Tragically Unhip

German, that is.

From travors:

“Comic: Garfield ohne Garfield
Garfield allein war schon witzig. Aber Garfield ohne Garfield ist noch viel mehr. Die völlig unverkaterten Bilder, die der Ire Dan Walsh auf seiner Garfieldminusgarfield-Website zeigt, beweisen: Die wahre Präsenz liegt in der Abwesenheit.

Review of G-G on a German newspaper site. Which is nice. Um… I think.”

Translation:
“Garfield only was quite witty. But Garfield without Garfield still is even more. The absolutely unhung-over pictures which the Irishman Dan Walsh on his Garfieldminusgarfield website shows prove: The true presence lies in the absence.”

I gotcha back, bro.

…and a few zeros.
Driving home last night at high speed, not watching the road, snapping a picture of my mileage because I thought it was a nice round number.

Dangerous? Highly. But no danger’s too great for my reader!

“Holocaust denier is included as Benedict attempts to mollify traditionalists.
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI has lifted the excommunications of four traditionalist bishops, including that of a Holocaust denier whose rehabilitation sparked outrage among Jewish groups.”

Ah, this guy just gets better and better!

Not much more to say, really.

From TPB

In 1986, Peter Davies was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from Northwestern University
On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air. The elephant seemed distressed,so Peter approached it very carefully.
He got down on one knee, inspected the elephants foot, and found a large piece of wood deeply embedded in it. As carefully and as gently as he could, Peter worked the wood out with his knife, after which the elephant gingerly put down its foot. The elephant turned to face the man, and with a rather curious look on its face, stared at him for several tense moments. Peter stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being trampled. Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly,turned, and walked away. Peter never forgot that elephant or the events of that day.
Twenty years later, Peter was walking through the Chicago Zoo with his teenage son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures turned and walked over to near where Peter and his son Cameron were standing. The large bull elephant stared at Peter, lifted its front foot off the ground, then put it down. The elephant did that several times then trumpeted loudly, all the while staring at the man.
Remembering the encounter in 1986, Peter could not help wondering if this was the same elephant. Peter summoned up his courage, climbed over the railing, and made his way into the enclosure. He walked right up to the elephant and stared back in wonder. The elephant trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of Peter legs and slammed him against the railing, killing him instantly.
Probably wasn’t the same elephant.

Well, I have yet to find a good review of the up-coming Bruce album. I have yet to listen to the snippets available on his website without cringing.
It’s released in a few days. I guess we’ll see then.
I loved Magic. A lot of people didn’t. But I did, I thought it was his best albumj in decades. I thought it was a fine, strong set of songs and the band rocked hard and tight on them. But this album sounds to me exactly what it is: an afterthought. Bruce wrote an additional song at the end of Magic, and rather than file it away, decided to write another album. I reckon that says it all, really.
Still, I don’t want to make up my mind based on reviews and snippets so I’ll post back on this when it comes out and I have had a chance to soak it up.
I know you’re waiting with bated breath.

Ok MS. Here is your problem. This is why you have such a bad image. These guys right here.
Is it really necessary for them to address me like I’m 8? They can’t even introduce themselves without sounding rehearsed and wooden.
I can’t find any version of this I can embed so just click the image to watch the video.

Might as well give them both t-shirts saying “I’ve never seen a naked woman”

This is cool. Test your visual accuracy.
Here are my scores; I did better than I would have thought I would. Sweeeet.

Here is the site.

You’ll either get this or you won’t…

Via travors

This made me happier than I would have thought any piece of business-related news ever could!

“Tom Barnett, assistant attorney general for antitrust at the US Department of Justice was signaling not just that the Google-Yahoo deal was dead but that the government saw Google as a potential monopolist. It was a stunning blow. Now the company, whose brand is defined by its “Don’t be evil” slogan, faced the prospect of being hauled into court on an antitrust charge.”

More here.

I really hope Google get busted down. I am sick of their “we’re all just dudes here” face while they practice monopoly-building business behind the smiles.