I tracked down the source of the animated gif in Nooooooo! to the trailer for a film called Italian Spiderman. I can’t believe that I never saw this before because it is pure and unadulterated awesome without commercial interruption.
Spiderman, Spiderman, does whatever a cigarette smoking, fat guy with a mustache can…
The Italian Spiderman Trailer
Background: Although the trailer looks like authentic, low budget Italian cinema from the 1960’s or 70’s, Italian Spiderman was actually created as a film school project by Dario Russo in 2007. At the time of the trailer’s creation, the film that it advertised didn’t actually exist, and it was only after gaining traction on YouTube that Russo secured financing to create the forty minute film.
Parts one through ten of Italian Spiderman are available for your viewing pleasure on Dario Russo’s YouTube Channel, and they are as corny and craptastic as they are awesome.
First came Vince and the ShamWow. Then came the Slap Chop. And now, ladies and gentlemen, we have the Cock Shot. Listen to Lance: Stop having a boring nut shot. Stop having a boring life.
For some reason, Dyers seem to have limited options for successful career choices. I’m not sure why, but as far as I knew, the only successful paths for Dyers were book writing (like Dr. Wayne Dyer), Leather store owning (as in Dyer Leather), witchcrafting (ala Mary Dyer), and beard growing (hello). While computers and heavy metal have always factored in, I always thought of those as lifestyle choices with benefits rather than career choices. Thanks to Myles Dyer, the vocalist behind the video below, I can now add “heavy metal farmering” to the official Dyer career list.
I’m not into advice columns and stoner humor doesn’t work with as much as it used to, so it’s interesting that I’d find a stoner video advice column so interesting. I don’t know if it’s because it’s a new twist on the stoner formula or because the questions are so off the wall, but even my short attention span made it through all ten minutes.
This SNL skit is a couple of years old, but I just saw it for the first time a few days ago. I didn’t think that it was hysterical when I watched it, but since then, I’ve been randomly bursting out with “Blizzard Man… 1995″ or “We. Rap. All the time. Oh, we are so good at rapping!”. Once you’re done watching, I have a question for you…
You know what happens if Vulcans don’t mate with in 8 days of going into heat? They die. It’s a little known fact that Spock would occasionally rely on his human side to sail through the pon farr by heating up The Enterprise with the wheels of steel. Don’t hate the playa. Spock might’ve been the biggest pimp in the known universe, but his life depended on it.
When I started researching skin cancer, it was merely to provide a few interesting facts to surround an interesting skin cancer video that I had seen on Current TV. Unfortunately, the more I looked into it, the less clear cut the information from the National Cancer Institute and World Health Organization became.
Both organizations know that skin cancer comes from the sun, but they refute a lot of what I thought was common knowledge. It seems that the only way to avoid skin cancer is to stay out of the sun, but in the summertime, this can be almost impossible if you aren’t a blogging hermit (such as yours truly). Considering that skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States and accounts for a third of all cancer diagnosis worldwide, I’m amazed at how inconclusive the prevention information is.
What I Thought About Skin Cancer
Wearing sunscreen will protect me like an anti-cancer shield.
Skin cancer is easily treatable like chopping off a mole.
Tanning salons will greatly increase the risk of skin cancer.
What I Found Out About Skin Cancer
It is not known if avoiding sunburns or using sunscreen lowers the risk, but studies have suggested that unprotected exposure to UV rays from tanning beds and sunlight and can increase the risk of skin cancer.
Vitamin D, which is naturally produced by exposure to the sun, has been shown to reduce the risk of colon cancer.
It is unknown whether the incidence of skin cancer is higher for tanning beds than exposure to natural sunlight, but women who use tanning beds more than once a month are 55% more likely to develop malignant melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer.
According to the ADA, the amount of UV emitted from a tanning booth can be fifteen times higher than outdoor levels.
The World Health Organization does not recommend the use of UV tanning devices for cosmetic purposes.
Matt Harding quit his job a few years back, and wandered around Asia until the money that he had saved ran out. At a friend’s suggestion, he filmed himself showing off his unique style of dancing in various places during the trip. In 2006, his video caught the attention of Stride Gum, who sponsored a six month trip to 39 countries for another round of dancing. In 2007, Matt got Stride to sponsor a second trip around the world so that he could film other people doing his dance with him. That idea transformed his video from a neat oddity into something that you can’t help but smile at.
Matt’s latest video is four and a half minutes of people from 42 countries sharing a brief moment of silliness, which is something that we all can use to remind ourselves that there is a big, fun world out there beyond bosses, bills, and baggage. It also should serve as a reminder that if your cubicle is sucking the life out of you, you’ll never know what strange adventures are in store for you until you turn in your ID badge and leave it behind.
