by Chris Barrus
Apocalypse Pooh was an early mash-up mix of Winnie The Pooh cartoons with dialog from Apocalypse Now. Piglet becomes fried journalist Dennis Hopper. Gopher is Robert Duvall. And the “fucking tiger” is, well, you know…
I was wondering if Apocalypse Pooh was available somewhere and behold – it’s on iFilm.
Scalzi points out the news story of the week.
Russia has sent in the army to bolster a week-long struggle to rescue 10 tons of beer trapped under Siberian ice, Itar-Tass news agency said Tuesday. A lorry carrying the beer sank when trying to cross the frozen Irtysh river, and a rescue team of six divers, 10 workers and a modified T-72 tank from the emergencies ministry have so far failed to save the load.
I’ve always heard rumors about CDs exploding inside ultra-high speed 48x and 52x CD-R drives because the CDs simply could not spin any faster. These guys go over the edge.
Edward Burtynsky photographs pollution sites, waste piles, and mega-sized civil engineering projects. The results are amazingly stunning.
Following the near-annihilation of the tiny island of Niue (.nu), the latest Viridian mailing from Bruce Sterling points to a fun Register article on the history of top level country domains and how barren and uninhabited places like Bouvet Island (.bv), Heard and McDonald Islands (.hm), and the French Southern and Antarctic Lands (.tf) received a top-level domain name.
Ummmm… Oops?
Archaeologists have admitted to having been made to look “very silly” after mistaking a 1940s sunken patio for a 9th century Viking village.
Fife County Archaeologist Douglas Spiers says his team concluded the slabs found in the back garden of a Buckhaven home had originally been hauled by Norse settlers from a nearby beach.
Even the discovery of a Second World War gas mask on the plot failed to deter them from their theory that this was the first evidence ever seen of Viking homes built on mainland Scotland, reports the Daily Mail.
It was only when the site had been completely cleared, and all the stones exposed, that the truth became apparent.
Saturday night was onion soup night. I used Rachael Ray’s recipe as a starting point also, but switched a lot of things around also. I skipped the sherry and used beaujolais as my reduction sauce along with my usual allotment of leeks and shallots in addition to the onions. The end result didn’t have much complexity, but what tastes were there were wonderfully strong. Nice full-on rustic soup:
I made a second bowl with a less oily comte cheese in places of the “grocery store grade” gruyere, and it was fantastic. Nothing approaching The Best French Onion Soup On This Continent, but a good start.
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If I were a Dead Russian Composer, I would be Sergei Rakhmaninov.
I lived in the early Twentieth Century and was well known for my compositional, conducting, and piano skills, yet I am melancholy despite this talent. My famous works include my nearly-impossible piano concerti.
Who would you be? Dead Russian Composer Personality Test
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L.A. Observed points to the LA Central Library’s collection of restaurant menus that go back to the 1870s.
I have a pretty dim view of suburban SUV drivers and some real disgust for Hummer H2 owners who have symbolically declared war on nature and civilization at 10 miles per gallon. There’s an implied “fuck you” message that H2 drivers are sending so it’s only appropriate that their message gets returned back at them. Enter FUH2.com (short for “Fuck You And Your H2”), which wants your pictures of you flipping off Hummer H2s.