Ephemera

More later.

Posted by khitch at 10:12 PM | Permalink

• Now you see them...:   FilmWise
• Made your reservations yet?   Hell Test
• Does this sort of thing ever get old?:   The Flying Cow
• Mysogyny now!:   NoMarriage.com
• Fun with pedantry:   Your All Gay
• How does she do it?:   Ripa's Ripped!!   
• Those zany Japanese:   PinUpDolls
• More fun with alcohol:   The International Association of Drunk Bastards

I'm gonna be gone for a while. So here's some sites to tide you over.

I may or may not update from the road, but I look forward to seeing your responses.

I want to know how you did on the hell test. I scored in the mid 80s, but I'm still working on getting that up a bit. Let me know who I'll be hanging out with in the afterlife.

I managed to fling cows for 420. Pretty decent, but I'm sure some of you can beat me. I want someone from this site to get that perfect 500. You can do it.

Posted by khitch at 11:04 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)

Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Bills

Posted by khitch at 10:00 AM | Permalink

The US Navy today announced that it has released a senior al Queda terrorist after questioning him extensively for 27 days while he was held prisoner aboard a US aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea. In a humanitarian gesture the terrorist was given $50 US and a white Ford Fairlane automobile upon being released from custody. This photo shows the terrorist on his way home just after being released by the Navy.

(Note: This was an e-mail that was forwarded to me. One of the better ones.)

Posted by khitch at 02:49 PM | Permalink

and

Posted by khitch at 03:02 PM | Permalink

• Art Americana:   Roadside Peek
• Pointless waste of a precise amount of time:   Second
• Whatchoo talkin' 'bout?:   Tyrone Jones: Some TV Talk

Posted by khitch at 09:04 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

• More Random than Cruel:   The Unh! Project

I came across Warren Ellis speaking clever about this site the other day and thought it would make a good Random Site. I'd seen it before more than a year ago -- before I started cataloging the randomness of the Worldwide Web. Despite the fact that it was rather dated, I felt that if the inestimable Mr. Ellis though it worthy of a link perhaps it would be of interest to enough of my readers to include it. Then, today, I see it featured as the Cruel Site of the Day. Highly disillusioning. I expect more from CSOTD. But, then again, I have scooped Mr. Cadenhead on a number of occasions in the last few months. So I present it without apologies. (But perhaps a hint of rancor.)

Posted by khitch at 02:41 PM | Permalink

Dribbleglass.com--We See, They See

Just to be sure I don't miss a day.

Posted by khitch at 06:12 PM | Permalink

• Every picture you've ever received or sent in e-mail:   carcino.gen.nz images
• Saturday morning fun:   Seanbaby's Super Friends Page
• These people need a new hobby:   StatueMolesters.com - Molesting statues since 1834

Posted by khitch at 11:59 PM | Permalink

• There is no sequel:   The Matrix: Resolutions
• Nice ride:   Molested Cars.com
• Oh, what a relief:   J20

Posted by khitch at 08:54 PM | Permalink

I've been getting quite a few visitors lately drawn by the Non-Original Items, Cement Teddy Bears and Faceless Birthday at Chuck-E-Cheese. I had no idea where they were from when I first posted them years ago. Lately I've found the source. The Cacophony Society staged the events and provided the write-ups. You should check their site out if you enjoyed those.

Posted by khitch at 11:23 PM | Permalink

• Everything Butt:   Technical Virgins
• Blog Abuse:   Filthy Celebrity Imposter
• Comics! (and rabbits):   Elftor

Posted by khitch at 09:57 PM | Permalink

When and where I grew up there was a locally produced Sunday morning kid's show called Freddie Fudd Reads the Funnies. The show consisted of the main character, Freddie Fudd, a strange middle-aged paperboy (shorts, suspenders, striped t-shirt, and Jughead hat), who after wobbling embarrassingly around the neighborhood on his bicycle, would climb into his tree house, which, strangely enough, seemed to contain a television studio, with his last paper and read the Sunday comics to the viewers. This is probably the exact opposite of educational, unless the subject is copyright infringement. But there wasn't generally a large concern with educational television in those days.

In the time-honored tradition of all children's television everywhere, Freddie had a puppet sidekick. In his case it was Pete the Pelican. I have no idea why a pelican. It doesn't really tie into the paperboy theme, and they aren't exactly indigenous to the Great Plains.

This was also back in the days when the sponsor directly impinged n the content of the shows they advertised on. So, Mr. Fudd and his erstwhile waterfowl companion would blatantly plug the local fast-food chain that paid their salaries during the show.

