin hanging out off the Jersey Shore pretty interesting, and think you might too. (By the way, don’t feed dolphins in the wild, especially off motorboats, as there is a major problem with them getting their fins caught in propellors.)
“After a few minutes, when he realized he wasn’t going to get any fish from me, he—and this is no kidding—he swam off, caught a fish in his mouth, then returned with the fish sticking out to show me,” Ritt master says. “He was saying, ‘Feed me fish! I want fish from you!’ Obviously, he was capable of catching fish for himself. So what’s another explanation for his behavior? I mean, it sort of implies he wants interaction with people.”
Sweet! I Just Got a Prank Call!
I am happy to report that the art of mindless prank calls has not ended. I just received a call from an unusual number, and when I picked it up, a teenager on the other line asked, “Hey, can we go swimming?” to which I answered, still not knowing who this was, “Where?” His reply was “Your house.” Then I heard giggling thru the nose and got hung up on. The pointless, uncreative prank calls, the ones where the only real purpose was to call a complete stranger and talk to them, are really the best. Then you and your buddies crack up because you can’t believe he asked that dude if you could go swimming at his house.
This is Pretty Awesome
Stumbled across this fantastic web site last night called oddee. Here are a few favorites:
Craziest Products inspired by bacon.
World’s most flexible women (This one somehow made me both turned on and nauseous at the same time.)
If Your Mother Only Knew
This never stops blowing my mind. This is former Roots member Rahzel. Keep in mind, he is doing both the singing and the beatboxing on this song. All of the sound you hear is made by Rahzel alone.
Happy Birthday to One of My Favorite MCs
MC Escher would be turning 111 today. As a big fan of optical illusions, I really dig his stuff. Thought you might get a kick out of checking out 10 of my favorites. Click on the pics to see the larger images. (Definitely worth it.)
Ascending and descending
Belvedere
Convex and Concave
My Brain Just Exploded
My feelings about the group Phish are well documented. In fact, if you google “Phish Sucks”, my blog comes up 2nd, behind some blog called balloon-juice (That’s right kids, my blog is almost as popular as balloon juice!) So I have to admit that this video has thrown me for a bit of a loop (as has the fact that my old-school hip hop brothers in arms, Koob and the Sandman, both like Phish). Needless to say, I think Jay Z is one of the best rappers of the past 15 years (though not a big fan of “Big Pimpin”, one of the songs he does here.) As a bitter old man trapped in a (somewhat) young man’s body, this has really thrown out of the neat and orderly, black and white way I like to look at the world. I mean, what’s next, a Toby Keith/Big Daddy Kane collaboration?