Sorry to interrupt, but I thought you might find this interesting: a blog about all the things you’d rather be doing than your job.
Are there better things I could be doing with my time? Define better. Also, time. Also, what do anti-oxidants actually do for you? What was that bird-dinosaur thing? How did Jackson Pollack die again?
Sorry about the space between posts, faithful readers. At this point, though, I am beginning to suspect you are just Tonedef and myself.
I want to point your attention to this Youtube video. It's been around a while, but I stumbled onto it only recently. It's called bike messengers are on crack. It's a terrifying, lovely piece of videography, making it almost kind of fun to freak out about what looks like an inevitable bus-to-bike collision to the glottal stops of Broken Social Scene.
I don't know that I'll ever be cool or brave or not smoking enough to bike like these people, but maybe that's okay. If you've ever read Lynn Breedlove's novel Godspeed (do), then you know there might actually be a good chance these guys are on crack.
A few posts ago, Ziggity detailed the fine art of feeding lemons to babies. Well, this post will reveal what happens when those babies grow up.
Everyone between the ages of 16 and 24 has filmed themselves reacting to 2girls1cup, so I won't bother linking to any of those. If I need to tell you what the video is, then you don't use the internet enough. These reactions are all really uninspired and boring. What I want to bring to you today is a subclass of this phenomenon. Young people who show the videos to their grandmothers and then film the reactions.
Classic. There are actually dozens of videos of people filming their grandmothers watching the infamous video. Check 'em out.
Century eggs are duck or chicken eggs which have been stored in clay or ash for several weeks and then exhumed. According to Wikipedia, the tradition probably started as a method of trying to preserve sources of protein in times of plenty. Apparently, though, people couldn't get enough of the sulfurous smell and stomach-neutralizing alkalinity.
Despite these unappetizing aspects, century eggs are very pretty to look at. The process turns the yolk green and the white a transparent, jewel-like brown. Though I'd approach actually eating one cautiously, myself, I think I would feed one to a baby or something.
Because I can't get through a post without a YouTube video, here's one of an unseen man forcing some girl to eat one of these undead eggs. You're welcome.
Tonedef claims to have eaten one by accident in some dim sum in Chinatown, and it gave him the runs.
As I have to pack for a weeklong vacation, this seems like a great time to make a blog post. I've always had a fascination with theremins- you know, the only instrument that is played but never touched. Léon Theremin invented the device in 1919, and his other claim to fame is the invention of the motion sensor, which was used in the Russian Civil War. He was also awarded the Stalin Prize in 1947 for inventing an incredible eavesdropping device. But you can read the Wikipedia article all by yourself (more productivity down the drain!).
The real reason I'm writing this post is to show you what people are doing with the damn thing. In the 60's, we only used it for the background music for Scooby Doo, but the following video is an incredible example of what folks are playing now. It begins with an explanation of the device, and then the guy rips into "Video Killed the Radio Star." Incredible.
There are even multipleyoutubeusers whose videos are dedicated to the art of thereminism. Check them out- if nothing, I admire their dedication to a ridiculous, novelty instrument, and their ability to squeeze really entertaining performances out of the thing. Now to see if I can't play Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg on mine. I'll post the video on YouTube when I'm done.
