February 14, 2008
Valentine's Day. You Can Suck It
These geek valentines cards are ok, though.
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December 17, 2007
Soma.fm has a Lovely Christmas Lounge of Music
It's kid and parent safe! It's one of the few Christmas laden music streams that I can stand during the holidays. It's a pity I can't hear the damn thing in my car.
And for those with less sensitive ears there's:
You can follow the playlist in their Twitter.
I repeat, the Xmas in Frisco stream is not kid friendly. All they need is some random, non-reading idiot raising a ruckus about not being warned. I did it.
I warned you all.
(via soma.fm christmas, xmas in frisco)
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December 12, 2007
Have Yourself a Tesla Powered Christmas
That aussie fella's at it again.
(via wired)
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BLIND CLICK 19: Because you forgot
That hurt me so much that I am compelled to hurt others, too.
That's the human way.
(via last year)
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November 19, 2007
Christmas with The Killers
I'm looking forward to the new album.
"Don't Shoot Me Santa" will be serviced to radio on Monday, November 26th, and released for digital download the next day. On December 1st (Saturday) the single and video will debut as part of RED’s World Aids Day activities. The following Tuesday, December 4th, the "Don't Shoot Me Santa" single package (including audio track and video) arrives in stores.
Nicely.
(via www.thekillersfansite.com, gun weary youtube)
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November 01, 2007
In Russia, Halloween is Underground
A day late but I have things to do some times.
Moscow schools have been ordered to ban students from celebrating Halloween despite the widespread popularity of the imported festival to Russia.Halloween is being forced underground because it "includes religious elements, the cult of death, the mockery of death," a spokesman for the city's education department Alexander Gavrilov said Wednesday.
Is it me or is Russia being a little weird lately? It's like Cold War mentality reaching up from the grave and grabbing hold of whomever's nearby.
(via reuters)
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October 28, 2007
10 Tales of Terror: Each about 30 Seconds(Give or Take)
More Halloween goodies. Six writers were challenged to terrify us in the shortest time possible. Each story read by the author who wrote it.
One of those writers is Neil Gaiman. Two others that caught my interest: John Moe and Sean Cole.
(via neil gaiman)
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FREE: "A Study in Emerald" by Neil Gaiman
It *looks* like Halloween but it *feels* like Christmas.
Alluding to both the Sherlock Holmes canon and the Old Ones of the Cthulhu Mythos, this Hugo Award winning short story will delight fans of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H.P. Lovecraft, and of course, Neil Gaiman. A Study in Emerald draws listeners in through carefully revealed details as a consulting detective and his narrator friend solve the mystery of a murdered German noble. But with its subtle allusions and surprise ending, this mystery hints that the real fun in solving this case lies in imagining all the details that Gaiman doesn’t reveal, and challenges listeners to be detectives themselves.
download: "A Study in Emerald"
(via neil gaiman journal)
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October 24, 2007
"Surviving the Zombie Attack" as Told Through Paper
I've found a new site to haunt...er... brain-eat.
(via digg, common craft )
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October 22, 2007
The Evil Dead can Dance and Sing
There's something I need to see this Halloween.
(via Evil Dead the Musical, interview with theater Ash, Ryan Ward)
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October 16, 2007
Oh BTW: Huntsville's Fully Haunted
The Halloween spirit is finally taking hold of me.
Huntsville - The Carter Mansion - is haunted by the ghost of Sally Carter who died a violent death at 16 year old and is buried on the Carter Estate. She has been sited walking the grounds. Some say she is responsible for toppling her headstone on occasion.Huntsville - Crybaby Hollow - Ghost of a baby wails through the trees on cold nights and will sometimes scratch on the bottoms of cars that park there. Mysterious breathing sounds sometimes heard as well.
Huntsville - Dead Children's Playground (next to Maple Hill Cemetery) - The ghosts of children often are seen swinging in swing sets or sometimes the swings are moving as if someone were in them. The children are seen very late at night or early the next day like from 11:00pm to 3:00am, too late for children to be out.
Huntsville - Hell's Gates (Green Mountain) - There are a set a big black gates that stand about a mile from the bottom of the mountain that guard some huge mansion on this mountain. If you go and sit in front of the gates for a little while a car will come down the mountain and chase you until you get to the bottom and the car will suddenly vanish...its no myth.
Huntsville - Heritage Bible College - WHBC Frat House - Late at night you can hear the Ghost of former youth minister Anthony Stephens walking through the house flushing the toilet. His now deceased brethren Robert Ekisbus and Adam Cooper follow him around making noises that almost sounds like the word "cheese".
Huntsville - Huntsville High School - People have claimed to here foot steps and laughing of teenagers through the halls at night after late softball or basketball practices.
Huntsville - Kent Robertson park - A young boy died there one summer day. They named the park after him and made a memory stone. He still is heard in the park at night and the hunt club-woods behind it.
Huntsville - Maple Hill Cemetery - An old lady passed away and was put in the family burial house. Her family placed her antique rocking chair in the crypt with her because it was a prized possession to her. Most anytime when you stand outside the burial house, you can hear the rocking chair moving back and forth.
Huntsville - Old Dallas Mill Site - The Dallas Mill was built in 1891 and burned down in 1992. Haunted by a man died while cleaning the smoke stacks shortly after the mill was built, and a homeless person who lived there after the mill burned down. People have reported seeing him wandering around the ruins.
