Aislin / Montreal Gazette
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Caught in the cyber whirlpool
Will the death of print take journalism with it?
Ameen Alhabarah / Saudi Arabia
How Pringles Are Made
_An army of grandmothers
chew regular potato chips.
They carefully pat
their masticated mouth pulp
into uniform shapes
and bake.
Some ridged varieties
require ironing.
Any Pringles
that don't fit in the can
are re-chewed.
Image: Tatsuya Tanaka
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shoesonawire
VIDEO VAULT: Snowplow the Alps
Do you crave a life of Adventure?
Is sky-diving no longer a thrill?
Have you considered a snow plow career in the Alps?
Drive your single-lane snow plow along shelf roads with drop-offs into oblivion?
Perhaps the video above will cure you of that notion.
Clip: Hair raising snow removal in the Austrian Alps
Definitely Not a Cult: Cat Litterballs
Actually, there are a half dozen cat litterbox snow globes on amazon.
Cat crazies have a choice ...
Superbowl Swindle
"I'd like to thank the 400 people who somehow managed to secretly turn this conspiracy into a championship."
Nathan Cooper / newyorker.com newsletter
BLOOPER: Young Frankenstein Out-takes
Remember why so many love this movie ...
Clip: Young Frankenstein bloopers ( 1974 )
Mr. Wonderful
“ We talked at one point about doing …
a Shark Tank Jr. show.
We found it was really hard for a lot of these people--other than Kevin O’Leary--
to say no to these kids.
Some things just die on the vine "
--Rob Mills, EVP, Walt Disney Television/ABC
--Rob Mills, EVP, Walt Disney Television/ABC
Image: kevinoleary.com
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Waiter! She'll have the crab...
On a nightmare island, the most terrifying horror ever set loose on a shuddering earth!
"Soon we'll have nowhere to run ... "
"Okay professor--how are the crabs blowing up the island? "
"With razor-sharp claws that hand grenades and dynamite cannot stop!"
Clip: Attack of the Crab Monsters trailer ( 1957 )
Monday, January 29, 2024
Wanna buy Winston Churchill's false teeth?
If you have $6,000 to $10,000,
you can probably grab
Winston Churchill's dentures
next month.
Churchill’s partial denture--
used to replace six of his upper
teeth--
is up for public sale on February 6.
It's gold-plated and believed
to date to
just prior to World War II.
Churchill's bad teeth
appliances have sold in the past
for up to $24,000.
Also up for grabs:
The microphone the PM used
to announce the end
of World War II
Bad-ass Butterflies and Moths
" They fly like a drunk person trying to find the bathroom in IKEA”
"It’s like being in the middle of a battlefield and someone’s dancing around in a kimono.”
Web weirdo Zefrank explains how butterflies dodge everything that's trying to eat them.
Another bravura performance by YouTube's comedy science star.
Turns out Zefrank's sidekick, Gerry gets his facts from Reddit.
Sunday, January 28, 2024
Those Guys Again
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce
Superbowl-bound
Not A.I.
First time this week
Photo: Patrick Smith / Getty Images
The Ghosts in the Garden
They're tucked away in hundreds of meadows, gardens, cemeteries.
Wind phones.
A private space. Phone booths connected to nothing, always with old-fashioned rotary dials.
Inside, you can dial an all-too-familiar number-- known only to you--and talk to the cosmos. The missing, the living, the dead.
It's a one-sided conversation.
A wind phone offers closure, connection and comfort, according to grief experts, who offer extensive information HERE.
In a cynical 2024, it may seem more like a left-over Letterman show sketch, or the premise for Netflix's newest grabber, Dating the Dead.
Surely one wind phone is recording these grief calls for a Japanese game show?
Miss America Do-Over
Last week's item about Bert Parks and Miss America prompts two blog reader submissions.
Above, Zach Galifianakis, Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig deliver a bit on Beauty Pageants...
And below, a reader supplies a version of the There She Is, Miss America song with actual pageant promo shots of Parks.
Clip: Pageant Talk - Saturday Night Live
Bert Parks statue, Atlantic City N.J.
Leon Redbone - Seduced
@lawrencegenereux8567
"Leon Redbone was the musical equivalent of a flying saucer. You could see him, but nobody really knew where he was from, or had any details about him. He was fascinating and mysterious, all at the same time. Everyone was amazed, but everyone was mystified. Possibly the last 'original' musician we will ever have. "
Saturday, January 27, 2024
HEAD SPACE: The other worlds
Is this the future of music?
One musician, playing a dozen instruments, manipulates song and his brain images into a computer?
There is no band. No artist collaborator.
There's just ... Tetouze.
Above, drums, sitar and flute join pictures he makes on Midjourney and puts into Gen 2 Runway.
Clip: Tetouze - The Shaman's Vision
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