Well hello gang. Hope you have had a wonderful day and are ready for a relaxing and possibly intoxicated evening. Tonight I have a very special (and by that I mean weird) movie for you. This is 1973’s Invasion of the Bee Girls. This involves a mad scientist and women who are genetically altered to kill my men by oversexing them to death. Hot! This is why the 1970s were the greatest decade in American history. Enjoy.
Have a wonderful night.
As most of you know, we usually have a post every Friday night where we all overshare pictures around a central theme. That is, we did. Until this week when we forgot all about it. Sorry about that. Things have been a little hectic around here. So in the spirit of better late than never we are presenting our first Photo Saturday.
It’s all pretty simple. Here are the rules, and here are the Dogs of War Photo Tips.
To put a picture into a comment you will need to host the image somewhere. Personally, Imgur has worked well for me, but you can get them from anywhere. A warning that photos hosted on Facebook should probably be saved elsewhere. Facebook’s new image viewer makes it very hard to get to the actual photo. Images you have on another site need to be the actual image file and not the page that contains them. The files in in .jpg, .png, .gif or something like that.
In the comment box tell us a little something about the picture and then include a link as follows.
<img src=”http://somewebsite.com/yourimage.jpg” />
If you don’t include any text with your image then it will be put in the approval queue and a mod will have to approve it.
This week’s theme was suggested by Bens, who pretty much always has good ideas. For this week pick your favorite piece of music art. It can be an album cover, a poster, or a t-shirt. It can be your favorite record or band, or can have some sentimental value. Load the picture and give us a little explanation of why you like it. Here are two of my favorite albums from high school and they both have the kind of punk rock art work that I loved.
I was cooler than all of you in high school. Anyway, share yours in the comments. Again, sorry for the oversight.
Today we sit on the couch watching Penguins of Madagascar and eating Girl Scout cookies whilst perusing medical news related to obesity.
Does adding sugar to virtually every processed food contribute to obesity? Consumption of added sugars (sugars not naturally occurring in foods) has increased along with BMIs over the last 30 years says an AHA study. Does this correlation equal a causation? Epidemiologists say likely. Big Sugar says no.
Too little sleep makes you overeat. More evidence that adequate sleep is important. This lines up with other studies that show lack of sleep (often related to shift work) can contribute to obesity and diabetes. The 20 pounds I put on working nights confirms the hypothesis.
Religion has been linked to obesity in young adults. It’s not clear what the causative factors are. I suspect Peggy Hill’s Frito Pie. Stick with the Lutefisk, but don’t light a match in the bathroom.
A University of Missouri researcher has found a plant fat that may help reduce deep belly fat that leads to the health complications of obesity. Hopefully it won’t cause anal leakage like the last time we got our hopes up.
And finally, Eric Cartman was right.
Hi gang. So it looks that some of you are still ready to bring on the soft rock pain. However, the other post is so full of videos that it is difficult to load and navigate. To make this easier I am going to open this new thread so people can continue to play. All previous entries and points will be considered in the final judging which will be tomorrow night.
Remember, the rules are simple.
Post the most teeth-grindingly bad light rock videos you can find. Your peers and fellow competitors will vote (by fonzing) for the most awful videos.Bonus points for home-made videos that add an extra layer of fail.
At the end of the weekend the video with the most fonz points wins all of the internet gold and bad taste bragging rights. Here are a couple stand out videos from yesterday’s round.
Good luck warriors!!
I’ve seen the LA skyline from just about every possible angle and elevation. The city core has freeways that run on all sides of it and when driving by at the wrong time of day motorists are often going slow enough to be able to appreciate it for a time. When landing by plane LAX is far enough from downtown that you can see it as you approach and get a good perspective on it. It’s not that LA is best known for it’s city skyline, but it’s not known for having an unattractive one.
If a group fronted by Hanjin owned Korean Air gets its way the Los Angeles skyline will begin to resemble Las Vegas with all its glitz and tackiness. The plan is to build a 45 story hotel and adjacent 65 story office building and festoon each with an array of computer controlled LED lights that could form moving images of stars, butterflies and anything else the building management can think up. The project is budgeted at $1B.
