I was listening to a Word Balloon interview with famed Mad magazine cartoonist Drew Friedman when he pointed out that the late comedian “Doodles” Weaver is a dead ringer for George W. Bush.
And you know what? He’s kind of right.
It turns out high school works just a little bit differently in Silkeborg, Denmark.
Every year a group of male and female students put on a strip tease, showing the student body their student bodies. The winners get to chose where in the cafeteria they’ll sit for the school year, and the teachers not only know about this, but are the judges.
This year’s event got a little more out of control however and four students recorded it on their cell phone cameras; posting it on the internet. While the schools head teacher, Erik Olesen, has punished the kids who took out their cell phones, he has yet to explain why that’s exploitive but two teenage girls taking off their tops, lathering each other in baby oil, and starting to make out – all in the name of getting a table at the school cafeteria isn’t.
The great nation of Denmark, ladies and gentlemen.
Anyway; with Olesen under a huge amount of fire to cancel the event permanently, what’s your take?
As we promised: we have 6 Pownce invitations to give away to the first 6 people who will write their email address in the comments, on one simple condition:
After you register, please return here and send 6 more invites to the next list of people. Keep the ball rolling, the chain chainin’, and Pownce away!
Pownce is a new service that combines instant messaging, mini-blogging and file sharing. Think of it as a Twitter with more options - you can send files to your friend list (up to 10mb in their free account, and 100mb in pro), message them (both private messages and mass messages), and comment to their messages. Pownce also offers a desktop application, based on Adobe’s Air technology, that lets you connect to your profile from your desktop, without opening a browser.
So what’s so special about Pownce?
While Pownce basically doesn’t offer anything too new and exciting, it does help connecting with your friends, fans and/or subscribers more easily, and on a friendly and much cooler platform than Email mailing lists or attention-grabbing MySpace bulletins. In fact, Pownce can make a great add-on to any online social network profile. You can build your own exclusive fan base, message them about new shows or updates, and most important - send them files. Since Pownce obvisouly works both ways, your fans can actually share files with you - ask them to send you mp3s they recorded on your last show, a picture of them holding your new CD or design sketches for your new T shirt artwork… You can’t reach this level of quick communication with only using your website, MySpace, blog or email address. Record Labels can also find Pownce to be interesting and useful, on the same level: friends/fans will be getting exclusive info, files and stay in touch with the label.
Ok, and how does it work?
Pownce offers four basic things you can send: a message, a file, a link and an event. You can choose sending them to all of your friends; you can choose posting them to the public in general (except for posting files). Another great option Pownce gives you is grouping your friends by categories. For example: fans in NY, fans in LA and so on; and that can help you nevigate through your freidns and send relevant messages. Getting a private message about a show in LA won’t be useful to me; however, if you drop by the Middle East, I might show up on the front row.
As of now, Pownce is still an invitation-only service; on the next post I’ll be giving away 6 invitations for you. Once you register, you too can send 6 more invitations… and so on. Stay tuned 
From the sweethearts @ SuperDeluxe comes the weed vid: weed will get you places, guaranteed.
PARENTAL CLARIFICATION
When we say “Weed” we mean: We Endure Enlightened Daydreaming. Others may have different interpretation of the word, but that’s only because they’re high on weed.
Tila Tequila, the MySpace hot babe of the century, has recently published an agitated post on her over-flooded MySpace blog, regarding Michael Moore’s new movie, “SICKO“. It looks like Tila is fed up with the DIY stardom and she’s now aiming much higher: to become the first US female and midget president. Hilary Clinton might think she can earn votes by letting the people choose her campaign song; but Tila Tequila holds her own secret, ready-to-use weapon on her way to the DC: two good looking MySpace boobies and one digital cam.
Here are a few excerpt from the Tila Tequila movie review, accompanied by our special presidency rating system:
After watching this movie I am left feeling INFURIATED with the American Government. The United States of America is the richest country in the world so can someone please tell me why we have the WORST system for healthcare??? Why is it that we are the only country without National Healthcare? This problem could easily be fixed, and if a less enriched country such as CUBA can offer free healthcare and services for the people there…..why are we not able to do that here in America????
CAPS and a pile of question marks are politicians’ no. 1 friends. Very good, 10 points.
