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I KNOW this makes me sound like a teenage girl, but SQUEEEEAAAALLLL!!! I love the horrible warped snowmen Calvin comes up with and this video realises them in beautifully lit 3D. The scene is made from flour and sugar, and there’s a breakdown of how the makers did it here. It’s just awesome and perfectly recreates the brilliant strips Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson drew every winter. And the “we miss you, Bill” at the end just kills me.
Watterson didn’t just do the famous snowmen scenes for comedy. He used them to satirise pretentious art critics, with Calvin spouting […]
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEe0qqPAC6E
ANOTHER era’s come to an end with the news that the Concise Oxford English Dictionary is dumping the word “cassette” from its pages because it’s “obsolete” to make way for amazingly exciting and incredibly important new words like “sexting”, “OMG”, “woot”, “LOLZ” and “retweet”. The writing’s been on the wall for years, though — British electronics store Currys announced back in 2007 that it was stopping selling cassettes after sales fell from 8.3 million in 1989 to 100,000 in 2006.
Yet another part of my life has been consigned to the dustbin of history. I have fond memories of cassettes — I had […]
BEGONE, FOUL STRUMPET!
WITH Sponja up the spout* again, Ev decided that she needed somewhere safe to stay when she pops her sprogs (Sponja, not Ev). So while on a shopping trip to Costco she picked up a little dog/cat house and then left me to put it together this morning, citing “having to leave for work” as her ridiculous excuse for not helping.
*Ev hates this phrase, but probably not as much as I hate having my nipples slapped while I’m trying to read.
Camera gear: $2,000. Photo’s value: $0.
Here it is, boxed and ready to be assembled by the one […]
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Mi9WoQD_4
The Liberty Belle, the B-17 bomber I took pics of in March last year, crash-landed and burned in a field in Illinois today. Luckily all seven people on board escaped safely. The fire seems to have been caused by a fuel leak in one of the engines. It’s a real shame as the Belle was one of the few remaining B-17s, the planes that did so much damage to Nazi Germany in World War II. After going aboard her and seeing for myself the horribly cramped conditions the crew had to fly their dangerous missions in, I had a […]
Ev: “You don’t need another toy car.”
Me: “But it’s the DeLorean from Back To The Future.”
Ev: “You’re nearly 40.”
Me: “It’s got the flux capacitor and everything.”
Ev: “We only came in here for milk and stamps.”
Me: “Look, it’s got the OUTTATIME number plate.”
Ev: “We’re buying a house, we need the money.”
Me: “Wow, it’s even got the cables up the side.”
Ev: “You’re not listening to me, are you?”
Me: “Sorry, what?”
Ev: “Oh, just […]
HERE’S the best prank ever pulled by a respectable news organization. Wait, no it isn’t — it’s the best prank ever pulled by anyone.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMNO2Kcvz2k&feature=related
You can read more about it […]
BUT I do, oh how I do. Right now, offered the choice between a Chilli Red Mini Cooper S with all the trimmings and a Samsung 4.3 cubic feet, 12-cycle Ultra Capacity Steam Washer with matching laundry pedestal including a storage drawer, I’d take the non-drivable option.
Now I know what you’re thinking; you’re thinking, “But Mut, you’re such a cool and sexy guy. Why the sudden desire for a mundane domestic appliance?” Well, firstly I’d tell you that you’re thinking of the wrong person, and secondly I’d tell you that I’m sick to the bleedin’ gills of sharing laundry facilities with […]
TODAY I’ve been in America for […]
MY FRIEND Jamie excelled herself with this birthday cake, made to celebrate me turning 39 last Friday. Your eyes do not deceive you — it is indeed crowned with beans on toast wiv an egg on top as a tribute to my favourite meal. I haven’t actually tried it yet as we met Jamie and Chris for brekkers at Eggs Etc in Long Beach (review to come) and I’m still stuffed, but I’m looking forward to having several one or two slices later on with a nice hot cup of tea.
And in case you’re wondering, 1977 was the year of my fifth birthday and […]
ONE glance at this T-shirt and I was in love. Attacked by the Death Star? Maybe Dave, the guy manning the Death Star Detection Thingy, nipped out for a fag at the wrong moment. Did no one else spot it? Was there a pair of Y-wing pilots on a fag break discussing what it might be?
“Hey, what’s that?”
“It looks like a small moon.”
“That’s no moon, it’s a space station.”
“It’s too big to be a space station.”
“You’re right. Is it an asteroid?”
“Dunno. Maybe it’s a meteor?”
“Whatever it is, I’m sure Dave’s checking it out.”
“Yep, he’s on the ball.”
“Solid.”
“He certainly is.”
“Wait… isn’t that Dave having a […]
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