au revoir, Mad V: incorporated, but not forgotten

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So whatever conglomerate bought him out has been unable to get a single goddam thing done since May of this year. Fine. I don’t particularly take to heart a failure to capitalize on something. All that bugs me is that Mad V has been off the air, so to speak (and it is now no more than a metaphor) since May. And Mad V, in fact, rocks.

Mad V should be let loose to thrill the people; did you buy him just to put him on ice? What are you, some kind of gravitational monopolists or something? Who would prevent this man from doing his thing? If you didn’t know how you could use his thing, why did you buy him?

Any slave trader would have slapped you silly for that.

The Farewell Performance:

It’s been a great few weeks for me. What started off as a joke turned into a connection with so many people. After 4 weeks of going viral across the internet I’ve just signed a contract with a TV production company, and as a result, there can be no more MadV on YouTube.
I just wanted to say ‘goodbye’ in a meaningful way…
I can’t thank the fans enough – all the comments, the tributes, the dedication – you guys really are awesome.
I’ve learned a lot, and I hope some of you have too. It’s been fun along the way. If I could leave just one idea – it would be this:
We are all part of this world, so let’s respect one another. If you gotta be sayin something, say it nice. Don’t let the haters stand in your way. I didn’t. True!I’m off to new and brighter things.
Thankyou YouTube for creating the platform we can all dive off. Keep your chin up
Always
Thaniel (aka MadV)

Mad V mad gee tar skillz

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how dinosaurs became extinct

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The dinos never saw it coming

Betcha thought it would be that Far Side cartoon, eh? Naw, this is a photoessay from Momentary Lapses of Insanity. Click here for the whole, moving saga. That poor stegosaurus never saw it coming…sniff. This is truly the most tragic, wrenching photo essay on penguins vs dinosaurs it has ever been my sad duty to screen for you.

V for Reznor

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NINE INCH NAILS LYRICS

The Hand That Feeds


You’re keeping in step
In the line
Got your chin held high and you feel just fine
Because you do
What you’re told
But inside your heart it is black and it’s hollow and it’s cold

Just how deep do you believe?
Will you bite the hand that feeds?
Will you chew until it bleeds?
Can you get up off your knees?
Are you brave enough to see?
Do you want to change it?

What if this whole crusade’s
A charade
And behind it all there’s a price to be paid
For the blood
On which we dine
Justified in the name of the holy and the divine

Just how deep do you believe?
Will you bite the hand that feeds?
Will you chew until it bleeds?
Can you get up off your knees?
Are you brave enough to see?
Do you want to change it?

So naive
I keep holding on to what I want to believe
I can see
But I keep holding on and on and on and on

Will you bite the hand that feeds you?
Will you stay down on your knees?

and they call them stealth because???

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Stealthy, eh?

A Gothamist reader sent these in. I know the whole idea is that they’re invisible to radar, but they fly so slowly that they’re visible to the naked eye and vulnerable to the naked eye whose owner is also in possession of a cellphone.

Spy magazine did a brilliant article wherein they looked at other bomb delivery systems that could be had for the same money as one Stealth bomber; the most efficient was, if memory serves, 7,500 Cessna 172s. No airforce or artillery in the world could shoot down all 7,500 in time to prevent the bomb from dropping. And finally, a use for all those seized drug dealers’ planes.

Don't look! We're very expensively invisible!