Something more lighthearted

Okay, so my last post was a little depressing. Here’s something more amusing:

UPDATE: After the Korean press had a hissy fit over this, Colbert had a rebuttal.

Oh yes…unto a god…

I always really liked the gods from the good old days. Apparently, it’s because I’m one of them:

What kind of God are you?
Name
DOB
Favourite Color
You earthly time was spent	Raining torrents of blood while sailing over the prostrate masses in an iron chariot
Your throne is	fashioned from thorns and human femurs, surrounded by writhing, howling servants, with a footstool of souls on the sizzling shores of the Lake of Fire
You wear	A humble tunic and robes, belying your inestimable supernatural powers just waiting to shatter the woes of Creation
Your Godly superpower is	A flaming, indestructible sword with which you shall avenge the slain innocents and humble the arrogant
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Toygers and Klingons, oh my!

Hey folks,

Sorry I haven’t been around much. Working through some web-dev contracts and my music schedule has been a time-killer. Oh, and Monday was my birthday, which I spent teaching the MCAT. For now, as I get my life together, you can enjoy this:

They’re “toygers,” housecats bred to look as much like a tiger as possible, and I need one. Right now. I don’t really care that I’m allergic to cats, because those things are adorable. (The ABC News article)

On another note, there’s a Finnish politician who has translated his entire website into…Klingon. Yes. Those Klingons. From Star Trek. Worf the guy with the mutant turtle attached to his forehead. Check it out here.

HOW did you get to my blog???

I check my blog’s statistics pretty frequently to see how things are going, which of my posts get read the most, what kind of things I need to do better, etc. You may wonder why I care quite so much about such things, but I always have a bit of a need to be successful at ventures like this, and the most tangible measure of that success is knowing how many people read my blog. Heck, there are at least three people who like me enough to subscribe to my RSS feed (I suppose they could be something like the Technorati/Google bots, and come to think of it, that’s most likely, but let me keep my illusion for a little while longer).

Anyway, to make a longer story short, one of the most interesting statistics to follow is the Google search terms that lead somebody to my blog. One of today’s entries was particularly surprising.

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Now we know…

…and knowing is half the battle!

People always show the G.I. Joe Public Service Announcements, but the Transformer ones are always forgotten, which is sad, because they’re just as ridiculous. Behold!

I wish cartoons today had such awesome voices.

The south will…ahem…rise again!

I love the South and our ill-conceived, testosterone-induced ideas. I bet Van-ginas wouldn’t do so well as TruckNuts, but maybe I’m wrong and I should be starting up a company right this instant.

P.S. Go to http://www.truck-nuts.com for your own pair of steel balls, if you’re so inclined.

For everyone despairing today, a serenade…

Hip hop dead? Yeah right…

My boy Nas recently released his album in which he declares that “hip hop is dead.” Now I think we can all appreciate his sentiment here, but he’s certainly going overboard. Both he and Jay-Z have recently released albums that are doing well, and a host of other rappers are cleaning up at the bank as well. Now, knowing Nas, he’s not talking about the money, because he’s always into some deep ish that nobody can decipher. But even assuming that, we have no shortage of interesting talent, both old and new, with deep philosophical outlooks on finance, life, and love. Consider:

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