Matt, if the unlikely event that you ever happen upon this page, thanks for making my day a few times over. This is awesome.
When Mike sent over an old commercial for a weird kids’ toy called the Swing Wing, my first thought was, “Monkey? check. Elephant? check. Soundtrack? Meh. If this toy only had a big name band doing its jingle, it could’ve been as big a fad for the head as hula hoop was for the waist.”
It didn’t, so it wasn’t, but thanks to some creative individuals out there, the Swing Wing may still have a chance at catching on with pre-headbangers, tiny hustlers, and kids who are on the “E”. Or the “X”. Or whatever the kids are ingesting that makes them swing around glow sticks these days.
#1GF!: What are you doing today. Me: Practicing my beatboxing. #1GF!: What? Me: Practicing my beatboxing. #1GF!: Oh no. Me: Gahd. It’s not like I’m going to do it while you’re here or anything. I know the rules.
I’ve been a sucker for beatboxing since I first heard The Human Beat Box in 1984 a sucker for people who can beatbox, and Beardyman shows us the recipe to a perfect beatbox mix. This is what got me buh buh pft buh b’buh pft’ing for hours.
If you can hear the Super Mario theme and feel like you’re home, then two things are true: you’re old and you’re a geek. Yesterday, while watching Attack of the Show, I saw a video of a radio controlled car playing the Super Mario Brothers Theme and thought it was awesome enough to add to my list of 44 Ways to Enjoy the Super Mario Theme.
After watching it a few times, I’m not so sure that I should’ve included it. The tones of the bottles during the test runs at the beginning of the video really don’t match with the tones when the theme is playing, making it seem like it might be a hoax.
Sarah Silverman shared her secret with Jimmy Kimmel that she was fucking Matt Damon. Jimmmy also has a secret to share with Sarah “We Are the World” style.
I can’t stand Josh Groban, but I have to say that I have a new respect for the guy.
In the old days when the internet was still young, there was a site called goatse.cx that people would trick each other into visiting. On the site was a pretty gross picture, so people would snap pictures of peoples’ reactions when seeing it for the first time and post them to the web. This was internet humor back in 1999.
The new generation is a video generation, and they have no need for the goatse of an ASCII internet age. They have recently taken the goatse to new level with the youtube video, “2 girls, 1 cup”, and like the goatse, have been capturing people’s reactions as they watch it.
Because the reactions are so amusing, you’ll find your curiosity piqued and you’ll naturally want to see the video that the people are reacting to. I certainly did. I don’t have any problem with gross stuff, but “Two Girls 1 Cup” takes gross to a whole new level. It is easily the grossest thing I’ve seen on the internet this year, and unless you have a strong stomach, I really, really don’t suggest watching it. If you’re leaning towards watching it, let me remind you that there is no way to unwatch something once you’ve watched it.
We all need to thank BeardPick for sending in this video of himself with 2,000 toothpicks stuck in his beard. He beats Payton, the 1600 toothpick guy (also featured below) by 25%. Who’s stepping up for the next 400?
You will not be surprised to find out that BeardPick is in IT and undertook this death-defying stunt to entertain his co-workers. I think my favorite thing about the IT crowd is the strange things they do to entertain each other.
While hunting for some free entertainment for Halloween, I discovered that there were a surprising number of horror movies that can be legally and freely downloaded because they have fallen into the public domain. I found cheese-filled creature features like The Giant Gila Monster (1959), Attack of the Giant Leeches (1953), and The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962), but I also came across a number of films that I realized have been musically inspirational to some big name bands.
Here are the top 10 musically inspiring horror films in the public domain and what they inspired. The IMDB star rating is included so you can determine what to (or not to) download onto your ipod.
10. The Wasp Woman (1960)
The owner of a cosmetic factory becomes the test subject for wasp enzymes that are supposed to make her look younger. The drugs have unintended side effects.
IMDB: 3.4 stars
Musical Inspiration: This movie was said to have inspired the Misfits’ song “Queen Wasp” which appeared on Earth A.D, released in 1983.
When I watched the first video by DJ Sara and DJ Ryusei, I was sure that it had to be fake. I voiced this opinion to my monitor (which didn’t respond) and eventually found myself two inches from the screen trying to see if anyone modified the videos to attach some DJ’s arms to the kids.
