It's always best to know your enemies weaknesses. So memorize designer Olly Moss' poster for A Life Well Wasted and you two will know which of Achilles' heels to attack, how to defeat monsters and take out the Death Star, should that happen to come up again. (Link via Neatorama)

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Labels: Olly Moss, posters, video games

The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody
Let me joke (Do not like your jokes)
Let me joke (Do not like your jokes)

Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody as performed by the cast of The Muppets? It's the best thing ever! Stop reading and watch, or watch it again! All the Muppets are true to form with note-perfect lines. Plus a lot of great, minor characters like Dr. Tongue and Sam the Eagle. It really seems The Muppets are back! (Link via @thehartley)

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Labels: Bohemian Rhapsody, Muppets, Queen

Kirk Cameron as Jesus? With his evangelical anti-Darwin campaign, he certainly needs to get down from the cross.

I don't know why Mike's (Kirk Cameron) Judas would be played by his brother Ben. I would have figured it would have been Leonardo DiCaprio's Luke who came in as the cute, new kid and has had a slightly more successful career.

The cast of Growing Pain's Last Supper is from Funny or Die's Kirk Cameron Action Kit. (Many thanks for the tip to Paul at Aurora Walking Vacation)

The Kirk Cameron Action Kit - watch more funny videos

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Labels: Growing Pains, Kirk Cameron, Last Supper, TV

Goodnight Keith Moon is (pardon the pun) a dead-on parody of Goodnight Moon by Bruce Worden and Clare Cross about the death of Keith Moon, drummer for The Who. The pictures and the rhyme scheme are perfect. As someone who has read this book more times than he can remember, I'm happy to read another variation, though I still have much love for Goodnight Opus.

One day my son will find this blog and understand a lot more about me. Or have something to tell his therapist. Whichever.


Goodnight Keith Moon
Make sure you go to the site to see the whole book, but if you want to have someone lull you to sleep with this gentle tale of a rock star overdose, the above video will do the trick.
(Link via The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century)

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Labels: books, drugs, Goodnight Moon, parody, The Who

Close Encounters of the Redneck Kind from Marc Bullard on Vimeo

Dueling Banjos, of course! Now we know why aliens are always turning cows inside out and picking up dudes in pickup trucks. They're kin! Aliens, they just never stop surprising you. (Link via Miss Cellania)

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I love coffee, but somehow it tastes even better on a Saturday. It seems caffeine highs are put to much better use doing, well, things like this.

The graphic is from The Oatmeal and part of a much larger comic titled 15 Things Worth Knowing About Coffee. I sometimes hate my obsessive desire to track down the original creators of stuff I find floating about the web, but I think everyone should be credited for their work and, if you're lucky, you stumble across a treasure trove of great stuff. And all because of coffee. Yay! (Link via In Web We Trust)

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I joined the Twihards at the Toronto premiere of Twilight: New Moon last night and, as you can hear from the screaming in the video, the audience was made up of mostly hormone-surging girls and women. And that was just for two minor characters (Bella's day Charlie, played by Billy Burke and her school chum Eric, played by Justin Chon. The pair clearly drew the short straws for who had to come to the American Express sponsored event. You threw a good party AmEx, but those guys were B-O-R-E-D.

Despite that, my Twilight knowledge is now slightly higher. I know that vampires sparkle in the sun, for some reason, though it appears to be a voluntary thing. I also know that werewolves are made out of chiseled marble disguised as muscle when in human form. What I don't know is why these mythological creatures have any interest in the personality-free Bella, but maybe that was explained in the first movie.

The bonus of the premiere was a mini-show by UK trio Band of Skulls, who rocked out in a too-bright room surrounded by high-heeled women sipping red wine. Odd.


They played five songs but I only recorded I Know What I Am and Patterns before my arm got tired. I am nothing if not professional.


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Labels: Band of Skulls, movies, Twilight, vampires

It might be more appropriate to say raise a tiny bit of hell. An almost infinitesimal amount of hell, because if tossing crackers into soup is what passes for hell-raising these days, my kitchen could pass for Hades.

Oh yeah! I'm totally going to rock out my soup with some saltines! Woo!
I just don't get advertising sometimes.

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Twilight: Three Wolf Moon

So I'm off to the Toronto premiere of Twilight: New Moon tonight, which I admit is a little odd. I figure I will be both the oldest person in the audience and the only one who hasn't seen the previous film or read any of the books. But because I am nothing but intrepid I did some research and if it is anything like the above trailer it should be a good time. I will report back about all the squealing.

