Diet Coke + Mentos
This here’s one o’ them ‘Viral Videos’, wot spread aboot th’ Intarwebz lahk fahr!
And for good reason. I mean, who doesn’t like this stuff? Remember when you were a kid, and you put baking soda in vinegar, and it fizzed and made such a wonderfull mess? This is like that — on steroids!
Oh hai. Today, we have another comic from the Tales of the Questor guy.
Goblin Hollow is a remake of an earlier comic by the same guy, Under the Lemon Tree. (It’s not online, it’s only available in book form.)
A new arcade opens in town, and three friends go over to check it out. But little known to them, the arcade is actually home to real live goblins! (Who love playing pranks on unsuspecting visitors, much to the dismay of the arcade owners.)
It’s not really truly serialized, but there are story arcs throughout it. So here’s the beginning.
For Teh Lolz: KHAAAAAAAAAAN!!!
MDK2 Wazzup
Vhat is dis? My favorite game, infused with the famous commercial? IS NOT POSSIBLE!
But it is! It has the characters from MDK2, acting out that old commercial. I dunno about you, but I still find this incredibly funny. XD
You may remember, if you’ve browsed my site before, that I made my own version of the commercial a while back. Figured I’d bring it up.
Today, I’m talking about a fairly Big Name in webcomics.
Irregular Webcomic! is made using photos of Lego characters, and D&D miniatures. It doesn’t have just one story in it, it has many different themes all going at the same time, and they occasionally overlap. And they’re all funny. No, I can’t figure out how he does it either.
Despite what its name implies, IWC is very regular with its updates. The author updates it every day, and hasn’t missed a day since 2003. A very impressive record.
You can read through each different theme individually, but then you won’t understand everything when there’s a crossover. So as always, I say to start at the beginning. (There’s over 2000 strips in the archive, so you’ll need a while. ;) )
There’s Klingons on the starboard bow! It’s wosre than that, he’s dead Jim!
Uh… Yeah. TOS guys singing about how it’s life, Jim, but not as we know it. Hilarious. This song was played on the Dr. Demento show a lot.
But if you have an aversion to strange music videos from the 1980’s, stay far away. :D
Last week’s webomic was from Alaska, but this week’s is a little closer to home. Well, my home anyway.
Sandusky takes place in Arizona, not a long way from my place. It’s about a mountain lion, who mysteriously shows up at the door of somebody’s apartment, in a basket. As you might be able to imagine, he can cause a lot of trouble for his owner, Scott, especially when he gets into the catnip. Sandusky also likes to eat Whoppers. (No, not the burger, those malted milk balls.)
I like the strip because it’s funny, and I can also recognize some of the places in the comic. The boulder mountain shown in this comic? It’s about a twenty minute drive from here.
Serialized, an’ stuff. Beginning.
For The Lolz: Beep beep!
Ship-shape and on time this week! Yay me!
The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
Now… What is there to say?
We have Spock… Singing about Hobbits. And dancing Hippie Elf Chicks.
It is illogical, Captain, but still highly amusing. Beware though, the song is infectous.
Surprise! I’ve released a new movie today!
It’s based on a recent story from none other than The Whiteboard, which I wrote about yesterday. A funny coincidence, almost as if someone planned it that way… ;)
Anyway, you can find it over at my site. Enjoy!
And have a Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! :D
Today, I’m talking about The Whiteboard, Alaska’s Coolest Paintball Webcomic!
As is implied by the tagline, it involves paintball. If you’re like me, and you’ve never played paintball, don’t worry. The comic is still great fun. We’ve got a polar bear who loves to build stuff that messes with the fabric of space-time, and also plays paintball. Casually playing with dangerous materials is not uncommon. I mean, they use LOX to light their giant grill made out of a converted tanker truck! Radioactive isotopes are given as presents at Christmastime. And just like on Mythbusters, ‘add more dynamite’ is always a perfectly acceptable course of action.
And in the midst of the comic, is a free recipe for Ma’s Spicy Garlic Meatballs. All outward appearances make it seem like a joke, but me being me, I had to whip up a batch to see how good 10 bulbs of garlic really taste. And the result was actually quite tasty, even though I’m not normally a garlic person. (Though I cheated a little, and only put in two tablespoons of Tabasco instead of four. Next time, I’m gonna try and go all the way.) The only problem I had with them, was that they didn’t hold together very well. They turned from meat balls into meat mush. But that’s not a real big issue. (I was unable to strip off anodizing with my breath though, kinda a bummer…)
The early strips didn’t have a big cohesive story going for them, but later strips have long story arcs spanning a lot of strips. But I always like starting from the beginning regardless, so here it is.
And I’m going to be very generous this week, and give you two FTL strips (because I can’t decide which I like more): The Cake Is A Lie. Rats.
Ha! And you thought I wouldn’t make it on time again this week. There’s still an hour left of Tuesday! In your FACE!
Hatsune Miku sings “Ievan Polkka”
Today, we have Hatsune Miku singing Ievan Polkka. And swinging a leek around. And now, a more in-depth analysis:
Hatsune Miku is a robot. More specifically, she’s a computer generated singer, invented by some dudes from Japan. (They make a lot of cool tech over there, I’m told.)
And somebody, somewhere, decided to make her sing Ievan Polkka. Ievan Polkka is an old Finnish folk song, but the version that Miku sings is based on the version sung by the band Loituma, and they added some faux-Finnish in there. So what you hear is actually gibberish that sounds Finnish.
And the leek comes from Leek Spin, which is a website that loops the gibberish part continuously, while an anime girl spins a leek around continuously. It’s kinda hypnotic, actually…
Oh, and you see the About text over there on the right side of the page? That’s from this song. :D
There’s a whole bunch more songs that are sung by Miku, and I’m quite a big fan of hers. So it’s quite probable that you’ll see more of her in the future.