APOCALYPSE SUMMER: Fires, smoke, scorching heat

 

    Push de button. 

 

 

Let's open the cottage!

 

                      --Doug Savage / Savage Chickens

If you go down to the woods ...

 

 

    Image: Gary Larson / Far Side

Big Monkey Business

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SUMMER SONG: "SEAGULLS! (Stop It Now)

The Bad Lip Reading gang takes existing footage and lip-synchs new words to create strange and surreal results.

Here, Yoda and Luke create a Seagull Song that is definitely not in The Empire Strikes Back.

It's an ear worm you may sing for days.

It might even be a hit on Yacht Rock.

 

Clip: SEAGULLS! (Stop It Now) /A Bad Lip Reading of The Empire Strikes Back

Back alley term papers

 

President Putin's Comedy Corner

                                         

Alan Arkin ( 1934 - 2023 )

 

 Above, Alan Arkin buys a script for a fake movie in Argo.  ( 2.38 )

Tho he won an Oscar for Little Miss Sunshine, he didn't use a dangerous acceptance speech he'd written years before. Below, Kevin Pollack talks to Arkin about that.

Recent fans will know him as guru to Michael Douglas in The Kominsky Method.

 

 

She will not be flying this weekend

 

 

 

Hey Google. Speak up.

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It's all pipes

 

How much disinformation and sketchy shoe offers do we need?

It took quarters and arrowheads

 

LAKE SWIM: Might be muskeys

 

   Image: Caitlyn Grabenstein / Head above water /  cult.class 

 

You want fries with that?

 

 

 

Grass splashin'

 

 

 

ALGONQUIN PARK: Always something new to see

 

 This is Algonquin Park's busiest weekend.

Don't miss the Beaver Pond Walk

near the Visitor Center.

 

 

Visitor vehicle

being rushed back

to Huntsville for repair. 

Kias and Toyotas

Drive carefully.

 

 

Trust Science

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Fearing the weekend

 

A.I. is working for you.

 

Robot minds are hard at work, concocting art for a U.S. 2024 election. Cheer them on.

Bored Billionaire Betting now open!

 

 

The butler did it

 

Wildfires

 

 

 

--Dan Misdea / newyorker.com

 

Allergies ahead

 

MEL BROOKS: It's Good to be the King

Mel Brooks is 97 today. 

Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, The Producers, High Anxiety, so many others.

Below, the comedy giant sings It's Good to be the King, 

is interviewed by Jiminy Glick and

musically celebrated by big names at his Kennedy Center medals induction, tearing up as he mouths the words sung on stage.

Bring in the flowers, Frank.

( 13 seconds )

Clip: Mel Brooks / History of the World   1981

We're like a family, don'tcha know

 

 

In case you ever wondered where the phrase "short end of the stick" came from. 

                       *   *   *
"There's that scene in "Mad Men" when Peggy says to Don Draper: "You never thank me for anything I do!

"Don loses his composure & shouts at her, "That's why you're paid!"

"Which is the point: getting paid as one deserves is the only kind of thanks that matters."
                 

                   -- Joyce Carol Oates

Feeling funky

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Play it again, Sam

 

 

MEL BROOKS: Triple Play

Clips: Mel Brooks private recording, 

. History of the World Part 1, 

. Mel Brooks and Jiminy Glick (Martin Short)

. Kennedy Center Honors  2009

 

President Putin's Comedy Corner

 

The Text in the Night

 

 

Before Loblaws ...

 

Big Bang Weekend

 

Big Bang Theory

 

 

Image: Gerry Greene

 

 

Peek-a-Boo!

 It takes so little to entertain a cat.

( 23 seconds )

Clip: Parrot Plays Peek-a-Boo with Neighbors Cat || ViralHog

Apocalypse Summer: Yacht Rock

 

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"I used to drift around moaning all the time too.  Now I just D.M."

 

Cartoon:  Kate Isenberg / newyorker.com

 

 

 

Back when Drive-thru was fun ...

 

Sleep in Ken's room. Like Barbie does.

There is now a Barbie house in Malibu. A big one, not the toy.

You can sleep there, it's a B&B.

It's promotion for the Barbie movie next month. If you looked at these pics and didn't puke pink, there are complete details HERE. 

 

 

Ken sleeps in a seashell?

Weird.