I saw this sign yesterday outside the Monroeton Fire Department on US 158 west of Reidsville…
Thanks to Richard Moore for getting the pic!...
“State Wide Burning Band”
Something I’ll never post on this blog and actually MEAN it…
“Look for the complete and factual account of the Viacom incident on this web page in the near future. The account has been delayed due to pending litigation.”
Yes, even now, I can’t resist having some fun with this situation 🙂
There is a massive update coming on this, and hopefully in the next few days. In the meantime, if you’re a reasonably long-term reader of this blog you’ll no doubt “get” the above joke....
Charlie’s Soap commercial on YouTube
Charlie’s Soap is a locally-produced item that’s been available here for quite awhile. It’s now fast becoming known all over the place as a substance that will clean anything (“…from false teeth to diesel engines” as the label says) while being very friendly to the environment. Here’s a pretty hilarious commercial for the stuff that I found on YouTube:
Ron Price and Lord Voldemort: THE SAME MAN?!
Over the weekend I was re-reading through parts of the Harry Potter books and something really scary crossed my mind. It turns out that there are numerous striking similarities between Harry’s arch-nemesis Lord Voldemort, and disgraced Rockingham County Board of Education member Ron Price (the admitted thief and loather of public participation).
Consider…
– Lord Voldemort has no friends. Ron Price couldn’t find a friend or relative who would hold his Bible as he was being sworn-in for the school board.
– Lord Voldemort conned many people into thinking that he was a charming man. Ron Price conned many people into thinking that he was a “conservative” Christian.
– Lord Voldemort is fixated on himself and sees everyone else as a potential threat. Ron Price is fixated on himself and has said that “I’ve learned who my opponents are and who will work with me.”
– Lord Voldemort and Ron ...
TV preachers who cuss up a storm
Remember a few weeks ago when we discovered that VH1 was featuring my first school board campaign commercial on its show Web Junk 2.0? Well, during that same show there was a… strange… clip showing a preacher on some local community access TV station. And he was swearing like crazy! It was like every two or three seconds, VH1 had to bleep out what he was saying.
Here’s the full video…
Filipino convicts perform Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”
Can’t embed this YouTube video so you’ll have to click here to watch it. It’s just what the title says: 1,500 inmates at a prison in the Philippines dancing to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”.
Yes, this is for real. Here’s a story from the BBC about it, which is part of the exercise regimen that a security consultant came up with for the prisoners.
Thanks to Marc at Bmovies – who never fails to amaze me at the stuff he locates on the Internets – for finding this 🙂...
The movie SPEED is about to start on FX
Funny story about that movie …
My sister Anita and I went to the Brassfield Cinema to see Speed during its first week in theaters. It so happened that we saw it on June 17, 1994.
Does that date ring a bell?
So we went to Greensboro and saw Speed and we got back later that night a little before 10 p.m. local time. Anita was telling Mom and Dad how great a movie it was. I thought it was terrific too. While Anita was talking about it I turned on the TV in our living room to see what was on.
Not ten minutes after we got back home, CBS interrupted regular programming with a breaking news report. The very next thing we saw was a closeup shot from a helicopter of a white Ford Bronco driving down some highway in California.
That’s always made me laugh: that ...
Chris as a SIMPSONS character, Part II
About a month ago I showed what I would look like as a character from The Simpsons. That pic was courtesy of The Simpsons Movie website.
Then Darth Larry spotted another site, this one a promotional one run by Burger King called Simpsonize Me, also a tie-in with the new movie. But with this “you as a Simpsons character” thingy, you upload an actual photograph of yourself and the website does most of the work for you. Then all you have to do is fine-tune it with a variety of mouths, noses etc.
(Is it just me or is Burger King running some of the best movie promo sites lately? Their gimmick for Revenge of the Sith a few years ago was downright … spooky.)
So I uploaded the photo I used for the newspaper ad from my school board campaign and after “tweaking” it a ...
300 a’la The Simpsons
Audio from the 300 trailer mashed-up with footage from The Simpsons TV show and movie trailers …
“Read a Harry Potter book for Jesus!”
This is either a very clever statement, or I have crossed a terrible, terrible line …
The “Read a Harry Potter book for Jesus!” t-shirt. So what’s the story behind the inspiration for this latest bit of mischief? I’ll admit that part of it is because as a Christian, I don’t have a problem with the Harry Potter books. But also because it really hit me earlier today, while going through a certain portion of the book Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, that there is an amazing use of scripture toward the end of the book. It’s not directly quoting from the Bible, but it’s a wonderful depiction of the nature of God.
It’s toward the end of the next-to-last chapter of the book, “The Lost Prophecy”. I was finding so many Bible verses that reflect what Dumbledore is saying there, that I literally lost count ...