Friday Ephemera

“Kyukyoku!! Hentai Kamen!” Oh yes, it’s real. (h/t, Simen) // Hong Kong inflatables. // Kittens and fish. // Finger tripods for eating messy food. // Paper birds. // Animated atoms. // These nanoparticles are assembling themselves in real time. // Science and bogies, together at last. // The best bit of Iron Man 3. // New York 360. //Further to this, Batman villains reimagined as 1920s mugshots. // A cathode-ray TV and a magnet. // Films and their colour palettes. //Films with smoking in them (and how much). (h/t, Chris Snowdon) // Do not screw with Helen Mirren. // “Women who wear revealing clothing are to blame for earthquakes.” // Panama City murals. // The newspaper’s long goodbye. // Liu Bolin is difficult to see. (h/t, Andrew Grichting) // Indoor clouds. (h/t, Dr Westerhaus) // How much cocaine could you fit inside your body? No, the other end. 

Comments

[Sam]

"Kyukyoku!! Hentai Kamen!"

...?

...?

So is this guy in the Avengers?

[Anna]

Journalism in action: "What do they represent?"

[Mr Andrew D Rowe]

chick chick boom! The science is clear and undeniable.

[sk60]

How much cocaine could you fit inside your body? No, the other end.

Thank you for introducing me to the word megarectum.

[David]

Thank you for introducing me to the word megarectum.

I like to think of this blog as educational.

[AC1]

http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4731

[David]

AC1,

In the two years since I wrote this, I’ve read of over a dozen similar cases. It seems to be the latest thing in activist psychodrama.

[Ted S., Catskill Mtns., NY, USA]

Regarding the "finger food tripods", here in the US where corn on the cob is a popular summertime food, we've had corn cob holders for ages.

[Jonathan]

" There is Justice in being a Pervert."
A creed to live by.

[Spiny Norman]

Japan, what's wrong with you??? And some of us in the West actually believe we are in "end stage decadence"...

Of course, "Hentai Kamen" is just silly. The internet is full of truly bizarre and disturbing Japanese weirdness.

On the other side of the world: I've had a thing for Dame Helen ever since Excaliber...

[Spiny Norman]

Speaking of Japan...

[Spiny Norman]

David, I believe one of my comments was eaten by the spam filter. If you could be so kind, give it a jab with a sharp object.

[Henry]

How much cocaine could you fit inside your body? No, the other end

I too read this and added the word 'megarectum' to my vocabulary (going to be useful that).

Then I went to a Starbucks convenience and saw one of those delightful signs telling me to "only put toilet paper down the toilet" which always sounds wrong to me. I mean what if anyone wanted to put anything else in there? Er..cocaine for instance

I'll get me coat

[David]

If you could be so kind, give it a jab with a sharp object.

Jabbed.

I’ve had a thing for Dame Helen ever since Excalibur...

Helen Mirren packing heat. What’s not to like?

[BenSix]

Films with smoking in them (and how much).

It must be acknowledged that some films are hard to take while you are giving up. I'm a big fan of Asian movies and films noir, so while I'm watching my fingers twitch like ecstacy-engorged clubbers.

The site is hilarious...

Jabba the Hutt smokes a hookah pipe early in the film; the hookah pipe even appears on the movie poster!

I am all for discouraging kids from taking up the sticks but, jeez, how many people rushed out of the cinema desperate to follow the glamorous example of Jabba the Hutt?

[Spiny Norman]

What’s not to like?

Indeed. She doesn't even flinch while blazing away with an MP5.

[Spiny Norman]

Also, speaking of Hong Kong inflatables, our old friend, Florentijn Hofman's rubber ducky has put in an appearance.

[David]

The duck is fun, but I still prefer the rabbit.

[AC1]

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2013/05/peoples-daily-building-china-censorship/64845/

[Spiny Norman]

AC1,

Apparently, the Oligarchy is not pleased with the Giant Penis Building jokes to go along with the Big Underpants Building gags...

[witwoud]

Dame Helen's been blazing away again:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22423586