Tag Archives: silliness

Wesson Scalper Palin….

….is my Sarah Palin baby name. Name generator here. What’s yours? I haven’t done one of those name generator thingies since I found out my Wu Tang Clan name was Dubious Mastabatah X.

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Advisor: McCain Created The Blackberry

An Al Gore-invented-the-internet redux: Move over, Al Gore. You may lay claim to the Internet, but John McCain helped create the BlackBerry. At least that’s the contention of a top McCain policy adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin. Waving his BlackBerry personal digital assistant and citing McCain’s work as a senator, he told reporters Tuesday, “You’re looking at the miracle that John McCain …

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The West Village Cupcake Brigade

Five women and one man calling themselves the Cupcake Brigade donned matching pink dresses on Sunday to perform a mocking musical tribute to the perplexingly popular Magnolia Bakery in the West Village, where Sarah Jessica Sandinistas stand in long lines every day to buy the exact! same! cupcakes! from Sex And The City. They sang God Bless Magnolia (to the …

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Trickless Magician To Baffle Gotham Again

Trickless magician David Blaine will hang upside down over Central Park’s Wollman Rick for three days next week. At 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 22, he’ll be hoisted to a cable 60 feet above the ground, which will become his perch for three days and two nights. He’ll clamp on with electromagnetic boots but won’t have a safety net, airbag or …

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I Am Jean Valjean
And I Approve This Message

From Ultimate Improv, here’s Les Mizbarack, a little something for the Obama supporter and theatre queen in you. I played this ten times in a row last night, it’s really cute.

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Just In Time For Halloween

WigSalon.com is hoping to capitalize on the “Sarah Palin look” which they are doing by selling their Raquel Welch “glazed hazelnut” wig with advice to pin up the back with bobby pins. But they do offer this bit of advice: No association with or endorsement from or to the Sarah Palin campaign exists. The products are those of famous wig …

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Right Wing Barbie

The Sarah Palin action figure goes on sale today. Accessories include a pistol or Bible-grip hand, a tiara, and several dozen recorded lies. The company also sells some ridiculously buff John McCain, Barack Obama, and Eliot Spitzer dolls. I have a feeling some of you will get the Palin doll just to stick pins in it.

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ABC: Obama Has Two Dads

Via Ben Smith at Politico, who calls it one of the “all-time great TV news goofs.”

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Vice Presidents I’d Like To……
(Well, Not ME, Actually)

Isn’t the Interwebs wunnerful? (Tipped by JMG reader Alan)(Tip update: Alan found this via Dan Savage)

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They Can Always Ask Larry Craig

The Virginia delegation to the Republican Convention has canceled their order of a guide to the Twin Cities because it includes, GASP, a listing of local gay bars. The campaign for Virginia’s Lt. Governor Bill Bolling ordered 150 of the guides to give to Virginia delegates as gifts when they arrived in the Twin Cities. But after reviewing the guide …

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This Is My Body, Eat Me

Holy ham slice, you can’t make it up. Speaking of burning pictures onto food, a commenter on the below-linked source reminded me about the much more fun Hello Kitty toaster. If I recall correctly, my SF friend Ggreg Taylor had his Hello Kitty toaster stolen during a party. The thief then taunted him by holding it for ransom and posting …

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“I Am Not Michael Phelps!”

Via Gawker, a totally not Micheal Phelps but equally goofy tall guy gets mobbed by Chinese who can’t tell the difference. Steve Parry is a BBC commentator who won bronze swimming in the Athens Olympics. He’s very cute about the confusion.

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Cazwell – I Seen Beyonce’ At Burger King

And she was eat’n, she was eat’n. Been singing this all morning. Love the New York “n”. What’s that called, linguistically? I missed this clip when it came out last week, but it’s already gotten 400K hits on YouTube. Our dear Father Tony is a hooge fan of gay rapper Cazwell. Who’s the drag queen playing Beyonce?

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Scroll On Playa

Available on eBay: Bling-Blaow! This White LED Dog Tag is like having a piece of the future on your neck. Be one of the first people to floss this new Led Dog Tag. You can put up to 256 characters on it. Wanna make a statement? WELL BRING IT ON! Write whatever you want and let it scroll across the …

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Over Hill And Highway The Banana Buggies Go, Comin’ On The Bring You….

…the Banana Splits Show. Hanna-Barbera’s 1960s phenom is returning in a multiplatform effort starting Sept. 2, with shorts and musicvideos airing on Cartoon Network and its website. Future efforts will include DVD and audio CD releases, as well as live performances. Turner Animation’s Stu Snyder noted that the Splits have “been entertaining kids for years,” but the return of the …

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Madonna: I’m Not 50, I’m 36

Madonna would like everybody to know that according to the Kabbalah priests she hired to calculate her age by “channeling her spirit”, tomorrow will only be her 36th birthday, not her 50th. Friends, employees, and acolytes have been ordered NOT to mention the five-oh number tomorrow. Kabbalah nudniks aside, I like the concept of a spiritual age, some people do …

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BREAKING: Air Is Free

Huffing is no longer for bored teenaged suburbanites. Canned oxygen is reportedly “flying off the shelves” of NYC’s drugstores. At $16 a pop. With 1 in 10 Americans is chronically sleep deprived people are looking for anything to boost their energy. First there were Red Bull and double espressos, but now comes the latest — canned oxygen! It’s the latest …

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Rich Media

Via Valleywag: Maybe you haven’t heard about the $999.99 “I Am Rich” iPhone App by Armein Heinrich yet. We’ll catch you up, poor thing. Purchase this app for your iPhone 3G from the iTunes App Store now and it will do two things: display a glowing red gem for an icon and tell everyone who handles your iPhone 3G that …

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JMG: The Fire Island Cocktail

Via Dr. Jeff comes this shot of the drink menu at Jumpin’ Jack’s Seafood Shack in Fire Island’s Cherry Grove. The drink is the invention of their bartender, a JMG reader who used to work at the NYC Eagle and who has been the subject of an Overheard post on this here website thingy. Anyway, I sound delish but I …

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National Go Topless Day: August 23rd

I was handed a flyer for National Go Topless Day as I was leaving Central Park over the weekend. Organizers hope to draw attention to public nudity laws that allow moobs but not boobs. The flyers were being handed out by a cute young chick, but the presence of a sign-carrying Raëlian nearby should have tipped me that those very …

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