“The moral of the story…”
Dangerous Minds pal Greg Barris is a stalwart member in good standing of Manhattan’s downtown stand-up comedy scene and the creator of the hit variety show Heart Of Darkness.
PAPER magazine describes Greg as “the perfect combination of very good looking, hilarious and super-weird.” I’m always telling him “You have to get your agent to get you an audition on Girls!”
Greg’s new comedy album is called Shame Wave
Swedish sixth grader Tilde Norgaard is perplexed by this photo of herself with a third eye as it appeared in her school’s yearbook. According to Nogaard, nothing unusual-or one might assume particularly illuminating?—happened during the photo session. But during the printing process, a third eye appeared in the middle of her forehead.
Maybe she’s like some reincarnated holy person?
Via Boing Boing and Photoshop Disasters
Busted in Milwaukee
George Carlin, now more than ever!
Carlin speaking before the National Press Club on May 19, 1999 is a reminder that in 13 years little to nothing has changed in America’s political and cultural landscape. If anything, it’s gotten worse.
What a brilliant human being.
If you happen to live in the town of Ilkeston—located in Derbyshire, England—please be on the lookout for an “expensive Braun electric toothbrush” which was stolen last Tuesday at the Mill Street property.
You can contact the police here if you have any information on the toothbrush.
Via Arbroath
Meet Adamson - a dead ringer for Homer Simpson, as published in Icelandic paper Fálkinn in July 1949.
Adamson was created by Swedish cartoonist Oscar Jacobsson, whose work was published successfully around the world. In America Adamson was known as Silent Sam, and had a considerable following. Was Adamson a possible influence on the look of Matt Groening’s Homer Simpson?
More pictures of Homer, d’oh, Adamson, after the jump…
I always thought David Niven was Scottish, mainly because this great, charming actor regularly claimed he had been born in the town of Kirriemuir in 1909.
Kirriemuir is known as the birthplace of Peter Pan author, J. M. Barrie, and AC/DC frontman Bon Scott. It is also famed for Walter Burnett’s Kirriemuir gingerbread, which I recall eating in thick buttered slices as a child, thinking this tasty treat was the very stuff Niven must have lived off as a bairn. Of course it wasn’t and Niven hadn’t been born in Scotland, rather he was a son of London, born in 1910. Still, it only added to his tremendous style and charm, which made me find him so likable as an actor and raconteur.
That and the fact his films, in particular The Way Ahead, A Matter of Life and Death, The Elusive Pimpernel, Around the World in 80 Days, and Separate Tables were regularly screened on local TV during the sixties and seventies, possibly in the misguided belief Niven was Scottish.
Some of this great charm can be seen here in this brief interview with Sue Lawley, from 1973, where Niven discusses his childhood, pot, alcohol and good luck.
With thanks to Nellym.
These are the jeans. The Glenn Beck Jeans.
Glenn Beck has launched his own brand of jeans, 1791 Denim. They only went on the market 2 days ago, but they’ve already sold out despite the $130 price tag. I’d go into more detail about the ideology of Glenn Beck’s blue jeans, but the commercial really speaks for itself.
If you’re perceptive to the subtlest of thematic symbolism, you’ll notice it has it all: nationalist imagery, nostalgia for some mythic time period when people and things were apparently better because of work ethic or some bullshit, a noble, industrious white dude, and the romanticization of really arduous labor! The spot even demonstrates the classic hypocritical boner for “American-made” products, while Beck himself still promotes a free market that favors outsourcing on his radio show.
The final line asserts that in America, you may not get the chance to succeed, but by gum, you have the chance to try, dammit! And in the end, the guy builds a giant phallic symbol that beats the Russians to the moon! USA! USA! USA!
Although Mitt Romney’s “binders full of women” comment was obviously the comedic highlight of the debate, Stewart draws out the laughs nicely here on the Libya question like the satiric maestro he is. Brilliant!
Chicago-based illustrator and graphic designer Johnny Sampson re-imagined iconic movie monsters as ‘70s super-studs for the Horrorwood Show at the WWA Gallery back in 2010.
See more of Johnny Sampson’s work and posters at his website.
Via Cherrybombed
