Merry Giftmas Everyone!

On this very day in the year 272 was the first official public celebration of Dies Natalis Invicti Solis, a pagan Roman holiday that was later co-opted by Christians to celebrate the birth of Jesus. Turning the holiday into "Christmas" (in 336 AD) was part of a pattern of the church "borrowing" various pagan festivals and feast days.

Since we're on the topic here's a quiz on Christmas Specials, covering everything from the classic standards to the you never saw them or shouldn't have ever seen them obscure ones. I cranked out a score of 24/36 myself.

And since we're coming up on the end of the year, everyone is breaking out their year in review stuff and here's Time's Year in Pictures for 2006. There are some really awesome photos in there, but what else would you expect from TIME? I wonder if National Geographic has something similar? I should check into that, their photography is always amazing. Here's another collection of 99 amazing photos from the past year, but I don't think they match up to the ones from Time, and not all are amazing, but it would be hard to sell papers if they called them "99 not bad photos from 2006".

I hate to end this post on a downer, but early this morning the Godfather of Soul, Mr. Please Please Please, James Brown, died at the age of 73.

Also the past month and half have been rough on the world of cartoons. On November 20 Chris Hayward writer of the flat out hilarious Rocky & Bullwinkle cartoons died and on December 18 Joe Barbera, one half of the Hanna-Barbera team, died.

Tis the season for gift giving

And it seems that a NJ high school got an early giftmas present from their wrestling team. What you ask? Well they closed the school for Christmas holidays early.

Why you ask? Well because the wrestling team came down with a strain of herpes, aka the gift that keeps on giving.

And what's crimbo without a carol or two? Well here's Peter Griffin, of Family Guy fame, singing some of his favourites.

Since we've got a bit of giftmas flavour going on today here are some Decemberween Short Shorts from the good people over at Homestarrunner.com. If you haven't checked out the Strong Bad emails, you really should. They're awesome, in fact this one might be the most awesome one of all..

And I promise that these are the last giftmas item for today, but here's a Christmas movie quiz (I cranked out 7/10) and in case you want to study up some here are 101 Christmas movies/specials/videos on line for your entertainment.

And now we need some thing decidedly different, so it's time to talk about boobs . . . it's no secret that your love for wooden shoes, tulips, windmills and dikes borders on fetish, but just in case you were looking for another reason to visit Holland, apparentlly Dutch women's boobies are getting bigger, but apparently still aren't as big as English or Danish boobs. How's that for news you can use . . . well wish you could use?

Speaking of news, and boobs, how about a picture of Amy Poehler from SNL's Weekend Update doing some topless tanning (click the censored pic to have an uncensored one pop up)? Why, oh why couldn't it have been Tina Fey?

That didn't do it for you? How about Melanie Griffiths in Playboy in 1976? Still not satisfied? How about some pictures of Beyonce's oddly shaped breast implants? I'm just hoping she doesn't have ass implants too.

And I will leave you with some photographic evidence that Miss USA is a whole lot more awesome than she used to be. Truly she's a role model for all.

That's enough for now, more later

I see a happy birthday in your future

Okay maybe not you, but did you know that on this day in 1503 Michel de Nostredame aka Nostradamus was born into this world? Nostradamus was a doctor, a mystic and liked to inhale vapours and see the future. I've read some of his quatrains and they are vague riddles so they could be this or could be that . . . but I'm sure if I wrote a bunch of vague shit down in 300 years you could look back at history and find a few events to fit my ramblings.

Maybe that's what this will be come?

And now somethign the geekiest of the geeks, did you know that there's a Dragon Lance movie in the works? Neither did I until I saw the website, and even then I only looked at the main page, because well no one cool plays Dragon Lance, Forgotten Realms all the way! Although it's been a long long time since I did any die-chucking.

Since we're rocking it D&D style, how about this sweet TV commercial for the game that aired way back in 1983 . . . or how about the cartoon that ran for a few years back in the mid 80's? Man those were some good times for Saturday morning cartoons.

