Educate Yo'Self! Weekend Edition

If I was the designer of this US$125 dress, I'd be less worried about the vagina dentata, and more worried about the fact that it is fucking ugly - The Consumerist

As part of his 'The New Cult Canon' series, Scott Tobias watches Napoleon Dynamite for the first time and comes out a little empty - The A.V. Club

Super excitement! Arj Barker is performing in Brisbane almost every night for two weeks this December. Maybe I'll go twice. Live in Australia? Check out his tour dates to see if he's performing in your town or city.

I really don't know how I feel about these cocktail forks (possibly negative) but I like this take on them - Nerd Approved

'The truth about child vaccination in Australia'. Or, to put it another way, it's free and saves countless lives, so shut the eff up and stick the needle in the kidlet already - Young Australian Skeptics

 A heartwarming car ad? Say it ain't so - Trend.Land

I Find Twitter Kinda Annoying But...

Stephen Colbert's Twitter feed is really very funny, just like everything else he does in life.

Highlights include:

"as i watch myself twitter, i wonder why i didn't become a professional thumb model"

"Equations are the devil's sentences."

"Real men use fossil fuels."

"I never trusted sleep."

"Just because you haven't heard of pirates in a while doesn't mean they're not out there ruining thousands of shrimp buffets."

"The best way to change the system is to wait till it changes."

"All of the answers are there if you look for the patterns."

"A man should smell like an old baseball glove."

"Simple rule when I pick my friends: No mesh shirts."

"Sheep aren't bad as long as they have good shepherds."

"Shave off your body hair and get in the sweatbox."

"This is not a contest but there will be a winner, as there always is in life."

"Cadmium Yellow is the color of broken dreams."

"I'm sure I have a lot of strong feelings."

Speaking of Stephen Colbert, he is totally tearing it up at the moment. The current political climate in America, especially the way the hard-core neo-cons are just losing their minds has given The Colbert Report so much material. It has allowed Stephen and his writers to let Stephen Colbert - the character - and his paranoia and ignorance loose, and boy is he crazy. In particular I love their take on Glenn Beck, a right-wing, conspiracy theorist nutcase who refuses to accept the majority of the country he 'loves' so much really doesn't side with him, and instead is, to paraphrase Mr. Colbert, cranking up the crazy and ripping off the knob. The fact that this guy is actually given a forum to disseminate his hateful and ignorant views by a major media corporation is actually really disturbing and upsetting, but that's a whole other post for another day. And you've got to laugh, otherwise you'd be shaking with rage day in day out.

Check out the below videos in order for an education in crazy:

The Colbert Report	Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Truth From the Gut
comedycentral.com
Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor NASA Name Contest

The Colbert Report	Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Doom Bunker - Glenn Beck's "War Room"
comedycentral.com
Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor NASA Name Contest

The Colbert Report	Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
The 10.31 Project
comedycentral.com
Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor NASA Name Contest

Currently Watching...

Pride and Prejudice on DVD (the BBC version, geez!)



Colin Firth is such a dream boat. My 14 year long crush on him remains unabated, even after he appeared in that atrocious Amanda Bynes movie a few years ago. I try to block that from my mind. Looking at this sexy photo seems to do the job pretty well.