Archive for the ‘strange’ category
July 7, 2012
– – In case you are ever assaulted by a flesh-biting raccoon, you may want to have a bottle of Hannah Montana perfume spray with you! A recent video going viral on YouTube shows a kind of redneck Santa Claus, a white-bearded and shirtless man with a pet raccoon by his side that has an annoying habit of biting him painfully on the upper arm and back, which we see happening.–Well, the mountain man resourcefully snatches up a spray bottle of a Hannah Montana branded product, spritzes himself with it, and viola! The ‘coon wants nothing more to do with him, and is held at bay!–Problem solved!
This is American ingenuity at its finest! One wonders, however, if the same effect might have been achieved if the gentleman had begun singing Hannah Montana songs…and might this spray be a viable alternative to Mace and the Taser? (“Sir, calm down and comply or I’ll have to Hannah Montana spray you!”)
Categories: animals, Brilliant but twisted, furry, strange, weird
Tags: Hannah Montanna raccoon repellent
Comments: 4 Comments
June 9, 2012
– – Me-ouch! Call me old fashioned, but I’m not too keen on the idea of turning a deceased cat into a mini-helicopter, finding the idea unsettling and perhaps gruesome; I like bizarre and creepy, but in a good way. PETA likewise dislikes the notion, with a spokesman calling the postmortem transformation “…a macabre way to honor a beloved family member.” The artist, however, sees the visual exhibit as paying tribute to his cat, who now can soar with the birds that he loved.
The male cat appropriately named Orville died following a less than positive encounter with a car about six months ago. His Dutch artist owner taxidermied the skin, encased it in polyester, and put a propeller on each of the four outstretched paws. A remote control device enables the cat-quadcopter to fly. The end product has been called creepy, sick, or hilarious, depending on one’s perspective. The Orvillecopter has been on display at an art fair in Amsterdam, although Dutch animal lovers and the Dutch animal welfare party have heavily criticized the exhibit…
…the late cat, Orville, has a brother, Wilbur, who is still alive. Both animals were named after the Wright brothers of aviation fame.
Categories: absurdities, animals, controversial, furry, furry art, strange, weird
Tags: dead cat helicopter, the flying dead cat
Comments: 3 Comments
June 7, 2012
– – Before there was Buffy the Vampire Slayer, there was…Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter! In one of the strangest, genre-blending movies since Cowboys & Aliens, the film to be released June 22nd will mix incidentals of the American Civil War era with the gothic. Based on the 2010 novel of the same name and co-produced by Tim Burton, it seems that the mother of the 16th president was killed by a supernatural creature, which fuels Lincoln’s passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers! Lincoln therefore assumes a secret identity as a vampire hunter, brushing elbows during the story with a variety of historical notables, including in the book Edgar Allan Poe.
– –Ha, and you thought that history was a dead subject!- -Well, in a sense, part of it is, at least where the vampires are concerned. The book has generally received favorable reviews, and been described as being an original vampire tale with heart, humor, and (–of course!) bite. I’m encouraged by the fact that the vampires in the film will supposedly be presented as fierce, visceral, intense, and bloodthirsty rather than as the insipid pretty boys that they’ve recently morphed into elsewhere. Lincoln will supposedly prove himself adept at wrestling and with an ax…and John Wilkes Booth wouldn’t have dared to take on this president in a fair fight!
Categories: absurdities, Brilliant but twisted, cool things, fantasy, movies, strange
Tags: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
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April 16, 2012
– – I, for one, don’t like to discover foreign materials when I open an egg carton, and so I find it vaguely disquieting to ponder the notion of discovering a small armored knight occupying an egg compartment when one such container is opened in a Spam commercial.- -Does his rather surreal presence represent a new stage in chicken evolution?- -Do the other uncracked eggs also contain tiny armor-clad warriors, representing some kind of miniscule medieval army? –And if so, do they intend to take over and occupy my kitchen, perhaps as a prelude to an assault on my neighborhood? One must worry about such things in this age of terrorism.–Should I seize this anachronistic warrior, and test his mettle by attempting to squeeze him to death? Or do I hurl him down the sink garbage disposal, and hit the “on” switch? Perhaps I should cast him into the microwave, and see if he sparks! The legendary kitchen battle of the housewife against the title characters in the movie Gremlins comes to mind…
Actually, the character is Sir Can-A-Lot, and he has been created as a mascot for Spam in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Hormel product. He is here to “…rescue the world from routine meals,” and help rid you not from tiny dragons, but mealtime boredom. Just don’t look to see him competing in Full Metal Jousting anytime soon…
Categories: absurdities, Brilliant but twisted, strange, television
Tags: Sir Can-A-Lot, Spam
Comments: 2 Comments
April 11, 2012
– – The off-beat comedy Wilfred is returning to the FX network for another season starting June 28th. The protagonist of the show is a depressed former lawyer, Ryan Newman, who has unsuccessfully attempted to kill himself; following that effort, his neighbor’s dog, Wilfred, now appears to him as a foul-mouthed Australian in an obvious dog suit! The dog, while selfish and worldly, serves as a helpful guide and mentor to the often clueless human.
