Because of the Internet, it’s now easier for anyone who has something to say to reach a large number of people. The Internet has been especially generous to writers, artists and musicians who are now able to get to a lot of people by posting their art, thoughts and compositions online. Aside from finding well-written fiction from budding writers and good music from independent musicians, I’m especially happy about stumbling on a webcomic that has good artwork and a great story. It doesn’t hurt that the webcomic’s funny, too.
A great example of an entertaining webcomic comes from Randall Christopher, a freelance designer and animator. His work “Bear and Fox” tells the story of two best friends and all the fun adventures they have together. Bear is a talkative and excitable mockingbird from Hawaii while Fox is a clever red rat snake who has a huge library of books. It doesn’t sound entertaining when I talk about it so just take a look at the following panels to see how cool this webcomic is.
It is always a good sign when a deity whose career is synonymous to warfare, bloodlust, slaughter, looting of cities, rebellion and civil disorder goes vegan. Is Mars (a.k.a. Ares) getting in touch with his peaceful, feminine side?
Whatever, but Jared Leto and the members of his band, Mars, is switching from a goat-based menu to tofu on their sacrificial altar.
“Well, there was a time when we used to sacrifice goats,” Leto said. “But then we all became vegans, so we’ve been sacrificing tofu before the shows!”
Relax, it was obviously a joke. Leto and his group never sacrificed goats. Everyone knows Ares demands sacrificial puppies, not goats.
Will it ever be safe to go back in the water ever again? Not if Syfy can help it.
After Dinocroc, a monster reconstituted from the DNA of an African dinosaur ancestor of the crocodile, and Dinoshark, a half dinosaur-half shark that snacked on tourists at a Mexican resort, the cable channel is all set to serve another toothy monster dish: Mega Piranha.
For those unfamiliar with Syfy’s propensity towards sci-fi premises that boggle even stoned-out minds, mega piranhas are man-made mutants designed to be bigger, meatier and tastier. They were meant to provide the people living along the Amazon River with something else to eat other than Tapir McNuggets.
However, as if on cue, the x-fishes escaped to Florida and turned the tables around on humans. I did not see this coming at all.
By the way, former teen music sensation Tiffany plays Professor Sarah Monroe, a member of the science team who created this hot mess. You can catch Mega Piranha, if you dare, on Syfy this April 10th.
It’s true when they say you can’t choose your family. But they didn’t tell us we would experience a different level of misfortune when it came to family portraits. When you’re a kid, you really have no say in the matter if your parents want to take a family photo. All you can do is smile (or grimace) at the camera and go along with whatever “theme” your crazy parents can think of for the portrait. Sometimes, the kids will be lucky and they’ll have parents who dress up as normal, clean-cut adults with prim and proper-looking children, but most of the time, that’s not what happens. A Star Trek-themed photo? A family of Karate champs? A nude couple with pussycats covering their private parts? Name it and a family has probably done that kind of family portrait.
You can only look back on it and laugh your heart out. And then maybe think of what theme you’ll have when you and your kids take your family photo.
Wouldn’t it be great if this post were about Adolf Hitler’s relatives raising cows carrying Hitler clone fetuses in their wombs?
Not even close. Surviving relatives of the fallen Nazi leader are trying to live under the radar in an Austrian village raising cows, according to a media report.
How does it feel to share the same genetic pool as Hitler?
“This has haunted my family all our lives. It is a terrible burden. I grew up knowing I was related to him. How do you learn to live with that?” Gerhard Koppensteiner, grandson of Hitler’s first cousin, told a reporter.
Koppensteiner said they don’t talk about their most infamous relative at home because he doesn’t want his kids to live in the shadow of Hitler like his grandfather did. “This curse followed him his whole life,” he said.
Next time a relative does something inconceivably stupid that ends up on YouTube be thankful it didn’t sparked a world war.
Remember that ring-shaped device in the sci-fi film Stargate?
It turned out to be a piece of alien technology left behind by an advanced civilization that visited Egypt thousands of years ago. What it does is create a wormhole highway across the universe to a planet ruled by a drag queen who looks like Ali MacGraw.
