When a young St. Paul boy got to pick the theme for his third birthday party, he didn’t pick Nemo or the Wiggles or Dora the Explorer. He didn’t even pick his favorite sports team. Henry Schally picked “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer”. His mother, Jennifer Schally, designed party hats complete with pictures of the…
Perched on the edge of a white grand piano and decked out in a full-length evening gown, the former CBS and CNN anchorwoman [Connie Chung] warbled a farewell song that put down Dan Rather (with whom she co-anchored the CBS news in the early 1990s), her husband and cable TV – all at the same…
Agent Marks and I were uncertain how to end it, but thankfully, our undercover agents came to our rescue. They mounted a joke insurgence and effectively re-took the NJZ. It started off with each undercover agent coming into the zone, one after another, telling jokes in a town-crier fashion. —Guerilla Improv: No Joking Zone (Improv-Abilities) A…
Five, the television channel, denied it was disappointed that Diamond, a radio and TV presenter and outspoken Daily Star columnist, had decided against being crucified. No date has been set for the broadcast of the programme. If shown, it may have to change its original working title, Crucify Me. —Nico Hines —‘God made me cancel…
Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests. —!!! BREAD IS DANGEROUS !!! Similar:Man Infected with Ebola Misinformation Through Casual Contact With Cable NewsOn the other end of the link, the New Yo…AmusingHow it feels to watch a user test your product for the first time…
—how to make 3D lemurs out of clay (Google) According to my server log, someone came to my site after searching for “how to make 3D lemurs out of clay.”I was curious… and I used my finely honed Google searching skills to find “miniature lemur sculpture.” I’m not sure that I’m a better person for having…
When former Gizmondo executive Stefan Eriksson wrecked his million-dollar Ferrari on the Pacific Coast Highway last month, it simply seemed like a fitting metaphor for the death of his hapless handheld – the destruction of one expensive piece of machinery to mark the end of another. —Gizmondo Bizarro (Game Revolution) If all the news reports are…
To be a true Cookie Monster vocal, said Mr. Conner, who signed some of the subgenre’s biggest bands, including Sepultura and Fear Factory, “it’s got to be really, really guttural. It should sound like they’re gargling glass.” —Jim Fusilli —That’s Good Enough for Me: Cookie Monsters of death-metal music. (Opinion Journal) New to me. Similar:Enjoying…
The study by the new McCormick Tribune Freedom Museum found that 22 percent of Americans could name all five Simpson family members, compared with just one in 1,000 people who could name all five First Amendment freedoms. —Study: Few Americans Know 1st AmendmentYahoo!|AP) I’m blogging this with my students in mind (*fake cough sounding like…
THOUSANDS FEAR FOR THEIR HEARING, FLEE FOR THEIR LIVES! The infamous Ballet mécanique is coming to Washington, DC, but not in any way it’s been heard before. And it’s not going to be for just one performance…it’s going to be played over 30 times. George Antheil’s 1925 masterwork, which was never heard in its original…
Superman will help teach British children about Jesus in state-mandated religious education classes, The Telegraph reports. —Superman to the rescue of Jesus (JoanneJacobs.com) I’m blogging this one not just because it’s odd enough to be interesting, but because of Joanne Jacobs’ final suggestion, just before “Posted by joannej”. Similar:Elevator shaft on a #steampunk #blender3d cruiser, just…
The first thing that occurred to me was the similarity between the bridge on the Enterprise and a small theater. The view screen made an obvious film screen and the seating centered around the command chairs and behind would fit well in the small space I had. I therefore decided to make my theater into…
“I love awakening the passion for drama and storytelling in the children,” Komarek said. “Nothing’s been finalized, but I’m eyeing Aristophanes’ Frogs. I love the dislocation of verse in the play’s stichic passages, and the kids love animals.” —Second-Graders Wow Audience With School Production Of Equus (The Onion (Satire)) Weird. Weird, weird, weird. Similar:Actors too reverent…
It is a small firm, which employs 16 people. But there is something that distinguishes Nutzwerk from other companies. Employees can be fired if they are caught complaining in the office. It may sound absurd, but employees have a clause in their contracts which states: “moaning and whinging at Nutzwerk is forbidden… except when accompanied…
I’ve just finished making a video about the similarities between the ancient Hindu art of spiritual discipline and the rather more modern art of online gaming. Watch the higher self rack up high scores getting to the next level of consciousness in the transcendentally physical world of Half-Life 2: Deathmatch! —Jim Munroe —Yoga Deathmatch (No Media…
A senior at UMass Dartmouth was visited by federal agents two months ago, after he requested a copy of Mao Tse-Tung’s tome on Communism called “The Little Red Book.” Two history professors at UMass Dartmouth, Brian Glyn Williams and Robert Pontbriand, said the student told them he requested the book through the UMass Dartmouth library’s…
“I will NEVER EVER DO THIS EVER AGAIN and I am once more terribly sorry… Please let me go for I am terribly sorry!!! I’m only a kid! Help me out. I just want to go home. I did this not knowing of the serious penalty that lies behind it. Please! Please! Please!” —Jonathan Baldino…
These fabulous finger puppets are the perfect medium for children of all ages to relive the story of the “melacholy Dane.” Includes Hamlet, Ophelia, Gertrude, and Claudius. —Hamlet Finger Puppets (Shakespeare’s Den) OPHELIA You are as good as a chorus, my lord. HAMLET I could interpret between you and your love, if I could see the…
—Wooden Case Mod… and more My jaw dropped and I literally gasped when I saw these images. Are they real? Not a phenomenal CGI project? It doesn’t matter — it’s beautiful! Thanks for the link, Will! By the way, my birthday’s coming up next month… hint, hint! Similar:‘Broken Age’ ReviewThis will be my self-reward when…
An Australian man built up a 40,000-volt charge of static electricity in his clothes as he walked, leaving a trail of scorched carpet and molten plastic and forcing firefighters to evacuate a building. Frank Clewer, who was wearing a woolen shirt and a synthetic nylon jacket, was oblivious to the growing electrical current that was…