None Shall Pass!
When this was described to me, my reaction was, “How can you find this funny?”
When I saw it, I understood.
Your Moment of Monty Python
None Shall Pass!
Category: Art
None Shall Pass!
Deep Thought
We Are All The Simpsons
Cthulhu* posted this, and I felt that it had to be shared:
With the plethora of archetypes in the animated series, I’m beginning to think that this might be some sort of modern Gilgamesh for our day.
*No, not the unspeakably malevolent super-being, the contributor to the Stellar Parthenon BBS.†
†OK, I’ve never seen the two of them together, so Cthulhu might actually be the Cthulhu, but the mere fact that he is on a BBS, interacting with humans‡ would seem to mitigate against this.
‡Yes, I know, this is the internet, where no one knows if you are a dog.
Deep Thought
H/t Glenn Greenwald
This is Wicked Cool…
These are nice little cameos, but what makes them truly special is the medium.
They are done in Oreo Cookies.
This is Trippy
Like wow, man. Psychadelic
Ian McKlellan, backed up by the Fleshtones, reciting Shakespeare’s Sonnet 20.
This is trippy.
Dumbledore Gandalf doing sonnets.
H/t Susan D.
What if HP Lovecraft wrote Dilbert?
I was doing a Google™ search, and found this:
Deep Thought
HehThis reminds me of a cartoon of Smokey the Bear shooting the FTD man while shouting, “Remember, only you can prevent florist flyers.”
H/t JR the Stellar Parthenon BBS
Too True
Much like in reality, the when the cops realize that he has stolen hundreds of millions of dollars, rather than a few thousand dollars, they realize that they cannot prosecute, just like in real life.
Click picture for full cartoon.
It’s Back
Get Your War On!
There are 21 strips at the link.
This is Cool
You know, I’m generally not a fan of rap, and I generally find the genre of “weird Japanese videos” to be disturbing (see Pr0n, Tentacle), but this is very engaging, and completely work safe.
It is both universally engaging and truly Japanese at the same time.
H/t JR at the by invitation only Stellar Parthenon BBS.
A New Magazine for the Married Man
Heh!You know, based on personal experience, I think that this might be a very lucrative market, but I need to ask Sharon* if it’s prudent for me to offer a more thorough analysis of the potential dynamics of such a publication.
*Love of my life, light of the cosmos, she who must be obeyed, my wife.
If You Are Bumming Over the Election
Some video game humor.
How to Pet a Kitty
Too True
You can read the rest at the Oatmeal, and I highly recommend that you do so.
A Good Comment on Junk Science
Paul Munro of XKCD gives us this cogent take-down of much of the junk science out there.
If this sh%$ worked, not only would business be all over this like white on rice, but they would be patenting the hell out of it as well.
I Haven’t Posted, Because I Have Nothing to Say
I really haven’t had much to add to the rescue of the Chilean minors miners.
Well, thanks to Nick Mueller,I now have this bit of artwork to share.
My congratulations to the minors and the rescue team.
The mine owners, however, can go Cheney themselves.
This Is Bloody Amazing
Entwhistle’s bass playing here is completely sick, and Keith Moon is positively insane.
It’s a nice window into the band about a year before they became rock icons with the release of Tommy.
They were playing at the “The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus,” and they so blew away the Stones that Mssr. Jagger and company did not have the stones* to release the film or album for almost 30 years.
Wow, just wow.
And that fringed jacket is so 1960s.
*Pun intended.
People With Way Too Much Free Time
The Terran Research Ensemble, who are putting on an Opera in Klingon:
On Friday in The Hague, Netherlands, the Terran Research Ensemble raised the curtain on “U,” the first Earth opera performed entirely in Klingon. “U” is the Klingon word for “universe” or “universal,” and the opera tells the story of Kahless the Unforgettable, said to be the first Klingon emperor.
“Klingon are known as passionate opera lovers but at the same time very little was known about Klingon opera here so as far as I was concerned that was a very interesting challenge to try and make an authentic, or as authentic, something out of that as possible,” U co-creator Floris Schonfeld told Reuters and The BBC.
I will say that is only the 2nd most absurd juxtaposition of art and language, after the effort by South Africa in the Apartheid days to translate Shakespeare into Afrikaans:
Hamlet: Mein Papa der schpook!
Sometimes Someone Just Nails It
Case in point, whoever coined the term “Whitestock” for the Glenn Beck hate-a-thong, and Driftglass for riffing on the Woodstock logo.
Truth be told, not only did I miss the broadcast of Whitestock, but I am trying to avoid all rebroadcasts and Youtubes of same.
