THIS is how the world ends!

Brewery science will be the death of us all. It will be a glorious, drunken, and hopefully tasty death, but still death nonetheless. Behold the evil genius who has created Tactical Nuclear Penguin
This beer has a 32% ABV.

Gyrotonics with Shaq

This morning I had breakfast with my mom's good friend Donita -- don't worry, Sean, there were no pancakes, so my appetite is whet for this evening's labia variety -- who is taking a gyrotonics class with Shaq:

Sean, you know what you have to do!

Sarah Palin Book Signing in Columbus

Hey look our* friend made this video:



*"our" = "Philip Kim's"

Tesh Attack

Another thing which gets stuck in my head, since it's basketball season, is the John Tesh penned "Roundball Rock."

In other basketball related clips, behold the splendor of Mark Price.
and a bonus of Soul Asylum.

Damn You Koucky!

Recently I have been reading Truman Capote's short story/novella Breakfast at Tiffany's. Unfortunately, even while enjoying the story, I can not get the Deep Blue Something song of the same name out of my head. Similarly, once I think of that, the vocals transfer to the sonorous tones of one Michael Harten Koucky, as he bellows it in a karaoke environment.

The video is pretty sweet, with rock jumps, a horse, and drumming on the back of a truck. Long live mid-nineties alternative rock!

Sadly, Deep Blue Something has disabled the embedding of their kickass video, but travel back to a more innocent time by following this URL

I can't stop watching this video. This is my friend Jamesy Quarles:

He knows when you are sleeping...

Maybe it's Grinchy of me to say so, but this Santa letter-writing program seems like an excessive amount of effort to put into reinforcing a bunch of toddlers' beliefs in the existence of a man who doesn't exist. Why is this easier/more authentic than parents forging their own letters to their children? Why do we strive for authenticity in letters to children from fake men? If a kid knows the meaning of a postmark, why not just surrender the truth, why pour all these resources into delivering hard (fake) evidence to continue to pull the wool over their little baby eyes ("Oh, little child of mine, you think I lied about Santa Claus' existence?? Well well well check out this official US postal service postmark! NORTH POLE!! Told you so!!")? I mean seriously what is the point of all this postmarking. Just write a fucking letter and deliver it to your child. Otherwise your child may get tangled up in a dirty correspondence with a sex offender elf. Ho ho ho.

Chia Obama makes the statement, "I'm proud to be an American!"

The Reason We're All Here

Tom suggested that this get reposted from time to time...and I agree.



Also, here's where all the original material came from



Has anyone else felt like the internet has been less entertaining the last couple of weeks? Maybe its just me.


Also, I saw Junot Diaz, author of The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (recent book-club book) on Monday night. I just happened to be passing the place where the lecture was happening (I don't walk that way often), decided to look at who was speaking this year, and it turned out he was speaking in an hour..so I went. Anyways, it was pretty sweet. I saw on his website that he's coming to Yale some time in December, so you might go Mike.

For you cynical fuckers

The opposite of FAIL

Thank you for being a friend?

I saw this on fark.com and I thought of you Deepak. Follow the link (here)to read an editorial on how the Golden Girls made a generation of men gay. A snippet:

The most unexpected segment of this show’s fanbase was America’s young men. In the 80s, these were boys too delicate for sports, too awkward for girls, too “artistic” for labor-intensive work and too flamboyant for peer acceptance in high school. With no real adults in sight, these poor children became obsessed with the poorly conceived characters on this show. Desperate for a firm hand in their lives, they gravitated to the subversive undercurrent of masculinity in these aged matrons.

Walmart really does have everything

For all your self burial needs. Also they have urns!

I'm still looking for the American flag coffin

(this is what Phil Kim's friends and that gang did last Sunday - watch for my need for ketchup and mediocre piano playing)

AND NOW I'M FUCKING DISTRACTED!!!

Okay, Andy's first post. The thing about this blog is that I know that I am always seven months behind everybody in "the internet" (which I'm completely fine with). I am posting a video now that I am assuming everybody has already seen because one of the videos from these guys has like two million YouTube hits and once a YouTube video passes like 200 Deepak has probably already seen it twice. But, the point of glorious itsfuckingdistracting is to share what "got to me" about the internet. Which, if you've already seen this stuff, then you'll fondly remember that strange drunken night when you went through this website as well. But, on the off chance that you haven't, this is actually pretty funny, and they keep it fairly consisent through the commercials. (If you peruse the website, watch the commercials first, then the making of).

Okay, now that I've posted for the first time, I'll loosen up about future posts and probably post too much.

Probably my favorite Halloween photo

Will Smelser (who most of you probably don't know), dressed as Elmo, making out with his Elmo costume:

Food Stuff

Many of you may have seen this, but I like this article. It's not pedantic, and yet stills punctures some of the sanctimony of vegans, which I always enjoy.

Although it doesn't bring up the most import fact about meat, i.e. that it is delicious.

Lastly, here's a pic of Bob Ross. I got to use my Anderson Varejao wig (12-13-2006 NEVER FORGET) for it.

costumes!

So lets hear it...whats everyone being for halloween?

oh arnie

i think this is too good to be a coincidence.

John Cleese's Birthday

Here is a recent interview with him from the AV Club and here are some silly walks.