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Catchphrase! 2

Mar

9

2010

Next year’s Oscar winner, courtesy of Cracked.com:

The Washington Post has came up with a couple of doozies – the first being one of my personal favorite corrections of all time, which has already made its way around the internets a couple times for its sheer ridiculousness. The second contains one of my favorite kicker quotes in a while: “I’ve been on ...

Happy Thanksgiving

Nov

26

2009

Sadly, NBC has C&D’d every copy of my very favorite Thanksgiving video off the interwebs (the Sarah McLachlan/Ana Gasteyer duet “Basted in Blood,” which you can listen to here until the lawyers get to it). This, however, is a great substitute. Sadly, the video quality is not great, but this entire sequence from Addams Family ...

Would You Like To Buy A Trailer? 3

Oct

22

2009

If you would, I encourage you to buy it from this dude, because his commercial is fucking awesome. via Gawker.

Chaplin vs. Oz Season 4, Disc 3 3

Oct

17

2009

After a nice long bike ride (that boat is still there, by the way, just covered in graffiti), I came home and decided to watch a DVD of Oz that I have out from Netflix. There’s a little CGI fly that flies in and out of the frame on the episode selection menu. Chaplin hopped ...

It Never Rains In Southern California

Oct

15

2009

But when it does, Conan O’Brien shows a pretty close approximation of what happens next: Hat tip: LAist.

Unemployment Funnies 1

Aug

7

2009

One that I’ve been saving for a while because it so defines the existence of the unemployed person, courtesy of Garfield Minus Garfield: And one that was recently reposted by The Onion, Unemployed Man Getting Really Good At Unemployment: Through a months-long process of trial and error, Higby has learned the tricks of the unemployment ...

In The Continuing Vein of Literalism

Jul

7

2009

I thought for a bit about what the hell I was going to do with the gigantic goddamn lemon, and finally, I figured I might as well just keep going with the literal theme of the day: Yep, I made lemonade. An absolutely ridiculous amount of lemonade from one lemon, in fact. Normally to make ...

When Life Gives You Gigantic Goddamn Lemons 1

Jul

7

2009

This monstrosity has been hanging from the lemon tree in my apartment complex for the last few months. Today, just as I was heading past it to go to the gym, it fell off the tree, right next to me. Given everything that’s been going on lately, I had to laugh. Life has now taken ...

Chivalry Ain’t Dead 2

Jun

23

2009

I was on my bike, sitting in the left-turn lane on my way back from the gym this afternoon when a guy in a brand new red Mini convertible flicked his lit cigarette onto the ground right in front of me. I was about to express my displeasure with his action when a guy pulled ...