the IDIOT

as usual i’m behind on phenomena presented to the normalons. wasn’t until a week or so ago that i was informed that someone made what may be considered rightly the only music video in the world. the video is, of course, “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” by beyoncé knowles, featuring two other dancers, at least one of which (cedar lake contemporary ballet’s ebony williams) should probably be classified as a lethal sexual weapon. oh my.

add bass-of-doom synth worthy of — dare i say — zawinul himself, master of the oberheim battery, and a potentially bleh song crosses into shawp land. it’s almost good enough for a baby to dance to.

[thanks to zastavki.com and rantingdetails.com for the pics.]

how the fuck is it mid august and i’ve just learned that my honey of honeys is on the goddamned cover of playboy and deliciously unclothed in its pages?

just shaking my head. must get to dirty magazine store then grocery store. gonna be a long 45 days or so not leaving my room, considering i’m that perv of pervs who freeze-frames YouTube vids of CF for shots in jeans from behind, or in a swimsuit. ::sigh:: ::so lovely::

then they go and do this? fuck the world. cataclysmic.

wait. this is not cataclysmic. okay. must go. bye.

i’m like a schoolboy with this jessica watson story. love this kid. and yes, i’m fluent with the arbitrary dicta of the WSSRC and supposed deficiencies of her route, and i know that the state was all up inside her accomplishment from start to finish (including a silver-level sponsorship from the criminal agency calling itself the government of new south wales). i also know her blog entries were likely edited by others before presentation, technology blurs the “unassisted” line, her parents are supposedly wealthy, she’s a “global warming” gulper, she used a self-steering aid, and blah blah blah. oh, and you’re probably sick of her.

some things that kick ass about jessica watson and her adventure: (more…)

smiles for them and you:

huge sherlock holmes fan. one of my favorite SH shticks is his varying technique for getting information from potentially hostile sources (as with the steam launch pilot’s wife in The Sign of the Four). love this interchange from The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, where our man is attempting eagerly to find the origin of a goose in which a “forty-grain weight of crystallized charcoal” (the blue carbuncle) had been secreted:

[...]

We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor a horsy-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was helping a boy to put up the shutters.

“Good-evening. It’s a cold night,” said Holmes.

The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my companion. (more…)

50x real speed, apparently:

i’ve figured for decades that standard video will eventually be 360° post-controllable. here’s a damned impressive internet demo of the format.

on the audio side, here’s the type of demisemi-analogous microphone donna summer used to record her vocals on Another Place and Time.

last thing i expected to find this morning. never knew that dave roth recorded a version of Eat ‘Em and Smile — the whole album — in spanish (then titled Sonrisa Salvaje). ha! follow the link and hear the samples. funny.

here’s a YouTube of the full spanish “Yankee Rose”.

after you enjoy the stage crashing fan at 1:15 in this vid (super funny), savor the sea of video recorders. years ago fans with film/video cameras would’ve been trounced by security. now? hopeless!

can’t stop the signal.

despite problems here and there, and creeping lazi-cutesyness, Ally McBeal rules, and it’s finally been released in the goonited states (apparently with its multi-source “copyright”-plagued music intact). during the promo period, get the first two episodes free via iTunes.

my honey prevails:

Gina Carano may still be the face of women’s MMA, but she’s not the best female fighter in MMA. Cris Cyborg destroyed Carano in the main event of Saturday night’s Strikeforce card, beating her throughout the first round and finally winning by TKO just before the round came to an end. (more…)

month or two ago i was hanging out at a store owned by a couple silly enough to be my friends. it’s pretty casual there, and sometimes they’re off elsewhere while i just play with their birds (3 cockatiels, 2 love birds, 4 budgies) and try to stay out of the way of customers.

two women and a young girl walking by asked me about the birds, and we chatted for a bit. the mother mentioned some book about a girl and an owl. since the daughter was obviously very into the birds, i asked if she’d like to feed and water them. she was thrilled, and did a great job with minimal instruction. i dig watching kids discover things.

on the way out the girl asked if she could keep a feather she’d found on the floor. can’t stand drone kids, and this was the anti-drone prototype. wonderful. they said goodbye and i figured that was that, since they’re about 40 miles away. (more…)

since gun sales are prohibited on craigslist.org, is there a “craig’s list for guns”? several, but my fave is gunlistings.org. sure, for years there’s been gunbroker.com, but that’s an eBay for guns, and a tad squirrelly, IMO. (more…)

i love keeping a cooler in my car. have stopped going to restaurants with “waiters” (who mostly suck), and rarely do anything but eat meals i prepare with my portable kitchen — two containers of utensils, spices, etc., including perishables most people wrongly assume must or should be chilled once cut into (e.g., tomatoes, onions).

a small cooler with only 10 pounds of ice can keep food fresh for days in the summer. the drawback is the water; if efficiency’s your thing, the water must stay until it hits the 50s. but water tends to ruin some food. today, i may have found the answer, and it is LOCK & LOCK, baby! (more…)