FEMA Strikes Again

This has gotta be a first! ....Well, sadly, it's probably not...everything's been done before....

Turns out that FEMA staged a press conference last week with no press! The press conference, regarding the California wildfires, was announced only 15 minutes ahead of time, thus no actual reporters showed up. But, they were televising it live, and were afraid to look dumb, so they went ahead and got dumber. They had FEMA employees pose as reporters to ask questions. You can imagine how critical and probing the questions were!

You can read the whole story from numerous sources here.

Deep Fried Beverages?

I thought I had seen just about every kind of state fair food there was, but this one really takes the cake (or Coke, as it were):

There are fried Twinkies and even fried candy bars.

Now, vendor Abel Gonzales Jr. has come up with a new artery-clogging concoction for the State Fair of Texas. It's fried Coke.

Gonzales deep-fries Coca-Cola-flavored batter. He then drizzles Coke fountain syrup on it. The fried Coke is topped with whipped cream, cinnamon sugar and a cherry. Gonzales said the fried Coke came about just from thinking aloud.

Gonzales' diet-buster wins the creativity honor at the second-annual Big Tex Choice Awards Contest.

Now if they can only figure out a way to put it on a stick...

Speaking of Star Trek...

You may have already seen the teaser poster:


J. J. Abrams, co-creator of the hit TV series LOST, has signed on to direct the 11th Star Trek movie. The story will focus on the early adventures of Kirk and Spock and will feature an entirely new cast. Here's who they have so far:

Chris Pine as James T. Kirk
Zachary Quinto as Spock
Karl Urban as Leonard McCoy
Simon Pegg as Montgomery Scott
Anton Yelchin as Pavel Chekov
Zoë Saldaña as Uhura
John Cho as Hikaru Sulu
Eric Bana as the villain Nero

Logically, Leonard Nimoy will make an appearance as an older Spock. For updates, visit TrekMovie.com.

I'm the Queen Shat!!

May the Shat Be with You

William Shatner ain't as cool as he used to be, but he's still got it.

The Shat Is Where It's At

Will there ever again be someone as cool as William Shatner?

Perhaps, but I think it's gonna be a long, long time.

Speaking of Television

This new Sony Bravia looks like it could really make a mess of your family room:

TV Transmitters Explained

Here's everything you need to know about television engineering:



Update: more of the monitors are color now, there's about 1/3 the number of engineers, and their glasses have wire rims.

Now that you know everything, please send your resume to KCCI-TV. Persons who enjoy working rotating shifts for peanuts encouraged to apply!

Wild Kingdom Indeed!

I don't recall Marlin Perkins featuring fighting giraffes on his show:

I Can't Hear You; I'm Wearing Long Sleeves

Just when you start to think art has already hit rock bottom, it manages to sink to a new low. From the Daily Mail:

Performance artists are known for pushing the bounderies, but one Australian has astonished his contemporaries by having a third ear implanted onto his arm.

The Cypriot-born eccentric Stelios Arcadious spent 10 years searching for a surgeon willing to perform the controversial operation.

He got his wish after working as a Research Fellow at Nottingham Trent University's Digital Research Unit. The ear was grown in a lab from cells and implanted into the 61-year-olds left forearm in 2006.

Mr Arcadious said he thought art "should be more than simply illustrating ideas." Once the ear has fully developed he hopes to get a microphone implanted as well.

"It is more of a relief at present than an ear but it is still recognisable as an ear," he said.

A third ear? I hope he's stocking up on Q-Tips.