Does the guy (or gal) work at Cinnabon by chance??

He'll be fine and can grow up to president some day if he works hard and is honest and, most importantly, WEARS A FLAG PIN.

"Well it's a god-given fact. Ya gotta buy 'em by the sack, gotta buy 'em by the sack..." —Shrivel Up

You're wrong. They are not "nicely designed objects". They are garbage. They may even be racist. I'm having my attorneys look into it.

McDonalds toys are garbage.

I know people collect them, but all I see is garbage.

There is a thing called "trademark disparagement". For example Pepsi has managed to trademark the particular color of blue they use in their logo, on top of trademarking their spheroid logo, their name, their red white and blue color scheme... A competing cola could maybe use one of these protected elements in their product packaging and get away with it, but it is for a judge to decide when the line has been crossed and enough of the components that make up the Pepsi brand have been unlawfully aped/conjured.

Basically disparagement is a lesser form of infringement, as I understand it.

In this case you have a "new wave rocker" wearing a hat that no musical act besides Devo™ has ever worn. It may not be a "registered" trademark, but that doesn't mean it is not a Devo trademark. And the suggestion (of Devo) is blatant, as blatant if not moreso than the naked cowboy dude.

Harpo Speaks is one of my all time favorite reads.
And the Marx Bros are four or five of my all time comedy heroes.

http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h228/ShawnWolfe/Ghillie_DumpNo.jpg

This was shot a few feet from Jim Woodring's house.

http://vwmrpcs.myspc.cm/ndx.cfm?fsctn=vwmg&frndD=125128352&lbmD=0&mgD=121407

And here I thought nothing could make me think of that Wild Wild West remake ever again.

Whatever they are, now I seem to be craving one.
Or two.

ahhh, sunset over Cydonia....

This belt is TOTALLY practical on Scrappers.

Convoy is not "evil".
No more evil that watching an episode of "Alice".

And by invoking Michael Jackson's "Man In The Mirror" I did not mean to suggest that song is awful or evil. I love that song.

For an evil song you have to go to something like "Baby Makes Her Blue Jeans Talk" by Dr. Hook.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7iYpboTjtoQ

Also, as someone who lived through, studied, and still loves the '70s... it appears that the original list is primarily just another "Oh look at the '70s. We're cooler than that now ain't we! Look at them! That was 35 years ago. Look how dorky... didn't they even know how to be good? What is that they're wearing? Crazy. Those songs are silly, they must be bad."

I declare this list to be highly unscientific and lacking in criteria!

Having said that, I will add "Wonderful Christmas Time" by Paul McCartney. That song gets in my brain and just ramrods all my grey matter like a liposuction wand, destroying my mind and making me want to do violence.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hWuKimtUEas

Oh, and there should be a few Kiss songs on that list. Might I suggest "A World Without Heroes". Now THAT'S bad beyond dispute.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=B7ofrdBdJRM

And for the record, "Afternoon Delight", "Abracadabra", "Wildfire" etc etc. These songs do not make me want to do violence. Even "Muscrat Love" deserves better treatment. And "Seasons In The Sun". (Why don't you just go kick some puppies while you're at it?? And whoever put down Tiny Tim does need to take a long hard look at themselves... at "The Man In The Mirror")

I propose that the criteria for truly awful songs be their capacity for inducing violence in the listener. Now, proceed with the analysis.

"Swingin'" by John Anderson???

Oh come on.
Many of the songs listed here are beloved chestnuts.
(Chevy Van?? Really?)

You need to find songs that are uniformly hated by all, that induced violence toward self and others. Songs like Jimmy Osmond's "Long Haired Lover From Liverpool".

So say I.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LSQaWpb4n1k

The problem isn't people with cameras planning terror attacks. The problem is people using their fingers to operate the buttons on the cameras. You solve the problem by breaking everyone's hands. That way they can't take anymore pictures.

This still doesn't obviate the problem of LOOKING at pictures of bridges and buildings, or of looking at bridges and buildings directly. But this problem is solved simply by forcing people to stay in their homes, or, government mandated blinding and eye gouging.

There's still the problem of people doing drawings of bridges and buildings, but I think if we break everyone's hands that would take care of that for the most part. You'd still have those wily few who can sketch out a faithful representation with their toes...

Dammit.... I guess you really CAN'T win this fucking war on terror!

"Compound Wife" myspace page.
http://www.myspace.com/joekafka

I should like to see a steampunk version of Real Housewives of the O.C.

