» 2008 » January

OK, this happened almost two years ago, but I only just found it, and it’s hilarious!

I’m talking about “Improv Everywhere“’s visit to Best Buy in NYC.  Around 80 people were all alerted to participate in the mission, with simple instructions:

In order to participate you must arrive adhering to a very specific dress code:

1) Blue Polo Shirt. Short sleeved. Any brand. Preferably with no logo. As Close to Royal Blue as possible. As close to this exact shirt as possible.

2) Khaki Pants. Any shade of khaki is fine. No shorts.

Cute …

Hasbro and Mattel try to preserve their copyright of Scrabble, asking Facebook to pull a cloned version of it, and within a day there’s a group with 13,000+ people on it all protesting.

Someone instructs people to go out and assault and kidnap people in wheelchairs, and the response is … crickets chirp.

You’d think there’d be more than a few angry posts on a handful of message boards to the latter topic, wouldn’t you? Or at least something a little more demonstrative. If people can get that hyped up over a game being pulled, you’d think they could at *least* put the same level of collective energy into protesting someone advocating violence.

Yes, I used the N word. I did it on purpose.

The United States football team for the Capital city itself is called the Washington Redskins.

That’s the same level of racial epithet as calling the team the “Washington Niggers”.

It’s got nothing to do with the racial makeup of the team, it’s about the team’s name itself.

“Redskins” is a word loaded with racist hatred, bigotry, and was commonly associated with the attempted genocide perpetrated on the Native American Indians by the white settlers.

I love the quality of grammar in the media:

WASHINGTON (CNN) — In first-ever tests for commercial airplanes carrying passengers, as many as three American Airlines jets will be equipped with a shoulder-fired missile defense system.

You just know some bright spark is going to have read this, and think there’s now going to be a way for an air marshal to stick their head out of the window to shoot a missile at someone/something.

The really frightening part? I bet someone could send a proposal in to the Pentagon suggesting just that and get a grant to investigate the potential!

What is it about the major studios that they assume that something being a sequel guarantees success even if the sequel is a total pile of horse shit?

I speak, of course, of Aliens vs Predator: Requiem.

Don’t worry, I won’t post any plot spoilers here. Mostly because that would require the film actually have a plot to begin with.