Why do we throw the sick and the poor out on the streets because they can’t afford healthcare or do not “qualify” for it? We are talking about saving people’s lives here with such a small thing. I pay taxes….we all pay taxes but where is all this tax money going?
Tila Tequila pays taxes, which is completely lame. Taxes are for nerds and Al Gore. Minus 12 points.
This is such a rich country yet we are the WORST at taking care of one another. Don’t you find it a bit bizarre that people have to PAY to go to college to get an education????
Yes we do. We also find it a bit bizarre to name yourself after a Mexican alcoholic drink. However, 28 points earned for the 4th question mark.
Why do students have to pay to get a better future that will in turn lead them into giving back to our community? Instead they get caught up in years of debt, hence leaving them in the rat race cycle of neverending work in order to pay off debt….not leaving much room for leisure.
Tila Tequila obviously knows the true meaning of leisure, and it’s perfectly reflected in her new album. However, since we’re all broke and generally suppressed by the US government, we won’t be able to buy it. Oh well, minus 29,567 points.
In March, the Red Hot Chili Peppers announced a video competition for their next single, “Charlie“. The band invited their fans to direct their own personal interpretations of the song and send them over. The winning director was presented a couple of days ago on their official YouTube Channel: his name is Omri Cohen, 25, an ex-Israeli who migrated to California a few years back. It appears that Antony Kiedis was so in love with Cohen’s version that he actually started crying while watching it. Must be the age thing.
The winning Charlie video shows a bunch of teenagers driving around the sunny US in a van, meeting a bunch of other teenagers and other weirdos, while basically acting stupid. Yeah, yeah, yeah… it looks like this video was made of several other video scenes - The Smashing Pumpkins‘ 1979 pops to mind, as well as White Zombie’s Thunderkiss 65; even the Pepper’s own Give it Away and Scar Tissue make a tiny appearance in the video - what makes me ponder about the actual reasons for choosing this version. Well, here it is, decide for yourself:
Our favorite version of Charlie is this one - a little bit awkward and twisted, but still unique.
Dramatic Chipmunk has been making great waves in the MySpace Video pool for the last couple of days. Well, he deserves any kind of attention - he’s cute, fluffy, and oh so dramatic, therefore - dramatic chipmunk is Emo all over. Are we surprised that the MySpace pack found him so adorable? absolutely not. Behold the drama:
Drama Chipmunk
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And now, for the remix:
Dramatic Chipmunk Remix
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And we saved the best one for last:
Dramatic Chipmunk CAUGHT!
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Thing is, this little creature is not really a chipmunk. It’s a prairie dog:
The prairie dog (Cynomys) is a small, burrowing rodent native to the grasslands of North America. On average, this stout-bodied rodent will grow to be between 12 and 16 inches (30 and 40 cm) long, including its short tail. They are found in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. In the United States, prairie dogs are primarily found west of the Mississippi River, though they have also been introduced in a few eastern locales.
While
Chipmunk is the common name for any small squirrel-like rodent species of the genus Tamias in the family Sciuridae. About 23 species currently fall under this title, with one species in northeastern Asia, one in the eastern portions of Canada and the United States, and the rest native to the western part of North America.
// Wiki
Class dismissed.
Check out more dramatic chipmunks, if you dare.
When the famous “Hips Don’t Lie” spoof flooded the internet about a year ago, no one expected it to eventually become a real TV sensation. All sassy and confident, Boy Shakira (a.k.a Luigi) is actually spoofing a spoofer, which makes him the Weird Al Yancovic of useless and tasteless viral celebrities.
While The Hoff was devastated by Boy Shakira’s performence (and we were devastated by the Hoff’s latest album, or any Hoff album for that matter), both Sharon “Queen of Doom” Osbourne and Piers Morgan were eager to see him doing his little dumb spoofdance on the next round. The crowd loved him, his mama still loves him, and as long as he loves himself, we love him too.
In these not-so-troubled times when Britney Spears seems to be taking her skinhead carnival to a higher, much positive level [using second hand wigs and fake smiles (plus actually using underwear - now what do you know!)], the NY Post reports that Christina Aguilera is expecting a baby from her candyman of a husband, Jordan Bratman. I’m pretty excited about this, since it proves us that: a. Christina Aguilera is not made of plastic; b. another baby boom (as in: make a baby, go crazy, sheer entertainment boom) is just around the corner, and that’s always fun.
