Lieberman Socks.

Hitler reacts to Ohio State's loss to Purdue

Ricky Gervais and Elmo

Thanks to Gerard for the tip to this video on Receive Bacon:

The Aftermath

Obama v McCain - The Dance-Off

That One v.2

A VTK and TPS Collaboration:



I've been bested:

"that one"

My favorite part of tonight's debate:




David Brent.


from kos:

Lebowskifest 2008 - San Francisco

Your Venerable Typing Krafwerker is safely back on the East Coast after two great weeks in Northern California. I went to work on some art projects and hang out with friends MCSmackdown and AKBoognish, and let me tell you: it's good work if you can get it! What the fuck do I care about the market crashing? I live below the federal poverty level and I'm jetsetting (jetbluesetting (love that direct tv for 6 hours)) all over the country. The majority of the time was spent up in Napa working on the art projects, hanging with MCSmackdown and his heart-melting 4 year old daughter, and eating like a king from his garden, his 15 chickens' fresh eggs, his tasty wine, and his phenomenal cooking. (Also, the weather in Napa? It's like completely cloudy and 60 every morning (got up around 8), then completely "not-a-cloud-in-the-sky" blue sky and 85 by 10:30. Then clear starry nights and 55 by 10 PM. Every day was like that. Great climate this time of year.) Sandwiching my great and productive time up in Napa were a few nights in San Francisco with Mr. and Mrs. AKBoognish and friends, their hospitality and good times. I've been debating whether to blog about the art and shenanigans of the predominant Napa time or what I think you'll find most entertaining, what happened to be going down the weekend I flew out there: The San Francisco Lebowskifest.


I think it's a fairly safe assumption that most of the readership of this blog will have seen The Big Lebowski, the now cult classic Coen Brother's movie. Most of you can probably quote it like an old Monty Python movie at this stage. The Cult of the Dude is alive and well ten years in. In fact, it was alive and well four years after the movie came out, when the first Lebowskifest occurred in Louisville KY, and the Star-Trek-Conventiony, Rocky-Horror-Picture-Showy, White-Russian-soaked event has exploded over the last 5 years and is now staging fests all around the country. There is usually a movie viewing, bands, a bowling event, trivia, and costume contests. There are special celebrity guests from time to time (including one appearance from Jeff Bridges which he later called his "Beatles Moment"). A common "celebrity" is the original Dude, the inspiration for the character, Jeff "The Dude" Dowd. Just imagine the rock-star status he enjoys at these fests. Here he is, flanked by two of the Dudes we were hanging out with:


I got into San Francisco too late for the first night's concert/movie viewing, so we settled for the costume bowling party on the second night. We fashioned "Jesus" inspired bowling outfits out of some jumpsuits that AKBoognish had, met up with his friend (above left) who had a good "Dude" look going (complete with rug to tie the room together), mixed up 2 thermoses of white russian mix, and headed off to the alley. As we waited in line, we met some guys who were dressed up as Jackie Trehorn's party guests (complete with a blanket that they used to hoist up their full inflated and sexy blow up doll), some nihilists, and a top notch "dude" who said his name was "Dog" (above right). We ended up bowling with Dog and a couple other TBL enthusiasts (one who had an official "Achiever" t-shirt and one who had an official Tampa Bay Devil Rays jersey that had "The Dude" stitched on the back (this was no costume - he actually purchased this. I was impressed)). It was a great crew and both Dog and the Devil Rays Dude have their photosites/blogs linked to from the official Lebowskifest recap of the SF event.


The evening was general madness. There were two bars devoted strictly to serving white russians. The human body is not designed to have double digits of the caucasian cocktails. It's just not. (it's definitely not designed to have a few glasses of wine on top of that) But it was a blast. I don't have any of the AKBoognish photos or videos on my laptop, but here are some I culled from the websites linked from the main site. Be sure to check out the Devil Rays Dude's blog entry, which includes a video that has AKBoognish and I doing our Hotel California Bowling Ball shining impersonation.


yeah. And a few more I found online of us in our costumes:





and some other costumes that you might recognize:











and finally:


"You see? You see little Larry? This is what happens when you ..."

Mascot Fail

I was wasting time today on failblog.org and came upon their video of Mascot Bloopers. The Houston Rockets' mascot is AWESOME.

Happy Sixth of July - FAIL.

