Archive for the ‘video’ Category

Inchworm Video & UNHOLY BEETLE OF DOOM! (oom…oom…oom)

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

I’m taking a break from the usual postings of geekery and humor to post a few pictures and a video of the wife and I playing with an inchworm we found outside. Forgive the mouth breathing and what sounds like a faux-British accent. Also, yes, I am aware that I sound like kind of a d-bag when I contradict my wife on camera.

Also, my wife inadvertently shows off her Tool/Alex Grey-inspired wrist tattoo. Psychedelic hard-rockin’ tattoo high five!

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Wow, that’s a pretty good camera we’ve got. It’s a Canon PowerShot A590-IS with special Decepticon sticker on the side that I custom installed myself.

Anyway, we went to return the little guy to his grassy home outside and, upon turning back to enter the house, we encountered this… UNHOLY BEETLE OF DOOM.

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Holy freaking kaw, this thing was ornery and big. All clicking and buzzing and spitting. I don’t know what banana box the UNHOLY BEETLE OF DOOM crawled out of, but he barred our way back into the house. I knew I had to act quickly, so I frantically searched my brain for just the right monster-conquering quote.

“It’s time to kick ass and chew bubblegum,” I said with a sneer, “and I’m all out of gum.”

The wife rolled her eyes so hard that it made a sound. I grabbed a rake, picked up the DOOM-BEETLE, and launched him Evil Knievel-style over a far fence where he landed within reach of my neighbor’s dog, which was promptly eaten by the beetle.

No fake!

Hello, What's This Then: Hidden Zombie Twitter Tale

Saturday, October 17th, 2009

While adding Bonus Links to my previous blog post about the zombie cake on Flickr, I stumbled across this video…

The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks by Max Brooks

Well, as the video was loading on my somewhat-less-than-blazingly-hyperfast DSL connection, it halted a few times to buffer. One of the frames that it just so happened to stall on, approximately 36 seconds in, was this one:

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At first, I thought to myself, “Do my eyes deceive me or is there a Twitter URL in that pool o’ blood?” I rewound the video and then, stupidly, I took my glasses off to get a better look. (“Stupidly” because I actually see better with my glasses on.)

There was! There was a hidden (sort of) Twitter address in the book’s promo video!

I decided to do a little sleuthing (actually, I just typed the URL into my address bar) and came upon a Twitter page which told a brief tale of a girl who goes hiking at Joshua Tree and ends up… well, here. Take a look at Sharon Parson’s Twitter page.

Seriously, I live for this shit.

Sexy Humor Comedy Time Garden.

Monday, July 6th, 2009

I am, generally speaking, loathe to post videos from other places on the ‘intertubes’ here on my blog (if only because there are so many blogs out there that seem to do only that and nothing otherwise constructive or of value) but I got quite a laugh out of this little clip, so I say nuts to me, I’ll break my own damn rule.