Sweet Fancy Moses, that's fantastic!
and amazing!

Happy Birthday Grandma from Seattle!!!!!!!

Star Wars already IS steampunk.

C3PO is steampunk.
Chewbacca's crossbow is steampunk.
Jabba's barge is steampunk.
Imperial walkers is steampunk.

Landspeeder's dented grillwork?
Steampunk.

Steampunk steampunk steampunk.

I hope it has extra fluoride, so the suckers can has extra brain damages and bone loss to go along with their status water.

I can has brain damages?

Republicans only have sex with men in airport toilets in Minnesota.

Any list like this that doesn't have Mr. Show's "The Story of Everest" sketch in the top ten is like totally bogatoid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyrM7GxyzGg

to wit,

The Stranger
- Sean Nelson

But if I had to choose one single bit from the entire Mr. Show canon to argue for the series' unique identity (and I can, because I have seen every episode at least 900 times), that bit would have to be "Everest." There may be funnier things in the history of mankind (it's debatable), but there's something inimitable about the sheer absurdity of both the fall itself--a stumbling, splay-armed crash into a wall lined with shelves lined with thimbles, like a trust exercise gone horribly wrong--and its relentless repetition; each flawlessly timed tumble makes you feel like they couldn't possibly justify doing another one. No way. And then they do. And then they do it again. And again. And again. Until all that's left is the sense that you are watching a scene about a man who can't stop falling backwards into a wall full of thimbles, when all he wanted to do was tell his disapproving family about how he just finished climbing Mt. Everest. Kafka's wildest dreams couldn't have come up with a more Kafkaesque scenario.

!!!!!!!

Very little has changed, right down to the nerdlinger gew gaws.

Alex Jones talks about this in Endgame.

It's part of the plan to "re-wild" certain parts of North America, namely rural and suburban areas while people are crowded into high-density smart developments. (Oh, after our shadowy overlords exterminate 80% of humanity with Sars and bird flu and what-have-you).

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6970918667972418051

he got Silk Spectre (hard-bitten) and Rorshack (hallucinating lone dog) and Ozymandias (blonde over-achieving pretty boy) right enough

but
Charlie Brown should be the self-doubting Night Owl
Linus should be the all-knowing all-seeing Doc Manhattan
Peppermint Patty should be the pushy arrogant Comedian

Yeah whatever that rig is, it's like totally bogatoid.

I prefer Lexan™ knuckles.

http://www.knockoutknucks.com/Plasticindividual/yellow.html

The Onion fake TV news slays Daily Show and SNL partly because there is no studio audience yucking it up... and no breaking out of character. Some of the talking heads don't even seem to be comedians or actors but rather out-of-work talking heads just doing their job, reading copy. At least it appears that way at times. The mark of greatness. 180,000 degrees from Amy Poeller's inability or unwillingness to even get IN the character of a news anchor.

"Joke of the week!!! Yay!!!!!" fuck

looks like Washington State filed - even though they are already offering (ie. pushing, making available) an "enhanced" driver's license. the first in the nation I think... supposedly in anticipation of the upcoming 2010 winter olympics in B.C. to facilitate safe and speedy processing at the border, or something like that

the RFID company Verichip corp offers implantable chips for babies already, but i suppose that's old news by now

http://www.verichipcorp.com/content/solutions/infant_protection

Consider my stool officially loosened.

Oh and don't forget when Trapper John M.D. hit the air with Pernell Roberts (Bonanza) in the roll made famous on MASH by Wayne Rogers.

Lionel Jefferson on The Jeffersons.

Don't forget the Dukes of Hazzard, though not a switcheroo strictly speaking... they did replace the Bo and Luke with two other Hazzards who just so happened to be a blonde and a brunette.

lil' dude's got right tall brown zit poppin out the top 'o his haid

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm wanted over on a Speed Racer Trailer talkback on AICN.

Hey I'm not convinced that your globalist one-world-government wet dream is a bad thing, I'm just wary of it.

Let's get rid of "border controls" (LOL) and national sovereignty while we're at it and let the NAU automate itself above the supreme court and outside the constitution and the bill of rights and let's trust that the new higher power is interested in protecting and guaranteeing freedoms other than movement of labor and capital.

What could go wrong?

Shoot.
Roosevelt's Four Freedoms were sounding pretty good to me.

Oh well. Bring on the New World Order.

