Toonces Videos

Bob and Matt saw a cat at the Humane Society whose mouth was always partially open for some reason, so they took it home and named it Toonces.

It died a year later as I recall.

Zines

I used to read Beer Frame religiously...

The Truth

Type here and find out the truth. Like climbing a mountain to find the truth from a yogi master only faster.

Vintage Film Clips

For your enjoyment. And stuff.

Japanese People Lying Face Down

An entire page (click links on left) devoted entirely to pictures people send in of themselves lying face down.

Chewbacca Becomes an American

UPDATE

Apply Now

No experience? No abilities? No intelligence? No problem! Just fill out this application and check off any or all of your hatreds and pointless leisure activities and you too can be one of GW's talentless cronies who help our country make a mockery of itself every single day.

Disposable Scrabble

Print off a Scrabble board for when you're out and about..

American Interventions

What the U.S. has done outside American borders since 1801.

Office Space

"You are Peter Gibbons."
Well I already knew that..
Which Office Space Character Are You?
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Things

you were wondering about. Like how often Kim Jong Il perms his hair.

UPDATE: More things here.

Tilton

One of my favorite insane people of all time, Robert Tilton is endlessly amusing whether you keep the sound on or not. Actually I spent the entire month of January 1990 watching his show on cable - years before he went to court and had to pay out hundreds of millions of dollars for defrauding people. I even went to his church in Dallas a year later and a horse walked down the aisle with some guy dressed as Yankee Doodle on top of it while Tilton was speaking in 'tongues'. I wrote an article about him, but the magazine I sent it to had done a spread on Tilton the month before, unfortunately. He's a freak - almost Dickensinian in a way. And there aren't many of those nowadays.

Automatic Cocktail

Just enter your mood, time of day and other requested data, and your cocktail will be determined by the Mixilator.

Hunter S Thompson ESPN Archive

Alas Hunter has been shot out of a cannon in Aspen but his cantankerous columns for ESPN's site still wait for you to read them in an archive..

Carnival Cartoons

Click on 'Animation' for your Ren and Stimpyesque viewing pleasure.

Japanese Nintendo Band

This lovely band's only instrument is the original Nintendo machine from the late 80's. They connect keyboards and samplers to the circuit board, play stuff and then sing along. You can hear the beginnings of a few songs, or buy an album if you wish..

Whatever Happened To...

..Heritage USA? You know - the multimillion dollar sprawling resort and amusement park founded by Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker in Fort Mill, South Carolina? And then he screwed that whore and was sent to prison for defrauding contributors for 50 years which got reversed on appeal and now he's got a show broadcasting from Branson, Missouri? Well it's completely abandoned now - a ghost town of sorts replete with broken windows, overgrown go-kart tracks and abandoned Olympic sized swimming pools:

"To give you an idea of the size, you could fit the original Disneyland, UK's Blackpoll Pleasure Beach, Six Flags Great America, and Universal Studio's Florida all inside the grounds together, and still have enough room left over to add Cedar Point, Knott's Berry Farm, and little old Geauga Lake Ohio..."

Just a Soldier

I've been following Jason's blog for a little over a year. Now he has a book out on 10/4 based on his experiences in Iraq. I'm happy for him. As he said in an email about his new book: " I am so excited/nervous, I think I might become incontinent." One of my favorite quotes from his blog (now containing only 'deleted scenes' that aren't in his book): "Communicating with the Iraqis is nearly impossible, so we tend to stick to hand signals. To an Iraqi, the 'thumbs up' used to mean 'up your ass', but now we have taught them that it means 'A-Okay'. This ambiguity is absolutely sublime. Kids all across Iraq (and soldiers) can now use an obscene hand gesture with impunity."

Here's a review of his book.
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- KCPW Salt Lake City, UT
- National Public Radio
- Wired

Falling Woman in Bubbles

I meant to post this months ago, but I lost the link. It's weird to watch. It's innocuous, fantastical, yet seemingly cruel in a non-specific way; the animated woman can't escape the bubble world. I'm sure the dadaists of the early 20th century would have a field day with this. If she gets stuck, you can move her around with your mouse.

UPDATE: After you played with that try it with Bush.

Museum of Coat Hangers

Cute Animal Quiz

You Are A: Bear Cub!

Bears are strong and independent creatures who roam in the forest in search of food. Bears are usually gentle, but anger one and be prepared for their full fury! You're big, you won't back down from a fight, you have a bit of a temper -- classic attributes of a bear. Intelligent and resourceful, though lazy at times, you are a fascinating creature of the wild.

You were almost a: Kitten or a Pony
You are least like a: Duckling or a BunnyWhat Cute Animal Are You?

Junk Mail Revenge

Have loads of garbage to get rid of? Throw it in a box and tape that postage-paid envelope that you got with your junk mail and mail it back to them. Bricks, heavy rocks, used car parts, junk in the basement...

Project Gutenberg

No not Steve the actor. As in moveable type printing presses. As in thousands and thousands of books you can read or download online for free.

First Time

Kids in the Hall, one of the best shows ever made in my reality made displaced intelligence seem sane in the Soundgarden or Pearl Jam boredom of the early 90's - at least for me. Unfortunately I never made it to Toronto to see them perform, although I plunked down some cash to see them play live at the State a couple years back which sort of made up for it. Here's one of their early seminal skits.

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Last Sesame Street post, I promise. This remix of the pinball cartoon that showed effusively on Sesame Street in between puppet skits is well remembered by a generation. I still want to see 'The Lonely Lowercase N' and the 'Loaf of Bread, Container of Milk, and a Stick of Butter' cartoons. Zap me URL's if you've seen them around.