Archive for June, 2008
Monday, June 30th, 2008
Stink’s Strange Dream
Y’all know about my weird, vivid dreams - no need to go into that. Getting straight to the point, I dreamed I went out with Pinky. Never having seen a photograph of Pinky, my mind had to manufacture a psychic doppleganger to stand in: she looked like Catherine Zeta Jones, and she was wearing a [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in stories by Stink
Monday, June 30th, 2008
New Edible Dirt
1 Comment » - Posted in Phone Phinger Photos by DirtFinger
Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Algae gives us gas
Check out the video linked here.
Guy’s saying that they can make most types of fuel from algae. If you don’t have the patience to watch the whole thing, at least skip to the end and listen to the last sentence. It might make you MAKE time to watch it.
Go Valcent!
2 Comments » - Posted in Science by Thumb
Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Mr. Splash dives 35 feet 5 in. into a foot of water
Holy crap. How one would even consider this is beyond me.
WPvideo 1.10
YouTube Link
5 Comments » - Posted in not dead yet, video, youtube by Thumb
Saturday, June 28th, 2008
In the Foreign Film Dept.: “Taxidermia”
Taxidermia (2006), the work of Hungarian directior Gyorgy Palfi, has evaded my attention until now, but it looks like an interesting film. IMDB describes it simply as “Gyorgy Palfi’s grotesque tale of three generations of [Hungarian] men, including an obese speed eater, an embalmer of gigantic cats, and a man who shoots fire out of [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in movies by Stink
Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Megan Jasper’s Lexicon of Grunge
So this may be old news, but ButtonFinger told me about it today, and it cracked me up, so here you go.
So the story goes like this:
Back in the ’90s, the NY Times was trolling for slang terms used by the Seattle grunge movement. The times called Sub Pop Records and asked about the hip [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in words by Thumb
Saturday, June 28th, 2008
Mark Knoffler
Thanks to Decker for sending this one in.
So Mark Knoffler is the name this dude took for his prank calls. From the comments on the site this is from, it seems that he’s maybe got a pretty big cassette tape following.
From the original site:
You might recognize the name Mark Knoffler as the Dire Straits guitarist/singer. [...]
No Comments » - Posted in audio by Thumb
Friday, June 27th, 2008
Probably not the place to put this…
But oh well. Ms. DirtFinger and I are off today for a little TW-inspired Jaunt through the deep South (the KJMBA portion of the Glitter and Doom tour), and I won’t be back until a week from Tuesdsay.
Edible Dirt is drawn and loaded, so the comic will run while I’m gone.
If any one of [...]