Conan O’Brien dispatched Triumph the Insult Comic Dog to interview Michael Jackson Supporters outside of the courthouse. Quite hilarious, as you’d expect… 
Triumph The Insult Comic Dog vs. Michael Jackson Supporters
Sudoku
I came upon Sudoku a couple of weeks ago, but I forgot to post about it back then. As the article explains, Sudoku is an addictive number placement game that seems to have regained popularitiy overseas recently, and it has started to reappear in the United States. The rules are fairly straightforward, but the puzzles can vary widely in difficulty. At the bottom of the article are several links to online or downloadable games; The Daily Sudoku and Sudoku-san are two that I’ve frequented. Don’t say I didn’t warn you…
Stuff On My Cat
“Like to put stuff on your cat while it snoozes?” I don’t particularly, but the folks at Stuff On My Cat do. Weird, but funny…
MP3 Of The Moment
My latest MP3 Of The Moment is Iggy Pop’s Lust For Life 
. I figured I ought to let you listen to the lyrics for yourself to see how badly Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines chose their ad campaign song. Enjoy and wonder at the intelligence of those ad executives… 
MC Hawking’s Crib
MC Hawking’s Crib is a hilarious site with lots of multimedia to peruse. The video/short movie What We Need More Of Is Science is particularly funny…
Worst Ad Song Ever?
The Slate article What’s the Worst Ad Song Ever? has a pretty good round-up of reader-submitted “incongruous advertising soundtracks.”
The big winner, submitted by dozens and dozens of you, is Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, which used Iggy Pop’s “Lust for Life” in a series of spots. As my reader Andrei put it, “Nothing says maritime comfort like a song about shooting up junk.” A sampling of other e-mails I got on this mismatch:
“Love the tune, but did the cruise folks actually think about the lyrics? ‘Here comes Johnny Yen again/ With the liquor and drugs/ And a flesh machine/ He’s gonna do another strip tease.’ Somewhere between the drugs and the strip tease, it hits you: Yeah, this is way more than an ordinary vacation.”
I have to agree with that choice, but there are a bunch more in the article that are almost as bad…
Jessica Simpson’s “These Boots Were Made For Walking” Video
Fimoculous posts that “Willie Nelson is really the highlight of Jessica Simpson’s These Boots Were Made For Walking video” for the upcoming Dukes Of Hazzard movie (direct link to streaming Windows Media Video; the last minute or so could be NSFW). I’m pretty sure he was kidding…
Seeing Star Wars For The First Time
What would the Star Wars experience be like had we watched all six movies “in order?” Most of us will never be able to answer that question adequately, as we grew up on the original trilogy and our impressions will be forever clouded by having watched the movies countless times.
The younger “Prequel Generation” may not yet be affected in this manner, however, a fact that is put to the test and chronicled in the blog entry “Prequel Generation Questions A New Hope,” which contains the observations of a seven-year-old watching Star Wars for the first time after having watched Episodes I-III. If a (admittedly somewhat precocious-sounding) seven-year-old can catch some of the gaping inconsistencies between the two trilogies, then I think it’s obvious that George Lucas didn’t fully think things through. Although knowing him, he’ll rework the originals further when he re-releases them in 3-D… ;-p
I finally saw Revenge Of The Sith about a week ago, and overall I was happy with the movie, although I could go on for a while about the inconsistencies within the film itself and with the original trilogy. There were few surprises, although we all pretty much knew how things would turn out. Most of all, I just can’t quite put my finger on why I feel like it doesn’t live up to the original trilogy. Perhaps it’s because I grew up with the original trilogy and can’t be totally objective, or perhaps it’s because I can no longer experience such movies in the same way. That’s a sad thought, but it’s probably true…
Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex
Science fiction writer Larry Niven’s 1971 article Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex “point[s] out some medical drawbacks to being a kryptonian among human beings” and specifically delves into the physiological problems that would arise should Superman attempt to mate with a human. Quite thoroughly, I might add…
Hunter S. Thompson Gonzo Tribute Beer
Flying Dog Ales is crafting a limited-edition beer, Gonzo Imperial Porter, as a tribute to the late Hunter S. Thompson.
Gonzo Imperial Porter will be released in early June in a unique Gonzo illustrated four pack. A limited edition, 750ml bottle will also be available from the brewery’s tasting room – the first 100 of these will be signed by Ralph Steadman.
Like Hunter this beer is deep and complex. Gonzo Imperial Porter has been brewed with black, chocolate and crystal malts, and hopped with Millennium and Cascades. This is a turbo charged version of the Road Dog and at 9.5% ABV it will bite you in the ass if you don’t show it the proper respect.
$1 from each case sold and $10 from each of the signed Steadman bottles will go towards building the Gonzo Memorial Fist in Aspen. The 150 foot stone column complete with a giant red fist at its summit will tower above Hunter’s Owl Farm Estate for all eternity.
I don’t usually like Porters, but I’d definitely like to lift a glass of this one to Hunter Thompson.
