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Posted on 06.28.10 by Widge @ 4:51 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Each Monday we like to start your week off right with a little something to kick start the WTF Gland of your brain. Your WTF Gland, as I'm sure you all are aware, is part of the immune system. It helps protect us from the work week and specifically the bullshit that goes along with it. Consider this post your booster shot. Here we start off with pondering old games for kids, and how they used to be...well, a bit sadistic. If you think Grand Theft Auto is bad for the psyches of children, then check out this game: the commercial plays like it was directed by a young Eli Roth. Categorized as: Mental Sorbet
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Posted on 06.21.10 by Widge @ 5:22 am
Comments on this: 2 so far. Add your own.  Every week we like to give you something for your Monday. I won't say "something special," but more like something...mildly disturbing, definitely amusing, but most particularly headscratching. If we start the week off with something with a WTF vibe going on, it better aligns our minds with what the work week has in store. That's what Science! tells us, anyway. This week we have a documentary from the days when cigarette factories ruled the landscape. Here, we see the massive array of penguin workers that the Kool cigarette company kept employed to make their product. With the decline of cigarettes as a universally accepted part of life, an unforeseen consequence was a massive up-surge in penguin unemployment. In fact, the penguin economy stayed in a depression until March of the Penguins and Happy Feet, years later. In all seriousness, I know less about the manufacture of cigarettes after watching this vid than I did going into it. Categorized as: Mental Sorbet
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Posted on 06.14.10 by Widge @ 6:48 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Every Monday we try to start your week off with a bit of WTFery. Something to jar the brain into functioning so you can better deal with the stresses that try to muck with your world. This week we're giving you something wild and weird but also wonderful. Apparently created over the course of five days with a total budget of $20, The Rise and Fall of the Nazi Dinosaurs is frankly a much better action film than many we've seen grace the big screen over the past few years. In fact, I think more dinosaur movies would be greatly improved by the introduction of Nazis. If somebody could just go in and add voiceovers with accents and Nazi uniforms to Spielberg's Lost World, I think that might actually make it worth watching. Regardless, I await the sequel, which combines this with aspects of Dead Snow and gives us Nazi zombie dinosaurs. Categorized as: Mental Sorbet
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Posted on 06.07.10 by Widge @ 11:45 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  We figure the best way to begin each week is with something disturbing and weird, so that the normal mayhem you experience with each passing work week will be easier to take. This time around we've got a lip sync performance. And yes, they're nothing new. For example, I go to a family reunion each year in which getting up and lip syncing to music is one of the high points of the festivities. (No, videos do not exist, don't ask for them.) What is new, however, is the idea of giving a performance of Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" that feels like it was directed by Dario Argento... Categorized as: Mental Sorbet
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Posted on 05.31.10 by Widge @ 2:54 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Each week we like to kick you off with a bit of WTFery, so that you can be in the proper headspace for the work-related nonsense that is to come. Today is Memorial Day in the States, but knowing that we have readers on every continent, we're going ahead and posting it now. Fellow Americans, bookmark this and come back tomorrow for the full effect. Here we have a lovely little ditty, populated by terrifying puppets, that we used to start each day with in Alabama schools. But seriously, I have no idea where this is from. It is genius. And so very accurate. Categorized as: Mental Sorbet
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Posted on 05.24.10 by Widge @ 3:55 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Each week we like to take you to a strange place--a place where you mind just sort of gives up and runs with the madness. That's the best way to start a work week, we've found, so we look at this as prep-work for whatever asylum of choice you toil in. This time around we've got the rawk provided by Kevin Kmetz on shamisen and Aaron Seeman (apparently also known as Duckmandu) on accordion, wailing (literally) on "Highway to Hell." I have no idea what makes this video so appealing. Is it the setting in the middle of seeming nowhere? Is it the inexplicable audience of school buses? Or is it the wild abandon with which the two men attack the song, wrestle it to the ground and steal its lunch money? I think it's all of it, personally. All meticulously generated to melt your face. Good luck. Categorized as: Mental Sorbet
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Posted on 05.17.10 by Widge @ 6:02 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Each Monday morning, as your work week is getting started, we want to give you the gift of perspective. If we start your week off with a profound blast of WTFery, the idea is the rest of the madness and chaos that is sure to come as the week progresses--all of that will be easier to take. You're welcome. This week, though, we've got a doozie. The show is from Japan and, from what I can tell, is called Kodai Shoujo Dogu-chan. And the heroine has super-powered breasts. Not only do they have incredible abilities and look like afterburners when, um, "turned on," but they also apparently function not unlike the containment units from Ghostbusters. Breasts, albeit covered, are featured prominently in what you're about to see. I would declare this NSFW, but frankly I think your boss would be more confused than offended. Enjoy. Categorized as: Mental Sorbet
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Posted on 05.10.10 by Widge @ 3:33 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Every week we give you the "Mental Sorbet" treatment--the idea being that if you start your week off with a mind-destroying piece of WTFery, you'll be well armed for the other unnatural shocks that the work week has in store. It's like playing Mithradates with your sanity. Enjoy. This time around we're going back to the never-ending well of "Holy crap!" that is Everything is Terrible. And they've outdone themselves this time. I have no idea what in FSM's name is happening in this clip, other than it looks like somebody got pissed at Satan and decided to take him down. With terrible special effects--which are, as we all know, Satan's kryptonite. Categorized as: Mental Sorbet
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Posted on 04.26.10 by Widge @ 4:31 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Every week we try to start you off right. Well, right as in wrong. Very, very wrong. We figure if you kick the week off like this, then your brain will be specially attuned to the madness that your work week will no doubt bring. You're welcome. This time around, The Consumerist clued us into Balzac, which is apparently...well, a ball. See for yourself: Categorized as: Mental Sorbet
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Posted on 04.19.10 by Widge @ 12:32 am
Comments on this: none yet. Add your own.  Nasty Canasta Each Monday we try to give you a little something to get your mind prepared for the nonsense of the impending work week. We figure if we give you a little something odd, a little something awesome, a little something WTF--it might get you set and make the upcoming five days go down smoother. Coilhouse described this performance by the awesomely named Nasty Canasta best, as "Dada neo-burlesque." And really, if you think about it, it only makes sense. Anybody can do a bump and grind to a standard burlesque tune. But it takes somebody special to be able to put on a show and make the annoying-as-hell sound of a car alarm sexy. And I know that it's not the best quality, but pay attention through the end. And I also know this is a fan dance and all and this should be obvious but: NSFW. And you'll want headphones and to mind your volume--it is a car alarm, after all. Categorized as: Mental Sorbet
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