This isn’t a show for kids, with drug use portrayed and the humor frequently raunchy. That having been said, however, the show has surreal and existential overtones, and mixes shock and hilarity with the absurd. We were asked during the previous season to “embrace the mystery” of Wilfred’s existence, and it was unclear as to whether the dog-person actually existed, was a projected manifestation of Ryan’s animal impulses, or if the human was simply insane and Wilfred a hallucination or a medication effect. Some answers may be revealed in the upcoming season, one promo for which is a spoof of the classic spaghetti sequence from Lady and the Tramp!
Categories: absurdities, animals, anthropomorphic, Brilliant but twisted, furry, strange, television
Tags: Wilfred
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March 23, 2012
– – I, for one, enjoy a good creative anachronism, and the Capital One vikings seem oddly at home in this election year, even if they do have seemingly-British rather than Danish, Scandinavian, or by default Germanic accents. We’ve seen these highly-visible Visigoths at places like New Orleans, Vegas, New York, and Washington, D.C….here, apparently checking out some dinosaur exhibits at the Smithsonian. They even formulate a public policy agenda of “No new axes!” Now that’s a slogan we could live…or die by!
Appearing at times with goats, a donkey, or hairy children, perhaps these vikings are the shape of future retro…
Categories: absurdities, animals, Brilliant but twisted, strange, television
Tags: Capital One vikings
Comments: 2 Comments
March 3, 2012
– – Although he has a human visage, Alec Baldwin as seen in Hulu commercials is an extraterrestrial of an unknown alien species who together with other aliens harbors evil plans of world decimation, planning to consume the brain matter of the entire Human race!
The alien entity masquerading as Alec Baldwin possesses at least two lengthy green tentacles, each of which split at the end to form a tridactyl head. They are generally kept hidden underneath his clothes. Sure, he’s evil…but this is the way that aliens roll, and besides, “evil” spelled backwards is “live!”
Categories: aliens, strange, television
Tags: tentacled aliens
Comments: 3 Comments
February 15, 2012
– – A video reportedly showing an apparent subarctic anaconda snaking its way upstream through Iceland’s Jokulsa River as shot by a 67-year-old farmer has been subjected to an analysis in which the position of the monster’s head were matched up with relation to static reference points. It was concluded that the “monster” was actually stuck in one place on the river, with moving water creating the illusion of a swimming snake.
The object is thought to be a fishing net or long piece of cloth caught on a branch or a rock lying beneath the surface of the water. The serpentine shape is caused by chunks of ice hanging onto the net.
Iceland does have a legendary Lagafljot Worm, the Icelandic equivalent of the Loch Ness monster…but this was no Nessie cousin.
Categories: animals, anomalies, aquatic, cryptozoology, mysteries, strange
Tags: Icelandic river monster, Nessie's cousin?, pseudo cryptids
Comments: 3 Comments
February 11, 2012
– – With Stride gum packing long-lasting flavor, management has to take strong measures to get consumers to spit out their gum wad, take a new chew, and so grease the economic wheels. They have devised ingenious ways of doing just that; past commercials have depicted rams butting customers, wrestlers squeezing the gum out of them, and German folk dancers slapping them chew-free. Now, an even heavier hitter has been recruited; the legendary Yeti!
This isn’t your father’s abominable snowman, mind you, although he certainly is cool! This Yeti enters a marketing meeting wearing a headband and earphones, and delivers a gut punch to one manager, physically forcing him to expel his gum. A voiceover warns, “Spit it out. Or Yeti will find you.”
Stride Whitemint gum is licensed by gold medalist snowboarder Shaun White, although I’d much rather meet the Yeti…
Categories: anthropomorphic, cryptozoology, famous furries, furry, furry commercials, strange, television
Tags: Shaun White Stride gum, Stride Yeti commercial
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January 27, 2012
– – Multi-tasking may be carried a tad too far in a new Verizon commercial where we encounter a Crocodile Dundee wannabe rasslin’ with a 14-foot alligator while simultaneously using his trusty Verizon service phone to place a winning bid on a 1979 Dukes of Hazzard airbrushed lunchbox with a thermos! Does the lunchbox have Daisy Duke and/or the General Lee on it?- -We’re kept hanging…
There’s water and mud aplenty in the Louisiana swamp in this commercial which spoofs the popular History Channel reality show, Swamp People…and some have criticized the commercial for depicting and trivializing what they consider inhumane practices.
Categories: animals, furry commercials, scalies, strange, television
Tags: Verizon 'gator wrestling
Comments: 2 Comments
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