YouTube Tuesday: Vaderzilla

I caught this one on CNN over the weekend and it was so funny that I knew it would be on YouTube in a matter of hours. Who knew that anyone could get anything useful out of CNN?

I subtitled this one "EPISODE VII: Vader fucks with the wrong Japanese cop."

Enjoy.



tagged: YouTube, Tuesday, Darth Vader, Star Wars, Japan, movie, police, culture

Bradical on sabatical?

I received this comment in a previous blog post:

hello
I visit your blog because your location is in kansas and please you can help me there is a blog www.bradicalmindspew.com from kansas city i visited this blog since more than 1 years and few days ago i try to visit but since that i can not i dont know why if you can go and see and try to visit if itis a problem from my computer or other thing you understund if something heppned to your favorite blog
thank i a from algéria north africa and i have 22 my name is nabil
i will visit your blog in few
days thanks
my e-mail mohamed07dz@yahoo.fr

Assuming this isn't some kind of phishing or spam post, I'd like to help mohamed07dz out.

So, anyone know what happened to Bradical Mindspew? I tried his link and and was taken to some kind of file tree. How 'bout a little help here, KC bloggers.

UPDATE: Yeah. The idea isn't to be some kind of stalker site. Just trying to determine if he started a new blog or gave up blogging for Lent or what. Obviously, we're not trying to "out" anyone.

tagged: blog, Kansas City, Bradical, help

Acrophobia

Xavier, the Hip Suburban White Guy, is freaking out about the new skywalk exhibit planned to open at the Grand Canyon.

I must say I was stoked when I first saw the photos and drawings for the Skywalk, which the Hualapai Indian tribe plans to open this year.

But at 3,800 feet in the air, I can see why the more acrophobic might get a little queasy. Maybe it's best to keep your leisure activities a little closer to the ground.

Hey Xavier, how about a nice friendly game of tennis:


tagged: Grand Canyon, Skywalk, acrophobia, Dubai, Agassi, tennis

KGB Roundup for May 15

Thanks again for eveyone who submitted posts for today's Kansas Guild of Bloggers roundup. We've got another slate of excellent blogs from last week.

So let's jump right in...

• Diane Silver advises non-violence with The ammo box or the ballot box? posted at In This Moment.
  
  
• LadyGunn gives us a Yummy Recipe at LadyGunn.
  
  
• Paul Decelles reports on the ID/Evolution discussion at theforcethat.
  
  
• Josh Rosenau presents New monkey genus posted at Thoughts from Kansas.
  
  
• J.D. joins in with a Mother's Day tribute at Evolution...
  
  
• ...As does Carolyn over at A Prairie View.
  
  
• Wichita Mamma blogged about a Mother's Day road trip.
  
  
• Cara has a question about one of her favorite buildings at ...Just Cara.
  
  
• Joel Matthis gets some confusing fan mail at Cup O' Joel.
  
  
• Thanos warns about drilling for oil in the Gulf at Noblesse Oblige
  
  
• Caleb gets a new friend at Caleb On Assignment.
  

And the Honorary Kansas Blogger for this week...

• Golfwiddow turns a clever line at the Ministry of Silly Walks.

There it is. As always, there are many more excellent blogs than I have time to link to, so if I've missed anything please let me know and I'll link to it.

Also, be thinking about posts you can submit for next week's KGB Carnival. If you're interested in hosting the carnival on your blog, let me know and we'll set it up.

So until next Monday, cheers!

tagged: Kansas, blog, blogger, carnival, KGB

You and me and the KGB

I know it's early (6 o'clock in the morning where I am), but I want to raise my Friday drinking glass to those who have submitted posts through the Blog Carnival submit link for Monday's KGB roundup.

This will be the fifth KGB carnival I've hosted, and I've received some great responses, like this one from Joel Mathis at Cup o' Joel:

Hey Emaw:

Thanks for the work you do with KGB. Speaking only for myself, I feel like it's helped create and strengthen whatever strands of community exist among Kansas bloggers. And I'm grateful to have been mentioned, because it gets my stuff seen outside Lawrence. (That's ego-driven, I know, but I can't help myself.)

You do good work. Thanks again.

No, thank you Joel for participating. And thanks to everyone else who submits and reads posts.

Let's keep working to make this the best damn Kansas blog round-up in Kansas! Help get the word out by posting a link to the KGB blog carnival submit page. Send an email reminder to all your friends and neighbors (at least the ones who write/read blogs).

Don't forget to submit your own post as well, or you can email your entry to emawkc@gmail.com. Remember, deadline is 3 p.m. Central on Sunday.

