Aunty Donna are an Australian absurdist comedy group, and my current favorite comedy routine is their piece called Ellen (or: A Parody of the Television Show Ellen). It starts as some poking fun at Ellen Degeneres’s tendency to give lavish prizes to her audience, and proceeds to get hilariously weird. It’s eight and a half minutes of rather bent fun.
Author: Joey deVilla
In any sane time and place, it would be political suicide for a candidate to ever claim that they’ve had an encounter with aliens. But hey, this is the age of Orange Julius Caesar and we’re in Florida!
And so Bettina Rodriguez Aguilera, a Republican (why am I not surprised?) is running for Congress to replace outgoing Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) despite having said in a TV interview that she was brought aboard an alien spaceship.
In that interview, she reported that the aliens told her many things, including:
- There are 30,000 skulls — “different from humans” — in a cave in the Mediterranean island of Malta.
- The world’s “energy center” is in Africa.
- The Coral Castle, a limestone tourist attraction South Miami-Dade, is actually an ancient Egyptian pyramid.
- “God is a universal energy.”
Here’s the TV interview, which is in Spanish:
The Miami Herald asked her about her reported alien experiences, and her answer — which includes one of the more out-of-place invocations of being a God-fearing Christian I’ve heard — might just be enough for Floridian voters to give her a chance:
“For years people, including Presidents like Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter and astronauts have publicly claimed to have seen unidentified flying objects and scientists like Stephen Hawking and institutions like the Vatican have stated that there are billions of galaxies in the universe and we are probably not alone,” she said. “I personally am a Christian and have a strong belief in God, I join the majority of Americans who believe that there must be intelligent life in the billions of planets and galaxies in the universe.”
Here’s a Washington Post video summary of Ms. Rodriguez Aguilera’s story:
Oddly enough, the video ends with an eerie still of the Post’s new slogan superimposed over the candidate:
It wasn’t all that long ago that acquiring a Death Note would cost you your soul, and eventually your life. I got mine (with a bonus “L” key fob) for the much lower price of $12.99 Canadian at the Pacific Mall!
If any of you can read Japanese, could you please tell me what the packaging says?
I decided to take the easy approach this Hallowe’en and picked up a Star Trek: The Original Series “command” shirt at a shop in Toronto’s Kensington Market. It’s branded as a “Captain Kirk” shirt, but as an Asian guy with a radio voice, I’m declaring it a “Lieutenant Sulu” shirt instead. Total cost: US$25, because I already have black pants, boots, and a phaser.
There is an even cheaper “Sulu” costume option:
Baby oil (or hey, cooking oil) and a toy sword. I figure that would cost US$10 at most.
For those few of you who’ve never seen this Star Trek scene, here it is:
In case you’re not familiar with the meme, read this article…
…and in case you haven’t seen the new trailer yet:
Click the comic to see the source.
Webcomic Name gets a lot of mileage out of a simple formula: three panels, ending with the line “Oh no”. My favorite of the bunch is the October 4th, 2017 comic, which doubles as valuable career advice.