Not that I'd trade it for the access to cartoons that I have now - or the Friday night F-Night line up on teletoon or Sugar from YTV's the Zone.

And here's some good news for the fans of cartoons not quite directed at kids, seems that in 2008 Comedy Central will be airing new episodes of Futurama, which I think is great, I just hope that one of the Canadian networks picks it up as well. Personally I think that this is great news, as when FOX pulled Futurama I thought that they made a big mistake and should have shit canned the Simpsons instead because Futurama was every bit as smart funny and envelope-pushy as the Simpsons ever was, or more so at a time when the Simpsons was pretty flat. In fact I haven't been a regular Simpsons viewer in several years, but I must be the only one because it's still on the air. Or maybe all the people who watch Survivor are watching the Simpsons every week too?

And now for something completely different, here are the complete unexpurgated scripts of the original Monty Python's Flying Circus TV series, except for the animated bits. With Python it's either love or hate and I do love, nudge nudge wink wink say no more say no more, but not quite to level of some of the fans. But don't worry I'm working on it.

And now for something completely different again, it's not secret that I like to see a trunk with some junk in it, and J'Lo seems to be a good example of that, although not unique as the Peurto Rican "ghetto bootie" isn't rare in some parts of the world. But no matter here's a pic of Ms. Lopez wearing some low rise pants and no underpants at all.

So whatcha gonna do with all that junk? All that junk inside yo' trunk? Not looking to bad eh? Well that begs the question, what does she look like in the morning. Well wonder no longer, here's some pics.

And one last thing - Ghostrider movie trailer, looks awesome. Must see. Now to put you properly in the mood I suggest you commence to rocking out to Henry Rollins' song "Ghostrider" which was featured on the soundtrack for the movie the Crow, which I believe the best movie soundtrack ever.

Well that's it, that's all I'm outta here.

Mission Accomplished

I've post poned my trip to go up North for a lter date, probably next Wednesday. Let's hope things look better then, eh?

Well folks it's that time again . . .

I'm supposed to go up north again today, but this time it's Kingfisher Lake with a Contractor and the weather still isn't looking very promising for going AND returning today, although it is looking better than yesterday. Right now my plan is to postpone this trip.

Anyway, here's something I thought was kinda interesting, apparenlty without knowing it the US army has recruited gang members, and I don't mean cute Vaudeville show putting on gang members like the Little Rascals, and deployed them in Iraq to fight the war and now they are putting up US gang graffitti over there.

And I'm glad to see that I'm not the only person who feels this way, but according to the article three out of four workers would rather have an afternoon off than be at a staff Christmas party, even the ones with free booze.

And since it's the Giftmas season, here are the 50 Greatest Commercials of the 80's, complete with videos of the commercials, so you don't just have to reimagine Max Headroom telling you catch catch catch the wave, coke, you can relive in wondrous webstreaming realism.

And for some more of the giftmas spirit how about a trip in the way back machine to look at a few scanned pages from the 1988 Radio Shack catalog? Me I can't wait for my big as a log $1500 mobile phone or my $2600 home computer with an amazing four megabytes of memory and a screaming 16 mHz processor.

Ah geek humour at it's finest eh folks?

And it's not specifically giftmas related, but here are the trailers for the Simpsons movie set to debut on July 27, 2007. Now I haven't been a regular Simpsons watching in a few years now, but I will go see this movie for sure. Why? Just 'cause.

We'll I think it's time to shove off or at least try to make a phone call.

Later

I loves me some trivia

And that's no secret so for that reason here's a list of Names of 33 Things you Didn't Know had Names and here's a list of 23 Obscure and Obsolete Words. I have to admit that the entire latter list was news to me, but I've had my share of meupareuniac experiences, and some of them even with another person. Oh ho zing!

As for the 33 names list, well maybe it's my love for trivia but I knew some of them, and I'm sure most of you know at least one of them too, after all why do you think they call it a ball-peen hammer?

