Gentlemen...

...here's to crime!

Relax, you internet cop people! I'm going to buy the real thing this week. Thanks to Captain Hook for the disk!

Bad Guy Tai Lung

UPDATE: Seriously, though, today (Sunday, oddly enough) is the official release date for Kung Fu Panda on DVD and Blu Ray. This is a beautiful, imaginative, exciting movie full of memorable designs, set pieces and thousands of beautiful moments and touches. I strongly recommend Kung Fu Panda, and I'm buying my own real copy today. There's a second dvd sold in a two pack that seems to tell a completely different story.

The film has a great celebrity voice cast too. Amazon has the widescreen two-pack for 22.99.

Tail Lung does not actually hang out with Po the Panda and his other friends.
This is terribly inaccurate. I hope someone got fired for this.

This is more like it. This is Po, Tigress, Mantis, Monkey, Viper and Crane.
Notice the absence of homicidal maniac snow leopards.

Shepard Fairey Obama Victory Stickers at MoveOn.org

And they are lovely.

It's Not Over!

So, apparently he's not going to run with Palin next time. (koff!)

Hello? Is this thing on?

/meh. I didn't think this was that clever either, but what do you want for free?

Too Good- One Of My Favorite Exchanges From Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen, 1986

So, Walter "Rorschach" Kovacs is speaking to his prison psychiatrist, and he says...

"Stood in firelight, sweltering. Bloodstain on chest like map of violent new continent. Felt cleansed. Felt dark planet turn under my feet and knew what cats know that makes them scream like babies in night. Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Born from oblivion; bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion. There is nothing else. Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It’s us. Only us. Streets stank of fire. The void breathed hard on my heart, turning it's illusions to ice, shattering them. Was reborn then, free to scrawl own design on this morally blank world. Was Rorschach. Does that answer your questions, Doctor?"

-more Watchmen quotes by Alan Moore.

Ta Daaa! The Trailer For Pixar's Up!

Proposition 8

What happened to you California? You used to be cool.

Now look at you. You remind me of Arkansas, for Christ's sake!

Popeye Ball Toss

The headline seems like a specialty of a brothel somewhere in the Philippines* but it is, in fact, a toy from the sixties. I found the picture on Ebay.ca and I post the image here to showcase the expression of pure, exhausted resignation on Popeye's face. It's as if the whole ball toss thing was a court-ordered public service and P the S is just beginning his six-month sentence.

*and for all I know it is.

The New Age of Truthiness

Mary W. found this sign posted at her local Rite Aid, so naturally she stole it, scanned it, and sent it around!

Good work, Agent W.

Dog Bites Man- Breaking News!

From the Huffington Post.

Election Night In A Single Image

President Barack Hussein Obama

Nicely done, sir. Congratulations everybody!

While You Are Waiting For Change

Save your quarters and play Super Obama World!

Death Be Not A Prick- Barack Obama's Grandmother Dies At 86

On the eve of her grandson's victory over evil, Barack Obama's grandmother has died. She won't get to see him wrestle the wheel from Dubya's mitts in January and she won't see him return a burnished glow to the country that made him great. Madelyn Dunham lost her fight with cancer last night. Charmingly, Obama called her "Toot". Incidentally, Madelyn voted three days ago and yes, her vote will be counted.

If you see Death anytime soon tell him I'm looking for him.

It's NOT A DONE DEAL YET, People! You Have GOT To Follow Through and VOTE!

Vote your ass off! A few weeks ago Barack Obama himself said that getting too confident was dangerous. He said something to the effect of "we can still blow this, people!" He's right! And it's not enough to just win. It's got to be a fucking LANDSLIDE, so those pricks can't steal it again. A close election is a vulnerable election.

Just think of all of the dirty tricks, bullshit and chicanery we've had to endure from the McCain Palin campaign-in-the-ass this year alone. I won't list it all, but most of the stuff listed on this website came from the McCain handlers' fertile minds.

Think of Sarah Palin's wink. Joe the Plumber. The Muslim smears. The Christian card that no real Christian would recognize. The racist nazi rallies Palin's been holding in Florida and elsewhere. Just think of the last two months of suffering with the idea of Sarah Palin making world shaking policy decisions as the president. You've suffered enough, people. VOTE! FOR GOD'S SAKE VOTE! If it takes all day, VOTE! If you know people who don't drive/have cars/need any assistance whatsoever-regardless of their political beliefs or affiliations, get their butts in the booth!

VOTE YOUR ASS OFF TOMORROW! Report any tomfoolery you see to the authorities.

This is an election that will save lives here and abroad, it will save American homes and jobs and improve life in every sector of society (I guess not the stinking rich, but we were going to eat them years ago anyway).

So, in summary: VOTE! Worry about tomorrow today!

UPDATE: As if to prove my point, this just in:
Link to the news story

Donkey Kong Jenga

Here's a clever little idea. A mashup of Donkey Kong and Jenga. I'd like one of these myself. When you're not playing it, you could just admire it for its beauty alone.

I found this on Neatorama, but you can get one here.

Palin suggests U.S. is at war with Iran.

From ThinkProgress.org:

Palin said:

We realize that more and more Americans are starting to see the light there and understand the contrast. And we talk a lot about, OK, we’re confident that we’re going to win on Tuesday, so from there, the first 100 days, how are we going to kick in the plan that will get this economy back on the right track and really shore up the strategies that we need over in Iraq and Iran to win these wars?

In the comments section on the thinkprogress link, one wag calls Sarah Palin "Caribou Barbie", which I liked a lot.

Halloween Witch Tricks Obama Voters' Kids

Shirley Nagel of Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan.

My mistake. Here's a real picture of Ms. Nagel from a more reliable source, the HP.

From the Chicago Tribune:

2:55 PM CDT, November 1, 2008

GROSSE POINTE FARMS, Mich. - A woman in the affluent Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe Farms has doled out political tricks by refusing Halloween treats to children whose parents support Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Shirley Nagel passed out candy Friday, but only to those who shared her support for Republican presidential candidate John McCain and running mate Sarah Palin

Television station WJBK says a sign posted outside Nagel's house, about 10 miles northeast of downtown Detroit, served this notice to trick-or-treaters: "No handouts for Obama supporters, liars, tricksters or kids of supporters."

Nagel tells WJBK that "Obama's scary." When asked about children who were turned away empty-handed and crying, she said: "Oh well. Everybody has a choice."

The Associated Press left fax and phone messages Saturday at numbers listed in Nagel's name.

Utterly disgusting.

Update: There is a video!

One of her former students posted a video detailing the kind of teacher she was. This is hilarious. It seems to detail why she was fired from her job, too.

Magic Pants

McCain Ad Endorses President Obama

Some call this the "worst political ad ever". McCain is actually spending money showing how reasonable Obama can be. This ad is said to be actually helping Obama with centrists and moderates. GENIUS!! Yas, yas!



Fiendishly cleva, old man! Most unexpected!