Happy Thanksgiving, USA!

So I’m early for once in my life. This is worth watching two days in a row; possibly the finest moment in the history of situation comedy.

The WKRP turkey drop.

“As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”

For those of you who like your Thanksgiving memories with a side of acid, there’s William S. Burroughs’ Thanksgiving Prayer.

handy Pete Doherty arrest report template

Pete, you're looking rode hard and put away wet! 

With a little tweaking this could work for George Michael, too. From commenter Gabe over on Gawker’s post about Doherty’s latest drug bust. Seriously, I think it must be some other dude who got Kate Moss pregnant; surely by now his body is incapable of producing anything but crack-flavoured vomit.

FROM NME.COM
POST DATE __/__/__ __:__ GMT

PETE DOHERTY ARRESTED ON DRUGS CHARGES FOR ________

Pete Doherty was arrested yesterday (______ __) for ________ possession.

Police stopped the Babyshambles singer as he was driving a _______ at __.__am in London’s _______ district

Doherty was arrested on suspicion of possession ______.

There were ____ other passengers in the car who were also arrested and later bailed, reports ____.

All ____ were released from _______ police station pending analysis of “substances recovered”, a spokesman said.

Doherty was released on police bail until ______.

The singer is due in court later this month over a previous drugs sentencing.

lessons from a Japanese chopstick master

“Ah, Grasshopper, when you can snatch the chopsticks from my hand…”

Learn how to use Chopsticks from a Japanese Chopstick Master!!!

Lesson 1: How to split apart those cheap wooden chopsticks
Lesson 2: How to eat Japanese soba noodles
Lesson 3: How to eat a McDonald’s Cheeseburger

Great, now I’m hungry. Anybody know a good noodle place around here?

pic o’ the day: Giant Jellyfish invasion

ickypoo. And you wonder why I don't go in the ocean!

I wasn’t kidding when I said that Japan is being surrounded by hostile Giant Jellyfish. Check out this pic, from Pink Tentacle‘s coverage of the invasion; suddenly it makes more sense that the Japanese would strike back, powdering the slimy buggers. Of course, it still wouldn’t occur to a sane person (nor to a person who’d seen Attack of the Mushroom People) to make that powder into cookies and put it in her mouth, but there you go; we are talking about the Japanese, after all. They may be more plausible than the Romanians, but they’re just as wingnutty under those navy suits.

a cookie even Cookie Monster couldn’t love

a cookie even Cookie couldn't loveYou think I’m kidding? First off, it’s Japanese, which is the 21st Century’s version of Dali-esque. The entire nation seems populated by navy suit-clad, sex toy obssessed, seafood-fetishizing lunatics. Seriously, if there are sane Japanese people out there, I ain’t heard about it.

Secondly, they are made from giant, invading jellyfish.

Thirdly, they taste like it.

From Pink Tentacle:

yummylicious!As part of an ongoing battle against invading swarms of giant jellyfish in local waters, some residents of Fukui prefecture have developed a method for converting the jellyfish into powder, which is used to make souvenir cookies. The jellyfish treats, called “Ekura-chan saku-saku cookies,” are now on sale at JR Fukui station at a price of 580 yen for a box of 10…

The result is a cookie with a superbly textured sweetness nicely complemented by the bitter, salty flavor of jellyfish.

Simply charming. Not even in the name of research will I go near these godforsaken morsels of hellfire, not least because I know what they’re made from.

Mmmm, doesn't that look good?