Yes, you read it right - the bunnies are BACK!
I love the 30 second Bunny Theater. With that in mind, you can catch up on the rest of the parodies at
C’mon, what are you waiting for? They’re only 30 seconds long!
“Nothing disables a Space Monkey faster than an Atomic Wedgie.” — Marvin the Martian, Duck Dodgers, “Shiver Me Dodgers”
What a wonderful bit of animation! If you are over, say 35, you’ll remember many of these album covers and possibly owned a few.
I’ve watched it a couple of times now and it is still genius. As a warning though, there is purile humor of the gross and sophmoric kind here - don’t link through if you are easily offended.
Fry: I’m gonna be a science-fiction hero, just like Uhura, or Captain Janeway, or Xena!
Leela: [on screen] Fry, this isn’t TV, it’s real life. Can’t you tell the difference?
Fry: Sure, I just like TV better.
– Futurama, “When Aliens Attack”, 1acv12
My dad gave us his two season tickets to the U of U versus Boise State University game today - U of U lost 3 to 36. Poor showing for the Utes but not that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things.
However, what was interesting (and slightly disturbing) was the behavior of the local fans. The fans weren’t mean or beligerent but at the end of the third quarter most of the people in the expensive seats were gone! Perhaps I’m just looking at it wrong, but I was there to see the game, not to only see them win. It was obvious at the end of the second quarter that the Utes would probably not win but that isn’t the point - it was a great contest and fun to watch. Why leave? Just to save a few minutes on your way home? If I was attending a concert or theatrical production I wouldn’t think about walking our before the house lights came up.
On a side note, my dad said he wouldn’t give me his tickets when the Utes played the Aggies any more since each time the Aggies won. Now I fear that he won’t let me have them again - period. I must be bad luck for the Utes.
Update 10/2/2006: Upon reflection over the weekend, I did recall one time I left a concert early - Tara MacLean was opening up for Dido at the Zephyr Club in Salt Lake City a few years ago and Tara was the reason that I, the missus, Doug and his wife Machele were at the show. Tara was great and we had planned on staying around to see Dido; it was her first tour and she had just released her first album.
Dido sucked - big time. I won’t go into the details but after about three songs (to make sure it wasn’t a fluke) Doug and I looked at each other and mutually decided it was time to go.
Mary Robinette Kowal is sponsoring an effort to help save Apex Digest, The Science Fiction Horror Magazine.
Once upon a time when someone needed help, people chipped by throwing a rent party in their home or putting on a play. Now, instead of, “My uncle’s got a barn,†we’re saying, “I’ve got a website.â€
The list of items and services donated is nothing less than astounding! Seriously, if you have a jones for fine fiction and want something unique, buy a few tickets and score something amazing.
Lifted directly from lifehack.org’s article, “Does This Smell Okay to You?“:
Here is a collection … on how to tell if your food is spoiled.
- Eggs: If something is trying to peck its way out of the shell, the egg is not fresh.
- Milk: Milk is spoiled when it looks like yogurt.
- Yogurt: Yogurt is spoiled when it looks like cottage cheese.
- Cottage Cheese: Cottage Cheese is spoiled when it looks like regular cheese.
- Regular Cheese: Regular cheese is basically spoiled milk so really doesn’t spoil. But when your regular cheese begins to look like blue cheese get rid of it anyway.
- Mayonnaise: Mayonnaise is spoiled when you have to have your stomach pumped because you became violently ill after eating it.
- Meat: If cats gather at your back door whenever you open your meat drawer, the meat is spoiled.
- Bread: Bread is spoiled when it attains the ability to cure an infection.
- Flour: Flour is spoiled when it has moving rice in it and you didn’t put any rice in it.
- Canned Goods: Canned goods are spoiled when they begin to resemble a rugby ball.
- Carrots: Carrots are spoiled when they take on the characteristics of a wet rope.
- Potatoes: Potatoes are spoiled when they have more eyes than your graduating class. Nor should they have a deep leafy underbrush.
- Chip Dip: Dip is spoiled when it doesn’t stay in the same place you put it in the refrigerator.
- Wine: Wine is spoiled when it becomes an acceptable base for a salad dressing.
- Lettuce: Lettuce is spoiled when its color and consistency can be mistaken for green jello.
- Raisins: Raisins are spoiled when they can be mistaken for bituminous coal.
And, why is it that when someone offers us something that obviously smells bad WE ALWAYS SMELL IT?!? I see this happen all of the time; someone makes comment similar to “Oh, man that smells nasty! Here take a whiff!” and someone else leans over smells it and recoils in disgust. WHY?!?
Okay, I’m done.
“Ah, computer dating. It’s like pimping but you rarely have to use the phrase ‘upside your head’.”
— Bender, “Put Your Head On My Shoulder” episode, Futurama
The Summer 2006 issue of Shimmer: Available August 1.
Heat makes the air shimmer. It’s too damn hot to write marketing text. Buy a copy of the Summer 2006 Shimmer. Read it.
Why? 8 new stories, art, and an interview with writing team Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta.
Angela Slatter, Tom Pendergrass, Paul Abbamondi, and Marina T. Stern return with stories of books, bureaucracy, blood, and heartbreak. Amal El-Mohtar and Stephen Moss make their fiction debuts. Beverly Jackson tells a fish tale, and Michael Livingston talks about gnomes. (Check out our Featured Author page to hear Michael read the story.)
Bonus: after reading, the print version works as a fan! Our pdf readers are on their own.
“We all have to be proud of our children - it is the only thing that keeps us from killing them.” — Dr. Connor (Jemma Redgrave), “Shrink Rap”, My Family (BBC Comedy)