Huntsville - Space Camp - Space camp counselors tell the story there about a man who was working on the sleeping quarters at the facility. One day they were using explosives to make large holes in the ground for the below ground quarters. The explosives went off early and he was buried alive by dirt and rubble. Until this day in the halls and in some rooms there they can still here his cries for help echoing through the halls and large moans late at night.
(via shadowlands haunted places index)
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April 07, 2007
Happy Birthday, Internet!
Who knew that in a mere 30 plus years you would amass such a resovoir of porn and knowledge and porn?
April 7 is often cited as a symbolic birth date of the net because the RFC memoranda contain research, proposals and methodologies applicable to internet technology. RFC documents provide a way for engineers and others to kick around new ideas in a public forum; sometimes, these ideas are adopted as new standards by the Internet Engineering Task Force.[...]
When it comes to the birth of the net, Jan. 1, 1983, also has its supporters. On that date, the National Science Foundation’s university network backbone, a precursor to the World Wide Web, became operational.
(via wired)
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April 06, 2007
The Celebrated Miracles of Patron Saint Neil Gaiman
One of the better April Fool's of 2007 that I've seen thus far.
"First, we have a report of a signing at DreamHaven Books, where by mistake his publisher had only shipped one 20 book carton of Anansi Boys, but into which the Venerable Gaiman had reached his hand again and again to pull out book after book, until all 500 patrons had received their copies, all of which were first printings and entirely free of shipping damage."Bertoli noted that the second miracle involved a girl in Los Angeles who had been cured of her terminal cancer after a copy of Volume 9 of The Collected Sandman (The Kindly Ones) had been laid against her brow. Finally, Bertoli said he had documented proof that Gaiman had single-handedly fed all of Paraguay in 1987.
"Truly the Holy Ghost works though the Venerable Gaiman's hands."
(via neil gaiman, locus online)
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February 09, 2007
Ancient Skeletons Found in Final Embrace
Happy Valentine's Day, bitches.
Archaeologists in Italy have unearthed two skeletons thought to be 5,000 to 6,000 years old, locked in an embrace.
The pair from the Neolithic period were discovered outside Mantua, about 40km (25 miles) south of Verona.
The pair, almost certainly a man and a woman, are thought to have died young as their teeth were mostly intact, said chief archaeologist Elena Menotti.
The burial site was discovered on Monday during construction work for a factory building.
"It's an extraordinary case," said Ms Menotti. "There has not been a double burial found in the Neolithic period, much less two people hugging - and they really are hugging," she told Reuters news agency.
Flint tools, including arrowheads and a knife, were also found alongside the couple.
(via bbc news and boingboing)
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Dating in Japan: The Highs. The Lows. The Hands.
That damnable holiday is going to bring more pieces like this one.
>> Japanese Boy << Sanko v Santei v SanshuDating services in Japan have been looking at how women have changed what they are looking for in a mate over the last 20 years and seen just how this reflects the wider geopolitical and economic realities.
During the rich 80s, at the height of the stock market bubble, all the girls wanted a "Sanko"; which means "three highs" - high education, high income and tall.
After the crash in the 90s, girls started looking for "Santei" boys. This meant they were looking for three lows instead - low risk, low dependency, low stature.
Now in these uncertain times, dating patterns have changed again. Top of the tree are "Sanshu", or "three hands". Girls now want helping hands, holding hands and taking in hand.
(via popbitch.com)
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January 29, 2007
Lauren Martin Read My Freakin' Mind
It's that fucking time of year again.
(via warren ellis)
Posted by Groonk at 08:27 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Holiday
January 01, 2007
One Last Thing about Christmas 2006
(via flickr and some crazy family in Toronto)
Posted by Groonk at 06:01 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Flickrlicious, Holiday, Video
December 23, 2006
This Year the Sewdish Christmas Goat Stood Unmolested
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - For 40 years it has been torched, vandalized, had its legs cut off and even been run over by a car. But officials in the Swedish city of Gavle are guaranteeing that this year's giant straw Christmas goat - the victim of Sweden's most violent yule tradition - will survive unscathed.
The 43-foot-high goat - a centuries-old yule symbol that preceded Santa Claus as the bringer of gifts to Swedish homes - has been burned down 22 times since it was first set up in Gavle's square on Dec. 3, 1966.
But for its 40th anniversary Sunday, officials think they have finally outsmarted the resourceful vandals by dousing the battered ram with flame-resistant chemicals normally used on airplanes.
"It is impossible to burn it to the ground this year, although you might be able to singe its paws," said Anna Ostman, a spokeswoman for the committee in charge of building the goat. "After 40 years, we think we finally found the solution."
The company providing the fireproof treatment is so sure of its resilience that its spokesman Freddy Klassmo told newspaper Aftonbladet that "not even napalm can set fire to the goat now."
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NORAD Stalks Santa, Celebrities Incredibly Grateful
dash away all!
Posted by Groonk at 01:04 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Holiday
December 14, 2006
Urban Outfitters Sells Pathetic Trees
And I want one of my very own.
(via 7d and urbanoutfitters.com)
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December 13, 2006
It's a Scrubs Christmas, Charlie Brown!
This mashup is a thing of beauty.
"How bout some pity sex, Laverne?"
