| Linkies - Round 53 |
[Jan. 28th, 2009|09:02 pm] |
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Ugh. Knowing there was a major snow storm coming through the area, I probably should have written these up last night. Of course, I instead spent my day shoveling my driveway and every instance where I attempted to actually post anything (last attempt being at 7:10PM), another plow would come down my street. Now with my computer running a touch slow, and me sitting down only now, these probably will get put up just under the wire once again (start time 9:03.. so I'm predicting about 11PM). The only time I actually had the chance to put these up was early-o-clock this morning, where I instead got distracted by new linkies and funny internet videos. Let's mosey:
I found out in the past week that the Vatican is planning on having weekly YouTube videos much in a similar fashion to Obama (for the four of you who may not have realized that Obama has weekly YouTubings which is totally not going to be PR lolwut was my cynicism showing I still think it's kinda cool though, here he is amongst other YouTube avenues he's used in the past... click around and I'm sure you can find the other accounts). The fact Popeman and his Vatican Holysquadteam YouTube as an avenue of communication genuinely trips me out a bit in the same respect that my finding out that my mother knows of websites like Facebook (knowledge also incidentally bestowed upon me in the past week). In any case, consider this: here a bit of news you may have heard about, where the pope lifted the excommunication of four bishops (one of whom is quite vocal in denying the holocaust happened). I suppose it's no real surprise the some of the most recent videos on Vatican's YouTube are of the Holocaust Memorial service. Normally I wouldn't even bother mentioning a story like the bishops one but the above combined move seems pretty slick and I have high doubts of it being coincidental (even though I would delight in the irony if it were).
HAY GUYZ, WHILE WE'RE VAGUELY SPEAKIN' OF TEH NAZIS, WATCH ME BEING LIKE THE SUPER SLICK CAT THAT I AM: this comes to me from ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) uplaw, which boggles me a bit: "The steely hearted "Angel of Death" [Josef Mengele], whose mission was to create a master race fit for the Third Reich, was the resident medic at Auschwitz from May 1943 until his flight in the face of the Red Army advance in January 1945. His task was to carry out experiments to discover by what method of genetic quirk twins were produced – and then to artificially increase the Aryan birthrate for his master, Adolf Hitler. Now, a historian claims, Mengele's notorious experiments may have borne fruit." Apparently in one Brazilian town where he holed up for awhile, affectionately called Twin Town, one in five pregnancies result in twins, and of THOSE, most of them blond haired and blue eyed.
I remember getting into a big discussion about this a little over a year ago and I'm actually surprised it got passed somewhere: Smoking ban hits home. Literally. Not that I particularly enjoy being exposed to cigarette smoke and I well remember the times of being cramped in a small indoor area where there was no such thing nor need (or, better yet, when there was and it made no such difference anyway) for the "smoking section" and people lit up whenever and where ever they wanted... provided that it wasn't near anything flammable (and even when that was an issue, I'm sure it wasn't an issue, if you see what I'm saying). Those days have now passed and public indoor smoking bans have been placed just about everywhere... but in Belmont California they have taken it even further, seeing as you can't even light up in your own home... well, if you call a rented apartment your home at least. Since the law took effect fairly recently, it'll be interesting where else similar laws may pop up and how hard people will fight it (answer: very, I'm certain). I'm a bit torn on the issue but I'm sure we can all agree for lawls on the angry smoking granny of the article though.
And lawls also go to serke for finding this very hot and steamy local singles ad... okay, it's more like "awkward and a touch bit creepy," (and WHAT is that title implying??) but I want to contact the person and laugh at him. I, uh, assume it's a him, of course. It's almost too weird to be believed.
Sooo... in case you missed it: this just in. It is not safe to attend Virginia Tech. Ever. Police seek diary of suspect in Va. Tech killing. "Investigators are seeking computer and cell phone records and diaries as they try to figure out why a Virginia Tech student allegedly used a kitchen knife to decapitate a female student in a campus coffee shop." ...WHAT. WHAT. D: I am morbidly curious to see how much application rates drop to V. Tech in the next year.
