published by Jonathan on Thu, 02/26/2009 - 22:53
I came across this meme on Twitter: #backflick - movie plots backwards. Here are a few of my favorites (especially the first two):
Superman - A guy who flies around, putting people into precarious situations, then hiding.
Rambo - Sylvester Stallone healing people with his magical bullet vacuum.
Supersize Me - dude vomits hamburgers until he loses 20 kg and regains his health.
Star Wars - Contract presentation ceremony, then go to repair Death Star, return home to desert family.
published by Jonathan on Sun, 01/25/2009 - 14:34
Slate's Today's Papers column from today contains several classics:
All of the papers allow the politicians to dominate the debate over the stimulus, with the NYT and WP (which is not a fan of the package) featuring House Minority Leader John Boehner's predictable criticism. "We cannot borrow and spend our way back to prosperity," he said (for the first time in eight years).
and
The WP reports that al-Qaida is peeved at Barack Obama. With polls showing the new president popular in the Muslim world, the terrorist group has resorted to hurling insults at him, even when they make no sense. The Post notes, "He was even blamed for the Israeli military assault on Gaza, which began and ended before he took office."
and
The NYT fronts a profile of Rahm Emanuel, the new White House chief of staff who, officials say, has calmed considerably. Ray Lahood, the new transportation secretary, says Emanuel has increasingly taken on the demeanor of his boss, whom he still teases...like when he told one congressman that he was too busy to talk and handed his phone to Obama.
and finally
The NYT Magazine's cover story tackles the age-old question: "What do women want?" But after 7,372 words and numerous clinical references to genital arousal, the answer is still frustratingly unclear. TP imagines that a similar article on what men want would be significantly shorter.
published by Jonathan on Tue, 02/26/2008 - 22:02
As a reward for good behavior I recently bought the boys a couple Captain Underpants books. I'm not sure their mother completely approved, but I thought they seemed like the kind of books little boys would like as a reward. I was not wrong.
The books are cute and irreverent. I was especially interested to see how each of the books illustrates the boys' creativity with an example of them changing a sign to say something funny. Here is one:
Here is another example:
It wasn't until I was a senior in high school that I was introduced to this mode of creative fun. Late at night you find a sign with movable letters and rearrange it to say something else. Later as a freshman at Lipscomb, I passed such a sign that an apartment complex was using to advertise 1200 square foot apartments. I wrote down the words on the sign and later, while at the bowling alley, some friends and I (Jayson, Trey, and Joel?) brainstormed a funny/irreverent rearrangement. It was probably several weeks later before we got around to executing our plan. One Saturday night, David W. was the driver, and Jayson and I did the rearranging. The following afternoon, we returned to the scene of the crime for a photo shoot with Lori playing photographer. Here are the pictures:
published by Jonathan on Thu, 02/21/2008 - 22:16
I got a kick out of a couple cartoons I saw this week.
First this one...It's from The New Yorker via the J-Walk blog...somehow this one makes me think of you Freeman...
and then this one that is showing up everywhere but I saw first on The Boar's Head Tavern as shared by Bill Kinnon...Travis from the BHT captioned it thusly: "Why watchbloggers would never succeed in the 30-day sex challenge"...if you're wondering what a watchblogger is, so was I (apparently it is a "guardian of truth, calling out those who dare deviate from orthodoxy")...but you get the point.
This one hits a little too close to home:
You can read more about the 30-day sex challenge here and here (a church challenged its married folks to have sex daily for thirty days...and non-married folks to abstain). Here is the YouTube they made (a remake of the hilarious original by the Flight of the Conchords).
published by Jonathan on Sat, 01/12/2008 - 23:52
Champion scrapbooker stripped of honors for cheating: link
FBI wiretaps shut down because they don't pay their phone bills: link
Cholesterol provides health benefits: link
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