(via geekologie and good grief, youtube)
Posted by Groonk at 03:20 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Holiday, Just Freaking Neat, Video
December 07, 2006
Santa's Butt would get you Drunk
I say 'would' cause the prudes in maine have an issue with the label. I guess the beer gets distributed elsewhere. Except Maine...and Alabama.
The beer gets distributed in places that matter.
In a complaint filed in federal court, Shelton Brothers accuses the Maine Bureau of Liquor Enforcement of censorship for denying applications for labels for Santa's Butt Winter Porter and two other beers it wants to sell in Maine.
The dispute recalls a similar squabble last year when Connecticut told Shelton Brothers it had problems with its Seriously Bad Elf ale.
"Last year it was elves. This year it's Santa. Maybe next year it'll be reindeer," said Daniel Shelton, owner of the company in Belchertown, Mass.
[...]
"There is no good reason for the state to censor art, even art found on a beer label," said Zachary Heiden, staff attorney for the MCLU.
The label for the English-made Santa's Butt Winter Porter features a rear view of a beer-drinking Santa Claus sitting atop a barrel. The beer's name refers not only to Santa's ample backside, but also to the barrel. In England, brewers once used a large barrel called a "butt" to store beer.
[...]
States have the power to regulate alcohol through the 21st Amendment, which repealed Prohibition in 1933. "But I don't know where they get the idea they can ignore the rest of the Constitution," Shelton said.
(via 7d and mywaynews and Shelton Brothers beer)
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December 03, 2006
Santastic II: Puts the Claus in Clausome
Another Christmas. Another Clausome multi-DJ mashup.
LISTEN: Santastic II-Clausome
1. Jingle Jane - Divide and Kreate
2. Carpenter's Christmas (Karen Meets Roots Radics Uptown) - Go Home Productions
3. Lonely Siberian Winter - DJ John
4. Donde Esta Santa Claus? - Lenlow
5. The Darlene Love Sub-Zero Ecosystem - ATOM
6. X-Mash - Divide and Kreate
7. Let Me Clear My Throat At Christmas - Cheekyboy
8. Pere Noel Blues - ComaR
9. The Rockin' Manger Twist - Voicedude
10. Dreidl-Bells - DJ Flack
11. Chanukah Song (GoyiMix) - dj BC
12. Give Da Jew Girl Toys (Clean) - A plus D
13. Rudolph The Paranoid Reindeer - ToToM
14. I Want A New Limb For Christmas - Pilchard
15. Rudolph Berry Molecular Pattern 4 - ATOM
16. Red Nosed 5 - Solcofn
17. Wonderful Christmastime (Rhythm Scholar Kringle Kut Remix) - Paul McCartney vs Rhythm Scholar
18. Last Christmas The Winter Took The Street - Martinn
19. Stop I've Had Enough Christmas Music - King Of Pants
20. White Christmas (Electro Remix) - Miss Frenchie
21. Imagine Santa - dj BC
22. Frosty John - Secret Santa
BONUS (Mature Themes):
Horny Christmas - Loo and Placido
Give Da Jew Girl Toys (Dirty) - A plus D
(via Santastic II )
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November 29, 2006
Billy Idol Rocks-Out Christmas!
I'm dying from awesome! Who'd think I'd live to hear Billy Idol rock-out christmas?!*
Idol's myspace gives you samples.
Billy Idol's new album "Happy Holidays" is now available for purchase through BillyIdol.net.
The track list for the album:
Frosty the Snowman
Silver Bells
Happy Holidays
Merry Christmas Baby
White Christmas
Here Comes Santa Claus
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Santa Claus Is Back In Town
Let It Snow
Winter Wonderland
Run Rudolph Run
Blue Christmas
Jingle Bell Rock
Christmas Love
Oh Christmas Tree
Silent Night
Auld Lang SyneBe one of the first five hundred people to purchase "Happy Holidays" and receive a Christmas card personally signed from Billy.
Dunc! had this thought, "Woulda been awesome if Idol took his old songs and just put Christmas words to them."
- White Wedding -> White Christmas
- Rebel Yell -> Rudolph's Bellsapples
- Monie monie -> Santa Santa
I contributed:
- Rock the Cradle of Love -> Rock the Cradle of Christmas
Still naysay the Idol Christmas groove? Watch the vid under the cut.
(via ONTD and *my complete sense of irony)
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November 03, 2006
Oh My Golly, It's Time to Celebrate Diwali
Did you miss "The Office" last night? That means you missed The Diwali Song. Flog yourself about that later. Listen to the song now:
In case you didn't know, Jenna Fischer is insanely dutiful about updating her myspace blog with each new Office episode. Some times she throws in extras bits about the episode. See the "Diwali," pictures.
Now don't you all feel a bit Closer to Fine?
(via Nirali Magazine and Pam Beesley and Ricky Gervais for the Office idea)
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November 02, 2006
Jack's Lantern as a Cylon
Ok. I know Halloween is so yesterday(actually 2 days ago) but, goddamnit, this is just too cool for school.
(via evil mad scientist)
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Halloween: Now in Japan
The Beat noticed The Brunei Times report on Halloween becoming popular in Japan. I went looking for the full article and I'll be damned if it isn't gone already. With not a search box in sight on Brunei, I'll have to take The Beat's word as truth.
