This is a short video of a potentially fired high school chemistry teacher performing the classic 'What happens if you light a fireball right in front of an emergency water sprinkler' experiment. The experiment goes amazingly well, and I'm sure all the students took something away from class that day. Probably soggy backpacks and cell phones that won't turn on.
Hit the jump for the video. Bonus points to the kid filming the scene for predicting the experiment's result before it happens.
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This is the Darth Vader beer fridge and vodka pump built by artist Tom Sachs. With his cape drawn he just looks like Darth Vader, but with his cape pulled back he looks like a ton of Budweiser cans and some vodka. I'm not 100% sure what kind of pump system Tom hooked up to the vodka bottle but it kind of looks like a bomb. Definitely close enough for me to run yelling 'HOLY SHIT, THE VADE'S GOT A BOMB!' without being positive.
Thanks to my pal killahertz, who puts the killer hurt on six-packs of Sierra Nevada and that's about it.
Because it's the weekend before Memorial Day weekend, here's a compilation video of unusual ways to open beer bottles. Maybe you'll learn something you can use to impress your friends next weekend while you're all getting drunk and grilling or whatever the hell people with friends do on Memorial Day. Sadly, I lost my last friend over a year ago. "To drugs?" No, to being an @$$hole. But enough about that dickbag, we're here to talk about beer. I like opening my bottles the way I imagine farmers kill chickens: cutting their heads off with a ninja sword then drinking the blood to ensure a bountiful fall harvest. Can you tell I was home sick on farm field trip day? Sucks too because a kid on the bus told me they witnessed a goat orgy and our teacher was freaking out about it and Old MacDonald was all, "Aw miss, they's just bonin'."
Hit the jump for the happiest hour in action.
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This is the motorcycle helmet with an attached skull mask worn by an unknown biker attending the Harley Davidson National Rally in China. You should get totally one, that way everybody thinks you're Ghost Rider. Well, at least the people who can't tell a motorcycle from your electric scooter anyways.
Thanks to my buddy Terry, who always encourages me to ride my bicycle fast and recklessly without a helmet because he's a firm believer I belong in a different world.
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This is the allegedly real casual encounters Craigslist ad from a lady in New Orleans who's looking for a Robb Stark look-alike to have her way with as Daenerys Stormborn Targaryen. Allegedly she has a replica of the Iron Throne too, which I find hard to believe because those things cost $30,000. Who knows, maybe she had a friend make one out of melted plastic swords from Toys R' Us. But that's not the point, the point is that one of you better look like Robb Stark and contact this woman to make this whole fantasy happen. Preferably with a Go-Pro camera strapped to your noggin.
Thanks to T8RO & Busty McGee, who have cool nicknames and should give me a cool nickname too and let me be part of their crew.
This is a series of comic book covers designed by Brazilian artist Butcher Billy reimagining post-punk/new wave musical artists as superheroes. The Billy Idol one is my favorite and not just because I have a thing for Aquaman, or that riding a giant seahorse would be cool, but because Billy Idol flipped me off at a concert once. It was at The Who concert in DC in and they were performing the rock opera Quadrophenia and Billy Idol came out as a special guest dressed as a bellhop at the beginning of the song 'Bell Boy' and he scanned the audience, we locked eyes, and he flipped me off, presumably because he could see into my soul and didn't like what he saw. Then they all broke into 'White Wedding', making it the greatest night of my life.
Hit the jump for a bunch more including Morrissey of The Smiths and Robert Smith of The Cure.
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These are the $75 conch shell iPhone speaker amplifiers sold by WAAM Industries. You've got to admit, that's a pretty clever idea. Of course if you don't have $75 you could probably make your own after a trip to a beach gift shop to pick up a conch shell. Just get me a pet hermit crab while you're there. One with a shell painted like a lady bug. No -- the Bat-symbol.
Hit the jump for a couple more shots in case you're not sure where to drill with the Dremel.
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This is a shot of Toy Story's Buzz Lightyear imagined in real life by DeviantARTist DanLuVisiArt (follow the link for a story the artist made up about Buzz that's really touching). He looks like a pretty cool dude. Also, kind of like John Hamm, who's seen me stall my car trying to pull out of a parking space before. Which, for the record, never would have happened if I hadn't seen him standing there. I got nervous, like trying to pee with a breathtakingly handsome man watching.
Thanks to Cammie, who said something entirely inappropriate about what she'd do to Buzz which I can't even repeat here, but yes, it did involve a jetpack.