"You're now free to move about the country."

http://youtube.com/watch?v=kwxwH_nA1hk

But what if the SUV of misinformation is on the road of ignorance, careening toward the brick wall of inevitability when, in the nick of time, the lug nuts of hubris come loose and the wheels of grinding routine turn and throw the vehicle clear of the rut of denial and into an open field of full disclosure?

All we need now is some kind of national ID card with and RFID tracking chip to make us all safe. If we could somehow have the chips implanted under the skin that would be ideal. And then if we could just merge Canada and the U.S. and Mexico into one North American Union everything would be great, no more immigration problems or pesky borders to secure. How many Ameros would this all cost and which CFR candidate do you think is the best one to bag and tag us all? Obama? Hillary? McCain?

Gol-dammit they stopped taping right when it was getting good!

If we don't all wear these pants, The Kaiser wins.

Fascinating, Captain.

I thought this little video was pretty revelatory as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjgidAICoQI

Whether we're drinking water or soda, the fluoride in both is making us all stupid with brain damages.

Mondo 1991

the Council On Foreign Relations sets the agenda

Cheney was the director of the CFR

Obama is a member of the CFR
(as are all the candidates who are not Ron Paul)

and part of seizing the oil is not to keep prices low but rather to jack them UP

http://www.cfr.org/publication/3971/cheney_energy_task_force.html

$40 is too much to spend for a beer.

Oh sorry, wrong thread.

You just blew my poor mind.

Punks still excel at being sanctimonious self-righteous hand-wringers.

Boo fuckin' hoo.

I also have the Creem Magazine "Boy Howdy" tee, the Zappa "Club B'wana Dik Nowhere but San Antonio" tee, the Joan Jett peacock tee, and the Capitol Theater tee. The shirt itself is a premium well-made tee, the printing is quality (i.e. not thick bulletproof rubber ink coverage like some tees) and considering that some high-fashion tees now retail at around $100, .....suddenly $40 doesn't seem like so much to pay, especially for something that actually has a cool concept behind it and is not just some piece of meaningless poorly-made garbage from The Gap or Hollister (that also costs $40.)

BTW - the Creem tee and other trademarked designs are licensed by Worn Free.

Oddly enough, my Yoko Ono tee shirt from Worn Free just arrived in the mail today.

http://www.wornfree.com/john-lennon-yoko-ono-shirt.html

i heard about this yesterday - so far the mainstream media hasn't covered it

i wouldn't worry about it though
it's probably nothing

keep snickering

Crackerbox Palace
- George Harrison

I was so young when I was born
My eyes could not yet see
And by the time of my first dawn
Somebody holding me . . . they said

I welcome you to Crackerbox Palace
We've been expecting you
You bring such joy in Crackerbox Palace
No matter where you roam know our love is true

While growing up or trying to
Not knowing where to start
I looked around for someone who
May help reveal my heart - someone said

While you're a part of Cracerbox Palace
Do what the rest all do
Or face the fact that Crackerbox Palace
May have no other choice than to deport you

I welcome you to Crackerbox Palace
We've been expecting you
You bring us joy in Crackerbox Palace
No matter where you roam know our love is true

Sometimes are good . . . sometimes are bad
That's all a part of life
And standing in between them all
I met a Mr. Grief - and he said

I welcome you to Crackerbox Palace
Was not expecting you
Let's rap and tap at Crackerbox Palace
Know that the Lord is well and inside of you

(Chorus)

Were people using chocolate eggs to figure out how voluminous their testicles are?? I still don't get it... I'm gonna reread it again

I still don't get how that yellow egg measures testicle volume, let alone a chocolate egg. I'm gonna read it again, wait right here...

You are not mistaken #6 it is from The Blues Brothers.
Plus, they've got S.C.M.O.D.S.

(state, county, municipal, offender, data, system)

You'll forgive me.
I also loved St. Joseph's baby aspirin (orange flavored).

Dammit, I LOVED Tang. Do they still sell that stuff?

I was six years old when those brown food toobs hit the market. I'm sure I must have demanded them because I remember my mom bringing them home one day, and I have no way of knowing for certain but I'm 100% sure they were delicious and nutritious and had we actually gone to the moon I'm sure astronauts would have loved them too.

LOL

I really love Ryan Heshka's work.
His recent show at Roq la Rue was fantastic.

Holy hell that looks so cool.

The Warachowski's "Speed Racer" movie is going to look like that.