After watching a bunch of their videos, I’m convinced that they’re awesomely real. These kids are only 6 and 8 years old…
This week, I sat through about ten minutes show called Extreme Dating, which was so good that it was being broadcast at the prime slot of 6:30 AM. The premise was that two people go on a date, but one of them has an earpiece that is connected to the other’s exes. The exes then try to ruin the date by feeding questions and insider information.
This episode had an extremely high-maintenance Swedish girl who was looking for a guy to read poetry to her all day and wait a mere six to eight months while she
It’s Fridays are usually music posts, so you might have been expecting another round of the Shotgun CD reviews. Because we’ve been churning through Stormtrooper posts all week, I couldn’t let the final day pass without one last post.
So here it is: the Grand Finale to Stormtrooper Week. Watch it while we break down the elaborate sets and tip the caterers.
Shatner Sings “My Way” to George Lucas
Stormtrooper Week happened largely by accident, but did you enjoy it? Are you sad to see it go or did it just go way too far? Let me know in the comments…
Somehow it has become STORMTROOPER WEEK here at dyers.org! Not that you mind because you know that Stormtroopers are awesome. They may even be more awesome than ninjas.
And all these Stormtrooper posts have awakened that secret childhood desire to dress up like Stormtroopers, haven’t they? It certainly has for Kerry and Johnny Wadd, and it probably has for you too. No one should have to deny their inner ‘trooper, but with Stormtrooper costumes starting at over $650 on Ebay, getting your trooper on will probably require that you sit down and make the costume yourself.
Yesterday, I highlighted 101 pictures of Stormtroopers in every day situations. Most came from Flickr pools like the 501st Stormtrooper Legion, but a few of my favorites came from Danny Choo, the dancer in the Tokyo Dance Trooper video below. I don’t know if it’s the maids, the dancing, or the guy on the train trying not to stare, but I crack up at this every time.
I think it would be impossible to get through all of my daily reads without using both my RSS reader and my social bookmarks. You’ve heard me discuss why you should use RSS feeds before, but have you heard of social bookmarking? The following is an incredibly well done introduction to social bookmarking from CommonCraft.com. Watch it before moving on.
A Video Intro to Social Bookmarking (3:25)
The Advantages of Social Bookmarking
So now you know that social bookmarking simply means that you store your bookmarks on a web site rather than in your browser.
The one disadvantage to this is that anyone and everyone can see what you bookmark. Social bookmarks are not for things that you want to keep private (i.e. bookmarks to financial institutions, etc.) Social bookmarks are only for those links that you want to share.
I know that it still might sound a little crazy, but remember, there are several advantages to social bookmarks.
They’re more efficient: With normal browser bookmarking, the best you can do to organize your bookmarks is to split them into folders. That’s a start, but what if you want to bookmark a video of Gerald Ford falling down? That bookmark could go under either the “funny”, “video”, or “political” folder. Because you can only put it in one, it may be difficult to find when you’re looking for it in a couple of months. With Social bookmarking, you can add multiple key words to your bookmarks (called “tagging”), which allows them to be sorted in several ways. In essence, it’s like putting your Gerald Ford bookmark into the “funny”, “video”, and “political” folders instead of being forced to choose just one.
They’re more flexible: You’re no longer tied to a single PC to access sites that you’ve bookmarked. With social bookmarking you can access your bookmarks whether you’re at home, the library, a friend’s house, or Crazy Uncle Larry’s, as long as there is a PC with an internet connection.
They save anxiety: Ever not e-mail someone a link because you’d rather not bother them with something that’s on the periphery of what they’re interested in? By sharing all your bookmarks, there’s no more worrying about what people are going to like and not like. You bookmark what you want and give your friends the link to your social bookmarks page so that they can filter out what they like from it. In essence you give them more things to look at without peppering them with unnecessary e-mails.
They save time: If the endless stream of joke e-mails from Uncle Larry are clogging your inbox, you can eliminate the time spent scrolling through the pages and pages of forwards to get to the “really funny” link by getting Uncle Larry into social bookmarking. He posts all his “really funny” links to his social bookmarks page, you go in and check one page once a week, and the e-mail stream dries up. You save time, aggravation, and you no longer want to choke him out.
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If you’re ready to try it out, then sign up for your free del.icio.us account (I don’t think they even require an e-mail). If after you sign up you want to see some of the funny or useful stuff that I just can’t seem to jam into my posts, Add me to your del.icio.us network.
Then, forward this to your elders and drag them into the 21st century.
I hate posting videos two days in a row, but this one was too good to pass up. Whether love or hate Kevin Smith you have to respect his response to an audience member’s question at Comic-Con 2007.
The question was, “Do you ever plan on making an original movie without rehashing any of your old characters that doesn’t suck?”
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