Something that caught my eye

Crew wins deadly pirate battle off Somalia

That is the first thing I saw on CNN.com

Not only does it mention pirates, it's kinda vague.
What crew? Was it warring pirates? Was it pirate hunters?

Could it have been ninjas....?

A Sherrif, Snow White, and Han Solo walk into a party....

Halloween is fun.

Best Mental Picture Ever

"They call it “Disney On Ice” because they put skates on Disney’s cryogenic chamber and roll his artificially preserved corpse around an ice rink for the public’s amusement."

From The A.V. Club

Job Job

Part of my job is to order supplies for the office.
(it's not supposed to be, it's supposed to be just my department, but that's neither here nor there)

Today someone ordered a color of paper known as (and in the catalog as) "Lick-Off Lemon"

Does that strike anyone else as odd?

We have vastly underestimated elepants...

....and will pay dearly.

Oh, what the hell, why not post the first video that pops up when I google "amazing elephant"?

Well, I still like him better than the new one...

You know, if I was the Pope and I got that sweet, sweet, ultra-heaven post-life deluxe tour package (cost: total devotion to catholicism and no sex ever), i'd totally show up in the most random places and fuck with people.


I still like him waaaaay better than this guy:

Pictured with his oldest brother.

(personal to melissa: the guy on the right is the bad guy from star wars)

I don't deserve to hold the remote

I was flipping through the channels the other night and I happened to stop on Mr. Roger's Neighborhood. Now, my watching him does require some explanation:
1.) I was kinda not sober
2.)It featured one of my most favorite things in the world, footage of things being mass produced.

I stop on this and it's him, the mailman, and a video letter of matchbox cars being made. The footage is from so long ago that the machines they're using have long since been replaced by robots. And there are people working on the line, I assume that by this point they've either been replaced by (or turned into) robots.

As the footage is playing, Mr Rogers (sounding like a bad Jack Nicholson impression, how did I never notice that?) and the mailman are talking about the toys. Mr. Rogers focusing on the kids who'll be playing with them, and the mailman showing off a really weird amount of knowledge about how exactly these things are made. All with soft piano jazz in the background.

I now realize the only thing I like better than watching things be mass-produced is watching things be mass produced with light jazz and gentle narration aimed at small children in the background.

Oh, and he picks up all of his toys at the end of the show. I respect that.