As is the now annual tradition, enjoy Stellarscope’s version of “Silent Night”:
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Saturday, December 25th, 2021Halloween Horrors: Omega Mart Commercials
Tuesday, October 26th, 2021Meow Wolf is a weirdo art collective underwritten by George R. R. Martin. The have an interactive art show called Omega Mart going on now in Las Vegas. Part of it is these not-quite-right supermarket commercials:
Halloween Horrors: Guy Plays Horror Video Game At Night, Alone, In Creepy Abandoned Tunnel
Monday, October 25th, 2021I’ve been watching a fair number of YouTube videos of survival horror video game play-throughs over the last few months. One reason is that there aren’t a lot of those games available for the Mac, and another is that most seem less like games than an exercise in wandering around until you trigger jump scares, and where your actions have almost no effect on the game’s outcome.
But here’s a video of a van-life guy who decided to play a horror game alone, at night, in a creepy abandoned tunnel, which really takes things to the next level.
The game he’s playing is Pacify, which involves burning evil dolls to lay the ghost of a possessed girl. (Note: If your business plan involves making your daughter a vessel for demonic possession, I’d advise going into another line of work.) I checked to see if this game was available through Amazon, but I bet it’s one of those direct steam sort of things. But would you believe there’s a coloring book for it?
Shoegazer Sunday: Slowdive’s “Slomo” (Domo Slomo)
Sunday, October 24th, 2021I think I posted a live version of this song, but not this album version. And as a bonus, this version features footage from the Domo Kun stop motion animated show, of meme fame.
Halloween Horrors: Transworld 2021 Show
Friday, October 22nd, 2021Here’s this year’s edition of the Halloween trade show.
Random notes:
Halloween Horrors: Mega Marvin
Saturday, October 16th, 2021Remember The Apprehension Engine used for creating horror movie soundtracks featured last year?
Meet the Mega Marvin:
It does look less ergonomically friendly for playing for long periods of time…
Halloween Horrors: Army Ants vs. Wasp Nest
Tuesday, October 12th, 2021Lots of people don’t like wasps. And even people who have no particular animosity toward ants are not wild about seeing hordes of army ants on the move.
Well, imagine waking up one morning and seeing a living rope of army ants attack a wasp nest on your house?
That’s gonna give some people the heebie geebies….
Halloween Horrors: Spiderpuppy!
Sunday, October 10th, 2021Just a short, amusing Halloween dog video:
Norm Macdonald, RIP
Tuesday, September 14th, 2021The great comedian Norm Macdonald has died:
Norm Macdonald, who has died at 61, was a comedic genius whose irreverence and inimitable delivery made millions of people laugh harder than almost anyone else could make them do—whether he was taking shots at mainstream figures (O. J. Simpson, the Clintons), constructing elaborate setups for impossibly simple punchlines (depressed moths, massacres in Vietnam), or saving dull affairs by subverting expectations (celebrity roasts and awards events, big and small). A private man who kept his nine-year battle with cancer out of the public eye, Macdonald occasionally showed flashes of a deep seriousness, expressing frustration with an increasingly intolerant popular culture and offering genuine insights in interviews and in an uproarious pseudo-memoir. But in the final analysis, he was a pure aesthete of jokes and one of the funniest people around.
Born and raised in Canada, Macdonald began his comedy career in the late 1980s. He was a frequent guest of late-night shows throughout the 1990s, with his appearances on Conan O’Brien in particular being the stuff of legend. His apogee of fame probably came between 1994 and 1998, when he hosted Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” segment—typically a stepping stone to a late-night show of one’s own—only to be fired by NBC executive Don Ohlmeyer for joking too much about O. J. Simpson, Ohlmeyer’s personal friend. Immediately afterward, Macdonald went on David Letterman, who asked how he had reacted to getting canned. “I said, ‘Oh, that’s not good,’” said Macdonald. “And I said, ‘Why is that, now? And [Ohlmeyer] goes, ‘Well, you’re not funny.’ And I said, ‘Holy Lord, that’s even worse news!’”
When I go looking for random YouTube comedy videos, Macdonald and Bill Burr are the two comedians watch most often.
There’s no shortage of great Macdonald clips out there:
Here's another clip of how great Norm Macdonald was at taking the most awkward comedy and making it so funny you couldn't help but laugh.
Norm is doing a bit about Steve Irwin (Crocodile Hunter) dying… 10 days after it happened. pic.twitter.com/bSP83bqQrg
— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) September 14, 2021
His standup routine on the last episode of Letterman:
The “I’m not sure if you’re a history buff…” intro gets me every time.
His sendoff to Conan O’Brien:
Bob Dole offers a classy tribute:
“Norm @normmacdonald was a great talent, and I loved laughing with him on SNL. *Bob Dole* will miss Norm Macdonald.” pic.twitter.com/gPsdyJ5tS9
— Senator Bob Dole (@SenatorDole) September 14, 2021
And Norm would have loved this tribute:
RIP Norm Macdonald pic.twitter.com/yVunOgXRQU
— Bruce In Key West (@BCinKW) September 14, 2021
Shoegazer Sunday: White Coal Addiction’s “A Project”
Sunday, August 29th, 2021White Coal Addiction hails from Belgium, and are described as “cold wave, post-punk and a touch of goth.” Researching “cold wave” lead me to a string of unhelpful, example-free Wikipedia entries, but it seems to be some sort of early 80s gloomy European Goth synth. Anyway, enjoy the moody “A Project.”