Category Archives: Weird

mano-a-mano, or is it just “mano?”

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Do y’all know Nick Pitera? You should. He’s rather a sensation over in YouTubelandia: not only is he cute, not only does he have a distinctive style of dress (someone said he looked like Waldo from “Where’s…“), not only is he in the final year of a BFA in animation, and not only is he a gifted baritone, but he’s also a gifted countertenor. He has, in the past, performed some Disney tunes, and if they don’t give him a contract before he’s out of school they’re not as smart as they should be.

Click to play Nick Pitera singing a duet with himself of Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men‘s One Sweet Day.

One small confession: I was actually going to post Shane McGowan and Nick Cave doing What a Wonderful World, but alas, YouTube won’t let me play any Shane vids tonight. Seems like an odd thing to have a conspiracy to prevent, but then, I have enemies in high places. Sure I do.

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academia is brutally competitive

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the communist pirates are for the liberal arts subjects and there are erudite dinosaurs for computer science

Wow, am I ever glad that I didn’t go for a grad degree! Of course, you could say that was involuntary on my part, although entirely arbitrary and in my opinion uncalled for on the part of the five institutions of higher learning which I attended.

Perhaps I should become a ninja? I found the hat:

Ninja Bunny Hat

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tombstoning with style

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Now this, ladies and gentlemen, is how not to tombstone:

A 25-year-old holidaymaker faces being permanently disabled after a “tombstoning” accident.

Police said the man from Sheffield sustained a “life changing injury” when he jumped into the water of the Isles of Scilly, 28 miles west of Land’s End…

The accident on Friday is the latest casualty resulting from “tombstoning” – jumping off cliffs, piers, harbour walls or other high points into water.

Across the country the activity causes about 200 serious injuries a year and claims about 15 lives.

And here is the late, great Merv Griffin to show us all how to do it right:

Merv Griffin’s Tombstone

“When Eva Gabor was still alive, she’d get up early at the ranch, and when I’d get up an hour later, I’d walk down to the stable, and every horse in the pasture would have red lipstick on it.”
Merv Griffin

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The Blog Song

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Do you think he wants us to check his blog? Proof positive that bloggers, no matter what their skin tone, cannot dance worth beans.

The only thing that could make this better is if he were wearing a short-sleeved shirt with that polyester tie. I wonder if that’s his real face or if those are Groucho glasses? I’ve always been partial to the MadV look, myself.

Only with tentacles.

hat-tip to TheAspiringHorseplayer

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quiz: how likely are you to eat your buddies

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NOT the way you’re probably thinking, if you’re as dirty-minded as most of my compatriots.

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Heartlessly stolen from CelebratingTheAbsurd, and, realistically speaking, somewhat lowball. All my friends are chubby and slow except Cybergypsy, who would never see it coming. Ah, he’s a vegan; he’s not worth the bother of killing anyway!