Day: July 23, 2010

You Missed It: I am your father edition

Welcome to the end of yet another week. If you have not melted or died of dehydration, then you don’t live on the East Coast. July is always hot here, but this year is worse than most. So much so that I must shower when I get home from work. Did I dress myself again before writing this? That’s for you to ponder. If you were busy getting knocked around your plane by extreme turbulence, odds are you missed it.

The Dark Side compels you to give me all your money, no ink bags
A man dressed as Darth Vader robber a bank in New York this week. Boy, this Comic Con fever is getting into everyone these days! Wait, let’s try this one again. You say: Did you hear Darth Vader held up a bank? And I’ll answer back. Go! … Darth Vader held up a bank? Where did he use the force to put it back down?

Why does anyone live in coastal Louisiana anymore?
Tropical Storm Bonnie made landfall in southern Florida today, it’s predicted to move right on into the Gulf of Mexico, which, you know, hasn’t seen much press lately. By Saturday it could be right over the oil patch. As a precaution, work on capping the well has been stopped temporarily. Come on, Mother Nature, we’re trying to work with you, here.

Here comes more country on the Top 40 stations
Taylor Swift’s first single off her new album “Speak Now” will be released in mid-August. It will be her third album ever released. In other news, Taylor Swift is on her third album? When did the second one come out?

Take that, Jäger stag!

Whenever our War on Animals and Booze News coverage intersect, the results are usually tragic, though still hilarious.

Fortunately, this story has a happy ending.

And “happy ending” is a fitting description of The End of History, a limited edition beer from Scottish company BrewDog. The beer itself is 55-percent alcohol and each bottle is inside of a stuffed animal.

Not Winnie-the-Pooh-stuffed animals. Taxidermist-stuffed animals.

Unfortunately, if you hoped to snag one to toast the end of the War on Animals, you’ll have to pry it out of the cold dead hands of some beer snob collector. The £500 bottles sold out within hours.

We can only guess his name is Richard

Warning: the story’s link may be Not Safe For Work. Click at your own risk.

What’s oblong, in different colors, found in car parks, and not really that impressive?

Answer: the latest “crime spree” in East Sussex. Need a hint on what the story’s about?

He added: ‘However, from what we’ve seen, if this is a self-portrait, the artist won’t be in a hurry to be identified.’

Maybe the air in East Sussex is just cold like the water?

Undying spirits and capitalism

Hard times in America mean for a call to arms for all entrepreneurs. In California, one homeless man answered that call.

A 29-year-old man saw that one of the bars he used to work at closed down. So he went across the street, bought some beer, then opened the doors and made some money. Apparently, the place was doing well until a local newspaper ran a story about the bar reopening and a police detective recognized the “owner’s” face.

[via Consumerist]