Waking up in style if not in substance:
- Gladiators to fight in the colosseum again. Consider Nitro, Turbo, and Malibu lion chum.
- David Lee Roth soundboard- finally
- The 40 greatest lost icons in pop culture history:
- Vice teaches you about Israel vs. Palestine while Anti-Israel protests hit Second Life while Joe the Plumber is heading to Israel to be your war correspondent
Previously in Misc/Awesome:
- 12/28: Terrible Boyfriend/ Girlfriend Generator.
- 12/1: The John Waters Advent Calendar-it starts today
- 11/28: It Chooses You: All I Want for Christmas is Everything from Miranda July's Pop-Up Shop
- 11/3: Things I'd Move to Minnesota For
- 9/6: PHOTOS: Maloof $$ Money Cup
- 9/2: PHOTOS: Chantilly Model Train Show
- 9/1: Libby's List: 5 Things I Want Right Now...
- 8/22: PHOTOS: Best Friends Day
- 8/10: PHOTOS: Lawn Mover Racing, Eastern Seaboard Regionals @ Bowles Farm
- 7/26: Special List: Things the BYGays Want Now That We Can Marry In DC (and NY!)
God loves a cheerful giver.
The Gladiatorial Games were a ruse to take the Romans' minds off the fact that their Empire was crumbling. Panem et circenses and all that.
An estimated 500,000 people and over a million animals died during the "games." Gibbon has it that the Emperor Commodus once killed 100 lions (hobbled and chained of course) in a single day. He also has it, and I alluded to this in a story once, that the gladiators had all but defeated an elephant after hours of provoking and torturing it until the elephant crashed down on its front legs and lifted its trunk in defiance, bellowed a final agonizing cry and just sat there. And the crowd stood silent for a moment and then turned their rage upon the gladiators and all they stood for and, we hope, against themselves. But for the praetorians they would have probably killed the Emperor.
Yeah, let us recreate that. /sarcasm.
If I may be so bold as to suggest one more glorious artifact of the Internet? The wonder that is Vince Offer!
oh hell yeah! you gettin this camera guy?
amazing.
wait, is MJ dying from "a rare, deadly genetic disorder," or is it just "because of a crippling addiction to painkillers and alcohol?"
because, if it is the latter, that does not bode well for my friends and best customers.
who among us can honestly say that our addictions to pain killers and alcohol aren't at least a little bit crippling.
you know michael, even if those gladiatorial games had never happened, all those people and animals would still be dead today.
so, BFD.
You know Chad, you're going to be dead eventually so maybe I'll just off you now.
now you're making sense.
if you kill me now, nobody's gonna care in 2000 years.
unless i magically come back to life in three days.
the internets is a fad