Commercial Break

The Chicago Tribune had an article of a pretty funny thing the local news anchors have done:

WGN-TV weekend anchors Robert Jordan and Jackie Bange do a little dance number each Saturday and Sunday night during their telecast's first commercial break. Word is that it started out as a short 10-second dance, but now they have choreographed it into the full 2:40 of the break.



Here's a link to the article that has an interview from the 2 anchors:

http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/headcandy/2008/12/who-says-tv-anc.html

Lancelot Link

I'd never heard of this show before, but man, if I had ever seen it when it was on TV I never would have missed an episode. Fast forward through the opening to at least watch some of the talking chimps.

Hooray For You!!

I couldn't wait to post this once I saw it. Solid. Gold.

Wedding Cake Crashers

I subscribe to a blog called Cake Wrecks, which is pretty hilarious. Today they posted this video, which is cake related, but not a wreck. Stick with it to the end, it gets pretty cool.



The cake wrecks blog is found at http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/

Culture?

This video comes courtesy of my brother Scott. The title of the video is "Mega Bomba" (no translation needed) and I couldn't think of anything better than to copy the original description of the video:

Culture is great. But where in your cultural heritage did you get tape explosives to a sledge hammer and slam it on a piece of metal to make it explode?

Watch the whole thing. The part that is pure gold comes at about the 1 min 30 sec mark.



Apologies to those who understand Spanish... my older brother pointed out this morning that there are some bad words uttered after the "grand finale". I'm sure if I witnessed that in person some choice words might have escaped my mouth as well.

Kinetic Sculptures

Here are some pretty sweet sculptures made by the guy who runs this site:

http://www.smithautomata.co.uk/

Sweet Bento Art

Okay, time for one of my non-video posts. I'm not sure of the reason why, but out there on the intermets there is a fascination with Bento (lots of blogs and forums dedicated to it). I've run across it a few times and it is pretty interesting to me, even though I can't figure out why (isn't it just Japanese food packed into a lunchbox?)

I ran across these pictures today of Bento art, though, and I was amazed! That's creativity.







And my personal favorite. Gotta love Wall-E: