New State Fair Treat: Fried Coke

Oh, yeah! Fried Coke, my friends. Invented by Abel Gonzales, it consists of Coke-flavored batter, deep fried, drizzled with Coke fountain syrup, topped with whipped-cream, cinnamon, sugar, and a cherry. How freakin' awesome is this? Truely, we live in amazing times.

Borat Shut Out of White House

Via Reuters:

Secret Service agents turned away British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, in character as the boorish, anti-Semitic journalist, when he tried to invite "Premier George Walter Bush" to a screening of his upcoming movie, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. BEST MOVIE TITLE EVER!!!

Also invited to the screening: O.J. Simpson, "Mel Gibsons" and other "American dignitaries."

Cohen's stunt was timed to coincide with an official visit by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, who is scheduled to meet with Bush on Friday.

Borat denounced an official Kazakh publicity campaign running in U.S. magazines as "disgusting fabrications" orchestrated by neighboring Uzbekistan.

"If there is one more item of Uzbek propaganda claiming that we do not drink fermented horse urine, give death penalty for baking bagels, or export over 300 tonnes of human pubis per year, then we will be left with no alternative but to commence bombardment of their cities with our catapults," Borat said.


I love Borat.

UPDATE: Now with video!

Iron Man Has Been Chosen!!!

They've chosen who is going to play Tony Stark in the upcoming Iron Man movie, and it's freakin' PERFECT.

Drumroll...

Robert Downey Jr.

That's right.

Via AICN:

I can’t even express how much I love that choice. First of all, congratulations to Paramount and Marvel for having the nerve to pin their franchise on Downey.

And when the franchise finally gets into some of Tony Stark’s darkest hours, when he faces down his own demons in the second film or the third, can you imagine how much soul Downey can bring to it? If handled right, that’s some of the most potent dramatic material in any Marvel movie, and now they’ve got the right actor to make it all work.

300 Trailer

HOLY CRAP! This looks SOOOO cool! This is the 'true' story of the Battle of Thermopylea, as told in Fank Miller's graphic novel The 300. 300 Spartans and 700 Thespians stood against 2,641,610 Persians (by some counts). It's a heck of a tale, and this movie should be the shiznit.

UPDATE: A video that actually works. Sorry about that...

The "Religion of Peace" Continues Being "Peaceful"

The Face of the Religion of Peace

So by now you know that the Pope has stepped in it. He quotes a predecessor from the middle ages, mentioning Islam while trying to make the point that violence is incompatible with the nature of God. What does the "Religion of Peace" do?

They respond by" peacefully" shooting a nun volunteering at a hospital in Somalia and setting crap on fire.

Honestly, is anyone surprised? Someone farts in the same room as the Koran and Muslims go ape $*#@ crazy with "peace". I grow weary of the manufactured outrage..er.."peace" at the slightest perceived offense to "Muslim sensibilities". What sensibilities? Every freakin' thing is an excuse to burn stuff and chop off people's heads, with very sharp implements of "peace". Anyone still think the West can resolve our differences with the Middle East through rational dialogue?

If we can't even speak openly and honestly to each other without Muslims thowing a temper tantrum like the spoiled rotten children of the world that they are, then what hope is there for rational conversation between the two cultures? Why should non-Muslims be forced to walk on egg shells and show all deference to Muslims when they consistently harass and persecute non-Muslims living among them?

Funk dat noise.

Muslims have about 300 more years of growth ahead of them before they're ready to participate in the affairs of the rest of the world.

Captain America is My Hero

I just had to share this. The main bad guy is yelling at The Cap, telling him to "SURRENDER!!!". Cappy responds thusly: (click to make bigger/read the caption)

Borat Movie Trailer

If you haven't seen any of Sacha Cohen's Borat, get yerself to youtube and watch. The man is a genius. In fact, the Kazakhstani government is so annoyed at him, that thier prime minister (or whatever) is on his way to the US to complain to President Bush. Of course, the problem is Cohen is British, the movie was filmed in Romania, and it premeired in Canada, so I'm not sure what Bush is supposed to do about it.

Best Commercial on TV Right Now

This is just freakin' funny. The king is watching YOU!

RIP, Steve Irwin

Sad news today, Croc' Hunter Steve Irwin has died.

He was killed while filming some footage for a documentary.

Irwin was shooting a documentary on dangerous marine life, in shallow water at Bat Reef, about 32 nautical-miles offshore, at about 11am (AEST).

Footage of the attack shows Irwin swimming above a 2.5m stingray before it turns on him and sends a poisonous barb through his heart.

Irwin was pulled from the water by a cameraman and a crewman, put on an inflatable tender and taken to a support boat about 500m away.

A sad day, indeed.

It's my BIRFDAY!!

Greetings Humans!

For those that do not know me, I am known as Kaiser. BEHOLD! My birthday is at hand! A time for celebration, and more importantly, CAKE! I am 1 human year old today. And thus, I am smarter than all of you. Enough talking! It is time for presents!!!