GHOSTIES and ghoulies, princesses and pumpkins took to the streets of Tokyo this weekend as Japan celebrated one of its newest festivals Halloween.Little known two decades ago, Halloween has spread in cities such as Tokyo, where autumn now sees florists selling pumpkins, shopping arcades festooned with paper Jack o’lanterns and even black-and-orange costumes for dogs on offer at pet shops.
(via The Beat and Brunei Times, I guess)
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October 13, 2006
Double-13 Friday Gives Crazies Pause
Paraskevidekatriaphobics think on numbers too much.
The phenomenon hasn't happened in 476 years, said Heinrich Hemme, a physicist at Germany's University of Aachen who crunched the numbers to find that the double-whammy last occurred Jan. 13, 1520.
"Pure chance," the good professor told the press yesterday.
But it's not exactly TGIF for the 21 million Americans who fear the day. Some may not travel or even get out of bed, said Donald Dossey, a North Carolina psychologist who coined the term "paraskevidekatriaphobia" 20 years ago. He estimates that the nation is out $900 million in lost productivity because of Friday the 13th sick-outs.
"It's just ingrained in our culture -- one of those collective, unconscious fears stretching back about 2,800 years," Mr. Dossey said. "But it will be all gone tomorrow. By the time you learn to pronounce 'paraskevidekatriaphobia,' you're cured."
Friday the 13th has had unlucky baggage for centuries, with references to "bad" Fridays cited in the Bible, Norse mythology, Chaucer, French and British history, numerology and folklore sources, Mr. Dossey said.
Presidential hopeful John Edwards must be phobia-free. The former Democratic senator from North Carolina begins his 13th campaign trip to Iowa today, according to the Des Moines Register.
(via 7d and the washington times)
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Ghost Town Offers a Savage Beast Soothing Month of Music
The Ghost Town blog is doing a 31 Days of Halloween thing as well. Only theirs is dubbed 31 Days of Pure evil. Did I miss out on an meme email or something?
Ghost Town's Halloween gig is that they're dropping a new mp3 on their site every day. By month's end, you'll have the chance to download an especially eclectic GT inspired mix tape from hell.
If you are so inclined.
(via ghost town)
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And on the Thirteenth Day, there was Vincent Price
I thought I was getting a bunch of podcasts of Edgar Allan Poe stories via Senses Working Overtime. I thought wrong cause every file I grabbed was unusable.
At least there are pretty pictures.
Still, they are doing a 31 Days of Halloween bit that might have other usable Halloween downloadables.
(via senses working overtime)
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October 07, 2006
It Just Ain't Halloween without some Monster MASHUP
Ghouls with Attitude was entertaining me, until it plumb got on my nerves. Don't get me wrong. It's a fun mix of old horror movie trailers, vintage songs and TV themes, and a dollop or two of remixes.
But I'm done with Ghouls for the week.
I've moved on to The Bride of Monster MASHUP with bonus cuts and a pdf mag. All the DJ sounds I've come to know and love over the last 10 months are in there. Along with some new ones.
ALBUM:
1. DJ Schmolli - Satan.Omen.Death
2. dj BC - The Witch Doctor vs The Exorcist
3. DJ NoNo - County Sound
4. KrazyBen - Monster of the crypt
5. Pilchard - Jack The Ripper
6. DJ Engineer - Happy Mash-O-Ween
7. Cheekyboy - Nowhere To Run, Nowhere To Hide
8. EARLYBIRD - ...that I put a spell on her.
9. Irn Mnky - Tongueless Ghost Of Sin
10. DJ Clive$ter - The Megablast Of Dragula feat. Pinhead
11. Mr. Fab - Cannibal Zombie Mom
12. Divide & Kreate - Highway Reaper
13. Fettdog - The Haunted Mashion
14. Essexboy - Freaky Teethbusters
15. Apollo Zero - Don't Scream, Halloween's Paid in Full
16. Autopilot - Devil Went Down on Betty
17. Juxtaposeur - The Demonique Dimotane Co
18. DJ Boasty - Purple People Eater
19. Solcofn - Release Yo' Nightmare
BONUS CD:
1. AberNStein - Halloween ist Krieg
2. Cheekyboy - Somebody's Sunglasses
3. DJ Clive$ter - Blue Monday 4 American Witches
4. DJ Engineer - Vampire Nation
5. DJ Earlybird - Halloween Puppetz
6. Mr. Fab - Dark Shadows Cha Cha Cha
7. RIAA - Caspar The Friendly Queen
8. BuG - Happy Devil
9. Cheekyboy - Halloween Haunted Megamix
You can download track by track or in a mega mp3 chunk or embrace the bittorrent love.
Know this: You need BoMM in your headspace. It'll make you right. It'll make you good. It may even make you dance.
Scary.
(headsup via myspace solcofn)
UPDATE: Blog of Monster MASHUP keeps you up to date on new tracks.
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October 06, 2006
It's Halloween, So there should be Costumed Art
(via julian Beever/Kurt Wenner and pentacleus)
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September 19, 2006
Pirates vs Ninjas vs Bad Acting
Guess who won.
I log this as a lesson in a potentially funny premise fizzling into mediocrity.
Very unfortunate.
(via yahoo videos)
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Pirates like to Sing
Funny little pirate song found on a YouTube search, me hearties.