Also, if you have a nominee for the Honorary KGB Blogger of the Week, send me the link along with an envelope of "cannolis" to assure your nominee is the winner.

Thanks again everyone. See you on Monday!

tagged: Kansas, blog, blogger, carnival, KGB

Three's a crowd

Last night I was looking for some quick news updates on a certain topic (that I won't go into here) so I flipped over to CNN.

I didn't find what I was looking for, but I did see that goober-with-two-last-names Anderson Cooper. He was doing a show about polygamy. Turns out polygamy is a pretty big deal in Utah (who knew?) and Canada -- even though it is technically illegal. In fact, according to AC, polygamist "prophet" Warren Jeffs is on the FBI's top 10 most wanted list.

I find this all interesting since my (only) Supermodel Wife and I have been watching Big Love, a series about a family of polygamists, on HBO.

I have to ask after watching that show, why the heck would anyone want more than one wife?

But upon further reflection, I could see how having multiple wives would be a good way to break up the monogamy.

tagged: Anderson Cooper, mariage, Big Love, HBO, politics, humor, polygamy, monogamy, Canada, Utah

Welcome to the nanny state

The passage of the recent Kansas state law enacting a minimum age for marriage has been a blogger gold mine.

Its generally regarded that Kansas was long overdue for such a law, that only a backward hillbilly civilization wouldn't have a minimum marriage age.

Which leads me to think that I might be the only one who believes this kind of law is just a bit on the ridiculous side. I mean, is this something that is such a huge problem that it requires a state law? Really, is there an epidemic of 12-year-olds tying the knot?

When lawmakers should be focusing on important issues such as education funding and naming the official state reptile, aren't they trying to fix a problem that doesn't really exist?

Don't most people know better? Do we really need to legislate common sense? Does it require an act of congress to get people to use their freakin' brains? And where are the parent's of all of these marrying minors?

So now that we are a step closer to a full-fledged nanny state, here are a few other laws that we desperately need:

• All persons above three (3) years of age must wipe their asses after every #2. Subsection (a) All males must lift lid of toilet before urination.
  
  
• Residents of the state of Kansas shall not jump off a bridge merely because their friends also jump off bridges.
  
  
• All state residents are prohibited from employing the use of cheese graters to shave off their nipples.
  
  
• The legal blood-alcohol limit for wrestling with alligators shall be no lower than 5.08 percent.
  
  
• Within the legal boundary of the State of Kansas, all people must use the magic words "please" and "thank you" when requesting and receiving objects and/or service or they will have to go to bed early without desert after supper.

tagged: Kansas, mariage, law, politics, humor

Wrong way

I was on a message board the other day, discussing the possibilities of a mid-term Democratic landslide in the upcoming elections.

The question was posed:

"How the hell did Kerry lose? How could ANYONE have lost against Bush?"

My answer was thus:

"The Dems lost last time because they ran on an "Anyone but Bush" platform. They have a golden opportunity with the upcoming elections. What I worry about is that they will again focus on personality and blame instead of proposing solutions.

Wrong message: "Those guys screwed up the country, vote for me."

Right message: "Let's reign in spending and do (fill in the blank) in Iraq. Vote for me."

I bring this up, because it looks like at least a segment of the liberal voters are already losing focus.

Many bloggers today are referring to a column penned (keyboarded?) by the Washington Post's Richard Cohen detailing the "digital lynch mob" that attacked him because he found no humor in Stephen Colbert's recent performance at the White House Correspondents Dinner.

This is bad news for the Democrats. They shouldn't be attacking each other based on pop culture criticism. They shouldn't really be attacking anybody.

They should be formulating a decent and workable proposal to put before the electorate.

The majority in congress is theirs for the taking, unless they snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

tagged: politics, Richard Cohen, elections, Washington Post, Democrats, culture

Nerd humor

Received this morning from my Supermodel Wife:

Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says, "I've lost my electron," The other says, "Are you sure?" The first replies: "Yes, I'm positive."

tagged: science, nerd, humor, pun, electron

YouTube Tuesday: Double feature doggy style

You know those goofy videos that get passed around through email and links? Well that's what YouTube was invented for.

So today, I'm posting not one but two videos that have recently invaded my inbox.

You dog lovers should dig this: Two videos of dogs doing crazy shit for our entertainment.

This first video actually is really amazing. This dude taught his dog to ride a skateboard... a FREAKIN' SKATEBOARD!



And, if you need more canine capers, watch this video mashup.



Update: Sorry to disappoint all you who were looking for porn... cheeky monkeys.

tagged: YouTube, Tuesday, dogs, pets, skateboard, movie, video, mashup, humor