Shifting gears radically; this video brought me so much joy I practically had a conniption over it. Insane Thundercats Fan Produces His Own Trailer had me rolling my eyes over the title and clicking on the link purely expecting to see a failtastic crapfest. Instead of awkward LARPers in the woods, like I was expecting, I instead got something ridiculously well made. The summary: "made by painting over real movies like Troy, X-Men, and Spy Kids frame-by-frame." That is, to say, that some person took a mess of movies and then "painted" the actors in each scene to appear more Thundercat-like. A bit of appropriate dubbing from the original Thundercats, as well as taking some creative dialogue from the respective original movie sources, and you get something that is not only convincing but awesome looking. (Other source materials, not mentioned in the summary, come from Farscape, the live action Garfield movie, and I'm pretty certain a little bit of He-Man, just to mention most of the others.)
YOU-HOO. OKAY. WOW. NSFW this one. The picture is a mite extreme (kinda like baby-foot from last week). Apparently one plastic surgery addict came up with the brilliant plan to inject cooking oil into her own face. I'm sure this seemed like a smashing idea after she lipo'd out those fatty brain cells out of her skull but wow. Okay, so apparently she was deemed to have a mental disorder but a mega fail goes to the doctor who gave her a syringe and silicone so she could self-inject.
So last week I posted a link to a zomg-IRL song ("Smell Yo Dick" in case you forgot) that I said something along the lines of that I needed to post it before posting... well, what I'm about to post. I actually lied at the time and forgot that it reminded me of TWO things. The first of which comes to us from Saturday Night Live and is meant to be funny... namely the Jizz in my Pants song (which I am fairly certain I don't need to tell you is NSFW). The video features a few celebrity appearances, amongst which awesomely is Justin Timberlake (who I am almost certain lends some of the background vocals as well), once again reminding us that he has a wonderfully unexpected quirky sense of humor. The second thing that the Smell Yo Dick video reminded me of was this story: Suspicious wife who demands to smell husband's genitals beaten. APPARENTLY THERE IS THIS THING. WHERE SMELLING YOUR PERSONAL MAN-CHILD'S JUNK IS PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE. YOU KNOW, THAT THING THAT I TOTALLY MISSED.
...MOVING ALONG... bras for boys, anyone? Japan has, once again, cashed in on something that apparently no one else has had the moxey to do so yet. Which, considering the item, I'm vaguely surprised no one had. "Japanese online lingerie retailer is selling bras for cross-dressing men and they've quickly become one of its most popular items." OH JAPAN.
So this entry didn't have enough sex yet, even after songs about jizzing and man boobs and smelling balls... so I'm fixing that. Blow-up doll sex suspect arrested in Australia. Short and simple right? Well, apparently not. Real quick: a burgular would break into a sex shop, make sweet love with blow up dolls, and then in a moment of complete WTFery, dump the bodies in the back alley.
HAY GUYZ, LET'S USE SCIENCE TO ANNOY CHICKENS HAY THAT SOUNDS GREAT. Chicken Head Tracking mixes biology and barnyard animals. And it's somewhat hypnotizing. What more could you ask for?
Whoops, forgot my only other little bit of Obamanamaness that I had. For those of you who managed to catch the presidental inauguration like I did, I'm sure you had your news station of choice. Mine personally was CNN. Some of you may have picked C-SPAN or NBC or any other of dozens of networks. I know that, at least as CNN goes, they noted that the thing was running late and threw in a little blurb at the bottom of the screen that at noon, with or without the oath, Obama was president as per the constitution. I'm sure most of you saw the little wobble of words due to nerves all around (Obama first jumped the gun a little quick then the brand new Chief Justice [as of 2005] switched the words around on Obama, causing Barack to give him a little "I see wut u did thar" face of lawls... it all worked out in the end) but I sure as hell hope none of you were watching FOX news. Because seriously FOX. Seriously? I know that Obama even did a re-oath later on because of the fuss this created. In all actuality though, I actually want to see FOX news attempt to battle over this further and get roflpwned.
