Posts Tagged Weird

John Byrne Wants to Capture Internet Screams, Suggests Rob Liefeld do “WATCHMEN 2”

Posted by mistergroonk in Comics, Intertube Madness on August 5, 2010

From comics veteran John Byrne’s message board:

I was watching a few minutes of the WATCHMEN movie on cable last night, and I found myself musing on the notion of a “prequel” or sequel to the original comicbook series.

In WATCHMEN, Moore inverted — I might say perverted — pretty much everything the superhero genre is all about. He was not the first to do so, but WATCHMEN was the first time we got it all in such a concentrated dose. Largely, this seems to have happened because Moore is very much a one trick pony. The one trick works for him and his fans, so no problem there, I guess. But this got me to thinking about who would be a suitable candidate to produce another round of WATCHMEN.

The thought began to take shape in my head that any revisiting of those characters should be a continuation of the “tradition” of WATCHMEN. That is, as Moore trashed everything superheroes were all about, the next go-round should do the same with WATCHMEN itself. So the ideal candidate for doing the project should be someone who is equally a one trick pony, but from the opposite end of the spectrum. Immediately, one name sprang to the forefront: Rob Liefeld.

No, I’m not kidding. Liefeld would be to WATCHMEN what Moore was to superheroes in general. And it would be such fun to watch a whole flock of retailer’s heads exploding, as they tried to serve two entirely different faces of mammon!
– John Byrne

Sorry, Byrne. Your argument is invalid.
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Today in Star Wars: Chewbacca. Riding a Squirrel. Smashing Nazis

Posted by mistergroonk in Intertube Madness, LOL on July 29, 2010

Look left. Look right. We can’t get away from this image the last few days. Internet art. It haunts you like no other.

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Our Strange Sky: UFO Buzzes Chinese Airport, Let the Mass Speculations Begin

Posted by mistergroonk in Video, World on July 16, 2010

Of course this happened last week(July 9). We suppose it takes this long for weirdness to escape from China.

Hangzhou, Zhejiang CHINA — An unidentified flying object forced an airport in a major Chinese city to shut down operations for an hour, various reports said.

According to state media outlet China Daily, the incident happened at Hangzhou’s Xiaoshan Airport on July 7, when the UFO was spotted around 8:30 p.m. According to the report, the object did not show up on radar.

The HuffPost says another sighting has been reported by Shanghai Daily.

A second China UFO sighting has residents on edge, just seven days after an unidentified flying object shut down a Chinese airport.

The new UFO sighting took place in Chongqing in eastern China on July 15. Witnesses said they saw the same thing: “four lantern-like objects forming a diamond shape that hovered over the city’s Shaping Park for over an hour.”

Like the one before it, there has been no official explanation to date for this latest incident.

Curious that the turnaround on this sighting was so short.

We’ve found videos on the July 9 incident and placed them under the cut.
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Man’s 1 armed, 1 Legged Monkey Slaughters 80 of His Chickens, Still His Best Friend

Posted by mistergroonk in Animals on July 9, 2010

Li Chun from the Yunnan province in China nursed a one-warmed, one-legged monkey back to health.

And then:

It has become to devoted to the family and performs many chores around the home – but it also copies everything Li does.

When it saw him crack some eggs to make a meal it went into the hen coop and smashed all of the eggs it could find.

And when Li slaughtered a chicken, the monkey copied him and has since killed about 80 chickens, reports the Chuncheng Evening Post.

“From then on, whenever it’s not occupied, it jumps into the chicken pen, and kills the chickens, no matter how big or small, and tries to pluck them,” said Li.

We really wanted to make the “no good deed goes unpunished,” quip until we read this part:

It helps look after Li’s dog’s puppies and even wiped away Li’s tears when he was grieving the death of his father.

Li said: “It sat besides me quietly and extended his only arm to wipe the tears on my face. He would softly pat my face and head, and look at me with great sympathy.”

Seriously. That almost melted the icy core of our heart.

Almost.

via Boingboing, orange news

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Our Strange Sky: Failed Russian Missile Puts Norweigians in a Spin, Creates Sky Spiral

Posted by mistergroonk in Science, Video, World on December 10, 2009

Over the skies over Norway, a (then)strange spiral formation freaks out all who see it. We’re not meaning to put words in people’s mouths but it’d sure freak us out. Turns out the mysterious spiral isn’t an alien portal, Thor crossing over to Midgard, or Mighty Orbots returning from galactic patrolling. Those in the know, including our favorite Bad Astronomer Phil Plait , soon put all our worries, and imaginations, at ease.

Norwegian astronomer Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard says it’s 99.9% safe to say that it’s a rocket out of control, while some newspapers and TV channels are quoting Russian military sources, confirming that this is a failed Bulava missile launched from a nuclear submarine in the White Sea.

The Norwegian defense has confirmed that, even while they have not admitted the failure, the Russian Navy alerted them about the tests prior to the giant spiral appearing in the skies

You Tube is littered with on-the-scene videos like the one below.