Recently, archeologists unearthed a similar object in Karnak, Egypt dating back to 3,500 years ago. The 1.75 meter tall slab of red granite door is covered with religious texts and is believed to be a passageway for spirits who left the human bodies to the afterlife.
Okay so right now, it’s really just a rock. But wasn’t the Stargate just another ring-shaped Egyptian artifact until they figured out the meaning of its symbols?
I’m just saying there could be a hot drag queen waiting on the other side of this thing.
With the advances in medicine nowadays, we sometimes wonder what it was like for doctors and patients alike back in the day. Doctors now would definitely cringe just thinking about what drugs and remedies physicians in the past prescribed to their patients. During the Victorian era, women were believed to be easily susceptible to “the vapors” which were supposedly a variety of conditions that affected women. The imbalance and melancholy women felt were believed to have originated from the spleen and rose up through the entire body in the form of vapors which then affected the mind. As crazy as that sounds, imagine what other “illnesses” were diagnosed and then treated by these ancient doctors. Can you even imagine what tools they used to perform invasive surgery? We’ll give you an idea how these “primitive” surgical tools look like.
In the state of New Jersey, graffiti has taken a new and unusual form—knitting! West Cape May is now home to what they call “midnight knitters”, individuals who stalk into the night to knit on trees. Mayor Pam Kaithern has already admitted to not knowing who these oddly creative individuals are, except that they do have a website—SaltyKnits.com.
Despite the odd graffiti, many people are enjoying the colorful sights of knitted trees along Wilbraham Park, whose hues have gone rather stale due to the winter season. The trees are now adorned with bright knitted art colored several shades of blue, pink, yellow, red, green and purple.
Local artist Diane Flanegan, who is one of the organizers of the annual Strawberry Festival, is hoping that the midnight knitters reveal themselves during the festival, as to give recognition to the oddly talented group.
“It’s typical West Cape May art. It’s so quirky. It’s like the green magnetic fish at the Flying Fish studio,” Flanegan said. “I think they’re actually going out and knitting in the middle of the night. That’s weird and that’s why people like it.”
Mayor Kaithern on the other hand, doesn’t mind their identity being kept secret. She says that it is a fun mystery that should be kept that way. Nonetheless, visitors to Atlantic City’s West Cape May will definitely have different views on this odd but amusing type of graffiti.
Long before strippers started twirling on them like waxed spider monkeys. Long before Miley Cyrus displayed her disturbing familiarity with the apparatus at the 2009 Teens Choice Awards. (The year the Stripper Pole Manufacturers’ Association named Billy Ray as Father of the Year). The men in India have already been doing breathtaking things on the pole.
Although they do it almost bare-assed they’re not performing a Chippendale shtick but a traditional sport called mallakhamb. Mallakhamb involves performing WTF poses and feats while hanging from a vertical wooden pole or rope. According to researchers from Cologne University in Germany, mallakhamb is the only sport that provides optimum exercise to the entire body in the least possible time.
If Sir Isaac Newton had seen one of these guys in action, we may have a slightly different version of the law of gravity. Click on the link below for more astounding photos of men and the things they do with their poles.
For music geeks and fans alike, collaborations of various artists are usually what we call eargasm—a perfect description for the ingenuity two or more artists come up with together. But with today’s blurry lines between what’s pop, what’s rock and what’s R&B, more and more artists are collaborating with people from different sides of the musical spectrum.
Take for example Chris Cornell, former vocalist for the rock bands Soundgarden and Audioslave. In 2007, Cornell launched a solo career and since then has released two records, Carry On (2007) and Scream (2009), in which he worked with Grammy award-winning record producer, singer and rapper Timbaland. While the record was largely criticized by his rocker fans and followers, Cornell insisted that the record was something he worked on with Timbaland, and not something he was forced to do. The record received a two-star review from RollingStone.com, citing that the record “feels like it belongs in a time capsule, a strange mutation that could only have been born this decade.”
Scream debuted at #10 on the Billboard charts, but dropped to #65 a week later, spending a total of only 10 weeks on the Billboard 200. Check out the carrier single from Scream, titled “Part of Me,” a music video that incorporates Cornell’s sexy howling with his rock swagger that’s oddly at home in the bar setting.
