Free Public Domain Movies

Ed Wood's Plan 9 from Outer Space, Nosferatu, Night of the Living Dead, Reefer Madness, Teenagers from Outer Space...

Watch the movie full screen online - or download to your iPod or PSP for later viewing..

Freakies Cereal

"For instance, Hamhose liked ham sandwiches and lived in a garden hose so he could take long walks all by himself. Grumble had bad feet and so he is always complaining. Snorkeldorf had a long nose, so snorkel is part of his name. Goody-Goody well, we all know about Goody-Goody. The Freakies went in search of the legendary Freakies Tree which grew delicious Freakies cereal. They found the Tree, realize the legend was true, and promptly took up residence in the Tree which then became the backdrop for all the TV spots and package back stories."

I have the Hamhose magnet and the Cowmumble magnet may still be somewhere at my parent's house. I still remember how the magnet smelled when it came out of the box. Trying to find a commercial online - no luck so far. (Click on the image if you want to read the back of the cereal box.)

(Click Breakfast Characters below to see more 'Freakies' posts, including an original Freakies commercial.)

He-Man

Remember this?

Um.... what?

Huh?

This American Life Gitmo

This real audio link from the great radio show, This American Life, goes into our Guantanamo Bay gulag in Cuba - and asks basic questions that aren't about political spin.

Click the title bar to listen.

Create Your Own F-ed Up Garfield Cartoon

Make a terrible comic strip worse by writing inappropriate lines.

Jesse "Don" Knotts

One of the funniest comedians who ever lived, his ability to create brilliant comedy out of absolutely nothing but his imaginative demeanor is something few if any comedians have even approached. As such he was misunderstood and often miscast as a fool (as in Disney's Apple Dumpling Gang) but some great TV never would have lasted past the first season without him though credit was given to others - The Andy Griffith Show and Three's Company especially. This skit from The Muppet Show showed his brilliant ability to make the audience think the absolutely absurd could be believable and have a logic of its own if you displaced your belief onto Knotts' character. You'll be missed Jess.

Shatner's Rocketman

Courtesy of Sheila

WARNING: The volume on this video is really loud at first; turn your speaker volume way down.

I somehow missed seeing this spoken chroma-key version of Rocketman as interepreted by Shatner even after it was copied by Stewie in an episode of Family Guy..

Shatner Sings Again

Horrible Food Packaging

I've been meaning to write about this since I first mentioned it 7 months ago in an indirectly related story - the complete obnoxiousness of food products with photographs of people's faces on it - beginning with Taster's Choice and most recently Good Friends cereal - a cereal made of twigs and bark with scary pictures like this. All I want to know is what customer are they envisioning that is going to look at this box and want to buy their cereal? The best I can imagine is the rare customer that ignores packaging and immediately looks at the label for fiber content. Absolutely ridiculous. Here they are at last for your viewing pleasure. If you have horrible examples of food packaging send them along - the winner receives a box of Good Friends cereal and a post announcing the winners in Horrible Food Packaging II.

Live Action Simpsons Title Sequence

Courtesy of Beep

It's My Year

Year of the Dog

1922, 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006

People born in the Year of the Dog possess the best traits of human nature. They have a deep sense of loyalty, are honest, and inspire other people's confidence because they know how to keep secrets. But Dog People are somewhat selfish, terribly stubborn, and eccentric. They care little for wealth, yet somehow always seem to have money. They can be cold emotionally and sometimes distant at parties. They can find fault with many things and are noted for their sharp tongues. Dog people make good leaders. They are compatible with those born in the Years of the Horse, Tiger, and Rabbit.

G.I. Joe

Timeless messages from the 80's cartoon with a different twist - and knowing is half the battle..

Chewie II

Chewbacca has a blog! Hooray!

Don't Buy Stuff You Cannot Afford

Get out of debt by following this simple one-page self-help book.


