there is no (zero) earthly reason for this to exist.

i’d also like to go on record and say that i believe lobotomizing young children for commercial purposes is almost always wrong.

i like bugs and so i often use the google to learn about them. i’ve been on a caterpillar jag for a while now. today i found this photo essay of the cecropia silk moth (hyalaphora cecropia) evolving from tiny egg to big fat pupa to big fuzzy moth. very simply done and explained, but i felt like i was watching a suspensful movie.

nature is very dramatic. clicky.

no need to search the forests, the deserts, the lakes, the skies or church…etsy has all of the mythical creatures you’d ever want to discover.

top left: mod sasquatch pendant by lookingforsasquatch

top right: godzilla vs. unicorn wallet by andrew bargeron for tinymeat

middle left: chupacabra doll by amybean

middle middle: jesus christ at the last supper coasters by jeanne’s craft boutique

middle right: wee nessie plush by katy kristin

bottom left: bigfoot magnet by pearsonmaron

bottom right: severed yeti head by aquakoala

step 1: post a poorly written, poorly cloaked ad to metafilter.

step 2:

step 3: profit er, get ripped 400 new ones by the sometimes deliciously hilarious antics of the mefi community.

my favorite comment:

Does anyone here know how many times you have to punch the monkey before you win the ipod?

I think my monkey is broken.
posted by ulotrichous at 9:05 PM on October 2

clicky.

In The Know: White House Announces ‘Everything Is Great In Iraf’

one of the only consolations to be found in the declining state of…everything…may be that while the world gets scarier and scarier, the onion gets funnier and funnier.

satirical, thrash metal, styrofoam-head wearing band gwar on joan rivers’ daytime talk show?

it happened!

oh, and seattle-dwellers: gwar is coming to showbox in november. enjoy!

from the wiki

In détournement, an artist reuses elements of well-known media to create a new work with a different message, often one opposed to the original. The term “détournement”, borrowed from the French, originated with the Situationist International

the family circus and nietzsche meld is randomized, but consistently brilliant. clicky.

here’s a détourned blondie comic that explains détourning! clicky.

finally, a treat called “can dialectics break bricks” which we’ve watched on video for years. it’s a détourned martial arts film that now focuses on socio-political critique. it’s absurd, very smart and so very funny.

one of my favorite scenes: over a dozen young and talented marshal artists in a courtyard, showing their skills, high kicking, breaking stuff with their hands and faces, jumping around expertly. their teacher approaches the front of the group, who fall into formation to listen to his wisdom. he looks to them knowingly and says “i would like you to remember that my karate teacher died of a bullet in the head.”

i love this film. and, now that we live in the future, you can read about it, or even watch it on the internets.

<thanks for the comic link, collin!>

here! i made you a sampling of etsy goodies, catagorized by the food pyramid.

see, at the bottom you got your wheat, grains, pasta, bread. above that are veggies on the left, fruit on the right. over the fruit is protein which is next to dairy, all topped off with grease and sugar! (science fun fact: grease and sugar are also known as “delicious.”)

by the way, this is based on the “old” food pyramid. why? because the new one is badly designed and i hate it. clicky.

i’m not usually a fan of your average mash up, this one got me good. fosse choreography is fascinating, but watching gwen verdon sync up with unk is hypnotic.