Mr T. says, “Get some nuts”

August 7th, 2008 | By Kelsey | No Comments »

A recent Snickers commercial has been banned because critics are claiming that it’s anti-homosexual.

Anti-gay? I don’t think so.

Anti-speedwalker? Yes.

Pro-funny? Definitely.

Decide for youself:

Inferring that all speed walkers are gay is like saying all guys that where excessive amounts of gold chains around their necks and earrings are gay. And even though Mr. T. is probably about 70, I pity the fool that questions his sexuality.

And in a somewhat related issue, here’s a drawing of Mr. T kissing Chuck Norris.

The Hobbit set to Led Zeppelin’s “Ramble On”

July 28th, 2008 | By Kelsey | 4 Comments »

One of my favorite songs about travel and one of my favorite books seamlessly merge into a boatload of major geekery. Enjoy:

What’s your favorite Tom Petty song?

July 8th, 2008 | By Kelsey | 4 Comments »

Mine is last dance with Mary Jane.

I’m off to see him in concert tonight in Cincinnati. Should be fun. I’ll scream like a school girl when he plays this song.

What’s with the corpse anyhow? I never quite got that video.

She grew up in an indiana town
Had a good lookin momma who never was around
But she grew up tall and she grew up right
With them indiana boys on an indiana night

For some reason I always think of Annie during that first verse even though she grew up in a town that was half in Indiana and half in Ohio, her good looking momma WAS around, and she’s not that tall. But she did grow up right, for whatever that’s worth.

Lazy Muncie Rap

June 25th, 2008 | By Kelsey | 8 Comments »

Forget about East Coast and West Coast rap. These fellas are bringing it straight to you from the Midwest Coast’s Rappin’ Capital of Muncie, Indiana, where I live.

The video is a response to SNL’s Lazy Sunday.

George Carlin on stuff

June 23rd, 2008 | By Kelsey | 1 Comment »

George Carlin died. He left a lot more with us than just a bunch of stuff, including this line on stuff, “There stuff is shit and your shit is stuff.” from this bit on stuff…

(found this clip on WorldHum)

Mrs. Butterworth,

May 10th, 2008 | By Kelsey | 1 Comment »

A “still boobless” Mrs. Butterworth has sunk to the level of Geico commercials. Sad. One has to wonder, if she had boobs would she be doing this? We’ll never know.

Blood, Sweat, and T-shirts

May 6th, 2008 | By Kelsey | 5 Comments »

When I was in Cambodia and China I heard rumblings about a BBC reality show/documentary that followed young Brits as they worked in a sweatshop in India. The first episode of Blood, Sweat, and T-shirts aired last week.

“I don’t understand. Why don’t you just go to night school.”

“There’s like Poo on the floor” in the slums of Mumbai

Cotton: A fashion revelation or “I ain’t carrying that!” or “Do I look like an ork to you!”

For more of Blood, Sweat, and T-shirts GO HERE.

Radiohead “All I need”

May 2nd, 2008 | By Kelsey | 3 Comments »

As part of MTV’s EXIT campaign to end exploitation and trafficking Radiohead has released a powerful new video.

Not that lead singers are any more qualified to talk about human rights and globalization than, say, drummers or butchers, but here’s what Radiohead’s lead singer Thom Yorke has to say on the subjects:

“(It’s) a video of two parallel stories running, one of a little boy in the West and one of a little boy in a sweatshop in the East, and the boy [in the West] ends up buying the shoes from the sweatshop. It’s actually quite powerful. It’s the sort of images I have in my head anyway. Sometimes when you’re walking down High Street and you’re looking at the incredibly cheap [sneakers], you sort of think, ‘Hmmm, well how did they manage to make that so cheaply?’ It sort of reminds me of one of my preoccupations, so I’m touched that the music goes with that. I think it’s great.”

“…if you are in the West, it’s a luxury to be able to talk about the importance of human rights for everybody, but yet in the East, or the poorer countries where slave labor is going on, if you talk to certain companies, it seems that it’s much more important that they’re on some sort of economic ladder, and somehow the rights of the workers are secondary to economic growth. And that I find a very peculiar logic, and I think that’s as much about the power of the companies and the profits they’re making as it is of any moral stance. So it would be useful when the West talks about human rights, they actually consider countries where, for a lot of workers, it’s not really on the agenda yet.”

Here’s the video:

A different kind of politician in Indiana

April 30th, 2008 | By Kelsey | 5 Comments »

A Flat World and a pie in the face

April 28th, 2008 | By Kelsey | No Comments »

The site was down this weekend, which is a convenient excuse for me not posting anything.

Anyhow, Tom Friedman, author of the World is Flat, recently got a pie in the face while talking about globalization and the environment.

Which leads me to ask this question: Is there a better way to promote your book than a pie in the face?