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Labels: meme, movies, t-shirt, Toronto, Twilight, vampires, wolf

MINI Extended Motorer Protection
Companies really need to think before they attach themselves to pop culture figures. BMW’s Mini is trying to tell people they should have extended motor protection for their car. You know, protection, wink wink. So out they roll (WARNING I'm totally about to spoil the above video) Paulie Walnuts to protect this amorous couple out in the woods.

Hey, when was the last time I saw Paulie out in the woods with a car? Hmm, I don't think it went so well. MINI Extended Motorer Protection: You Might Get Away With Only A Head Wound.


Valery
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Labels: advertising, Sopranos, what were they thinking?

Sex Machine! from Dan Meth on Vimeo

"I want to get into it, you know, like a sex machine. You know, doin' it, like having sex with a woman but as if you were a machine. Like some sort of mechanized device built for copulation with a lady. " Oh, so that's what James Brown meant...

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And now you know what Edward Scissorhands would look like if he was on The Simpsons — from the talented Dean Fraser of Springfield Punx.

It got me wondering what sort of episode Edward would show up on. Certainly Springfield would be a fine stand in for the suburbia surrounding Edward's Gothic mansion. I could imagine somehow Homer switching his hands for Edward's scissors and constantly slashing himself and everyone around him. I'm guessing it would be a Treehouse of Horror episode.

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charleston style
Everything old is new again. New if you mean a three-year-old video of people dancing The Charleston, a 90-year-old dance step, set to Around The World, a 12-year-old song by Daft Punk. Which I do.

But tell me this doesn't look like b-boys. In any case, cool. (Link via Urlesque)

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Who wants to be controlled? You've got to Esc! (Fugitive via uneetee)


Sometimes you just gotta get away. (ESC From New York via Neatorama)


Like what you have? Then just hit Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V and you're good to go. (via Geekologie)


Ctrl-V — it's better than glue. (Paste via TeeFury)


Undo, undo, undo! If only Ctrl-Z worked that way. (via Threadless)


And sometimes you just need to reset with the Ctrl Alt Del tea cups. (via Neatorama)

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Eclectic Method - Cultural Funkin Overload prt 1 from Eclectic Method on Vimeo.

So many riffs, so little time. Eclectic Method mashes together the best band, ever.

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Labels: Eclectic Method, mashups, music

...so why don’t you? Ah, they're so cute when they are hungover. Morning After from Threadless designer Paul Southworth.

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Time for Popped Culture's first ever contest! On Thursday, Nov. 19, American Express is hosting a gala of The Twilight Saga: New Moon at Toronto’s Winter Garden Theatre. The screening takes place at 7 p.m., the day before the movie premiers, and will feature appearances by cast members. Coincidentally, I am giving away A PAIR OF TICKETS.

The winner gets to see the movie, sit in on a cast Q&A and attend an after-party where Band of Skulls (who are on the soundtrack) will perform.

To win: Go to americanexpress.ca/potential/newmoon and the first person to email me the invitation phrase wins the tickets. Oh yes, you have to be 18 or be accompanied by an adult to attend. I'm also not flying anyone in so, you know, keep that in mind. No prize substitutions either.

Full disclosure, I get to go too. Don't worry, you don't have to sit with me or anything. Even further disclosure, I haven't seen the first Twilight film nor read any of the books, but who am I to avoid a pop culture phenomenon? My previous interests in vampires have been, in order, The Count on Sesame Street, Count Chocula, Lestat, Angel. So there you go.

Vampire Reunion at CollegeHumor

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Seth MacFalane's Secret at CollegeHumor

Seth MacFarlane domination with 612 different Seth MacFarlane shows! Fat dads. Hot moms. Awkward kids. Mean babies. Eccentric supporting characters that would normally have the ability to talk. Hmm, which one of these was fake?

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That is some crappy cruise — it must have been obvious they were sailing into a war zone, what with all the water plumes and flaming ships. Who's the captain, Zapp Branningan?

Wrong Target by Glennz — and yes I realize I am turning into a t-shirt blog.

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And here I thought they were ships. My bad. Alien Autopsy, from Threadless designer Chris Rowson.

So what's with all the Space Invader (and Pac-Man and Super Mario for that matter) references lately? Is my generation really getting that nostalgic? I suppose I shouldn't ask that without a solid look back at my postings.

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Labels: aliens, dissection, Space Invaders, Threadless, video games