Thought of the Day

Got this from Libertas:

Why is Wal-Mart evil for popping up everywhere and putting it’s competitors out of business but not Starbucks? I’ve done it: I’ve slammed evil corporate America while holding a Starbucks double latte, but it feels… Oh, I don’t know… Hypocritical?

I'll let you stew on that for a bit.

Hellboy 2 Script Review

Apparently, this is going to be freakin' awesome! I was a YOOOOGE fan of the first one, but thought it ended kind of abruptly. The whole Hellboy franchise is extremely cool (not to mention, it'll preach), and this sequel looks like it should improve on the first in every way. Love me some Ron Perlman. Anyway, here's some excerpts(via latinoreview.com):

It’s taken a couple of years, but Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of Mike
Mignola’s comic book Hellboy is finally getting a sequel, and this time the movie really ups the ante. The opening pages of the script
feature more action than most movies this year – and that’s before the credits
roll!

...When a Manhattan auction house is attacked by a sword-wielding elf and a troll, the event serves as Hellboy’s coming out party. While battling a flesh eating mass of tooth fairies – they’re creepier than they sound! – Hellboy manages to take the fight to a crowd of reporters, where he and the BPRD are completely outed. Cue the opening credits!

Loved this part:

Being public brings new problems to the team as they deal with autograph hounds, hate mail and an appearance on Jay Leno.

Can't wait!

Snakes On A %@#$@& Plane!

Oh yes, Snakes On a Plane is out. It's Sam Jackson at his butt-kickin' best. A movie with little to no plot, a cheesy premise, and the BEST FREAKIN' TITLE EVER!!! It is what it is, you know? Part spoof, part action, part horror, part comedy, all SAM JACKSON! Oh, and the premier at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin had LIVE RATTLESNAKES in the THEATRE while the movie was playing. Sweet! Can't wait to see it!

UPDATE: Snakes on a plane has now made the Urban Dictionary. The first definition (language warning):

A simple existential observation that has the same meaning as "Whaddya gonna do?" or "Shit Happens". Taken from the upcoming Samuel L. Jackson movie of the same name, and immortilised by screenwriter Josh Friedman on his blog post of Wednesday, August 17, 2005.

Guy 1: (irate) Dude, you just ran into the back of my SUV!

Guy 2: (calm) Snakes on a plane man. Snakes on a plane.

I think the world just became a better place.

Everything You Know Is Wrong

OK, maybe not EVERYTHING, but at least one of the staples of elementary school.

From Space.com:

The tally of planets in our solar system would jump instantly to a dozen under a highly controversial new definition proposed by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).

The proposal, which sources tell SPACE.com is gaining broad support, tries to plug a big gap in astronomy textbooks, which have never had a definition for the word "planet." It addresses discoveries of Pluto-sized worlds that have in recent years pitched astronomers into heated debates over terminology.
The asteroid Ceres, which is round, would be recast as a dwarf planet in the new scheme.
Pluto would remain a planet and its moon Charon would be reclassified as a planet. Both would be called "plutons," however, to distinguish them from the eight "classical" planets.
A far-out Pluto-sized object known as 2003 UB313 would also be called a pluton.

So, we've now got at least 12 planets. Maybe as many as 53. Pretty cool. I do have to point out at least one stupidity: They're making Ceres the sole member of a planet sub-class called "dwarf planets". Hookaaay, why not just call it an asteroid?! I remain confused. Whatev. Go science guys, it's your birthday!

My Anniversary Present Came!

Well, it finally arrived. It's super cool, and much prettier in person than in these pictures. Anyway, it's a Spanish La Caruna FR-8 bolt-action rifle, chambered in 7.62x51mm. They're actually pretty dang rare, and are one of the few rifles that most people put in the "never sell, never trade" category. Luckily for me, someone else didn't subscribe to that theory. A few pics:









Here's a little blurb from SurplusRifle.com:

Okay…so it looked strange, but it looked INTRIGUING. So off to the World Wide Web I went.

Turns out that the FR-8 is exactly as I thought, a half 20th and half 19th century rifle (sort of). Back in the 1950’s, the Spanish government was working with CETME (Centro de Estudios Tecnicos de Materiales Especiales or center for the study of technical materials) to develop an assault rifle for its armies. German weapons designers working with CETME developed the so called CETME assault rifle, which was later to become the G3 rifle for the German army...

So, Spain was in the process of implementing the CETME assault rifle, but there were not enough of the new assault rifles around for issue and training. They did, however, have gobs of old Mauser bolt actions (1916 and 1943 models). They developed a rifle that not only could be used to arm non combatant and “Guardia Civil” troops, but also would fill the gap in training purposes until more CETME assault rifles were on line. Hence, the FR-7/FR-8 was born.

A more in-depth article here.

Thanks, MissSpeech! Love you!