Author: matt

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One Happy Fat Cat

Top, Dick and Denny verify the election, Jan. 6, 2005. (via, Reuters);
bottom, the Cheshire Cat, from Alice in Wonderland

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Perfect For Airline Travel!

Post author By matt
Post date January 12, 2005
2 Comments on Perfect For Airline Travel!

[via bOING bOING, via waxy, via Eye Beam, via Pop Gadget, so you’ve seen it]

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I Almost Drowned, But They Saved Me (and Then I Lost My Pants)

Post author By matt
Post date January 10, 2005
16 Comments on I Almost Drowned, But They Saved Me (and Then I Lost My Pants)

America’s Funniest Rescue Video
You gotta watch this dramatic real-time video (QT) of a guy being saved from the Los Angeles river from CNN.com. (Or, choose your preferred version here.)
Now, try watching while listening to the music from The Benny Hill Show.
And before you get mad at me, the guy was okay.
Update: Turns out video is for CNN Premium subscribers only. Damn, but it was so funny.

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You’ve Come A Long Way, Big Willie

Post author By matt
Post date January 10, 2005
3 Comments on You’ve Come A Long Way, Big Willie

King of Queens: Will Smith and Kevin James in Hitch.
“Talking about Six Degrees [of Separation] with Premiere magazine a decade ago, Smith raised eyebrows in the p.c.-sensitive media by confessing that before he accepted the role, his friend Denzel Washington had warned him, ‘Just don’t be kissing no man.'”
– It’s a queer eye for the straight thesp, by David Rooney, Variety, March 14, 2004 (subscription required).

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Tomorrow’s Corrections Today, Vol. 6

Post author By matt
Post date January 8, 2005
1 Comment on Tomorrow’s Corrections Today, Vol. 6

“‘Strange Love’ is a documentary about Brigitte Nielsen, the Danish giantess from ‘Rocky IV’ turned dissolute nudist, and Flavor Flav, the wily Ritalin-deprived clock-wearing Public Enemy hype man from the South Bronx.
[…]
“But Flav, who steals the show here, also lets his guard down sometimes, admitting to crippling anxiety. And when he is not able to make Brigitte laugh with his antics, and the cultural gulf between them seems unbridgeable, he can also look like a small, lost old man who has come far from the South Bronx but does not quite know how or why.”
–Flouting Convention, Embracing Eccentricity, The New York Times, Jan. 8, 2005.
“[Meth] Aiyyo Flav
[Flav] Whassup Meth?
[Meth] What you know about niggaz from Long Island right?
[Flav] Huh?
[Meth] True Long Island right?
[Flav] All my life!
[Meth] All your life right?
[Flav] All my life!
[Meth] Westbury
[Flav] Word up, Freeport, Long Island, Roosevelt, Long Island”
– “Soul Power (Black Jungle),” Wu-Tang Clan, feat. Flavor Flav
Related:
Artist Name: Flavor Flav
Born: 1959
In: Roosevelt, Long Island, NY
– AOL Music: Flavor Flav
Date of birth (location)
16 March 1959
Roosevelt, Long Island, New York, USA
– IMDB

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Paging Don DeLillo

“Hundreds of people were kept from their homes Friday in Graniteville, S.C., because of chlorine gas that was released after a train crash early Thursday. Bulldozers began moving the derailed cars.”
–Cloud Rising From Train Wreck, Then Death and a Ghost Town, The New York Times, Jan. 8, 2005.
“Finally, after ‘a night of dream-lit snows,’ an ‘airborne toxic event’ originates in a rail accident at a nearby train yard. The dark billowing cloud is full of Nyodene D…”
–Summary of Don DeLillo’s White Noise.
Related: Don DeLillo and the Towers