The Order of the Fez now has enough members to play ping pong doubles. Please rise and join me in recognizing David Brazeal, Order of the Fez #4:
“Hereby is submitted my application to the Order of the Fez. Thanks to ebay, I have obtained a fez from a monkey trainer in Tel Aviv. It belonged to his dear, beloved macaque, Ahmed, who was recently crushed to death in a fruit stand accident.”
Patrick Knight is scheduled to be executed later this month for the fatal shooting of his neighbors, Walter and Mary Werner, almost 16 years ago outside Amarillo. To come up with his final statement, Knight is accepting jokes mailed to him on Texas’ death row or emailed to a friend who has a Web site for him. The friend then mails him the jokes. Knight said the joke he finds the funniest will be his final statement the evening of June 26.
Knight said he got the idea for a joke as his last statement after a friend, Vincent Gutierrez, was executed earlier this year and laughed from the death chamber gurney: “Where’s a stunt double when you need one?”
As impressed as I was with Blue Man Group, I was even more knocked out by the wizard that opened for them. Mike Relm is harder to describe than BMG. Take 1,000 milligrams of military grade amphetamine, mix it with an arena-sized sound system and a MacBook Pro.
A co-worker emailed a (YouTube) link to this brilliant Monster.com spoof. It was familiar because I posted it here in November, 2004. Certainly worth another look and another link. How much great stuff is getting a fresh look because of YouTube?
For Darin and JW
You know I’m a sucker for chimps.
Brilliant improv by Billy Bob Thornton (Karl from Sling Blade) and John Heder (Napoleon Dynamite). If the producers of School for Scoundrels (their new movie) were smart enough to put this clip on YouTube, then they’re smart enough.
Don’t know how I missed this delightful little parady song:
My Cubicle, My cubicle
It’s One of Sixty two
It’s my small space in a crowded place
Just a six-by-six foot booth
And I hate it that’s the truth
[Thanks, Matthew]