Does that look like me? That doesn't look like me.

Thanks to everyone who came by for another thrilling Hot Dog Ho Down on the 4th. The Teo's mini-dogs were a hit and the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Competition didn't disappoint either. For those of you who missed it, the chowfest went into OT for the first time in modern history. The gristled veteran Kobayashi and the defending champion upstart Joey Chestnutt both scarfed down 59 hot dogs and buns in the (shortened) 10 minute regulation time, forcing the extra snack. The OT was not "sudden death" as we had hoped; it was a "first to five" dogs format and the American hero, Joey Chestnutt, took home his second consecutive Mustard Belt about a half dog ahead of the waify Japanese phenom. As usual, the Ho Down fed into the afternoon sporting activities: year one brought World Cup matches, year two brought me missing field goals at the park, this year brought a Yankees Red Sox game on the 25 year anniversary of Dave Righetti no-hitting the Sox. Not as lucky this time, but still fun. Beers and laughs were had. N-Lo claimed that Meatloaf's son makes a "Dan Nolan" face in that phone commercial. Clearly not true, but everyone seemed to get a kick out of it. Funnier to me was the website Alex alerted us to: failblog.org. If you find stupidity and physical comedy endlessly funny like I do, you'll love this site. It's a supremely simple concept. I may be very late on finding out about failblog, but if you are too, enjoy:









there are hundreds of them. and some video compilations:





funny stuff. I love it.


p.s. Congrads again to my Spanish reader(s?) on their sporting glory: what a match between Nadal and Federer. And sorry to my Swiss reader(s?).

Hillary's Logic

Oh, I'm just not sure I can describe how much I enjoyed these, so I'll just thank Daily Kos for tipping me to John Cole's Balloon Juice who tipped me to Coudal and pass them along:














also, I have a new favorite website: schadenfreude.net

The Funniest Song Of All Time

from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia:



Day Man.
Fighter of the Night Man.
Champion of the Sun.
Master of karate and friendship, for everyone.

Thursday YouTube Posting Frenzy?

It would appear so. I'm really procrastinating today. So, I thought I would check what's out there in a rare but popular VTK genre: the Japanese gameshow. (with a shout out to Jeannette, who is now immersed in the land of saki and sushi).

You're going to think you're done watching this after about 45 seconds, but power through that and watch the whole thing. It's more of the same, but it doesn't get old. Treadmill Madness:



Human Tetris:



And something you could never get away with in the US (twist at 2:40):

I just want to request a song!

A British radio prank on a caller (which I got from World Soccer Daily):



they talk funny.

VTK Alert

Official VTK Alert: the funniest show on television is officially back on the air on FX: It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia. I just watched the double season premiere and it's as HI larious as last year. Get on it.

If you've never seen it, here's and exclusive preseason episode from myspace. Enjoy.

This is a bit much for a prank.

I checked out my sitemeter counter today and it seems as if hardly anyone actually reads this blog with any regularity, so I don't feel too bad about copping out and republishing another site's post, which was borrowed from still another site. This is a prank that a guy from collegehumor.com played on his friend, in which he put up a fake marriage proposal on the big screen at Yankee Stadium and the jokee's girlfriend said yes before either of them knew it was a prank. Deadspin ran the story and was convinced by the other pranks on the site and an interview with the joker that this was real:



harsh. but funny.

ah, Bill Murray

As in life, with Bill Murray, it's all in the details. In Groundhog Day, it was the little flash of his fingers as he steps in front of the truck trying to kill himself. There's a gem in this funny skit from Will Ferrell's funnyordie site, tipped by N-Lo (via valleywag). It's 9 minutes long, but worth it.

So gold is long and thin, like, say, Kareem Abdul Jabbar

I've a touch of a hangover so I'm playing one of my allotted VTK cop out cards. Also, the pop culture think tank known as The Duffless Foundation is back with a vengeance and deserving of a link. Check out their posts on a Fantasy SNL Cast (fuge and duffless) and their Worst of SNL List. Well done, DF. Nice trilogy. Started off a little dodgy with fuge's omission of Phil Hartman, but came around in the comments section when he made amends.

NSFW

Going to want to put on the headphones for this one. I believe I may have to go see this movie:

Why I'm Weird

genetics? My dad at the annual 4th of July parade (this year's theme: Star Wars, May The Fourth Be With You):