“Wildlife presenter Steve Backshall spends time in bed with Jessica – the world’s only tame hippo – having been introduced by retired game keeper Tonie Joubert and his wife Shirley.”
Apocalyptic Limo
10/21/10 -- Ridiculous
“It really is only a matter of time before our society dissolves into nothing more than the hollowed out shell of its former self populated by roving bands of blood-thirsty cubicle drones. We’ve seen the Mad Max saga, studied Water World and meditated on The Postman. We know exactly how this shindig ends, we just don’t know when it’ll happen. Which is exactly why you need this beauty of modern engineering. You see, while there are plenty of vehicles suited for roaming the wastes, few can roll through burnt out city centers with the kind of sophistication and comfort as this modified 1993 Lincoln Town Car Limousine. With a mere 117,000 miles on what we’re assured is a meticulously maintained drivetrain, the apocalimo offers everything you need to spar with bandits in style.” w/ photos
Top 12 Worst Cartoons Based On Movies
10/21/10 -- Top Lists
“When companies want to take their movie properties to the small screen, but can’t keep on the original actors, or match the special effects budgets of the original, they often turn to cartoons. You just get a couple of voice actors who sound vaguely like the originals, and get all the animation done by starving Koreans. That way the budgets is the same, regardless if it takes place in New York, or deep space. Plus, you can market it to kids, and they’ll watch any crap, right? Even if your property was originally strictly adult, just put a family friendly coat on it, through in some multicultural token characters, and you’ll make bank! Or, more accurately, you’ll make shit. Like these 12 examples.” w/ photos + videos
Creepy Cat Masseur
10/21/10 -- Hilarious
Axl Rose At 18
10/21/10 -- Pretty Cool
“Sure enough, when I came back that evening, she had a whole folder of stuff. Arrest reports, warrants, and affidavits, as well as two treasures: mug shots that no one had ever seen. Axl’s first mug shots. In one case, the negative hadn’t even been processed before. The cop had sent it off to the Fotomat for me. I sat outside in my rental car, gazing on my luck. The pictures showed him at eighteen and twenty. They were American masterpieces of the saddest, crappiest kind. GQ ended up running the latter, the one where he’s slightly older and looks like a burned-out strawberry Farrah Fawcett in a jean jacket. You can find it all over the Internet now. It stemmed from a fight in somebody’s yard—a woman screamed at Dana and Axl for hassling her kid. Axl had a splint on his arm. He hit her with the splint. They arrested him in the parking lot of the local Frozen Custard (spelled “Custored” in the police report). It’s the shots of him at eighteen that move me, though. He isn’t pretty yet, he hasn’t begun to think of himself as a rock star. He’s a boy-man, with a trace of fear in his pugnacious stare. I can’t remember what he’d done, that time. Stolen another kid’s bike, I think. Or destroyed another kid’s bike. When I first saw his hair, I understood something Dana had told me hours before, at a bar: that when they were children, Axl was Raggedy Ann in the Christmas parade. Looking longer, a person could understand something else, too, about the Midwestern darkness in his voice.” w/ photos
Black Bat Car Costume
10/21/10 -- Neat Products
“Who’s afraid of the big black bat? Black Bat Car Decoration includes (2) – 17″ wings and (1) – 6″ Black Nose that attach to your car windows and grille. Made of plastic. Weather resistant. Please Note: Car Costume cannot be used if vehicle has window vent shades. Not for highway use. Not intended for speeds over 40 mph. Do not lower window while moving.” w/ photos
