Archive for January, 2010
Haggis of Mass Destruction
Many an American’s Burns supper were ruined last week due to the continued import ban on haggis. This Scots delicacy is made with sheep pluck (hearts, lungs, and liver), oats, onions, shoe boxes, gravel, toenail clippings,and salt. As my personal rabbi adviser would say, good eatin’. “Delicacy” in gaelic must not mean what it does ...Read more.
The Death of a Net Meme
By now, you’ve seen the countless YouTube videos featuring Hitler raging over a seemingly miscellaneous circumstance. The clip used is from the German movie, Der Untergang (that’s Downfall, for you English types), and the humor inherent is from the incongruous system. My personal favorite is the one that followed the Columbus Blue Jackets at Washington ...Read more.
C’est Une Film
From the Flotsam & Jetsam Files… Not long ago, I mentioned my discovery of a French mystery novel titled after this very website. The author had taken title as a play on Serge Gainsbourg’s song, “Lunatic Asylum”. In a related story, a biopic of Gainsbourg’s life has been released en France. That is all.
Howard Zinn is History
Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States, teacher, and lefty poster boy, has passed away at the age of 87. Understandably, this will be cause for celebration by the Hannibeckbaughs — though they’ll offered mock platitudes. A People’s History… is a look at this country from the perspective of non-white males. ...Read more.
Well, This Sucks
We Americans are often chided for our abrasive, prideful anti-intellectualism. After all, this is a nation that put a teacher on trial for teaching evolution, put an artist on trial for obscenity, has states that remove mentions of evolutionary science, bans any and all frank sexual discussion yet celebrates explosions, fights and “24″. On top ...Read more.
Neil Gaiman In The New Yorker
Pick up this week’s New Yorker magazine.* You’ll not only be treated to a chilling article on the cryonics movement, you’ll also get a wonderful profile on Neil Gaiman. Book lovers are well aware of the numerous literary treats which with Mr. Gaiman has blessed us. Suffice to say that if you are a fan, ...Read more.
Japan To Unleash Robot Charlie Brown, Kill Us All
I ain’t shitting you on this one. They’re saying that this robot, named Diego-San, is supposed to mimic a 1 year-old human. Sure, and Hitler was just going to Poland for the kielbasa. Rumor is, they’re trying to figure out how to translate “mwa mwa mwah” into machine language so this motorized replica of Sally’s ...Read more.