Is it just us or are the Russians cornering the market on strange video happenings? Whether is a few grand in vodka being taken out in a warehouse or some drunk guy falling down a manhole or missiles going tits-up publicly in the Norwegian sky. We think Russia’s doing its damnedest to become a poor man’s Japan. All they need now are cute, drunken robots fighting.

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Our Strange Sky: And Over Moscow City, a Ring of Light

Posted by mistergroonk in Science, World on October 18, 2009

lightringovermoscow

…a spokesman from Moscow’s weather forecasting service said: “Several fronts have been passing through Moscow recently, there was an intrusion of the Arctic air too, the sun was shining from the west – this is how the effect was produced.

“This is purely an optical effect, although it does look impressive,” he added.

“If you look closer, you can see sun rays coming through that cloud. Most likely, the sun was setting when the video was being made.

Last Wednesday an Independence Day-like cloud appeared over Moscow City and freaked the crap out of a lot of people. We don’t blame them. Anything making Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich science prophets scares the poo out of us, too.
Our strange sky:

Cell phone video of the event under the hop.
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Science Fact: Vampires Can’t Exist, Zombies Would Destroy Us All

Posted by mistergroonk in Science, Versus on August 19, 2009

You gotta love it when hard science investigates geek conversations to their logical ends. Months ago @joshmull shared an I09 article wherein physicists prove vampires couldn’t exist. It was an entertaining thought. We kept it in drafts until the day was right to expose the dark conspiracy. Then the day came when BBC News informs Canadian scientists have pondered the realities of the “zombie apocalypse.” That’s when it was certain the noted draft had become a publishable thing.

Physicists Prove That Vampires Could Not Exist
Planet of the VampiresPhysicists Costas Efthimiou and Sohang Gandhi’s paper “Cinema Fiction vs. Physics Reality” offers a full explanation.

Efthimiou and Gandhi conduct a thought experiment: Assume that the first vampire appeared on January 1, 1600. At that time, according to data available at the U.S. Census website, the global population was 536,870,911. Efthimiou and Gandhi calculate that, once the Nosferatu feeding frenzy began, the entire human race would have been wiped out by June 1602 …

If you like this sort of thoughtless, thought experimentation(as we do) you’ll get a kick out of the entire article.

Then, as there always must be these days, there were zombies.

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Dino Detritus: Charles Nelson Reilly, Saurian Tamer

Posted by mistergroonk in Music, Video on August 5, 2009

Weird Al dropped a new music video last Monday night. It was animated by Jib Jab. It is White Stripes-esque in nature. It features Charles Nelson Reilly: hard drinking, fighting fanged moose, looking more than a bit Hunter S Thompson and riding dinosaurs like they were ponies. This video(currently) has no equal. This video is also unavailable for embed. You’re gonna have to journey to Weird Al’s You Tube to get the full deal. As the video was embeddable on mid Tuesday, we’re of mixed mind on this bait-and-switch tactic.

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Manila Bay Dolphins, “Where are Our Damn Fish?!”

Posted by mistergroonk in Animals, World on February 10, 2009

Sweet, Mother of Zeus… the dolphins, THEY KNOW!

Authorities in the Philippines were trying to drive back to sea a pod of about 200 dolphins that had swarmed to shallow waters in Manila Bay on Tuesday morning.

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“This is the first time as far as I can remember that so many dolphins are inside Manila Bay and acting so erratically,” said Malcolm Sarmiento, director of the Philippines’ Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources.

In the end, authorities think the dolphins were reacting to a sea quake or were following a sick or wounded leader.

But it has me wondering, what if they learned of the slaughter of their brethren?

(via cnn)

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Man Builds Trash Labyrinth in Home, Gets Lost, Dies

Posted by mistergroonk in World on January 8, 2009

A 74 year old man was found buried inside a labyrinth of junk of his own making. They think he got buried in rubbish and died of dehydration.

I-I think I’ve seen my future.

article-1107584-02f86bda000005dc-656_468x400-w200-h200One neighbour, who asked not to be named, said: ‘He was slightly eccentric, but very clever. He was just a collector. He came home with a load of cardboard boxes and lived in his own world.’

A second described his death as a ‘tragedy’.

Neighbours said Mr Stewart’s home had been accumulating rubbish for at least 10 years. This week, plastic bags were clearly seen piled across his front window, while outside further bags, broken furniture, computer parts and even an old TV set spilled over his front lawn.

A car dating back to the 1950s stands in the garage believed to have been left untouched for years as garbage built up around it.

I must learn from his mistakes. Study his ways. Perfect them. In my maze, There will be water stations at every corner. Cans of food and can openers will be hidden at various locations. Just to keep the mind sharp, you see. The minotaur will come later.

I have seen my future and I must be prepared.

(via 7d and (yeah) The Daily Mail)

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