Freddie would explain that the pelican had a great deal of difficultly holding his cup while drinking. But that didn't have to be a problem because the restaurant was an innovator in the area of providing covers for drinks to avoid the problem of spills. He would advise the children watching to follow his example when visiting the establishment and tells the servers, "For Pete's sake, put a lid on it."

I truly wish I was making this up.

Posted by khitch at 03:44 PM | Permalink

As little as I've been home the last couple days, someone might get the mistaken impression that I have a life. Of course, if that were the case, I'd have something to write about. As it is, I'm just going to throw up a quick filler entry. I have a couple sites I bookmarked for consideration as Random Sites, but they just don't quite make the cut. They need a little too much explanation.

Despite the title, The Fastest Man on Earth (Overview and Index) is about the origin of Murphy's Law. It's actually quite interesting reading, but the point doesn't jump out at you right away.

I wonder if they realized the image they were creating with the packaging for Apple - Mac OS X. As someone else pointed out, Spike Lee might be tempted to sue over this. It's certainly an interesting look. I just can't figure out if it's derivative, or simply pretentious.

Posted by khitch at 11:17 PM | Permalink

• Mmmmmm... beer:   Beer Church Home Page
• Mmmmmm... brains:   THE ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE by MAX BROOKS
• Mmmmmm... words:   QDB: Quote Database Home

Posted by khitch at 06:36 PM | Permalink

I got an interesting piece of junk e-mail today:

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Posted by khitch at 07:51 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

It didn't dawn on me when I posted this picture that I'd seen this bunny before:

Jon reminded me of it. Many months ago I came across the page of Oolong's pictures: Page of a rabbit. If I saw the particular one that was used above I forgot about it. What I remembered was the sadness of the occasion of my discovery of Oolong: Oolong's passing.

I don't mean to depress anyone. Oolong was a good bunny. Even those of us who never really knew him miss him, but he had a good happy life. It was not my intention to mock or belittle Oolong with that picture. It's just an amusing, slightly surreal image to distract people from an otherwise uncomfortable encounter. As a bunny, I think Oolong would have liked the chance to act as a bit of a peacemaker

Posted by khitch at 12:08 PM | Permalink

Australian Insanity Test

Posted by khitch at 08:52 PM | Permalink

The Salt Lake Tribune -- County issues strip-search alert

How does someone fall for this?

Posted by khitch at 06:45 PM | Permalink

I just got done organizing my CD collection. Something I hadn't done in years. It was bugging me that there was one that I couldn't find, even though I knew I had it in there somewhere. I found it. I also found a lot of CDs I didn't realize were in my collection. What was I thinking when I bought those? Why do I have them when there are so many better CDs that are just as inexplicably not in my collection? No, I won't tell you what they are. It's bad enough I know they're there. But I'll make a deal with you. If you tell me what you own that's really embarrassing, I'll tell you if mine are worse.

Posted by khitch at 06:23 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

I finished reading The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem last night. I don't really know what to make of it. It was a good read. It took me a while to get through it, but that was mostly because I've been distracted. I just haven't had as much time to read as I'd like. I believe it's a fairly accurate portrayal of growing up about the same time I did, but in a very different place. I couldn't relate to some of it, but that's part of what made it worth reading for me.

Driving home tonight along a road I don't use as much as some others, I noticed a tattoo parlor I hadn't seen before. It seems like every time I drive someplace different I see a new tattoo parlor. That's not really surprising. I see a lot of tattoos and people must be getting them someplace. I almost think I'm seeing too many tattoos. Some don't look very well thought out. I can't imagine the people still liking them a couple years from now, let alone for the rest of their lives. Makes me think that a growing industry a few years down the road will be tattoo removal services. Doctors should probably look into cheap, safe, effective, relatively painless removal techniques. They're liable to do booming business once people take a good look at what they have on their bodies.

The other thing I saw today that seems like a bad idea is peanut butter taffy. That's nothing new. You see it every year at Halloween. Grey-tan slugs of nearly inedible sticky-sweetness wrapped in black or orange waxed paper. I can't believe anyone actually likes this stuff, but people seem to always buy it to hand out as Halloween candy. It's pretty much the only time you see it, and I don't think anyone's happy to get it. I think people buy it because they don't want to give anything good away, but then they have to figure out what to do with any they have left over. Why do people buy this stuff? And why is it even made?

Posted by khitch at 09:04 PM | Permalink