Archive for wtf?!

Lasers. Spines.

There I was, looking at a website, nothing out of the ordinary at all. And I clicked on a link and a new page loaded and there, in the corner, was an ad:

Blah blah blah, back pain, scam, send us money, neck hurts, pain in my ass maybe, who cares, whatever, go fuck yourse… Did you say laser spine?

They wanted me to visit laser spine. Laser. Spine. A spine made out of lasers. A spine that shot lasers. I didn’t know. I ran through a list of possible ideas, each better than the last.

Somewhere around the point where I had decided it was, obviously, referring to a porcupine that would work on your back with all of it’s spines made of tiny lasers like acupressure, I realized I simply could not have read that shit right, at all.

Nope. Read it right. Laser spine. Now I knew I could click, or type the URL in and go visit the sight and see for myself but I also knew that would take the fun out of it.

Because let’s face it – It wouldn’t be anything cool. It’d be, like, some shitty doctor service that got a mail order degree in doctoring and owns a laser pointer. By going I gave up on the imagination. The coolness that came with laser spine.

Laser Spineitude.

Laser Spineosity.

And I didn’t want to give it up yet. I just didn’t. Because:

I still won’t go to their site. But I will still dream about what it could be.

Those… eyes….

The eyes, they say, are the window to the soul. Some souls, I say, need to invest in curtains.

This is Michelle “Crazy Eyes” Bachmann on the cover of Newsweek. She has that gaze that says “or it gets the hose again,” doesn’t she? Let’s see…
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Sherwin-Williams is not subtle.

The Sherwin-Williams logo might be the worst logo ever. Not because it’s ugly or accidently looks like something it isn’t. No it’s horrible because I suspect it looks exactly like they meant it to look. Here, this is the original logo:

Yeah. They sell paint. And they want to cover the Earth. You know, with paint. By selling, I suppose, a lot of paint. See, they’re gonna be the best paint sellers of all… doesn’t that look like blood to you?

I mean it is horrible. That isn’t “we’re gonna sell all the paint” that’s more “buy our paint or the streets will run red with your blood as we correct your purchasing mistakes, fool.”

And so I was inspired to make them a few new slogans:
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Graeme McMillan is… Wolverine!

An episode or so ago on Wait, What? Graeme did a bit of a Wolverine impression. This needed video to go with it. Aidan, of course, was game. This is what happened (audio is so not safe for work):

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Nimoy’s Day Off

Quite simply this may be the best music video ever made. I stand behind that, and ask you to watch and be awed. God bless Bruno Mars for getting this made.

Triple double

As if crap food wasn’t crap enough we now have Nabisco offering up the Oreo “Triple Double” this summer. Yes, it’s about 1.5 double stuffs. It still isn’t as bad for you as the old Big Stuff was, but they killed that off—probably because it killed too many innocents.

Seriously. Fucking stop. Look, I understand Oreos are filled with crickety crack. I get it, I do. I try not to let them near me often because they just get ‘et. But why do we have to make it worse?

Can’t we, for once in our lives, just say “enough” and stop while we’re behind?

Wait, What? – the video of the podcast

I love podcasts in theory. My problem is I can’t work and listen to them, so I end up just not listening to many on a regular basis. There is one, however, one podcast I listen to every week. I find the time to sit and just listen. That podcast is Wait, What? starring Jeff Lester and Graeme McMillan. I love it.

And so there are times I do things for Wait, What? like make odd art. And then I had an idea. An idea involving puppets. I would work on getting a video made and it would be glorious. So I asked my good friend Aidan Morgan for help. I clipped up some audio and handed it off and he made a video. It was going to be Sifl & Olly but that didn’t work. Which is when Aidan got creative. And by creative I mean drew eyes on butternut squash and added mouths.

This then, is the result. This then, is why you should listen to Wait, What? weekly at either savagecritic.com or via iTunes. Also, if you don’t hear from me again it’s because Jeff and Graeme had me killed for doing this…

Vin Diesel – Break dancer

Holy crap this is fantastic! Before he used the name Vin Diesel (and was still going by Mark Vincent) he did some videos showing off his mad breakdancing skills. Awww yeah! Too Pop, Too Locked!

Fleshies

Someone asked me about porn the other day and I got to thinking about robots. Not that robots turn me on, but rather as robot use grows and robots gain the ability to make choices and eventually some semblance of intelligence what will their porn look like?

The way I see it, most robot porn will be fairly bleak for humans. It’ll be a lot of machines making other machines. Car assembly lines will be considered orgies, if you see what I mean. And there will be a lot of that sort of thing. Robots will be getting off to it, and telling us humans that they’re just “watching documentaries” for years.

But some robots… well they’ll make porn that features robots in a human shape having sex as if they were humans. These fetishists, really the robot equivalent of furries, will be outcast by their people for their ways and made fun of.

“Ew, you get off to a hip based piston going into a socket like that? And why does it squirt oil? What’s wrong with you, Bob? You sick freak.”

Except really it’ll be in binary and Bob’s name is SIG9382YT-9Edks, but you get the idea.

And Bob will sputter and protest and stammer a bit and slink away, unable to really put forth his position that no one should judge him, no one is getting hurt and he’s enjoying himself. That’ll come with time. Robots will accept their fetishes after a while.

But in the space between the start of the Fleshies movement and eventual robot acceptance I think we need to remember our part in this. We need to be there for the robots and help them understand that this is all perfectly natural.

Just… don’t offer to sleep with them. Sharp edges, chafing and loose electrical wires, man. Play it safe. Offer guidance and acceptance at a distance.

I just feel that we need to start preparing now for the future. The self-worth of countless robots is in our hands. That’s all. It’s selfless and sane and increases the joy of the world.

Also, by declaring myself a counselor for robot fetishes now I hope to survive the coming robot wars and prove my worth to our new overlords. You know, just in case. Cover all your bases, my folks used to say. Of course they were killed by a toaster (no they weren’t) and yet I still harbor no grudges against machine-kind over that (yes I do).

But yes. Fleshies. The first widespread robot sex fetish. You heard it here first.

Prince – the truth.

I have to admit something to you. Whenever I think of Prince getting angry I think of the same scene, over and over again.

Prince gets mad – maybe someone left the milk on the counter. Maybe they let a giraffe out of his zoo. Maybe they simply snickered at his latest vest – I don’t know what set him off.

Who really ever knows what sets Prince off? Honkys. Honkys giving him lip probably set Prince off something fierce.

Mind you the script actually goes like this:

Prince: What did you say, Honky?

Honky: I said those shoes are stupid looking.

Prince: Bitch, you did not.

Honky: Well, I was just saying… I mean… they’re kinda dumb.

Prince: Oh that’s it, Honky!

So let’s say some Honky set Prince off. What happens? Well first Prince hits the guy. Or kicks him. Or, hell, this is Prince, grabs two buttons off his vest and reveals that they have a razor wire between them which he then uses to cut a bitch. This is Prince, remember – don’t assume this isn’t exactly what happens.
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