Thursday, February 19, 2009

Stuff About Today

Today, February 19th 2009. A day that will... well, most likely not live in Infamy. But important stuff did happen today, so here it is for your learning pleasure:

-- North Dakota has given full legal rights to fertilized eggs. This is in direct competition with Roe V. Wade, and challenges every abortion in the state of North Dakota. Next for ND? Dogs get free speech, and provided they are at least 3 months old, goldfish can now rent automobiles.

-- Members of the bands Hanson, Cheap Trick, Fountains of Wayne and (here's the kicker) Smashing Pumpkins have formed a band known as Tinted Windows. Presumably, this is what you'll want if you're playing the CD in your car, because showing your face in public really isn't an option there.

-- Author Terry Pratchet has been knighted by the Queen. This is kind of the equivalent of putting Monty Python animations in the Louvre, but I like where this is going.

-- Gus Shakey from the last few posts is going to be a Dad. Okay, so that's not today news -- actually a couple of months old -- but give him a massive 'congrats' if you read one of his posts. It COULD be any day now.

-- The makers of Gatorade have indirectly confirmed that their product nurses hangovers. In other news, the sky is blue. Seriously, has anyone in the press never blacked out and found themselves naked outside of Radio City Music Hall? Or on their grandparents' lawn? This isn't a miracle. You should see how well Aspirin works.

-- Apparently Pepsi is piloting sodas made with real, pure, honest-to-god sugar in the late spring. Jewish lovers of the 'Dew have experienced this every year for passover -- look for the yellow caps during the season, people. They taste delicious AND they won't make you grow an extra kidney on the side of your face. (I would post a link, but apparently it's been killed by the internets.)

-- Someone crazy from Florida is claiming that the falling economy is also causing fewer Shark Attacks. Of course this news is from Florida.

-- I guess I could comment on the whole New York Post/Chimp comic, but you know what? If you didn't expect that kind of horrible shit from the New York Post, you haven't been paying very much attention. To anything. Other than that, it's not that funny a story.

-- Finally, the Dow is below 7500: Smoke 'em if you got 'em.


That's it for Stuff About Today. Plans are to turn this into a video podcast, because I'm pretty funny looking. Also, I have a nice hat.

EDIT: Gus Shakey has uploaded a new logo. We'll probably rotate them for quite a while, as we have at least two different graphic artists contributing here. For now, here's our site: It's scaffolding, but it's built.

5 comments:

  1. Just out of curiosity, what's the connection between Jews and real-sugar Dew? Is HFCS not Kosher? Is this some secret Hebrew thing, analogous to the secret menu Protestants get at Irish pubs ("Appetizers: Spit. Chef's Special: Fuck you.")?

    Also, glad to see you guys working on some funny stuff again. Been too long.

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  2. Whoops... that last comment was me, down here. Anne left herself logged into gmail on the shared laptop, which I suppose makes up for the times I've left hideous, hideous pornography to pop up in the midst of her law school classes.

    Keep it coming, brothers.

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  3. You have to stop leaving your old self-videos up for her to discover, man, seriously.

    Turns out HFCS isn't Kosher at least during passover -- I'm pretty sure there's a special word for what *is*, but they erased my memory soon after they told me. Or maybe I just have too much old Catholicism banging around up there in my head to let any new religious terms really fester.

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  4. I mean, I've read the first couple of Discworld novels. But isn't this like giving R.A. Salvatore the Medal of Freedom?

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  5. Yep. Or giving Frankie Muniz an honorary degree from Oxford.

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