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Last week, I ate scrapple. Scrapple is not what you think it is. Unless you already know what is it. I can tell you it has nothing to do with apples. Or spelling games. Scrapple is pig scraps. Basically, ground up left over pig parts, formed into a loaf, pan-fried until brown, and fed to you. What parts could possibly be in there? They leave that fairly ambiguous. The package reads, “May contain pigs’ head, liver, heart, snout, feet, tongue, and other pork trimmings.” This is enough to make any stomach quiver. But if I’m going to eat blowfish, owl, and panda, I had to forge ahead with snout. Scrapple has history, man. According to Wikipedia, Scrapple is arguably the first “pork food” invented in America. How bad could it be? It’s breakfast meat. Name me one bad breakfast meat. Can’t be done.

That scrapple was greased up, fried up, and served with my eggs. Let me tell you something – It wasn’t that bad. I felt myself getting fatter and pinker though. Have you ever felt your arteries clogging? I could actually feel my arteries attempting to work and failing. It’s no wonder this country has an obesity problem if we’re inventing shit like this. Scrapple is like corn bread except replace the corn with ‘meat’. It breaks apart fairly easily. If it weren’t fried, it would just be tiny ground up meat and spices. Yes, it was edible. No I will never have it again. It makes me wonder though if eating that many miscellaneous pig parts is good immunization against swine flu. I suspect yes. Afraid of needles? Eat scrapple.

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I just read that Lee Redmond, a woman in the Guinness Book of World Records for her long fingernails, was in a serious car accident on Tuesday. During the accident, her record-setting fingernails were shorn off. It is reported that she hadn’t cut them since 1979. Luckily Redmond, though still in serious condition, did not receive life-threatening injuries.

Here is my appeal to you Ms Redmond. Do not re-grow your fingernails. This is a blessing in disguise. The past 30 years have given way to a slurry of technological advancement, not seen since a steam engine powered the Industrial Revolution. I’m presuming you have family? Watch in amazement as this thing called a “cell phone” dials that niece you haven’t spoken to in years. You keep it in your pocket and bring it with you everwhere!

They now have a vast array of networked computers they’re calling the “World Wide Web”. There you’ll find a “website” called Facebook. While on Facebook you can keep up with old friends or tell people what you’re up to by typing “status messages”. Remember typing?

Be amazed that you can pick up things with your 10 digits with little to no effort at all. Lee, this really is for the best. And hey, while you’re at it, why don’t you get a new haircut to go along with your newly shortened fingernails?

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We’re winning! Revel in it ladies and gents. Boeing recently announced that they have successfully shot down a highly sophisticated Unmanned Aerial Vehicle; using a laser! Robots! Lasers! Side note, doesn’t it feel more appropriate to spell Lazer with a Z?

Humans 1 Robots 0

It should be noted that this was done without the aid of John Conner. A noble accomplishment. We’ll still need his help if we’re going to win this thing, but it’s a good start. Once Skynet is turned on, this is going to be a lot more difficult. Throw in the fact that soon the we’ll all be held captive by a neurological simulation while those very same UAVs use our bodies as batteries, and you start to realize that we should really relish this victory.

Also, according to the picture… this also coincides with the return of the dinosaurs. Bonus!

http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/26/first-shot-fired-in-war-of-robots-vs-humans-with-lasers-were-w/

Take that you aluminum scum!

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Be prepared to be sick to your stomach. Stamina Pillows are a new take on a very old problem. Here’s an invention that is so simple in it’s design and execution, you wonder why we’re just seeing these now. These pillows are simultaneously brilliant and vomit-inducing!

Linens designed to increase a man or woman’s stamina in bed by offering pictures of horrifically ugly people embroidered right on them. The idea is that you look at these and instantly lose any mojo you may have had going. Kind of like thinking about your Grandma naked, minute men.

What started as an ad campaign for Durex Performa condems turned into something far more than they expected. Durex had to print hundreds more of the stamina pillows because they were such a success.

Quite frankly, these things are so disgusting they could easily spoil the whole affair. I’m truly scarred by these images.

This link is slightly NSFW
www.popgive.com

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Condition 1 weather. Terrifying. I always thought it would be interesting to be a research scientist in Antarctica. Not anymore.

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This is scary. This animated map shows the growth of Walmart from one feeble store in 1962 to well… the frightening, all-consuming beast it has become today. The only thing that approaches the fear I get when walking into a Walmart, is the fear I get from walking into an IHOP. It’s Middle America at it’s biggest. And that scares me.

I don’t like their policy on censorship. Being a creative, I think it’s pretty unfortunate they censor art. Especially when so many people go there to shop. Who do the Walton’s think they are?

