Bizarre music video of the moment: Duck Sauce’s Big Bad Wolf.

It takes a lot to surprise me these days and this video surprised the shit out of me. The song itself is not particularly interesting, but the music video will have you wondering just what particular brand of drugs they were taking when they made it.

NOTE: This is probably Not Safe For Work because . . . → Read More: Bizarre music video of the moment: Duck Sauce’s Big Bad Wolf.

SEB Mailbag: Dear Unintelligent Mean Illegitimate child.

OK, I am a fan of at least this one pony.

I got a refreshing change in the SEB Mailbag the other day. In place of the usual poorly worded, barely coherent ranting I usually find there was a bit of fan mail that contained a Question of Utmost Importance! This is such an unusual occurrence that I thought I should go ahead and answer it here.

So . . . → Read More: SEB Mailbag: Dear Unintelligent Mean Illegitimate child.

Meme Time: 50 Random Questions About Me.

Via ***Dave:

1. What time did you get up this morning? 6:00 a.m. That’s standard for the Monday through Friday grind until August 17th when I’ll be switching to afternoon shift. Then it’s a crap shoot.

2. How do you like your steak? I’m sure I’m going to appall a lot of people with . . . → Read More: Meme Time: 50 Random Questions About Me.

Meme Time: Are you a hardcore atheist?

You’ve seen this sort of meme before. A list of things/items/places that you’ve done/own/visited where you boldface the ones you’ve done/owned/been to see how cool/nerdy/hardcore you are. This one is on atheism from the Friendly Atheist. I’ve added my notes where I thought they’d be insightful.

Participated in the Blasphemy Challenge. – I haven’t done . . . → Read More: Meme Time: Are you a hardcore atheist?

Let’s do a meme: Your “other” names.

Saw this on ***Dave’s blog and though it looked like fun:

1. WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s & father’s middle names): Jay Bell

2. NASCAR NAME: (first name of your mother’s dad, father’s dad): Clement… uh… it just occurred to me that I don’t know the names of either my paternal grandfather (he’s been dead for . . . → Read More: Let’s do a meme: Your “other” names.

Someone at the Statesman Journal is an Internet geek.

Just look at the headline they used for Obama’s victory:

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It’s always amusing to see Internet memes show up in mainstream institutions.

Found over at Neatorama where they have images of Obama wins headlines from a bunch of different papers.

 

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Time for a Quiz: What Breed of Liberal Are You?

This, of course, comes as a surprise to no one:

My Liberal Identity:

You are a Reality-Based Intellectualist, also known as the liberal elite. You are a proud member of what’s known as the reality-based community, where science, reason, and non-Jesus-based thought reign supreme.

Take . . . → Read More: Time for a Quiz: What Breed of Liberal Are You?

Pretentious List Time: 18 Things A Grown Man Should Never Have

I am a bit of a non-conformist by nature so articles like this one from Men’s Health that attempt to speak with authority on what some class of people—in this case Grown Men—should or shouldn’t have used to get my hackles up. I say “used to” because I’m finding that as I get older and . . . → Read More: Pretentious List Time: 18 Things A Grown Man Should Never Have

KPG says: “We are freaks.” And I concur.

There’s a very good entry over at SEB regular KPatrickGlover’s blog titled We Are Freaks. It’s about how those of us who spend way more time than we probably should on the Internet have all these inside jokes and memes we’ve been exposed to that the vast majority of people in the world haven’t:

Try . . . → Read More: KPG says: “We are freaks.” And I concur.

My score on Popular Mechanics list of “25 Skills Every Man Should Know”.

The guys over at Popular Mechanics are worried that today’s men aren’t manly enough so they’ve come up with a manly list of 25 manly things a manly man should be able to do if he wants to be considered a man.  I figured I’d list them off and figure out how manly of a . . . → Read More: My score on Popular Mechanics list of “25 Skills Every Man Should Know”.