Posted by Groonk at 05:53 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Funny, Holiday, Video
July 11, 2006
Genghis Khan is a Rock God
A festival has begun in Mongolia to honour the nation's most famous emperor, warrior Genghis Khan.
Celebrations marking the 800th anniversary of the Mongol empire have been going on all year
.But the highlight is the three-day Nadaam festival, which features the traditional "three manly sports" of horse-racing, wrestling and archery.
The games are taking place around the country, with the population thronging to district centres to take part.
"This is the most beautiful and important holiday of our country," Tsendsuren Majaa, who was attending the games in the western town of Arvaikheer, told Reuters news agency.
(via bbc news)
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May 05, 2006
Mars is full of smiles
You don't expect these things from a planet named after a war god.
Images taken by Europe's Mars Express spacecraft show a crater on the Red Planet that looks like a "happy face".
Crater Galle contains parallel gullies on its southern rim, a possible sign of liquid water running on Mars' surface.
Its interior has also been shaped by the action of wind and shows signs of "dust devil" tracks, which have removed the bright surface coating of dust.
A US space agency (Nasa) orbiter has also sent back its first colour image after arriving at Mars on 11 March.
The "face" in the European images was first pointed out in photos taken during Nasa's Viking Orbiter 1 mission.
Happy Cinco de Mayo, kids.
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April 19, 2006
Tiny bunny ears. Tinier shorts.
Enough science. It's time for Evangeline Lily in skin tight shorts/thingies and bunny ears.
Bigger pics after the jump.
(via the superficial)
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February 28, 2006
Mardi Gras: Post Deluge
[...]
Kevin and Marie Barre, a husband and wife from New Orleans, wore white plastic coveralls bearing the all-too-familiar spray-painted "X" that denotes a home that has been checked for bodies.
"It's a reminder. A lot of people who are coming down here don't understand what we've been through," Kevin Barre said.
Several people draped in blue tarps like those used to cover damaged roofs. One woman appeared in a nun's habit made of a blue tarp. A man with a model of a military helicopter suspended over his head wrapped himself in a white blanket with "2000 lbs" stenciled on it - he was a giant sandbag, like the ones dropped into one of the breached levees.
Another group of French Quarter revelers dressed as blind people with canes and dark glasses. They wore hard hats and T-shirts emblazoned "LEVEE INSPECTOR."
(via mywaynews)
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February 14, 2006
Watch pandas get their love-on
Bow down and suck my knees Valentine's Day.
(via 7d)
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Happy Daiz and Arthur Dent will get my movie money
In the spirit of that despicable greeting card induced "holiday" I give you Confetti's trailer and one sheet:
To be honest, the trailer doesn't particualrly grab me. The main reason I want to see it is Jessica Stevenson. That woman is funny. The kind of funny that greets you with a grin then sneaks round the corner and waits to bash you in the back of the head with hilarity type funny. Savvy viewers will remember her as Shaun's doppleganger friend in Shaun of the Dead.
Cheeky lads and lasses know her from the "you should find, watch and praise me for introducing you to such an awesome British comedy" Spaced.
Oh and Martin Freeman from the movie version of Hitchhiker's Guide and the original British comedy The Office is in there too.
Deeper digging revealed to me that the dialogue was completely improvised. Much like Waiting for Guffman.
Posted by Groonk at 02:26 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Holiday, Movies, One Sheets, Trailers
December 20, 2005
Ultimate jell-o shots
My Science Project instructs us all on the goodness that is making Jell-O Shots.
college days recalled
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December 19, 2005
Chirstmas Music
I thought I would be gone. I should be gone. Not quite there yet.
In the meantime, I did get WBER's list of Christmas rock music from 7d. Though it comes nowhere near to matching my list(only up for the holidays), it does have a lot of tunes that I don't have....Yet.
Also, out of WBER's entire list lacks Poe's "Grandma got run over by a Reindeer." Very poor form WBER.
Breaking Up At Christmas-Mother May I (Eye)
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas-Tori Amos
Little Drummer Boy-Tori Amos
Joy To The World-Bad Religion
Silent Night-Bad Religion
Do They Know It's Christmas-Band Aid
Green Christmas-Barenaked Ladies
Do They Know It's Christmas-Barenaked Ladis/Dido/Guster
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen-Barenaked Ladies/Sarah Mcalachlin
Merry Crhsitmas Eve-Better Than Ezra
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen-Black Watch
What I want For Christmas-Nicole Blackmon
I Won't Be Home For Christmas-Blink 182
WBER's list continues after the jump.
