Irate Red Robots and Glasses of Warm Milk II
Time to hand out some Irate Red Robots and Warm Glasses of Milk to the people and things I both disliked and liked last week.
A Glass of Warm Milk to everybody’s favourite guerilla artist Banksy who, after spraying the Israeli Wall of Justice™ with images of a better world, has decided to stick it to Paris Hilton by smuggling 500 of his own “Paris Hilton” CDs into London record shops which have been unknowingly sold as the real deal. Accompanied by a booklet which features re-touched images of everyone’s favourite socialite (like one picture of her exiting a luxury car now includes a group of homeless people), the track titles on the back of the CD have been changed to things like “Why am I famous?”, “What have I done?” and “What am I for?” Colin has pics.
An Irate Red Robot is about to tear into Disneyworld, as it appears that Disney wants our biometric data. I kid you not: the Mouse plans on fingerprinting people seeking admission into the park to “to ensure that the person using a ticket is the person who bought it.” No, not a credit card, not a valid photo ID; your fingerprint. Apparently, one can object and simply show appropriate credentials instead, but it’s a fallback which isn’t advertised anywhere. Imagine the thousands who are going to be suckered into this one.
A Warm Glass of Milk to R Stevens’ Diesel Sweeties being picked up by United Features Syndicate, thus living the webcartoonist dream to the max.
A great big fat Irate Red Robot to when I think Steve Irwin died painfully. And how goddamned unlucky he was.
And a final Glass of Warm Milk to my compatriot Tim for this little gem of instant messaging from a few nights ago…
Me: I like blaster sounds
Tim: do you like making them while you’re playing with your limited edition [Star Wars] action figures?
Tim: *pwwww *pwwww!
Me: no, because they’re all MINT IN THE BOX
Me: MITB
Me: BABY
Me: RIGHTN OW!!
Tim: you can still play with them
Tim: in their boxes
Mike: it’s not as involving
Tim: you could make paper craft versions of them and play with those
Tim: I’m sure there are about 400 links about that on boingboing right now
BOOM! If you’ve never read BoingBoing, you have no idea how funny this is.
i think there WAS a post on boingboing about just that, such as some japanese kid in the 70’s didn’t want to ruin his robot toys, so he made paper versions to play with.
It’s funny cuz it’s true!
stab you!
I’m lactose intolerant.