Z.Monkey’s Blog

If you are bored watch a couple of videos of us playing hockey.  I have yellow socks.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YozOf2-r6Gg
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe-Q6YB9EbM 

I could say that going over to London gave me more of an appreciation for Soccer, but that’s not really true.  I may end up watching it more this summer… maybe even go to a game.  The Revs do play the galaxy in August…

Anyway, please watch this click and be amused.  It’s pretty spectacular.

Check out this video. The jumps between topics are rather nonsensical but extremely amusing. I was amused by the three sources of religious doubt.

Also, see the inspiration for the movie over at http://indexed.blogspot.com/. I subscribed to it because I think it’ll inject a bit of humor into my days.

Merry Christmas!

Merrier Christmas (this is the uncensored version).  Stupid censoring.

I little while ago the Scientist and I rented The Libertine with Johnny Depp. The story follows the extraordinarily debased life of the Earl of Rochchester (John Wilmot) 1647-80. I really wont go into it much (the poem below pretty much outlines the character). The only reason I bring it up is that I read through 3 or 4 of his poems for my Brit Lit course. I had thought the movie was a little over the top but after reading the poems I think it was pretty accurate. Here is one of the shorter ones entitled “Song”:

Love a woman? You’re an ass!
‘Tis a most insipid passion
To choose out for your happiness
The silliest part of God’s creation.

Let the porter and the groom,
Things designed for dirty slaves,
drudge in fair Aurelia’s womb
To get supplies for age and graves.

Farewell, woman! I intend
Henceforth every night to sit
With my lewd, well-natured friends,
Drinking to engender wit.

The give me health, wealth, mirth, and wine,
And, if busy love entrenches,
There’s a sweet, soft page of mine
Does the trick worth forty wenches.

The other poems were much more lewd, but this one shows his selfishness, his disdain for women and marriage, and his love for drink and young boys (I thought the page reference was fitting).  At the end of movie (his life), when he is dying of the French Pox Rochester “finds” God.  Which, I suppose, is supposed to be a moral lesson.  Perhaps, ‘A life without God (religion) is a life of sin’.  I have not found it so…

For more poetry of this sort click here.

According to some researchers the Daily Show has as much real news as CBS or FOX. This doesn’t really surprise me but it does clearly illustrate the problem with broadcom news, they have the same amount of news as a ‘fake’ news show.

It also demonstrates that the mainstream media may not be so mainstream anymore, and that people looking for in-depth treatments of newsworthy topics are often best served by looking in places other than the evening news or The Daily Show, no matter how funny the latter is.

Maybe it is time to stop using the TV to get your information!

Alright, now I don’t know japanese but I do not that this is funny.  It’s a TV tongue twister contest from Japan.

I have, for some reason, be quoting Golden Boy occasionally at work and I want at least one person there to know what I am talking about so I think it may soon be time to watch the complete set (all 3 hours!). The only problem is I have the series on VHS and I am afraid that my VCR will do what Maletas’s did (see image below). Fortunately the complete DVD set is only $18 (wasn’t $25 for each VHS? Nevermind!) so if I can only lay my hands on $18…

In case you don’t know the title of my last post is a quote from the series. Who here thinks the scientist will be amused by it?

Last Saturday my brother got married (huzzah for him, huzzah for Nikki) and somehow this video became the topic of conversation. The funnest part was when my dad, my uncle Paul, my cousins Josh and Dave, and my grandparents were all stand around the computer watching movies off of YouTube. The best movie we watched was this one about an exploding whale. (Make sure you have audio because the news report is what makes this awesome.)

Another thing that is really cool about YouTube (and I guess the internet in general) is that when you are sitting around with a bunch of people remember funny things you’ve seen on TV (or what not) it takes about 30 seconds to find clips online! I suppose I am awed easily.

Okay, if you watch Jeopardy on UPN38 you may have seen this ad for HeadOn.

“HeadOn… Apply Directly to the forehead.”

It is annoy as hell, because they repeat the catch phrase over and over and over again. Blah! It gives you a headache, which I guess is their way of making people want their product. Watch this one… it doesn’t give you a headache.

“HeadOn… Apply Directly to the forehead.”

Or if you are French Football fans.

“HeadOn… Apply Directly to the forehead.”