Car Lords

Has anybody other than me ever heard of the Car Lords of Oglala? They used to run cryptic classified ads in national newspapers.

Their Google presence is absolutely zero, which blows my mind. I guess that makes this post Ground Zero for any future discussion of the Car Lords of Oglala.
(Mainly an excuse to post this amazing picture from Ffffound!)

Go meat!

Wow, this Hillshire Farm bit is kind of insane. And it’s only 15 seconds, leaving you to wonder what you just saw.

YOU WILL PAY THE PRICE.

Over at True/Slant, Stephen C. Webster spotted this ad above the pump at his local gas station and writes about what it means. Good stuff.

He had me when he referred to:

…how utterly brazen they are in claiming that I will be forced to pay for their refusal to take responsible steps toward protecting my environment.

This is funny?

If you don’t follow the Comics Curmudgeon, you really should, because he’s a smart, funny guy who reads the shitty comics “so you don’t have to.”

The one he highlights here is truly horrific. General Halftrack is only able to drink himself into oblivion for the first two hours of his wife’s diatribe? Then what happens? She chokes the humor to death with her enormous forearms?

Ways to make extra money

There are a lot of squirrels in my neighborhood. Surely they can be turned into some sort of profit model.
(via Mostly Forbidden Zone.)

Fractured Fairy Tales

Hey, I remember Fractured Fairy Tales!

A segment of The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, in which an ancient folk tale is turned on its head, for comical effect, via the modern age. Told by Edward Everett Horton, whose plummy-meets-noir tones should be familiar to anyone over a certain age, they are screamingly sarcastic and not afraid to mock current affairs.

At about the two-minute mark, Red is seen preparing to fire a bullet into her own temple. You don’t see that sort of implied violence on kids’ TV any more; not that most kids aren’t fully aware of it anyway.

What’s the latest sharp programming for kids, like Rocky and Bullwinkle was back in the day? Kids today are even more media-savvy than we were at their age; surely there’s a market for a sort of Kids’ Daily Show!

The next great American religion?

I love this trailer, which starts out a little cheesy, moves into mockery, then finishes with what seems to be a serious consideration of this new cult. This could be a really good movie.
(via Mick Farren.)

Winter battles

Over at If Charlie Parker Was A Gunslinger, There’d Be A Whole Lot Of Dead Copycats, an amazing series of shots from the Soviet side during World War II.

Football

For the surprisingly large contingent of football fans where I work.
(via Coudal.)

I think my team could beat any team! Yaaay!

(via Coudal.)

Disco Halloween!

Mr. Ninja Moves in the center and Jazz Hands Spiderman on the right are ready to go for tonight’s trick-or-treating session. On your left is The Worrier, who possesses a secret super talent passed down from his dad: the ability to worry out of all proportion about stupid extraneous details, no matter how minor and inappropriate they turn out to be.

TWA StarStream

Flippin’ around the internet dial tonight, and I found this beautiful super-perspective art for TWA. This is class all the way.
(via Ffff!)

Self-fulfilling prophecies

A certain part of the Internet has been following this feud for a few days. It’s actually pretty amusing.

Dr. Dre vs. Dr. Pepper

I would mock now, but I think if I was a kid coming from Dre’s circumstances, I would have taken every single commercial opportunity that was thrown my way as well.
(via Stop Podcasting Yourself.)

Get in on the ground floor with this guy

I’ve been hearing a fair bit about (not to mention a fair bit of) Dan Mangan in the past few weeks and, if there is any justice in the world, this newest video from his latest album will help him break out.

(via Vancouver is Awesome.)

Kids these days

Anybody paying attention to Julian or Sean Lennon lately? I didn’t think so. But wait, here’s a pretty good vid from Dhani Harrison, who looks like he’s got the musical chops (and, no doubt, the financial means) to mount a second assault on the world of pop culture.
(via Underwire.)

Double Nickels

My absolute favorite website is If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats. Lately, he's been trying out different ways of looking at his images. This is from his series of images from the absolute middle three minutes of certain films. The film itself is forgettable, but this image is iconic.

I was starting to peak

I’ve been there a few times. Never murdered anyone. Just love that phrase.
(via this isn’t happiness™)

Giddiness

Prop from a 1990 episode.
(via Vanity Fair.)