Saturday Night Live (SNL) sketch starring Steve Martin, with Amy Poehler.

Hippopotamus

Ever have that craving to hear a hippopotamus sing about noodles? Well then. You've come to the right place.

Johnny Cash on Sesame Street

Horrible Recipes from the Past III

Pictured: Spam grilled in butter and pineapple juice, simmered in barbecue sauce. Mmm..

Crispy Weiners in a Raw Cabbage w/ Baked Beans
Ham Shortcakes in Pea Sauce
Peas in Potato Boats
Velveeta Golden Glory Casserole

Lazy Sunday

NBC is getting all pissy about the fact that this SNL short is available online for free (even though it was offered as a free download from NBC in iTunes, and now is charging 2 bucks for it as they realized people were downloading it..) With NBC's terrible lineup these days, you'd think they'd be grateful for the free advertising for NBC - not suddenly grubbing bucks for something they gave away for free a month ago. So in the spirit of contarianism, here it is to watch all over again. Watch it before NBC starts sending their badgers out to disable it from video archive sites all over the internet. They better give Samberg a raise..

UPDATE: Looks like they already have. So in lieu of/until it's fixed - the title link above will connect you directly to the NBC badgers in action.

Romper Room

Insane show - wouldn't work today - but I totally had my own yellow romper clomper stompers with green handles when I was a kid. Most who watched complained that she never said their name at the end of the show when she looked in her magic mirror. She totally said mine all the time.


Video Links (RealPlayer)
Weekday Song
Mean Clown
Gun Control

It's Jerry Time!

Check out the first four episodes of Jerry - now also available as a free podcast subscription in iTunes.

Darth Cheney Shoots a Guy

"Harry was in the line of fire and got peppered pretty good."

World's Tiniest Videogames

Pong, Pac-Man, Asteroids, Pinball..

Minnesota's Puppet Senator

As usual Norm "King of the Flip-Floppin'-Flip Floppers" Coleman, junior senator from Minnesota, elected after Senator Wellstone's "accidental" plane accident - is working to continue to whitewash his past affiliation as a radical Democrat from it's Wikipedia entry to one of unflagging allegiance to Resident Bush. But then he didn't want people to know that he followed Bush's voting requests 98% of the time when he entered office so he had that deleted. The guy's beyond a putz but, following instructions from Rove? Come on.

Norm Coleman
The staffers of Senator Norm Coleman changed a description of Coleman as a liberal Democrat in college to an "activist Democrat," and then to "an active college student." They removed references to Coleman's voting record during his first year of Congress, which lined up with President Bush 98% of the time, which cited Congressional Quarterly. They also removed a reference to Coleman being persuaded by Karl Rove to run for senator instead of governor in 2002.
"When you put 'edia' in there, it makes it sound as if this is a benign, objective piece of information," said Erich Mische, Senator Coleman's Chief of Staff, to the Associated Press. Mr. Mische admitted the Senator's office had made the edits, and he would take responsibility for removal of the sentence about the voting record. "That probably should have stayed in there."
"It appears to be a major rewrite of the article to make it more favorable. If they're trying to edit in such a way to change the public record, that's a problem," Jimmy Wales said to the Associated Press about the incident.
According to the St. Paul Pioneer Press, "Coleman's decision to run for senator, rather than governor, was sealed during a walk with President Bush in the White House's Rose Garden," rather than Karl Rove. Rove had actually persuaded the former senate majority leader of Minnesota and current governor, Tim Pawlenty, not to challenge Norm Coleman in the Senate elections. Still, other portions of the edit removed references to Karl Rove entirely, and their citations, while accentuating the positive side of several issues, including changing "a budget bill that cut funding from a number of programs" to "a deficit-reduction bill."

I Wouldn't Go That Far..

You are a Social Liberal (63% permissive) and an... Economic Liberal (8% permissive) You are best described as a: Socialist Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid Also: The OkCupid Dating Persona Test

Brokeback to the Future