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Meanwhile in Japan…

This ad starts off in a Japanese university dorm room with every otaku’s fantasy…

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…and that’s when the school administration breaks up their little party:

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It turns out that they don’t approve of the young ladies’ beverage choice, Oasis:

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The admins find a magazine featuring the Oasis mascot on its cover, a giant rubber duck with a serious dislike for water and dismiss it as a myth…

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…and since this is a Japanese ad, things escalate quickly.

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Very, very quickly:

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Enjoy the video!

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A chilly morning in Accordion Bay

chilly tampa morning

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Here in Accordion Bay, it’s what passes for a chilly December morning: 13°C / 55°F. That’s Rhonda the Honda, my trusty 1998 Honda CR-V (which still hasn’t hit the 100,000 mile / 160,000 km mark yet) in the foreground.

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Wrestler Joey Ryan adds a new meaning to the phrase “dick move”

joey ryan's dick move

Pro wrestling just got more real and more fake at the same time. Watch the video to see what I mean:

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Gift suggestions for grammar nerds

i enjoy eating my cat and leaving out commas

Dose has a collection of gift ideas for those friends and family who can’t stop help correcting other people’s terrible grammar. My favorite one is the mug pictured above.

Thanks to Alexandra Samuel for the find!

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What I learned from videogames

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“The Force Awakens” poster awakens!

My favorite bits in this animated version of the Star Wars: The Force Awakens poster are Finn’s floppy lightsaber and Kylo Ren as espresso machine.

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More proof that “The Elf on the Shelf” is bad news

grating the snowman

Found at Couponing4You’s Facebook page via Barry Gervin. Click to see the source.

While my family celebrates Christmas, I’d never heard of this “Elf of the Shelf” thing until a couple of years ago. I’m chalking it up as just another weird WASP thing, like that cut-up celery suspended in green jello dish. The critical theory folks are having a field day about the Elf softening us up for a surveillance state, but as the photo above shows, that’s not the worst of it.