Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Best Week Ever

Best Week Ever

The Hardest Part Of Rollerblading Is Telling Your Parents You’re A Parrot

Posted: 22 Feb 2011 08:41 AM PST

This brave parrot performs at the International Festival of Cirkus Art in Prague.

Detroit Is Actually Getting A RoboCop Statue

Posted: 22 Feb 2011 07:41 AM PST

In a rare moment of internet pseudo-irony coming to real-life fruition, an online campaign has successfully raised $50,000 to build a RoboCop statue in the city of Detroit. Pete Hotlett, founder of Omni Consumer Products (the group building the statue), answered some critical questions about the Detroit Needs A RoboCop project and what the statue will look like:

Gun or no gun?

Again, going back to the reasoning along the same lines as the Superman statue. Superman has deadly heat vision, and he uses it when necessary, but the concepts and ideals that he stands for are not irrevocably tied to the use of deadly force.

Ummm…not to argue semantics here, but have you seen Robocop? He shoots literally everyone in the movie, including multiple gaffers, production assistants, and the “I’d buy that for a dollar!” What-TV-In-The-Future-Is guy. Building a RoboCop statue without a gun would be as pointless as building a statue of Wayne Gretzky without a gun. (If all statues had guns, there’d be no statue crime!)

In a perfect world, who would attend the RoboCop reveal statue party?

Not ED-209. He’s a total buzzkill. It would be incredible to have Peter Weller at the unveiling, as well as anyone else from the movie that wanted to attend. 2012 is nearly the 25th anniversary of the first movie!

Dude – ED-209 is dead. He’s obviously not going to be attending. Ever think maybe his robot family is gonna read this article? That’s pretty uncool. Would you also be like, “I hope Michael Jackson doesn’t attend!” See how insensitive that sounds? And that is a perfect analogy.

You can read the rest of the statue details at io9. It’s pretty exciting to live in an age where we can easily raise money to honor a fake vigilante cyborg from 25 years ago, but can’t even go to the moon. Wait, we did that. Carry on then! Just make sure Red from That 70s Show is nowhere near the unveiling.

Happy National Margarita Day!

Posted: 22 Feb 2011 07:30 AM PST

President Hagar!

Right on the heels of Presidents’ Day comes National Margarita Day! It makes zero sense that it isn’t a nationally recognized holiday. We should have today off from work*. Presidents work! [In this space make your own joke about Presidents not working.] Margaritas are for chillaxing with your bros in Cabo before your best bro’s wedding and just bro-ing out. That’s what we should be doing. Bro-ing out with margs. Instead, here we are, alone, pants-less, trolling the Internet, writing things we’ll later regret, which is what we should be doing after six or seven margs.

Well, it’ll be five o’clock at some point today, barring the Apocalypse, so IF YOU ARE OF AGE, go down to your local cantina and listen to James Taylor’s Mexico, NO BUFFETT, and ask for Cabo Wabo brand tequila with your marg. And then when you’re feeling appropriately saucy recreate this.

P.S. I learned that it was National Margarita Day when my friend who is watching the Hoda and Kathy Lee portion of the Today Show told me. Because OF COURSE they are celebrating it over there.

*On a personal note, I would have had today off from work to imbibe as many margs as I saw fit, but Noah decided to take skydiving lessons** today and stuck me with the blog.
**Noah is currently not skydiving. He is cave diving.

Happy President’s Day From The Olsen Twins And The Real Bill Clinton

Posted: 21 Feb 2011 08:37 AM PST

I’m playing this video on a loop every President’s Day from now til the day I die:
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