Peace On Earth/Little Drummer-Davie Bowie/Bing Crosby
Jingle Bells-The Brian Setzer Orchestra
Have Yourself A Merry Christmas-Bright Eyes
December Will Be Magic-Kate Bush
Christmas-The Buzz Of Delight/Matthew Sw
The Cat Carol-Meryn Cadell
One Christmas Catalouge-Captiain Sensible
O Holy Night-Tracy Chapman
Frosty The Snowman-Cocteau Twins
Winter Wonderland-Cocteau Twins
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas-Coldplay
Merry Christmas Emily-Cracker
Happy Christmas-Cranes
The First Noel-Crash Test Dummies
I Did It For The Toys-Dance Hall Crashers
Christmas Time-The Darkness
Christmas Song-Dave Matthews Band
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)-Death Cab For Cutie
Christmas Day-Dido
Angels We Have Heard On High-Duvall
Everythings's Gonna Be Cool This Christmas-Eel
Little Drummer Boy-Engine Kid
Winter Wonderland-Eurythmics
Santa Baby-Everclea
25th December-Everything But The Girl
Merry Christmas-Face To Face
Yule Shoot Your Eye Out-Fall Out Boy
Snowball-Jimmy Fallon
Feed The World-Far/Chino Moreno
Does It have To Be Christmas Time-Bibi Farber
Christmas-Dillon Fence
Christmas At The Zoo-The Flaming Lips
White Christmas-The Flaming Lips
Bizarre Christmas Incident-Ben Folds
Lonely Christmas Eve-Ben Folds
Twin Falls-Ben Folds
Holly Jolly Christmas-The Format
I Want An Alien For Christmas-Fountains Of Wayne
The Man In The Santa Suit-Fountains Of Wayne
Father Christmas-Gigolo Aunts
White Christmas-Goldfinger
Alan Parsons In A Winter Wonderland-Grandaddy
Fairytale Of New York-Grover/Kevin Salem
You're A Mean One Mr. Grinch-Albert Hauge
Make It Home-Juliana Hatfield
Jesus Christ-Kristin Hersh
Little Drummer Boy-Jars Of Clay
12/23/95-Jimmy Eat World
Last Christmas-Jimmy Eath World
Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer-Jack Johnson
Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer-Daniel Johnston
Have Yourself A Merry Christmas-Freddy Johnston
(Not Just Until) The Season En-Mary Karlzen
Do You Hear What I Hear?-Sean Kelly/Tom Askin
New Heart for Christmas-Kill Hanna
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas-Local H
Taking Down The Tree-Low
Let It Snow-Luscious Jackson
Queen Of Bliss-Luscious Jackson
The Christmas Song-Aimee Mann
December Is For Cynics-The matches
Merry Christmas Will Do-Material Issue
Wonderful Christmas-Tom McRae
Christmas In The Stars-Meco
What Can You Get A Wookie For Christmas-Meco
Children Go Where I Send Thee-Natalie Merchant
This Time Of year-The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Huge On A Luge-Moxy Fruvous
The Coventry Carol-Alison Moyet
Christmas Day-MXPX
Christmas Night Of Zombies-MXPX
You're The One I Miss-MXPX
Christmas-Leona Naess
Ex Miss-New Found Glory
Oi to The World-No Doubt
Silent Night-October Project
Holly Jolly Christmas-Old 97's
Christmas In Cali-P.O.D.
Winter Wonderland-Phantom Planet
Fairytale Of New York-The Pogues/Kirsty McColl
Christmas-The Posies
2000 Miles-Pretenders
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas-Prentenders
Ten Tubas-Professor & Maryann
Thank God It's Christmas-Queen
Deck The Halls-R.E.M.
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)-Joey Ramone
Merry Christmas-Joey Ramone
Merry Christmas-The Ramones
Christmas Star-Ike Reilly
'Twas the Night Before Christmas-Henry Rollins
Christmas With Jesus-Josh Rouse
Hey Santa-Riyal Crown Revue
Christmas In Hollis-Run-D.M.C.
It's Not Christmas-Kelley Ryan
Little Drummer Boy-Matthew Ryan
I was Born On Christmas Day-Saint Etienne
Christmas Wrapping-Save Ferris
Candy Fisted Christmas-Stephanie Sayers
Happy Christmas-Sense field
Maybe This Christmas-Ron Sexsmith
This Christmas-Shoes
Are Your Burning, Little Candle-Jane Siberry
My Christmas List-Simple Plan
Christmas Time-The Smashing Pumpkins
Waking Up On Christmas Morning-the Smithereens
Mery Christmas From The Family-Jill Sobule
Forget December-Something Corporate
Suzy Snowflake-Soul Coughing
The Sddest Time Of The Year-Spooner
Christmas Day-Squeeze
Carolina Christmas-Squirrel Nut Zippers
Sleigh Ride-Squirrel Nut Zippers
Gabriel's Message-Sting
Blue Christmas-Sumack
All I wanted Was A Skateboard-Super Deluxe
Johnny's Gone Sledding Wih Qu-Super Deluxe
Christmas Piglet-The Presidents Of The United States
Santa's beard-They Might Be Giants
Santa Claus-Throwing Muses
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)-U2
Alone This Holiday-The Used
Feliz Navidad-Voodoo Glow Skulls
Christmas wrapping-The Waitresses
Silent Night-Ween
Christmas Celebration-Weezer
The Christmas Song-Weezer
Winter Kills-Whirling Dervishes
You're A Mean One Mr. Grinch-Whirling Devishes
The Christians And The Pagans-Dar Williams
Thanks For Christmas-XTC
What Christmas Means To Me-Paul Young
Deck the Halls-Zebrahead
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December 17, 2005
Youngling Yoda wishes to greet you
Happy Holidays to all!
Yes...hrrmmmm.
Posted by Groonk at 04:17 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Animals, Flickrlicious, Holiday
Last bits of Xmas
Some Christmas themed avatars:
(l,r)the mean one, PB&J xmas, mr heat blister
Posted by Groonk at 02:46 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Avatarem, Holiday
December 15, 2005
Believe in the Power of Santa!
