It Beggars Description

If the Japanese did not exist, we would have to invent them. The Rev really does live in a wonderland.

Japanese Bikini Rodeo Pie Fighting

Liberal Lucidity: Ode to the Mullet

Button Gwinnett over at Liberal Lucidity pointed out something astonishing. Chris Evert's hair mirrored her tennis game. From plain to Zena in a few short years. I never noticed the correlation, but hey, that what blogs are for.

Of the mullet, Button opines:


"Even fashionable women like tennis champ Chris Evert had one. I remember when she cut her hair off, perm fried it, and dyed it blond in a trashy, vampy sort of look so unlike the previous pristine Prissy Chrissy look with the long hair in a pony tail complete with bow. It was a part of her 80's power look, which she came up with when she switched from a wooden racquet to graphite and took up weight training in order to catch her great rival (and fellow mulleteer), Martina Navratilova. By 1987, Chris' mullet did something quite scary. It grew wings! She curled her bangs over her forehead and created a tall dome on top of her head that extended down to her shoulders. Exactly what kind of hair products it took to perfect that look, I have no idea. Thankfully, my mullet never looked like it could fly away or knock down low flying planes like her's did."

Spinner Rack of Joy

Whenever I need a little mental pick-me-up, which is any time I am not drunk, I love to peruse the spinner racks of cheap and discounted DVDs. Here are these monuments to craptastic film-making, available for only a few dollars. And the absolute best part is flipping the box over and reading the breathless and exciting blurb on the back. Surely a movie that sounds this good has to be fantastic? And only $5! One of my new favourites is Quicksilver, starring Kevin Bacon as a bike courier. Oh sweet jeebus that is a bad film. But I almost want to buy it and a watch it again, simply because the back cover blurb is so very excellent.




Speeding Towards The Final - And Deadly - Showdown....

A Heart Stopping Chase... and the Ultimate Test of Courage

Kevin Bacon is pedaling for all he's worth as a bicycle messenger on a collision course with danger in Quicksilver. As he darts through the city traffic, making his rounds in the fast paced world of maverick messengers, Jack Casey (Bacon) uncovers a sinister web of murder and intrigue. When he falls for Terri (Jami Gertz of Twister), a fellow messenger who has become the pawn of an unscrupulous drug dealer, it's up to Jack to act quickly. Speeding toward the final - and deadly - showdown, it's a heart stopping chase, and the ultimate test of Jack's courage. Set to the driving beat of a dynamic soundtrack featuring Roger Daltrey, the pulse of urban America comes alive in a story with more twists and turns than a rush-hour shortcut. When it comes to delivering the goods, nothing comes close to the free-wheeling exhilaration of Quicksilver.

Reading that just makes me giddy with joy. And do read it aloud in your best Bill Ratner voice. Or Don LaFontaine if you that is more your style.

And Who Is Fighting This World War?

Great news, Bush says that 'World War III' possible if Iran goes nuclear.

This is great news for Ken Burns, but what about the non-documentarians among us? And who is going
to fight this World War? Will it require as much sacrifice as the Global War on Fascistic Islamic
Fundamentalist Terrorists? What I am asking is, should I rack up credit card debt, or plan for tomorrow?

Wednesday Galbraith Blogging

"Among all the world's races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not the consequence of any special preference for mendacity, although at the higher levels of their public administration that tendency is impressive. It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong."

--John Kenneth Galbraith


Bonus Galbraith:

"Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists."

Sony Find Somebody Who Wants A PS3

From Wired.com:

Suffering from its exorbitant price point and a dearth of titles, Sony's PlayStation 3 isn't exactly the most popular gaming platform on the block. But while the console flounders in the commercial space, the PS3 may be finding a new calling in the realm of science and research.

Right now, a cluster of eight interlinked PS3s is busy solving a celestial mystery involving gravitational waves and what happens when a super-massive black hole, about a million times the mass of our own sun, swallows up a star.

This is a really good way to get rid of some of the overpriced stock and make the sales numbers look a little bit better. Sadly, it really won't help the bottom line much as Sony is donating the boxes to Dr. Khanna. But if they can convince the National Science Foundation that it really is a supercomputer (hey, it worked before), Sony can charge a lot more for the PS3, and then sell them in bundles of 8 to deserving grant recipients. So to all the hardcores out there who bought a PS3, and who now watch it collect dust as you wait for some good games to come out; put some swagger in your step and claim that you own 1/8th of a supercomputer. Which will really wow them at alt.sys.Amiga.uucp. l33t!

Worst Recruting Song Ever. Ever.

Want to be a Mormon? Curious about Mormonism? This song by Janeen Brady should tell you all you need to know.