Posts under ‘Entertainment’

Great clip from Boston Legal:

The US military is reporting one of their pilotless drones last night made the deadliest strike yet for a drone, killing 20 militants in a Pakistani compound.
I wonder, could they be upgrading the arsenal?

Killer on the loose!
Originally uploaded by MikeOliveri.
I never realized scaring kids can be both so difficult and so much fun at the same time.
The Academy of Okinawan Karate put on their annual haunted house last night, and as one of their students I volunteered to help out this year. They supplied me with an orange [...]

Troll Wang
Originally uploaded by MikeOliveri.
I came home from lunch to find the Squirt had been given a Thanksgiving-themed Troll doll at library day today. Two seconds later, I picked it up and went rummaging through the kitchen cabinets.
“What’re you doing?” the Wife asked. She had that exasperated tone that suggested she was also rolling her [...]

It’s not often that I receive one of those chain emails that are worth passing along, but this one definitely qualifies. Enjoy!

In 1986, Peter Davies was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from Northwestern University. On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the [...]

I’m ripping more CDs from my collection today, and I stumbled across a band I haven’t thought of in a while: Living Colour. I remember they were huge for a while, and their performance of “Cult of Personality” on SNL kicked all form of ass.
Then I remembered this little number:

I always dug that song and [...]

Who would have thought the Swedish Chef retired from the muppet show and went into metal?

Wait for the lyrics. You’ll hear it.
I first heard this on Sirius. I kind of dig the song, to be honest, but man, I can’t shake the image of the Swedish Chef jamming out on stage.

When I was a kid, I thought The Octagon was one of the coolest ninja movies ever. Thanks to AMC, watching it again after a good two decades has re-educated me about ninjas. Here are some of the highlights:

Ninjas have nothing better to do than shanghai a bunch of mopes and forcibly train them to [...]

When you hear the word nurse, what do you think of?
If you’re a guy — or, at least, me — this won’t be far off the mark:
Sadly, the reality is a lot more like this:
How did the medical industry get it so wrong?
Or is it the porn industry that got it wrong…
Either way, it’s a [...]

I installed two mobile WordPress plugins on my site, one to format this page for mobile surfers and the other to let me blog from my new CrackBerry Curve. I’m testing the latter with this post.
It occurred to me I could make the much-maligned Twitter tweets from the crapper, but it further occurred to me [...]