What it really boils down to though, is that Walmart dilutes the neighborhood. Millions of Randy Marsh’s enter Walmart each day to feast on their low prices and one-stop shopping. Destroying local business in the process. I’m sure people around this country think that getting a Walmart in their town is a good thing. “Honey, we’ve finally made it! *tear* Walmart is coming to town!” That’s not making it lady. It’s just a big, giant installation of Middle American consumerism.

No offense to Middle Americans, but you scare me. With all your mullets and your pickups and your whiteness. Have I generalized enough?

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The post X-Mas comedown. It’s over. New Year’s came and went. The chain of events that started while passed out on a couch watching football on Thanksgiving- finally ended with an emphatic thud today. Since NYE landed on a Wednesday this year, many businesses closed on Thursday AND Friday. Giving everyone another long 4-day weekend. And I’m exhausted.

With my beloved tree lying lifeless on the curb, today was the first day back to the real world. Or at least it should have been. But last night, as I prepared myself for a new year at work, I heard the sound of footsteps in the hallway of my apartment building. Heavy footsteps. Lots of them. I opened the door to see what was the matter and find attached to those footsteps are 6 or 7 Firemen. They move past my door to the floor above. Gas masks and oxygen tanks in tow. Clumsily bumping into the hallway walls with their bulky appliances. My next door neighbor has come to her door to check out what is going on.

When they come back down, they explain a carbon monoxide detector was going off upstairs. They’ve turned off the gas to that apartment. We’re all safe. Rest easy.

That is… until the gas company shows up.

About 45 minutes later, the gas guy, or a gentleman whom is a master of the gaseous arts, knocks on my door. With his gas sniffing doo-hicky… “Hello.” It instantly beeps.

He says, “Oh, it’s coming from this apartment.”

As he walks towards my bedroom the thing in his hand goes off like it’s had a pair of Red Bull Vodkas.

“It’s coming from YOUR boiler.”

He goes to my water heater which resides in a room inside my closet. (I call this my Panic Room.) He discovers the flu that vents carbon monoxide to the outside, has rotted away. -rotted away- CO rises and it was rising right into my neighbor’s apartment upstairs.

“That guy was lucky. That CO detector saved his life. He would have died tonight.”

Cozy.

How, you ask, has my water heater come to such disrepair? I have no fucking clue. But I know that I was almost responsible, at least in part, for killing the nice gentleman who lives above me. I’ve had the building maintenance guy and the gas company here on a number of occasions regarding the smell of gas. (The most recent being New Year’s Eve!) No one seemed to take notice of my rotting water heater? It makes me angry.

I’ve made several resolutions this year. The standard eat right, do more exercise one of them. However today I’ve decided that in the new year… I’d like to savor more. I’m so quick to consume that I’ve forgotten how to really enjoy a moment. It is a resolution that is infinitely scalable whether it be a book I’m reading, food I’m eating, or the smile on her face. I feel this has the potential to improve my existence more than anything else this year.

Here’s to a fresh start. Happy New Year.

That's an old ball.

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We should have been listening to Al Gore wayyyy before An Inconvenient Truth came out. If there’s any doubt that global warming is real, please take a look at the temperature outside today. High of 65 degrees. December 10th. 65 degrees in New York City. Can’t blame it on El Niño anymore.

I really hope that Al has Bam’s ear and that he’s receptive to environment and climate issues. It’s no longer something our kids are going to have to deal with. We’re dealing with it right now. Please take steps to lower your carbon footprint people. Though this website can often come off as apathetic, this is something I truly believe in.

Excelsior!

We have to do something now.
I don’t know when I’ll see snow again.

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This is quite possibly the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard.

You can’t make this stuff up. Apparently, the city of….. Batman, Turkey is suing Christoper Nolan and Warner Bros. over the use of the Batman name. They are alleging that the success of The Dark Knight is responsible for a series of unsolved murders and has caused an increase in suicide among women in town. Which all seems like an afterthought since the jerk-off mayor, Huseyin Kalkan, is quoted as saying…

“There is only one Batman in the world, The American producers used the name of our city without informing us.”

A little late for that pal. Like almost 70 years too late you dink. See if our favorite orphan will rid your city of scum now. No, they are not saying there are copycat Joker crimes. Or anything directly related to any Batman plots. Because they for some reason named their town Batman, they think they are now entitled to cash. All this is is a disgusting money grab. Batman, Turkey should be ashamed of itself.

Read on MSNBC.com

Please someone tell me this is a hoax and restore my faith in humanity.

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I had a lot of fun with this. This is an interactive web movie about zombies where YOU make the decisions. It’s a Choose your Own Adventure! Your mission is to survive the outbreak. This also proves conclusively that if we were ever involved in a zombie infestation, you need to get as far away from me as possible. I managed to exhaust all possible outcomes before I was able to save myself.

Turn out the lights….
http://www.survivetheoutbreak.com/

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