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Disasters / Music — No Comments
5
Aug 10

Selected Cats the Musical YouTube Comments

Only good cat is a flat cat. shame cars weren’t allowed to drive across the stage during this awful performance and free the audience.

The cats name themselves (per first song in the musical), so they name their own society, too …just like we arbitrarilly call ourselves “human beings”.

I’m seeing this on Sunday. In Newark. Fuck yeah.

1.) You clearly have no idea what you’re talking about, or what my argument was in the first place.

2.) I direct/write my own material. Which means I can play the lead whenever the HELL I WANT.

3.) I’ve wasted too much of my precious time on this ridiculous farce. I was hoping to get some intelligent responses, maybe a little smart debate on the subject of feminism but people keep throwing me small minded comments. Arguing about things they don’t understand.

Good luck trying that in person.

Every night once a year, a special group of cats known as the Jellicles, gather to celebrate the rebith of one of there own in a metaphorical junk yard. To become a Jellicle, a cat must prove they are worthy of the name Jellicle. they must become famous for doing a task that is very creative and/or dangerous, or be born to the parents of two Jellicles (ex. Munkustrap is the son of Deuteronomy, so he was allowed in, but skimbleshanks works on a train. i mean seriously, thats awesome.)

has anybody noticed Rum Tum Tugger doesn’t have his mane or anything distinguising on?

Disasters — No Comments
1
Jul 10

2009 Corporate Net Incomes

Here are some net incomes (profits) from big corporations in 2009. I find most of these numbers surprising.

Associated Press 8.8 million. The company would have lost money if it hadn’t liquidated its German language service.

Apple 8.24 Billion. That’s about a 25% growth from 2008. This was largely because of iPhones — Apple sold about twice as many iPhones in 2009 as 2008. And it’s on pace to double that in 2010.

AT&T 12.5 Billion. Another iPhone beneficiary.

General Electric 10.7 Billion. GE has 304,000 employees compared to Apple’s 34,300 employees.

Royal Dutch Shell 12.518 Billion. 102,000 employees.

Sony -437 Million. Killing itself with operating costs.

Wal-Mart 14.33 Billion. 2.1 million employees, the largest employeer in the U.S. or Mexico.

Disasters — No Comments
21
Oct 09

Crazy Dog, By Far The Most Terriyfing Video of 2009

Summary and Analysis

This video is horrible, horrifying and maybe one of the best on YouTube. The distorted vocals put Eagle Twin to shame. Let’s start at 1:30. Was that edited? The teeth and microphone, what the hell. I’ve never seen a dog so agitated.

All of this reminds us that the dog really, really doesn’t want to talk. 2:10… “are you having a seizure?” At this point we begin to realize that the dog isn’t actually crazy, but in an Orwellian twist, the kids are. At 2:30 comes a look of utter boredom from doggie. Hatkid compounds the scenario at 2:40 by coughing all over the dog for the tenth time. 3:06 is another climax, a moment of affected pain with a well placed cough from hatkid.

After a lullaby interlude, a rare moment of almost love is broken up at 4:01 by a cough and more distorted vocals. More pandering leads up to 4:25, where we have the big sex scene. Laughter and dismay are perceptible, the former mostly from hatkid, but this is a actually a dramatically pivotal moment. While the kids are laughing distracted, doggie makes an escape at 4:51.

At 5:10, lead singer offers a gnarly interior monologue, affected for doggie’s inner thoughts. “Even though it’s freezing, who cares!” (5:32) yells lead singer. Dad’s convertible makes an unprecedented entrance at 5:51, a compositional non sequitor by even the most abstract analysis. Wild vocals and camera movement at 5:56 mirror the change of locale. 6:50 presents unitelligble anger between lead singer and hat kid.

From 7:09, the video descends into complete madness. “I hate that stupid (dog, door?)” is heard over a static shot. Doggie has either pooped or peed, and both children are upset, irrationally contemplating the stark realities of the dog’s most basic function. In a gesture of black compassion, lead singer coughs at 7:50, symboling the sickness of humanity. The repetition of “I’m not cleaning that up” is to signify not just the impossibly dirty floor, but the fact that the humans don’t even confront it, evidence of their total lunacy.

Disasters — No Comments
5
Aug 09

Huge Patch of Garbage

garbage Ian showed me the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a gyre also known as the Pacific Trash Vortex that is twice the size of Texas. 80% of it is from land, trapped in the circular current. This garbage has been Oprah, it’s so famous. 90% of it is plastic, and 70% of it sinks to the ocean floor, fucking everything up in its way.

THIS STUFF DEPRESSES ME>>>>

Disasters / Geography — 5 Comments
20
Jul 09

Really Big Holes

Here are some of my favorite holes from across the internet:

Mir Diamond Mine, Siberia

This hole is so big that it sucked several helicopters into it and caused crashes. It’s not officially the biggest mine in the world, but you’ve probably seen it touted as such.

The Black Hole in the M87 Galaxy

This hole weighs more than 3 billion suns. Its diameter is 11 billion miles, or more than twice the orbit of Pluto around our sun. Luckily, this guy is 50 million light years away from us.

Dean’s Blue Hole

This blue hole near the Bahamas is 663 ft feet deep. It’s the deepest blue hole in the world. Blue holes were formed about 15,000 years ago when the ocean level was lower. The average blue hole depth is about 300 feet, so this one is pretty deep.

Kola Superdeep Borehole

The USSR set up a project to just dig as deep as they posibly could into the ground. After 19 years, they had dug more than 40,000 feet straight down into the earth. The mud that was coming up toward the bottom was “boiling with hydrogen gas.”

Guatemala Sinkhole

From an eroding pipe system, this sinkhole is 204 feet deep. Unfortunately three people were killed when their house fell into it.

The Gates Of Hell

This isn’t really a big hole, but definitely an intense one. In the Karakum desert near Turkmenistan, a Soviet drilling rig accidentally punctured a gas pocket and caused the ground to collapse. To avoid dumping the gas into the atmosphere, the Soviets decided to set it on fire, and the hole has burning for the last 38 years.

Ozone Layer Hole

Last year, the hole in the ozone layer was 27 million square kilometres. That’s the biggest hole on the planet by far.

Art / Disasters / Fashion — No Comments
16
Jul 09

Pictures From Jean-Charles de Castelbajac’s Muppet Fashion Show

Not many words for these ‘fits:

Check the full show at NY Mag’s Fashion Archive.

Disasters / Wikipedia — No Comments
14
Jul 09

Death Tolls in Pennies

There was an interesting exhibition at my school that represented different populations in terms of rice. I took the same principle and applied it to death tolls as represented by pennies. The MegaPenny project was my image source, while Wikipedia, as always, was my number source. I rounded the estimates to accommodate the sizes MegaPenny had on their site. Let’s start with one life, or one penny:

One human life