Sometimes we come across something so amazing, so brilliant on so many levels that we feel we must share it. That is what 'So awesome I can barely stand it' is for.

(apologies to any film buff friends who may find this reccomendation fairly redundant)

The preview for 2012, Roland Emmerich's most recent love song to the death of everyone in the world ( Read more... )

Given that's a contractual requirement of mine to discuss gender politics at every given oppurtunity, I thought I'd call your attention to these tasty little fuckers.

(Note: I'm having some webtacular difficulties loading photos at the mo, so you'll have to make do with the amazon links)

http://www.amazon.com/Control-A-Man-Remote/dp/B000RSKC12

http:// ( Read more... )

Sometimes we come across something so amazing, so brilliant on so many levels that we feel we must share it. That is what 'So awesome I can barely stand it' is for.

This clip comes from 'Elvis', better known as the '68 comeback special. The show itself is fantastic. Elvis, having slowly eroded his cred with 8 years of dreadful films and middling ( Read more... )

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Firstly, I know the whole 'making fun of chain mail' thing has been done to death, I know this. But sometimes you come across something so awesomely terrible, it seems a shame not to share it.

I found this pasted into the comments on a random facebook groups wall recently, while "researching an upcoming blogpost" (see: Reading strangers profiles ( Read more... )

I've always mostly defended Yoko Ono - it's always seemed to me that she was a vitctim of knee jerk racism and sexism as a result of her marriage to John Lennon, and this negative image sort of trickled down into popular culture, and became considered fact - but even I have a hard time with this:

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Surely this is some kind of wonderful performace art ( Read more... )

Critising a dude on the internet can be risky business - Well, not really, but it does open one up to the accusation of hypocrisy. If you attempt to savage a "humorist" because you find their work painfully dull, repetive and encased in a candy shell of unearned smugness, then you had better do so with some genuine wit yourself, or you're just ( Read more... )

I had a blog on Facebook for a while a year or two ago. This, and anything else tagged old stuff is from that period. Most of them are barely worth the effort it would take to ignore them,  there are a couple of entries I made that I feel are (and I don't want to sound arrogant here) pretty much the greatest thing ever. So in the interest of ( Read more... )

Mourning Gervais (or: How the second series of Extras and that which followed it broke my heart)

8:40am September 27th, 2007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-ia__1d_rM&feature=PlayList&p=C5B2897AE7DD46F6&index=0&playnext=1

I was going to make today’s post about how much peter hellier sucks (and oh christ oh lordy does he suck...) but I found, to my ( Read more... )

Hahn’s Low Carb beer Makes sure you know what a goddamn mess your life is.

8:02am October 29th, 2007 |

But still, even I think they’ve kind of put a step wrong with the current tagline for their new low carb beer. On the advertising I’ve seen, below the picture of the frosty bottle is the phrase “At least you’re doing something right”. Like, wow. ( Read more... )