The Annekenstein Monster

Shadow Art

This is pretty cool.  Kind of like a hip Mumenschantz. But not really, at all.
Watch to the end and be amazed at the size of these people.

A Slow News Day Compass?

Tonight on CBC-TV's Compass, the provincial supper-time news hour program:

Top story:
- a house explosion in Summerside, drug cops are part of the investigation.

Other stories:
- a small igloo a man (or two men) built in his (their) yard melted due to warm temperatures.
- a recap of the up-and-down temperatures we've been having the past couple of weeks.  It was reported, however, that January is usually a colder month.
- a school class (or was it a kindergarten class) had a tour of a heritage home.
- the not-from-here weatherman kept pronouncing Souris as Soor-iss.  My question is: how many phone calls or complaints will the CBC get because of that?

compass, pei, news, Summerside, CBC

It's An Abridged Wonderful Life

For those of you who don't have time to watch the whole thing, here's an abridged version of the holiday classic.  This edit is based on the Sketch22 stage version of the movie that we did in our first two Sketch22 Christmas shows.

Happy holidays!

In The End

Summer Heights High

Because I promised Dave I would.

I've been enjoying watching Summer Heights High on HBO Canada.  It's a fake documentary series following three people through a term at an Australian public school, Summer Heights High.

The three people we follow are all played by the same actor.  He's quite fantastic.

I assume, based on the often-overlapping dialogue that it is somewhat improvised. It's really quite well done, and I implore you all to check it out. Implore.

Here's a clip of Mr. G, the gay power-tripping, self-involved drama teacher:

Here's a clip of Ja'mie, a private-school girl who was chosen as a one-term exchange student to Summer Heights:

And here's my favourite character, Jonah, who is all kinds of trouble:

And The Name of His Father... Darth Vader Montoya

Despite Best Intentions, I Did Laugh

Dan James at CEO Blues posted this and claimed "if this doesn't make you laugh you need a new brain."

Usually, on such "this will make you laugh" challenges, I do refrain from laughter.  I guess I have a "so you think YOU know what's funny?  I'll see about that" attitude going into these things and passively try not to laugh.

But with this video, I did laugh.  I held out for maybe five seconds before the happy feelings took me over.  Not big guffaws, granted, but a definite smile with an audible pleasant utterage.

Buffalo Times Eight

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This sentence above is a gramtically correct sentence.  I find that fascinating.

If you can't figure it out without help (like I couldn't), this will help you:

Bison from Buffalo, New York, who are intimidated by other bison in their community also happen to intimidate other bison in their community.

A Question That's Never Been Asked

Yeah, the universe is infinite and all that, and multiple realities where everyone one can think, say or do has already been thought, said or done, an infinite number of times.

Still, can you come up with a question that's likely never been asked before, using words that actually exist, and that more or less makes sense, gramatically?

I've been sitting here thinking, and I'm drawing a blank.

How about:

Where were you in the year 2078, at 17 seconds past the time that the lynx ate the Hoover Dam employee?

Prove me wrong.  Or come up with your own.

Ode To Joy: Beaker-Style

Because it's one of my wife's favourite songs.  That is, one of the songs my wife enjoys the most, not the favourite song of one of my wives.  'Cause, I only have one wife, and if I had more than one, I would have written 'one of my wives' favourite songs'.

Chimp: Thundercrack! is For Sale!

Check out the link to the right.  You can buy our Chimp album at CDBaby!  Just $12.00 to have it shipped right to your home.  Or you can buy it in mp3 format for just $9.99.

Make Santa's job easy.  Pick up Chimp: Thundercrack!