The bottom 10 floors would show advertisements while the floors above 10 would show images. To make things worse the top 10% of each building would use the lights to display the major tenants and building owners’ names. It’s not uncommon for a major tenant to negotiate signage rights but the familiar names on buildings do not often scroll by in a stock ticker fashion.
The new buildings would be built where the Wilshire Grand Hotel now sits. The ground level advertisements would look like this:
The whole thing will just end up looking like a 13 year old’s MySpace profile if this is the direction things go.
Images: AC Martin and Christopher A. Joseph & Associates
Source LA Times.
Hello peasants! I thought you might be interested to know that ever since the earthquake hit Japan, the very rich have been getting very serious about looking into their options for survival should all this earth shaking signal the beginning of the end. 12/12/2012 is just around the corner, and a lot people seem to be betting that those crazy Mayans could be right.
Bunker-builders, of which there are far more than I imagined, have reported huge increases in sales of high-end shelters in the past few weeks. We’re not talking drab 50s fallout shelters with dull concrete walls and cans of tuna fish. We’re talking style. So that when the dust settles, those with enough money will emerge with gold ingots in hand, well-rested, well-fed and ready to repopulate the world.
If you’ve got the big bucks, a company by the name of Vivos has already started selling spaces for a group-style bunker in Nebraska that will provide relatively opulent autonomous living for 900 people for a full year. Below is a rendering of one of the common spaces, and you can check out their extremely creepy video here: Vivos 1012 Underground Shelter
If the apocalypse lasts longer than a year, of course everyone in there will be screwed, but for those first 365 days, “members” are assured access to such luxuries as a wine cellar, pet kennels, dental and medical facilities, private living spaces, even a bakery! The place is bigger than a Wal-Mart, but is free of those annoying seniors greeting you at the door.
And the Nebraska site is just one of a network planned around the United States.
The cost to secure your little piece of heaven buried deep under the earth will run up to $50,000 per person, depending on the location. All things considered, it’s not much if you really want to see what 2013 will look like.
But if you’re not into hunkering down with 899 strangers, a company called Hardened Structures offers underground condos that house up to 200 in a series of their “Genesis Pods,” also scattered around the states. If that’s not cozy enough, you can get something all your own: they recently completed a private 100-bed bunker in the Adirondacks for a mere $90 million.
What? Don’t have an extra $90 million lying around? Feeling left out? Not to worry, as even you can be saved. Those industrious folks at Popular Mechanics have researched an affordable low-cost alternative in an article titled “6 Safe, Strong – and Chic (!) – Bomb Shelters You Can Buy Now.” I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling totally reassured.
Here’s KI4U’s adorable “Mini Blast Shelter,” priced at a ridiculously low $3,200 (delivery and installation extra). I know most of you are already salivating, but if you’re hesitating for any reason, just picture your neighbors turning green with envy when they see this beauty being offloaded onto your front yard.
Although it’s nothing more than a modified section of road culvert, it arrives as the pic says, “ready to bury!” According to company owner Shane Connor, “it’s cramped and it’s uncomfortable. But when something nuclear happens, and it’s inevitable, it’s better than the alternative.” I’m not so sure about that. If you’ve ever shared a small, enclosed space with my partner, the gaseous Mr. Karma, you might think otherwise. However, beggars can’t be choosers.
If you live in an apartment you’re shit out of luck, but lots of people with backyards in places like East Bumfuck seem to think something like this is a great idea.
Looks like fun, no? Don’t forget, Popular Mechanics says it’s chic, and they should know. Besides, peasants, it’s only $3200 and let’s face it: the only “wine cellar” you’re going to need is a place to put those bottles of white zinfandel you’ve got chilling in the fridge.
Note from BadKarma: If I can muster the energy, this will be one in a series of articles discussing ways I’ll be spending the PowerBall Megamillions I plan on winning in the not too distant future, apocalypse notwithstanding.
Happy Saturday! Hope you are having a great day. Here is the reason that Generation X has failed so completely. Fucking hippies. If you have never seen Sid and Marty Kroftt, I recommend a bong hit first.
And this is what happened:
Have a great day.