Showing posts with label odd. Show all posts
Showing posts with label odd. Show all posts
09 January 2010
This is your 8-year-old mind on drugs
Seriously. Imagine being a kid in 1978 and licking several tabs of acid while snuggled in your Star Wars blankie. This is what you'd envision. Even the gay French guys at the beginning.
11 October 2009
15 June 2009
McDada's
The Blue Man Group invents the fast food window slingshot, the french fry Mohawk and other fun stuff.
05 December 2008
01 November 2008
McCain says ENHANCE!
Nothing like getting a bizarre spam email mixing CBS News, Canadian drugs, hot nurses and the GOP nominee in a surreptitious sales pitch for some bogus Viagra knockoff made in China. I of course immediately placed an order using the name "Todd Palin." Click to enlarge (get it?)...
30 May 2008
01 April 2008
Gravelter Skelter
The latest video from '08 Libertarian White House candidate Mike Gravel begs the question: Is America ready for an acid-dropping Shatneriffic president?
23 January 2007
Principality of Sealand up for sale
Sealand, a celebrated micro-nation off the English coast consisting of a platform on two cement columns in the North Sea, is up for sale. Well, not for "sale" per se; since Sealand is a "principality" which cannot be technically sold, its present owner will "transfer custodianship."
Sealand has a fascinating history which is a testament to the stubborn insistence of its creators that it is indeed a sovereign nation. The UK learned that the hard way when, in 1975, Sealand founder Paddy Roy Bates "repelled a British Navy assault by firing warning shots from his principality."
The website PirateBay.org recently tried to purchase Sealand, but Bates declared he had "no intention of selling his micronation to any cause that violates international treaties," which is ironic since Sealand was "once home to [his] pirate radio broadcasting operation."
2007 marks the 40th year since the founding of Sealand, making it one of the (if not thee) oldest micronations in the world. It's certainly older than the minicountry Hamperia, which I've just now declared, consisting of my laundry basket and the square yard surrounding it.
Sealand has a fascinating history which is a testament to the stubborn insistence of its creators that it is indeed a sovereign nation. The UK learned that the hard way when, in 1975, Sealand founder Paddy Roy Bates "repelled a British Navy assault by firing warning shots from his principality."
The website PirateBay.org recently tried to purchase Sealand, but Bates declared he had "no intention of selling his micronation to any cause that violates international treaties," which is ironic since Sealand was "once home to [his] pirate radio broadcasting operation."
2007 marks the 40th year since the founding of Sealand, making it one of the (if not thee) oldest micronations in the world. It's certainly older than the minicountry Hamperia, which I've just now declared, consisting of my laundry basket and the square yard surrounding it.