And since we're rocking trivia lists, how about this one, 20 Things You Didn't Know About Rats. A good list for sure, but one thing it was missing was the Rat King. A Rat King isn't just a character from the Nutcracker story, in this case its a mythological beast said to arise when a number of rats become intertwined at the tails, and additionally stuck to each other with blood, dirt, and excrement. Consequently, the animals grow together, joined at the tails, which are often broken. The phenomenon is particularly associated with Germany, where the majority of instances have been reported. I for one think that the Rat King is about as real as PT Barnum's Fiji Mermaid.

Got time for one more? Of course you do or you wouldn't be here. So here's 40 things you didn't know about sleep. Personally I found this one to be interesting "The extra-hour of sleep received when clocks are put back at the start of daylight in Canada has been found to coincide with a fall in the number of road accidents." And here I thought it was just good for another hour's boozing at the bar?

And now it's time for Bond, James Bond trivia in the form of a list of 70 Things You Didn't Know About James Bond. I haven't seen the new Bond movie yet, but I hear that Daniel Craig is a top shelf 007, even if he doesn't look much like a proper James Bond, but more like the James Bond that BBC would cast if they were making their own Bond film, but of course that's just my opinion and what do I know of such things? Admittedly I'm not a huge Bond fan, but I've read that Mr. Craig is good enough to be compared to Sean Connery, who again in my humble opinion is the best Bond ever. And really there aren't too many scenes in a film hotter than Ursula Andress as Honey Ryder coming out of the water in the white bikini in Dr. No, now is there?

Holy fanboy much? Well for those of you with even greater fanboy tendencies, here's literally the hottest search engine on the net. I don't know how well it works because my computer really doesn't like it, so I'll stick to my Google Toolbar, thanks.

By the way since I know there are some Bond fans out there, here are the opening sequences for every Bond film up to Die Another Day. You're welcome.

To shift gears a bit, did you you know that on this very day in 1957 rock-a-billy superstar and Sun Records recording artist, and Million Dollar Quartet member (here's the famous picture of the group, recognise anyone?) Jerry Lee Lewis marries his jailbait 13 year old cousin, Myra Gail Brown. Myra's parents are not told of their coupling until the story was broken by the press the following year. Lewis neglects to divorce his wife Jane Mitcham until April 1958. Here's a picture of lovely incestuous statuatorily raping couple.

Well I think that's enough awesome for Monday morning, see you later.

Hold Fast!

Now it's not something that I'd ever do but man if I didn't like looking through this website, the Knuckle Tattoo Project. Although HOLD FAST is a classic sailor tat, for some reason I'm partial to this one, even if it's fake. By the way if you want the classic HOLD FAST knuckle tattoo without the permanancy perhaps these gloves from Sailor Jerry are for you.

One of my Granddad's drinking buddies has, well he still has them but he doesn't drink with my Granddad anymore, a sweet set of knuckle tats that read "LETS FUCK" when he laces his fingers together like he's going to pray. How awesome is that?

I know it's a month old, but since we're on the topic of tattoos did you know that Utah's Public Enemy #1 was captured? I wonder how they picked this dood out of a crowd.

Now it's time to jump from skinheads to the Nazis. Did you know that the children of Nazi racial engineering had a convention in Germany last month? The practice of controlled breeding of people to create the perfect Aryan race was called Lebensborn (Fountain of Life, in German) and was the brainchild of Nazi leader and SS Commander Heinrich Himmler. Herr Himmler also became a leading organiser of the Holocaust and was the founder of the death squads along with the concentration camps.

From knuckle tattoos to tattooed skinhead knuckleheads to Nazi super kids, what a post eh?

If you haven't read Maus yet you really should, it's the Author's (Art Spiegelman) father's story of being Jew win Nazi Germany, told in graphic novel format with the Jews as Mice, Nazis as Cats, French as Frogs, Poles as Pigs, as well as a very honest look at Art's relationship with his Dad. It's a really good powerful book, or pair of books to be more accurate and totally worth the read. I'd offer to loan you mine but my boss has them at the moment.

