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Hogan Knows Best? Hulkster’s Wife Files for Divorce

Sean — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 04:34:20 +0000

Pro Wrestler and reality TV star Hulk Hogan might want to start paying attention to those uber-irritating eHarmony commercials. Hogan’s wife Linda filed for divorce this week, and it what can only be seen as a bad sign, the Hulkster found out about it from a reporter seeking comment. Yoink.

Hogan and his family have been featured on the VH1 reality show Hogan Knows Best for the past few years. Recent episodes showed Hulk and Linda attending counseling, but also showed them reconciling. Guess that didn’t work out.

No problem Hulkster. Just say your prayers and eat your vitamins and everything will work out.

The full scoop’s at MSNBC

Genius Halloween Costume: Dwight Schrute Bobblehead

Sean — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 02:21:47 +0000

Rob at Cockeyed.com is building a fantastic Halloween costume. He’s going to be Dwight Schrute from The Office. Well, kind of. He’s going to be Dwight’s bobblehead. Genius.

Check out all his pictures of the construction and watch the progress

via BoingBoing

Happy Birthday to Me

Sean — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:58:01 +0000

In honor of today being my birthday, I’ve compiled a few birthday tunes, and a list of cool people who happen to share the day with me:

Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the Province of Maryland
Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States
Lester Young, jazz saxophone player (aka Prez, aka Pork Pie Hat)
Mother Teresa, human rights activist, Nobel Peace Prize, Atheist?
Sgt. Slaughter, professional wrestler
Paul “Pee-Wee Herman” Reubens
Alex Lifeson, guitarist from Rush
Sarah Chalke, actress from Scrubs (on the very same day!!!)

If you look at Wikipedia’s full list of births you may notice a trend: there are an awful lot of Nobel Prize winners. I guess August 27th is a day when geniuses are born…

Andrew Bird - The Happy Birthday Song

The Sugarcubes - Birthday

Thelonious Monk - Boo Boos Birthday

And an appropriate bit of comedy from Sterling, Virginia’s most bitter son, Patton Oswalt:
Patton Oswalt - You Are Allowed 20 Birthday Parties

1960’s Anti-Pornography Propaganda Film

Sean — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 03:05:38 +0000

This is a hysterical satire of an anti-pornography film from the 1960s. It artfully presents the absurdity of the uptight puritanical factions of the US.

What’s that you say? This isn’t satire? It’s serious? Oh. Well then. Then it’s basically just offensive. Throughout the film the narrator alleges that viewing pornographic images will turn the viewers into “perverts”. What the hell does that mean? And I’d love to know where they got the figure that 75-90% of pornography ends up in the hands of children. The only thing this video convinced me is that I hope that the sort of people who made it give up fucking and their backward-ass attitudes towards sex disappear.

So, Are Porn Stars the Happiest People On Earth?

Sean — Sun, 27 May 2007 01:13:35 +0000

There’s really nothing I can add to this article…

It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s Darth Vader?

Sean — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:07:44 +0000

Some industrious Star Wars fan built his own Darth Vader hot air balloon. I’m not sure about you, but I’d put Hot Air Balloon along with Parachute on my list of things I’m not making myself…

Link to the details
via BoingBoing

Now This I Just Don’t Understand…

Sean — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 12:51:27 +0000

What? What makes them disposable? And how often do you find yourself needing disposable underwear? Why would you ever want disposable underwear when you could buy permanent underwear? Are they for male prostitutes? Anyone have any ideas?

Lost in Translation III

Sean — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:20:41 +0000

On a package of WetNaps given to me on the plane from Nanjing to Guangzhou. Hygiene Wet Turban Needless Wash? I’m having a hard time figuring out what that’s even supposed to say. Hygiene I understand. Same with Wet. But Turban? Needless? Just odd.

Lost in Translation II

Sean — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 01:33:37 +0000

From the breakfast buffet at our hotel. Corn on the Cop? Sounds like some sort of kinky Village People game…

That’s One Messed up Chuck E Cheese…

Sean — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 06:23:54 +0000

Ok, ok, it’s not a Chuck E Cheese. But come on, doesn’t it look like they should start moving and singing bad songs (sorry for bringing up any bad memories Aaron…). Actually they are figures a the Zhonghua Gate, a piece of the wall around the ancient city of Nanjing, built in the 1300s. More pictures here. These characters represent the four mythical folks who traveled to India to study and bring back ideas. Or at least that’s what our guide said. I think they’re there to entertain children at birthday parties.