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01.23.12 by Widge @ 5:00 am  Each week we like to lead off with something that makes your head spin around. A little disorientation, our researchers have found, helps with the ability to make it through the work week relatively intact. So The Daily What states this is a Keyboard Cat video directed by David Lynch. I'll take it one further--this is the lost demo reel for The Tom & Jerry Movie, directed by Lynch. At the end of the film, because they have been so mean to each other and so wantonly destructive of property, they are condemned to an entire of being the backing band for a bad Slim Pickens impersonator who sings for an audience of damned children. P.S. I'd like to also point out that the first video that comes up on YouTube for me after watching this is of an exorcism. YouTube...it's smarter than you think it is. Categorized as: Mental Sorbet
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01.02.12 by Widge @ 6:54 am  Each week we like to kick things off with something to either spark your mind or reduce it to a fine powder. Choosing this one is also fraught with additional weight in that, really, it could be considered the Sorbet for the entire year, 2012. So--perhaps in an effort to show that 2012 is going to be different in many ways, but the same in others--we're going with something audio instead of video and something short and profound instead of longer and sillier. The part that's the same? It's the mad, awesome Alan Moore we turn to. Of course we do. Categorized as: Mental Sorbet
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12.26.11 by Widge @ 7:12 am  Each week we like to give you something to start things off right. Or wrong. Depending on which way the wind is blowing. This week, it's true that a lot of people are still off work due to the Christmas holiday. However, many people worldwide are still grinding away at their respective day jobs. This bud's for you. We kick off the week with a brief intro that's stated to be for an Australia drive-in from 1968. It is the epitome of retro gold. The first thing that strikes me about this is that even though this seems to be legit and from Australia, the narrator sounds like the South Park guys doing their "Announcer Guy" voice, know what I mean? Categorized as: Mental Sorbet
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12.12.11 by Widge @ 7:58 am  Every Monday we like to start off your week with something. A very special kind of something--it either is designed to make your brain spin or make your brain get very, very numb and quiet with unnameable dread. Whichever approach you need to face your work week, we like to help as best we can. And not that we're trying to follow any sort of "on ice" theme (see last week), but after finding this on Everything is Terrible, how could we resist? It's from 1978: Hanna-Barbera's All-Star Comedy Ice Revue. In attendance is a crapload of Hanna-Barbera characters, including the forgotten Banana Splits and The Hair Bear Bunch. Hosting the madness? Roy Clark of Hee-Haw and Bonnie Franklin of One Day at a Time. Between Clark's outfit, an inexplicable exercise-on-ice routine, Jabberjaw vs. Franklin, and a bizarre Hong Kong Phooey bit that will be surpassed only by the upcoming feature film...it is definitely on the numbing side of the house. Enjoy. Categorized as: Mental Sorbet
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12.05.11 by Widge @ 12:45 am  Every Monday when the content warrants it, we like to share something special to start off your week. Some little pinprick of madness to either excite your brain into motion or incite your brain into a semi-comatose state--whichever way you can best get through the week to come. This time our friend Mim sent over the following: Aliens on Ice. It's long been a running gag that you can take just about anything and add "On Ice" to the end of the title and make it ridiculous and wrong. This has been, however, largely a theory. However, the Dramatologists at The Old Murder House Theatre out of Austin, Texas, were not content with mere theory and decided to stage the film Aliens live on ice skates. This is utterly mental, as the video will attest. Credit where credit is due, though: love the alien helmets on the skaters up top. Previous productions have apparently included Robocop: Live! For more info on their particular group psychosis, check out their Facebook page. Categorized as: Mental Sorbet
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11.28.11 by Widge @ 7:10 am  Some weeks you just need something to jump start your brain. Or jump stop it, either way. Here in the States, we're coming off of Thanksgiving, so we need a Mental Sorbet more than ever. When we find the content that warrants it, we throw it to you here to get your week started off right. Or wrong. It's in the eye of the beholder, really. Speaking of which: behold this, pussycat. Fred Gwynne appears as Herman Munster in what looks to be a deodorant commercial crossed with a monster beach party movie. Then it goes straight into odd PSAs-ville. I'm just telling it like it is, man. Categorized as: Mental Sorbet
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11.07.11 by Widge @ 12:01 am  When we can find something worthy of your attention, something we feel will kickstart your Monday (and the rest of the week) properly, we put it here. It's sorbet for your mind. How could I resist this: part of the 1964 serial Buddha's Palm, which is drenched in so much awesome, it's ridiculous. A budget of early series Doctor Who proportions. One of the most echo-y soundstages ever. And there's nothing wrong with shooting fight scenes on a soundstage...but--let's just put it this way--don't hire more henchmen than your set can support. And if you do...adjust before shooting. Because I think we've just discovered a new cinematic malady: Henchmen Cram. Lastly, the wuxia style of battle has come a long way when you consider one of the high points in this looks like an 8-bit video game. All of this makes this snippet ridiculously awesome. Enjoy. Categorized as: Mental Sorbet
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09.26.11 by Widge @ 1:34 am  Each Monday we try to start your week off with something of a mildly stimulating nature. Just to help you bridge from the weekend into the work week with as little trauma as possible. Sometimes what we post is fascinating. Sometimes it's pure WTFsville. Today we're leaning towards the latter. Here it's important you watch this first, then we'll reconvene after the break. Categorized as: Mental Sorbet
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09.19.11 by Widge @ 6:31 am  Each week we try to start you off with something that will stimulate your brain into working--or perhaps numb it into being able to take the work week a little easier. This week...well, not quite sure how you'll take this one. But here goes. Apparently by 2013 there's going to be a shift in the system of how doctors and hospitals code the services they provide. The system in place today uses roughly 18,000 different codes. According to the article in the Wall Street Journal, that number's jumping to 140,000. Why so many? Because the system is incredibly granular to the point where: Code V91.07XA, which involves a "burn due to water-skis on fire," is another mystery [Rhonda Buckholtz, who does ICD-10 training for the American Academy of Professional Coders] ponders: "Is it work-related?" she asks. "Is it a trick skier jumping through hoops of fire? How does it happen?"
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09.12.11 by Widge @ 5:38 am  Each week we try to kick things off with something interesting, weird or mind-numbing. If possible we will try to hit the complete trifecta. So here we go. For those who have yet to attend a Need Coffee Fun Fest, part of what we do is play games. They are games that might be familiar to you as they are twisted parodies of game shows that you might know and love. One game that I dream about getting somebody from this site to host is Supermarket Sweep, the game that combines the price guessing of something (like Price is Right) with a mad dash through a store grabbing stuff (like the recent UK riots). I would love to see Rox hosting this, or Rob. But I have no idea how we would stage a run through a grocery store with a cart. Alas. Regardless, here's an episode from 1967. You'll no doubt be watching the odd hair, the terrifying fashions (even in black and white), and other such fun. But watch the faces of the contestants and their varied reactions to host Bill Malone's droning on about dishwashers and soap and soup and such. Categorized as: Mental Sorbet
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