Come See Me On ‘To Catch a Predator’!
MSNBC ran a marathon of the Dateline series To Catch a Predator the other night and it was totally fascinating. I've never seen the series on Dateline (I thought Dateline only specialized in blowing up cars to drive their conclusion based reporting) but I've heard about it and seen clips and parodies online. Last night, I watched most of the marathon, and eventually I realized that one of the products we sell is featured on the show! Awesome!
Watch the embedded video and the magical moment starts at about 7 seconds into the clip. It might repeat a few times throughout, but the first time is all you really need. Did you miss it? At the right of the frame is a wall cross with a dark thing in the middle. I believe (though obviously its hard to tell for sure) that it is this item. We haven't sold anything to NBC recently; but given that these houses are (I assume) rented out or owned by Perverted Justice, it'd be hard to know if we sold them that item or not.
Either way, I'm glowing! So; if you want a piece of 'To Catch a Predator' memorabilia, click on over! I won't guarantee that creepy dudes will come over to your house to have sex with your 12 year old son/daughter, but I will guarantee a good conversation piece. And what more can you really ask for?
America Pwns Japan, Again!
Japan used to rock the world. The world of eating hotdogs, that is. Takeru Kobayashi was the 6 time champ of the annual 4th of July hot dog eating contest. He previously won the contest from 2001 to 2006. Last time he won, he downed 53 1/2 hot dogs in 12 minutes.
This year would be different, Little Boy Joey Chestnut walked onto stage today and woofed down 66 hot dogs in 12 minutes. Kobayashi ate 63 of them, himself. Not good enough. Not good enough, my little friend. The walk of shame awaits thee.
Joey Chestnut, we salute you!
Someone get this man a trash can, he's gonna hurl!
Unintentionally Perverted Product
Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words. Sometimes it's not. This is a new release from the Tuskers collection for this year. I believe the name of it is "Bedtime Story" or something similar. Maybe in Michael Jackson's house. Someone really needed to think through this design just a little more. Or maybe I'm the pervert. But other people I've shown this picture too have immediately come to the same conclusion. So my sanity is in tact.
Things I’ve Learned from the Herculoids
How many of you growing up remember a show called The Herculoids? They were about 10 minute long animated cartoons that featured a family of three (Zandor, Tarra and their son, Dorno). They had a bunch of monsters with them that helped them defeat the various enemies featured in each episode.
The series runs in re-runs on the Boomerang Network, around 12:45 AM 7 days a week right now.
Every episode is essentially the same. Zandor is sleeping in the tree house. Tarra is (of course) tending to wifely duties and Dorno is playing with his mutant creature friends (I bet this kid will need therapy in later life). Inexplicably, some creatures will appear and kidnap Tarra or Dorno (no apparent reason is given normally) which forces everyone into attack to beat the crap out of the creatures. In the end of many episodes, the creatures return to an area called the "Endless Caverns" with Zandor promising to go into the caverns and finish them off so they stop attacking.
Having caught a few of these recently, I'm reminded of the important lessons that this cartoon teaches you:
- Paranoia is healthy. Everyone is out to get you
- Xenophobia is healthy. Everyone is out to get you
- Women are helpless.
- Overwhelming force is useful is just about any situation
- Everyone is out to get you
Maybe I'll think of more some time, but those are lessons that everyone can use, every day of their life.
If you watch this show as an adult, I want you to realize what a lazy piece of crap Zandor really is. More than a few episodes end with the alien fleeing into an area called the "Endless Caverns" and Zandor saying "Maybe one day I'll go in there and finish them off so they stop raiding us" (or something similar). Given the amount of times a creature appears from this cavern, this is a promise Zandor never lives up to.