Now onto to a couple things that will appeal tot he fan boys out there - the 20 Hottest Sci-Fi Babes and the hint of Hot Cylon on Cylon action. The 200 hottest list has some good picks in it but I can't say as I whole heartedly agree with his picks, but it's all subjective ain't it? All I can say is where are Dana Scully, T'Pol, Barbarella, and didn't Trillian score higher and why did Boomer score so high?

As for the hot cylon on cylon action read down under #5 - the Tricia Helfer write up. Seems that the producers of Battlestar Galactica finally announce what every fanboy has been dreaming of; Geeks, you may now commence your fapping.

Now that you all have written confirmation of the depths of my fanboydom, how about I end it off with a little Saved By the Bell action? As you may or may not have heard Dustin Diamond, aka Screech, has his very own sex tape for you to watch, complete with a fisheye and a dirty sanchez . . . although I don't think it was a very good one. If you're at all curious about what this would look like here's a short clip to check out and if that tickled your fancy, and I know you like to have your fancy tickled, this link here is supposed to be the full length tape, but I haven't checked it out. Let me know how it is, after all it can't be worse than the Pam Anderson/Tommy Lee sextape.

I think that's enough for now, later days.

Back in Black

Once again there's been a significant gap in my posts, but I've been busy with work, travelling for work, helping friends with their new to them house and rocking out. I also got stuck up north my last trip (the one mentioned in my last post) but at least it was for one night only this time (does everyone want to spend one night in Kasabonika?) and I had brought enough extra gitch this time.

Since tis the season for the Christmas specials on the telly, here's a quiz to test your knowledge of How the Grinch Stole Christmas and one for the Charlie Brown Christmas special. I cranked out a perfect score on the Grinch one but really sucked hind tit on the Charlie Brown quiz managing to pull down a record four correct answers out of ten.

And now time for some whacky trivia; did you know that on this day in 1930 the Vatican accepted the rhythm method as an approved method of birth control. According to that article they've since resinded this stance for more effective methods, which I didn't think was the case as I thought that good Catholics were only supposed to have sex for procreation. But I did recently read that the Catholic Church in Spain said it was okay to use condoms to help prevent the spread of HIV or AIDS. Which is a far cry from the church's stance from four years ago telling people not to use condoms for this purpose because they were full of tiny holes that permited the HIV virus to pass through despite scientific evidence to the contrary.

But the Catholic Church has had issues with science for a long long time, just ask Gallileo.

Another bit of stange trivia, did you know that a study finds six in ten doctors admit using Google to diagnose strange illnesses. "Still no cure for cancer" garnered 1,230,000 hits. Good to know I'm not the only one who uses the interweb for work related info. No more Doctors for me, just Google and prescription medication commericals on TV. Self diagnosis has reached a whole new level.

In case you're into this kinda thing it appears that Britney Spears has been going about in short skirts with no underpants on, and of course thanks to the internet the photographic evidence is everywhere, or at least here and here. Who knew that hanging out (hanging out, get it?). Oh man I'm hilarious) with Paris Hilton would ever be a bad idea? Maybe this means that the rumours of the Britney Spears sex tape are real and one day soon we'll be able to download a green skinned black eyed Britney answering her cell phone mid-shag. Those are references to Paris' sex tape, One Night in Paris, which if you haven't seen is no doubt still all over the internet. After all who doesn't want to spend one night in Paris?

Onto other embarassing things caught on video, here's Micheal Richards' (aka Kramer aka Stanley Spadowski) racist tirade directed at a couple of comedy club hecklers. This is old news now, and I haven't heard anything about it in a couple days so I guess it's been relagated to the who gives a fuck department. I'm sure not many have or would say this but I think if it at least would have been funny it wouldn't have been as big a scandal, or he'd been say Chris Rock (who can call call Honkeys Crackahs all day long).

One final piece of entertainment for you this morning, a video for Electronik Supersonic. If you're interested in more work from the artist Zlad check this out or his wiki entry and after all why wouldn't you? He is more stronger than your Darth Vapour.

Well that's it for now, now you kids get off my lawn.