So I found out about this this morning. The case against Christopher Handley more or less breaks down to this: Iowa is really bored. Further expanding on this: apparently Handley bought some manga. Namely yaoi (male on male) manga. A postman intercepted the package (lolwut? I know there are some exceptions due to the nature of the job but privacy laws much?), saw it, and reported it to police. As child pornography. The guy is now up for potentially 20 years in jail. He's got the backing of The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund to defend him and even Neil F'n Gaiman (Sandman, American Gods, others) is like, whoa. No. Seriously. Iowa knock it off. It may seem like a minor thing but the linked article makes some interesting points: "Look up at your collection right now and start thinking about every character from the series that you enjoy that look like they could be under eighteen. And I don’t mean the loli characters that look like they could be twelve or thirteen. I mean think about those young adult characters, or the teenage characters who may in fact be under eighteen. Now think about some of the situations that they get into… possibly showing skin in a swimsuit? maybe flashing their panties at someone either intentionally or accidently (sp)? Congratulations, you have material that could be deemed obscene and showing an underage character in what someone has perceived as a sexual activity. You may now go to prison for 20 years, do not pass go, do not collect $200. This is the true and genuine reality that we could possibly face if a guilty verdict is heard when this case is finished." Further elaborated by Neil Gaiman on the MTV splash page (linked to in the above article): "'I wrote a story about a serial killer who kidnaps and rapes children, and then murders them,' Gaiman said, referring to a storyline in The Doll’s House. 'We did that as a comic, not for the purposes of titillation or anything like that, but if you bought that comic, you could be arrested for it? That’s just deeply wrong.'" So yeah, a story that had me initially raising my eyebrows at the general premise, in an "are you for real?" sort of manner had made me a bit concerned. Especially since The Doll's House is in my collection, along with Sailor Moon (14-16 year old panty shots, people of dubious ages having sex, implied rape, others), Azumanga Daioh (under 18 and in swimsuits, girls under the age of 18 making boob jokes), Battle Royale (child brutality, sex), Angel Sanctuary (incest... underage incest)... yeah. The list goes on. I'll apparently get locked up too. Along with every single fangirl who has ever written loli-shota fanfiction or made fan art (and I'm not even getting into the screaming yaoi/yuri fangirls and boys). Now there's a thought.
More legal news brings us a story with a not-so-fascinating headline that wouldn't turn heads for oddness or weirdness but I am so glad I found this one: Gang 'tried to steal £229m from bank'. True, an impressive amount (comes out to just over 326 million $USD) but the story is still not so weird... until you check out the shot of the ring-leader. Trufax Y/N: the head guy, a Mr. Hugh Rodley (who apparently prefers to be known as "Lord Rodley"), is apparently The Penguin incarnate. Just look at him. AMIRITE?
Ahahah... oh Batman. And I actually am not referring to the movie this time. Nor the comic. Nor even any of the TV shows. No, no... apparently in Turkey, there's a little place called Batman. And now they're suing Chris Nolan and Warner Brother Studios. For using "their name." The mayor claims the town has existed before the very first comics were made back in the 30s, though why they've waited 70+ years to say anything until now is a wonder... (sound cash register noises... [here]). Best article line: "He also hopes to pin a number of unsolved murders along with the town's female suicide rate on the psychological impact the film's success had on Batman residence, the publication said. (Why so serious?)"
SO I TOTALLY DIDN'T INTEND TO END WITH BATMAN STORIES, BUT APPARENTLY I AM. Another story I found within the last 24 hours: Belgium's 'joker killer' Kim De Gelder admits guilt. Apparently he did his face all up like the Joker and ran around killing babies. D:
Final one, which at least ends on a happy note. Check out GRAYSON, referring to Dick Grayson (the original Robin). The link provides you with a fan-made mini movie, done in the style as a mock up for a "full" Grayson movie. Which will never happen. Fortunately and unfortunately, it's absolutely fantastically made and what was made has to be distributed free on the intertubes being fan-made and all. Fortunately for the yay, we can all see it unlike some other fan things I can name *coughSinsRememberedDMCmovie (thatmay-or-may-notbeforgivenifthe2010DMCliveactionmovieactuallyhappens) *cough* *alsoSonsOfSpardaI'mlookingatyou*. Unfortunately because it's just too damn cool for a fan thing. It's gotten some pretty awesome praise from bigwigs in the comic industry, as you can read about in the above linked wiki article. The YouTube video will also link to several other fan-based comic movies in the related section but GRAYSON gets a gold star.
...Ending at 11:57. Wow. I think it's because I wrote about the comics thing far more than I originally intended, so I apologizzle for my teal deer-ness. And to think I cut a few links out that I was going to post today. |
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