Of all the sites on the internet, this is one.
I know bands do commercials all the time, but the fact that the Rolling Stones wrote a 26 second song about Rice Krispies in 1964 is still strange to me for some reason. It’s not bad. In fact I’d go as far as to say it’s probably the best thing about Rice Krispies, the most …
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeVLxcekEsw Somebody posted this funny commercial about organ donation on Facebook yesterday, and I laughed and laughed and laughed. Note to self: Did I check that box when I got my Ontario Photo card? And I’m not even an asshole. Double awesome!
A few months ago, I plugged an Indiegogo campaign that the Frantics were running in order to raise the cash to repackage their old radio shows and release them as podcasts. Just a few minutes ago, I got this news by way of their email list. The Best of Frantic Times starts Friday, January 27 at …
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I know there are all kinds of ways that language has evolved, but I had no idea how much of English resulted from so many of us needing hearing aids. Next I want to see one of these detailing single words that came from the accidental mashing together of two different ones, like the time …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIVo60Wm-fI So…that Trump press conference yesterday sure was something, eh? I don’t know *what* it was, but I feel reasonably safe calling it *something*. These next four years are going to be…holy christ how did this happen? Can someone be impeached before he officially takes office? Pretty sure the answer is no, which made sense …
‘Tis the season for retrospectives on the year that was, so since now and then they’re actually entertaining and because they’re easy to post when you’re having trouble waking up like I am this morning, here’s one for the wrestling fans. Seems like a pretty solid list, even though I didn’t hate the Asylum Match …
The thing I just posted about the fire that wasn’t got me thinking about a couple of seasonal things I maybe should have soundtracked it with. But since I didn’t use them there, I’ll just stick ’em here. First, this clip from an episode of This Hour Has 22 Minutes. And this classic holiday ditty …
Steve told me about these painful-sounding Victorian Christmas parlor games and after I stopped wincing and covering my face, I started to envision what would happen if somehow, someone of that era could visit current day us, sort of like those old Freedom 55 commercials. I can see it all now. “You folks are wimps! …
I’m not sure what exactly went wrong with this fella’s weather map, but he handled it like a pro.
I don’t completely understand why this made me laugh as much as it did. Maybe it’s the cold. But what the hell, let’s go with it.