OK, let’s clear some tabs.
- What is up with North America’s unrealistic boob size fascination? Digital enhancements? “…magazine publishers in the US ban stars from appearing on their front covers unless they have at least a C-cup size, or are willing to be digitally enhanced to make it appear as if they have”?!??! Man, we really are all crazy. Does no one remember Weird Science
Is there really a whole generation now that doesn’t know the “I know female stats. Anything more than a handful and you’re risking a sprained tongue” line? John Hughes, why have you forsaken us? Did they take an important bit out of your brain in 1990? ? The worst part of the whole “adjust the world digitally” thing is that it feeds back into the creation of unrealistic expectations, which in turn drives the need to alter the world (either digitally, or via implants/botox/etc). Sigh. - Damn that’s a big hole.
- I love reading the hate mail that the Flying Spaghetti Monster site generates. It’s great to see so much tolerance, peace, and understanding on display from these nominal Christians. Plus, I’m learning lots of things about the rest ratios of infinite beings, and about logic. Like this: “The bible clearly establishes a maximum one to six day resting ratio for the creation of the universe by an infante[sic] being. Ok, I’ll be sympathetic to your tortured logic and explain how mankind knows that the bible is the word of god. 1. the bible is infallible.” I need popcorn while I read this.
- I laughed a lot at this cartoon. A lot. That probably tells you a lot about me.
- Seriously? Um… listen, if you think you need this, you are spending waaaay too much time in your bathroom. See your family doctor.
- Robert Johnson‘s guitar might actually be worth six million dollars. Maybe. I mean, it might have met The Devil, right? However, before I coughed up $6,000,000 I might want to see a slightly more decisive provenance than “kind of looks like the one in a photo“.
- Attention young celebrities: getting naked does not prove you are all grown up.
Read any interview with Jessica Biel where she talks about her infamous Gear photoshoot for another example. Also, how weird is this going to be with Harry Potter naked on stage with Uncle MontyMaybe you think of him as Uncle Vernon, but he’s always going to be Uncle Monty to me. ? - Local cartoonist (she’s local now, even if she is a come-from-away) Hope Larson (who’s had a couple of previous mentions) had a huge cartoon in the New York Times. (Also available here, in case the Times takes it down.) That’s pretty damn cool.
- I can’t decide if the existence of ice cap beer is brilliant, or tragic, but I would totally try a bottle just to see if it was in any detectable way different from other beers.
- Comma placement doesn’t matter, huh? I’m crazy to be a pedant about the serial comma, huh? What if wrong comma usage cost you over 2 million dollars? I love that story. I should find out if my neighbour (who is part of Aliant’s legal team) worked on this.
