March 12, 2012
When you find a link that sends you to a site that has, right on its home page, this passage, typos and all:
Jellyfish live for only 6 months in ocean because of a bacteria that attacks them after they bred.These jellyfish are aquarium raised and live 3 times longer.
…you wonder if the whole thing’s a hoax. “Aquarium raised” jellyfish for lamps? And they died of “natural causes”?
Um…
We’ll keep you updated. Weird.
March 11, 2012
No, it’s not the name of a lost Holy Modal Rounders album, it’s…a decaying peach.
Sequence of images showing a peach decaying over a period of six days. Each frame is approximately 12 hours apart, but a couple of frames were not recorded. The peach appears to wrinkle and shrivel as it dries out, whilst the surface is also gradually covered by mold.
Happy nearly-over weekend, everyone…we hope it was ripe…
* Peach image made by person listed right over here.
February 16, 2012
February 6, 2012
The groomsmen helped Ken keep stay calm; the bridesmaids were just so swell with Barbie, and the wedding of Ken and Barbie was just perfect.
And someone got photographs. A really lot of photographs. Here’s one:
From here.
• Yeah, pretty soon Ken and Barbie will settle down and get a nice house in the…Pooper Scooper Barbie! (That’s all we really needed to say, isnt’ it?)
February 4, 2012
You think we’re kidding?
P.S. Don’t forget the caption contest! Cool prizes! Hot stuff!…
P.P.S. And don’t miss the Super Bowl Village zipline video our BRI spy made for us.
January 31, 2012
ON this day , January 31, 1.75 million years ago, Uh was standing on a stone outcrop overlooking what would later become the city of Newark, New Jersey. A chill passed through him.
A prehistoric swamp rat the size of two dachshunds tied together end-to-end ambled by. Uh pierced the beast with his special pointy stick (arf!), skinned it in one quick squeak, quickly made some string from its intestines, and sewed the fur to the neckline of his opossum-skin shirt. Cozy, thought Uh.
Uh made his way back to the cave. There, the people looked at his fancy new clothing accessory, and said, “Uh?”
And Uh was pleased.
That’s the story of the invention of the collar. Since that time the collar has gone through a lot of changes, and we thought it would be a good day to celebrate some of those change. Well, actually, that’s a lie. We just wanted what passed for a good reason to show you this picture, and we couldn’t think of one. So here you go:
We don’t know. Whatever the question is, We don’t know.
January 27, 2012
The work of Jason Feeney. (You may have seen it before.)
Bonus: You can follow the creation of some of his work at his FaceBook page.
January 26, 2012
January 26, 2012
Where to go when you’re dead tired:
The Lastel Hotel can host up to 18 recently-deceased guests at a time in refrigerated caskets. The nightly rate runs about $160. This is no gussied-up city morgue, mind you. The Lastel offers hearse and funeral services, viewing rooms for family, as well as sells a variety of caskets and urns. It’s all very convenient, were you alive to appreciate it.
There’s even video, with Japanese subtitles (that might be saying “Ha ha! You Americans actually believe this!? Ha ha!”)
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For some other corpsey stories, please turn to page 195 and “Bodies in Motion” in our latest “Big john”— Uncle John’s 24-KARAT-GOLD Bathroom Reader.
