On the first day of Giftmas . . .

Do you know the history behind the 12 Days of Christmas? Neither did I until my main man Alan Cross set me straight with this article. Who knew it was all about sneaky English Catholics trying to teach religious lessons . . . not me that's for sure.

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The MacKenzie Brothers version is pretty good too . . . and I'd be pretty surprised if there was a subversive religious message hid in there.

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I don't know about you but any restaurant that uses a cowboy monkey riding a dog in its commercial is going to get my business. And while we're talking commercials, I think it's fair to say that this just might be the best raisin bran commercial ever.

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And this, the greatest laptop commercial ever. It reminds me of all the time I blew playing videos games sat in front of my Commodore 128.

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I don't know about you, but I'm really looking forward to seeing Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland film. Check out the trailer here, featuring none other than Johnny Depp as The Mad Hatter, and I think he makes a very good, and very Tim Burton, looking one, don't you?

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Time to use my powers for good . . . here's a story by a Sioux Lookout writer that you might like to check out.

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And before I go I'd like to wish all you Druids and Wiccans a happy Winter Solstice. It's the shortest day and longest night today, so enjoy it . . . and get your sorry ass some vitamin D (not to be confused with pop star Vitamin C - remember this song? Yeah me either).

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Until next time.

Santa loves all kids.

Even GINGER ones!

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BTW that's a real Christmas card available from Tesco that is stirring up a bit of controversy, see? Man some people can't take a joke. Personally I think they should keep selling the card, offer a deep discounts to redheads and then next year change things up and sell cards that read:

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"Santa loves all kids. Even ones without senses of humour."

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But that's just me and it's a well known fact that I'm more than a bit of a dick.

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And while we're talking giftmas, this is a pretty good article written to curse the types of people who do things like purchase a goat for an African village from a company who in turn sends you a card saying So-and-so bought Such-and-such to make the life better for a family living in poverty in rural Africa. The real beauty part is I know people who give gifts like that and I also know people who feel similarly to the article's author about receiving gifts like that.

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Things are always better when you can relate.

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And don't you think it's time to trade in your tinfoil hat?

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Until next time, hyperspace dreams my friends.

I think my next vacation will be . . .

. . . here.
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Who wants to come with?

More great news if you're still a fan of off the wall Canuck sketch-com, The Kids in the Hall have reunited to do an 8 episode mini-series called Death Comes to Town that will be airing on the CBC. The gist of the series is Death gets off the Greyhound in a small town and everyone in town becomes a suspect when the Mayor ends up dead. You can check out the trailer for the show here if you're interested and I know you are.

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Looks pretty damned funny don't it?

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This isn't quite local, but close enough and it might just be the strangest Google Winnipeg Street View ever (if you have a stranger one let me know about it) . . . I just want to know, do the people getting into the truck know about the guy lying in the bed?

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Finally thanks to the fine folks over at Explore Music we now know who to blame for the fame and popularity of Nickelback, New Brunswick. Get behind a new band would you, you bastards. At first the popularity of Nickelback gave me some hope for the resurgence of guitar/bar rock (which trust me would be a good thing), but sadly know all it's given us is a Nickelback clones, which is super great if you happen to live in New Brunswick I suppose.

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While we're talking music, how's about a nice video of fans being interviewed in an arena parking lot before a Slayer/Marilyn Manson show in Cali that makes me proud to be a metalhead. Oh and trust me, that guy's mum is a whore. And the parking lot before a metal is a lot like that, even when it's really really cold out.

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You may have already seen this video already, but it's pretty awesome and I've got to share, it's the Muppets doing a video for Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. It's pretty awesome . . . but I'm a little biased after all I am fan of Queen & the Muppets.

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And I'll sign off with a more holiday appropriate video of the Muppets again but this time rocking The Carol of the Bells. It's not quite the Trans Siberian Orchestra's version (or Peter Griffin's for that matter), but pretty cool none the less eh?

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Until next time.

And to you I leave a boot to the head . . .

LA LA!

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If you're Canadian and you liked off kilter sketch comedy troupes no doubt you have fond memories of watching and/or listening to The Frantics (remember CBC's Four on the Floor with the Frantics? I know I do) . . . well you're in luck as The Frantics are back together and are celebrating their 30th anniversary (counting their 15 year break from each other). Here's the article that brought this to my attention.

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I can only hope that this will convince Rick Green that he needs to restart Commander Rick Prisoner of Gravity stat. Man I miss that show . . . it's the show that introduced me to Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, Maus and so much more great comic/sci-fi/fantasy literature . . . and made me want to live in a space station with a super computer and sweet arm chair . . . well I'm part way there aren't I?

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Oh and if you're trying shop for that hard to buy for geek check these out. Pretty cool eh? I don't think I've seen a cooler USB thumb drive since the Lego Brick thumb drive mod.

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But enough of the geekery for the moment, how's a nice PSA about the do's and don'ts of designing a corporate logo. Yeah I thought you'd like that . . . and now I bet you're trying to re-work your company's logo to incorporate a wang or two in it.

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Well now I'm off to have my own freak portaging accident in Algonquin Provincial Park. Until next time.

Don't Call It a Come Back . . .

. . . I was here all along . . . so where have I been? What have been up to?

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Well why don't you mind your own business for once, nosey.

One thing that hasn't helped is that I've been without a home computer for a while after my vintage two stroke dino powered machine made the decision to by a new computer for m by completely crapping out a few weeks ago. But we're back in action now . . . and I've got a lot of work to do and catch up on, but I'm up early and Scooby Doo isn't on Teletoon or Teletoon Retro yet so permit me to entertain you.

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Unfortunately fans (okay maybe that's an exageration, fan) I've lost a lot of what I was saving to put up on here but we gotta start somewhere right?

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So how's about starting with a little bit of epic fail and the 50 Best Protest Signs of 2009? Sure you've seen some before, but they're still funny aren't they.

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Here's a little more fail for you this morning. Remember kids if you're goign to re-enact Tom Cruise's infamous old time rock n roll scene from Risky Business, wear socks don't grease the floor . . . but if you do grease the floor put the video on YouTube and share the link please and thank you.

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Well it's time for Scooby Doo, I'm outta here. Until next time . . . whenever that might be.