(via dunc!)
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December 14, 2005
It's Monkey Day and...
...you need to LISTEN to some Dunproofin "Monkeys"
"Monkeys" is a mashup involving:
Gorillaz - Poor Quality Acapella
The Nu Skool Power - The Nu Skool Power
Me - Filters & Fills
(via GYBO and dunproofin)
Posted by Groonk at 02:37 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Digital Share, Holiday, Music
It's Monkey Day and...
...I'm ill prepared.
Posted by Groonk at 12:10 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Avatarem, Holiday
December 09, 2005
HOLIDAY: "OH, FUDGE!"
That's right. I said 'fudge'!
A Christmas Story has to be my all time favorite Christmas flick. Aside from the Charlie Brown Christmas.
The mad genius that is 30 sec theatre has bunny-ized A Christmas Story:
WATCH: A Bunny Christmas Story
They also bunny-ized It's a Wonderful Life. I never watched that flick though. I still can't get past the title.
Also of note: What do you get if A Christmas Story was actually a horror movie?
WATCH: A Christmas Gory
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MUSIC: DJ Riko's Merry Mixmas 2005
Yet another music mix for Christmas. I never get tired of these.
MUISC: torrent link; mp3 link
Boingboing seems to have broken yet another site cause Riko's site has exceeded it's bandwidth.
1. Intro
2. Singers Unlimited - Caroling Caroling
3. DJ Riko featuring Marcie - My Chimney
4. Luscious Jackson - Let it Show
5. The Free Design - Now Sound of Christmas
6. Lou Monte - Dominick the Donkey
7. Louis Armstrong - Cool Yule
8. Mr Hanky - Santa Claus is on His Way
9. The Ventures - Silver Bells
10. George W. Bush - Twas the Night Before Christmas (Jima edit)
11. Kids of Widney High - Christmas is the Time
12. Ringo Starr - Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
13. Madness - Insanity Over Christmas
14. Augie Rios - Donde Esta Santa Claus
15. Disney - Santa's Rap
16. Pizzicato Five - Snowflakes
17. Chet Baker - Winter Wonderland
18. Neil Diamond - Santa Claus is Coming to Town
19. Big Ben Banjo Band - Christmas Medley 2
20. Alvin and the Chipmunks - Chimpunk Song (Slow Version)
21. Bright Eyes - Little Drummer Boy
22. Tenchi Muyo vs. The Singing Dogs - Jingle Bells
23. Wayne Newton - Jingle Bell Hustle
24. Buchanan & Goodman - Santa and the Satellite
25. Esquivel! - Frosty the Snowman
26. Huey Piano Smith and the Clowns - All I Want for
Christmas
27. Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - Santa Claus is Coming to Town
28. Santa Claus - A Visit From Santa Claus
29. Little Bobby Rey - Corrido de Auld Lang Syne
30. Santa Outro
It's DJ Riko's 4th annual mix of Christmas music and includes "songs that are very old and very new, sung in English, Spanish, Japanese and other languages, and played on banjos, guitars, strings, horns and other instruments..."
(via boingboing)
Posted by Groonk at 05:25 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Digital Share, Holiday, Music
December 06, 2005
Auburn SGA says it's a Holiday Tree...Damnit
The following article and link lead you to a petition page trying to overturn the decision of re-naming the Christmas Tree a Holiday Tree.
SGA Vice-President B.J. Agnew said that calling the tree a Christmas tree "creates a problem of exclusion rather than acceptance." The Christmas tree has been called a Christmas tree for 25 years. Now members of the SGA at Auburn have decided that Christmas is an offensive term.
The idea behind even having a Christmas Tree is even trickier for some folks. I accept it as one of the many icons the revolve around a contemporary Christmas. Like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer or Frosty the Snowman.
I really don't know why the Auburn SGA is making such a stink. It's like they're being politically correct merely cause they can be.
And doing something just because you can should be reserved for things like climbing Mt Everest.
update: I got a hold of an email that Auburn passed around mentioning the "holiday tree" debacle. see it here.
Thanks Dirt.
(link via medicmike)
In 2000, Auburn University's Student Government Association (SGA) began an official Holiday Tree Lighting tradition. Recently, false information spread that the Auburn University Student Government Association changed the name of this celebration from a Christmas Tree Lighting to a Holiday Tree Lighting and banned a Christmas tree on campus.
No such banning or name change has occurred since this tradition began. Furthermore, it is important to stress that Auburn originally chose to call its celebration a Holiday Tree Lighting not to deny the beliefs of anyone, but, instead, to be inclusive of all of its more than 23,000 students and their traditions and beliefs.
Now, because the facts of Auburn's celebration have been misrepresented to certain well-intended individuals and organizations, Auburn finds itself in a controversy it did not seek. Fortunately, this controversy has caused Auburn's student leaders to begin to thoughtfully examine the annual celebration in hopes that it can continue in a way that is agreeable to all. This year's lighting has already taken place, so there is time for an examination that is not hasty, but is deliberate and intent on a lasting solution.
I can assure the Auburn family and others who have expressed their concern that this examination has begun. I believe student leadership at Auburn is intent on finding a way to hold a celebration and to call a Christmas tree what it is - a Christmas tree - but, at the same time embrace other faiths and belief systems.
I ask for patience in allowing the SGA to do its work. I believe that, when our work is complete, everyone will be pleased.
