These aren’t as sophisticated as my Roadkill Toys, but I like most of them just the same. There’s no indication that these are actually for sale, however.

Evil Dead The Musical might have been a better choice over Forbidden Broadway, which Dale and I saw in NYC last week.

You know what they say about hindsight. That adage immediately came to mind when it was announced that Marisa Tomei had been nominated for a Golden Globe for her supporting role in The Wrestler, considering a conversation I had with the actress last month. In talking about her role as the stripper Cassidy, Tomei wasn’t exactly sold when Darren Aronofsky first approached her.

“He didn’t really have a script to show me, but he talked to me about it a bit. It was really vague. I’m a stripper… There’s a wrestler… Low budget… I’m going to push you… It’s going to be crazy. He sent [the script] to me a couple of weeks later and it appealed to me, but I was still nervous about it. I knew it was going to be a hard shoot.”

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My brother works for UPS — not in that brown-sock delivery kind of way, mind you — so I’m slightly hesitant to bash the carrier for fucking up yet another delivery to my home address. But when you screw up this bad, it has to be called out. Read more »

Not only do I think octopuses are particularly cute, but give me one with an attitude and I’d gladly take it home. Apparently this little guy has been causing a lot of mischief in his aquarium in Germany, such spraying ink into a bright light he didn’t like, juggling hermit crabs and throwing rocks against the glass cage. It is sort of sad, however, because this all seems to be stem from the guy being bored. Octopuses are fascinating!

While these ads are right up my alley, it’s not hard to understand why Pepsi is getting shit for this latest group of ads showing a cute, lonely calorie — there’s only 1 calorie in PepsiMax — offing itself it various ways. Granted, the gun and razor might be a bit “too real,” but the acid, rocket, etc. are perfectly acceptable tools of cartoon violence. Poor Calorie.

The people that come up with these are some very talented folks…apparently those at Holy Taco. Kind of similar to the Onion’s version of Obama’s Gmail account from a few months ago.

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WebEcoist has a interesting rundown of 20 really odd endangered species, some definitely more creepy than others. I’m no fan of arachnids, so the goliath bird-eating spider is really just messed up (which reminded me of another article I came across concerning a similar variety of monster — a golden orb weaver attacking a bird!). Below are a couple of cute ones (the Honduran ghost bat, and the glass frog), and one really fucked up (the giant coconut crab — how is that even real?)