Revolting

I still like to listen to Klaatu.

And Emitt Rhodes.

I was adding boingboing to my iPhone home screen last night and grumbling that you guys didn't already have custom art for me.

Thanks for only making me suffer in icon-deprivation for one day.

Less than one day!

Idiocracy in Progress...

Ron Paul!

Sorry honey, I prefer my Laserblast unfiltered, without some professional writer's tongue in my cheek doing my snarking for me.

I always thought MST3K was for people who weren't capable of making their own funny snarky comments during a shitty movie. I never found it very funny or much fun.

Maybe I've just been lucky to know hilarious uber-snarky people in RL, so MST3K just seemed tame by comparison, if not unnecessary.

Or maybe it's like watching someone play a video game. Even if you suck at it, it'll always be more fun to play the game yourself than it will be to sit back and watch someone else.

I have a similar opinion about mashups. Funner to make them yourself, even if you suck at it, than to sit and listen to even the greatest practitioners.

Some day when we all have our RFID chip implants there will be a similar device you can use to turn off everyone's chips. And if you're caught using it, you go away. Forever.

We're adults. We know that life... er, I mean the BOX contains nothing meaningful except for what we project into it, just like Lost contains and delivers nothing but bulwarks against revelation and knowledge, more mystery and aimless goose chase for spuds to puzzle over until bedtime. It's necessary to preoccupy and distract the child... er, I mean the MIND, preferable to the howling nothing that we know is actually what is there. Choosing opacity over transparency, distortion over clarity, mystery over knowledge. Lynch is the master and does it about a million times better than Abrams but both understand the (artistic) value of it.

The alternative of course is dick, (or worse) in the box.

Okay, here's a new piece from today's Salon.com about these Taser Parties...they are "the new Tupperware Party".

This is all perfectly normal.

http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/?last_story=/mwt/broadsheet/2008/01/08/taser_parties/

WASYLM and MATTYMATT

no, not bad necessarily

I was reading "Dark Ages America" by Morris Berman so I had that on the brain this morning when I saw this. In it he describes the differences between "secular" and tribal cultures, the distinction being that the West makes a virtue out of the I-Got-Mine-You-Get-Yours atomization of people from one another...."all I need is this iPod... and this Taser... and this paddle ball game.... that's all I need.... and this Thermos.... and that's all I need..." all ear-budded off and armed and not to be bothered.

This "handy" item seemed to illustrate his point.

Heil, Blackwater!

Popular Science Was An Inside Job!

I read 'Earth Abides' last year. Loved it.
I was reading that book about John Titor, the supposed time traveller who was debunked and accused of lifting large chunks of his account of the future from 'Earth Abides', which prompted me to seek it out.

Wow, I just looked up the link for the John Titor book on Amazon.com..... they've got used copies going for $228.98

Shit I'll have to sell mine! (It's a collection of his internet posts arranged in a chronological order and very plausible and you WANT to believe it's real. It's almost hair-raising in its realism. 'Earth Abides' is too, but in more of a 1950's Twilighty Zone way.)

:)

yeah, if Gallagher played drums in Jellyfish

what bicep?

also, those two large cereal bowls (dead soldiers) drying in the rack

this is a novelty
it doesn't take a stand mixer to add water to powder and stir

the product is a solution to a problem no one has
if anything, Batter Blaster™ problematizes pancakes

go buy pre-cooked frozen toaster pancakes if you're that helpless

or EAT OUT

I'm way more creeped out by the "hybrid" carp with human faces.

I gotcher batter blaster, RIGHT HERE

Whether the story #1 relates bout Aerosmith is apocryphal or not I don't know, but I've heard the same about The Raspberries back in the day, concerned not only about how their records would sound coming out of a car stereo, but how they'd sound broadcast over an AM transistor radio, to boot. To me that always sounded smart as hell. Besides, they are not Michealangelo, they are The Raspberries! Big difference.

make your living room look more like that corner of your garage that needs cleaned out

surely that band is cursed
what a joyous disaster that was

I remember vividly seeing that performance when it aired (i was 14) and how my mind was instantly and irrevocably warped. Thank god for Devo.

They played at the Puyallup Fair here in Washington on Friday night.

Notice how Sugar Bear matured from a kinda tubby little softie into a bleary-eyed huge-chested "Leroy Brown" style tough.

I've got the current Sugar Bear bobblehead here and he looks like the poster boy for gynecomastia.