Sincerely,
John Tatum
SGA President
Auburn University
Posted by Groonk at 03:12 PM | Comments (2) | Ministry of Holiday
December 05, 2005
DIGITAL SHARE MASHUP: Santastic Christmas!
Found on Boingboing on a Friday.
"This is a Christmas album of mashups and unlicensed remixes of Christmas chestnuts by remix artists from the US and UK. All songs (mp3) and the cover art are downloadable. Contains mixes from Go Home Productions (who has done official remix work for Blondie and Bowie among others), Poj Masta (the young prodigy of the UK scene), dj BC (The Beastles, remix work with Heaven 17), and lots of others. 18 tracks total."--dj BC
It took so long for me to post on it cause I was busy listening to the sucker and delving into the mashup culture.
dj BC and all of the others are goddamn geniuses in my book.
"The Christmas Massacre of Charlie Brown" by DJ John is what has my ear and won't let go.
(via boingboing)
Posted by Groonk at 11:46 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Culture, Digital Share, Holiday, Just Freaking Neat, Music
November 10, 2005
It's RSS Day
I always miss the good holidays. Rocketboom set me straight though.
As did Bre Pettis' I Make Things.
Posted by Groonk at 07:29 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Holiday, Technology
October 26, 2005
Ready Mechs
Tiny-ish boxes of death that you download, print out on 8.5"x11" sheets, and fold into creation:
behold the skeletron
(via Fwis)
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October 11, 2005
Halloween: The Amityville Toaster
(via b55seddel)
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REHASH: Ghouls with Attitude
Last October the totally free downloadable album Ghouls with Attitude was featured on Boingboing and then in my music section. Given that my music section is undergoing a change, I figure to repost the good stuff here.
Imagine my surprise to find that not only is this Halloween collection of odd and rare music is still available for download but that a new album will be added soon.
(originally via boingobing)
Posted by Groonk at 12:19 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Albums, Digital Share, Holiday, Music
October 02, 2005
Halloween Theme-addicts begin
Starting off with the basest of evils:
Haunted Memories sells lots of vintage posters that morph as you walk by them.
(via boingboing)
Posted by Groonk at 09:21 PM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Holiday
September 29, 2005
Reeker
Gearing up for All Hallow's Eve means scary stories, scary movies, and butt-loads of candy.
We'll start with upcoming scary movies and work from there.
see the Reeker
All reports and re-vamped website point to this one being worth your 10 bucks.
Posted by Groonk at 10:51 AM | Comments (0) | Ministry of Holiday, Movies, One Sheets, Trailers
September 19, 2005
Speak Like a Pirate!
Why all the pirate love? Cause it be Talk like a Pirate Day, you swabs. If it ain't pirate-ish, I'll make it pirate-ish for ye.
Just for today.
There already be tons of filthy links, ye grogs. See them all or ye'll be kissin' the gunner's daughter b'fore sunset.
»International Talk Like A Pirate Day's Photostream
»Groonk's first Pirate Day
»Why's the rum gone?!
»gangsta to pirate translator
»A true pirate of New Orleans
»The pirate party Ponzu ditched for restful sleep
»iPirate radio: how to be a pirate radio station using your iPod mini
» The Pirate Bay
» Worth1000's if Pirates Ruled the World 2
Arrrr!
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Gaming Pirates
(via ponzu)
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November 01, 2004
Happy Dí¡ de los Muertos!
Her face is unforgettable and she goes by many names: La Catrina, la Flaca, la Huesuda, la Pelona--Fancy Lady, Skinny, Bony, Baldy. A fixture in Mexican society, she's not some trendy fashion model, but La Muerte--Death.Renowned writer Octavio Paz observes that, undaunted by death, the Mexican has no qualms about getting up close and personal with death, noting that he "...chases after it, mocks it, courts it, hugs it, sleeps with it; it is his favorite plaything and his most lasting love."
November 1, All Saints Day, and November 2, All Souls Day are marked throughout Mexico by a plethora of intriguing customs that vary widely according to the ethnic roots of each region. Common to all, however, are colorful adornments and lively reunions at family burial plots, the preparation of special foods, offerings laid out for the departed on commemorative altars and religious rites that are likely to include noisy fireworks.
In most localities November 1 is set aside for remembrance of deceased infants and children, often referred to as angelitos (little angels). Those who have died as adults are honored November 2.
From mid-October through the first week of November, markets and shops all over Mexico are replete with the special accouterments for the Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead). These include all manner of skeletons and other macabre toys; intricate tissue paper cut-outs called papel picado; elaborate wreaths and crosses decorated with paper or silk flowers; candles and votive lights; and fresh seasonal flowers, particularly cempazuchiles (marigolds) and barro de obispo (cockscomb). Among the edible goodies offered are skulls, coffins and the like made from sugar, chocolate or amaranth seeds and special baked goods, notably sugary sweet rolls called pan de muerto that come in various sizes invariably topped with bits of dough shaped like bones and, in some regions, unadorned dark breads molded into humanoid figures called animas (souls). All of these goods are destined for the buyer's ofrenda de muertos (offering to the dead).
And have a list of other links involving the Day of the Dead.
Oh and there's an official site.
Posted by Groonk at 10:13 AM | Comments (2) | Ministry of Culture, Holiday
