December 18, 2009

• Lukewarm Links 16

  I am back for a few days.  I doubt I will be around at the start of next week.  I am thinking of submitting my last post but I guess my ignorance of how Xanga works is keeping me from doing that.  Here all these years being here, I thought Xanga staff members scoured through all the pages searching for the material that gets posted on the front page.  Oh and I have been reading Kerouac's "On the Road" and I've lightened up.  It really is good and I am realizing how that the book can fit for any time period except of course the hitchhiking.  It sort of reminds me of my cross-country journeys.  Anyway before I turn this into a literary debate, and I know a few of you hate Kerouac, I'll get to the links.

  #1.  OK I have to admit, this Jersey Shore thing is really captivating me.  I have yet to see a full episode.  I'll watch 10 minutes here and there because MTV shows it all the time.  Anyway, here is a link to a Jersey Shore name generator.  My Jersey Shore nickname is "The Body".  Now I doubt that means I have an excellent body but is more of a reference to all the one's buried on my uncle's farm...what...just forget about it.

  #2.  I saw this post from Mental Floss over on Facebook.  The Croatian Sensation was saying that a mutual friend had to have posed with the Fonzie statue.  That is something Schmicah would do...sorry, inside jokes.  I just thought it was funny and wondered if anyone here on Xanga has posed with any statues.

  #3.  I enjoy Arrested Development, the early 90s alternative band and the TV show.  This website deals with hidden jokes from the TV show.  I keep hearing rumors that there is an Arrested Development movie in production but then I hear it gets called off because that little punk Michael Cera refuses to be a part of it and the creator won't do a movie unless the entire original cast is in it.

  #4.  I always get sad when I see flyers for lost and found pets.  Well these lost and found posters make me laugh.

  #5.  Here's a collection of photos of people dressed as superheroes.  What makes it so special?  Well the people are overweight so that means the superheroes are horizontally challenged.  I guess it is fitting since most comic book heroes are American and the majority of Americans are obese.  There is a special superhero in that collection.  Can you spot him?

  #6.  I found this list of the 25 most dangerous films ever made to be quite interesting.  I think I have seen most of those films which would probably explain the reason why I act like I do.

  #7.  I really should have posted this at Halloween but I was probably lazy and not doing link posts.  Anyway here is a collection of Halloween costumes.  The costumes are produced through body painting.  They seem like such hot costumes or cold depending on how you look at it.

  #8.  When searching for mash-ups I came across this fun site called That Song Sounds Like.  They find songs that sound very similar and and post them together.  I think the best evidence is a comparison of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Tom Petty.  I can't believe Petty hasn't sought legal action but then he is probably raking in money from being on King of the Hill or he is just too stoned to care.

  #9.  As you probably have deduced by now, I enjoy the site, Mental Floss.  Well here is another list from Mental Floss.  It is the original names of classic TV shows.  I am surprised that That 70s Show went by different names.  I guess the story of how a FOX executive referred to it as "that 70s show" in a meeting is an urban legend.

  #10.  Walmart has every day low prices and good old fashioned censorship.  Besides not allowing their workers to join unions, Walmart has also banned numerous products from their shelves.  Here are 11 such items.  I am sort of glad they got rid of Maxim magazine.  It was really unnerving seeing a group of adolescent boys standing in the book section reading Maxim and crossing their legs.

  #11.  Here's a fun video of the greatest paternity reactions on the Maury Povich show.  You know what's great?  None of the stations in my cable system carry that show.  I feel...clean.

  #12.  I don't know...this website could be considered pretty tasteless.  It's called g2gbrb.  The premise is they post what they expect the last text message or twitter post a person would be before they die. 

  #13.  This is a fun website.  It's called Mystery Seeker.  The premise is that you enter something into a google search but you get the thing the person before you searched for.  I searched for "Bible trivia" and received "I learned to play the gi-tar real good".

  #14.  I like fortune cookies.  Sometimes the fortunes are a little lackluster.  Here is the best fortune cookie ever.

  #15.  And because I love my female readers so much, here's a collection of marvelous man-boobs.

  You know, maybe I should emulate Kerouac and start blogging like him.  I just have to find some Benzedrine.  I was looking through a few of my older posts and realized I had to be on something back in the fall of 2006.

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