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Gideon Television (Superstar) reporting.
When the pain of signing autographs and being recognized across Second Life becomes too intense, I like to kick back at Abbotts Aerodrome, where a parachute and aviator goggles afford me some anonymity. There's a whole range of things to do here, including piloting a variety of flying machines, skyboarding - even dogfighting. But it's the tranquil beauty of freefall skydiving that's my bag, man.
You can find an ecard for any occasion. Here is a lovely selection of ecards to let someone know you may have given them a sexually-transmitted disease. (via the Presurfer)
The last few weeks, Jellio has been reminiscent of Greg Maddux, circa 1992-95. During that span, Maddux won four Cy Young Awards and four Gold Gloves, compiled a record of 75-29 (including a 19-2 campaign in '95), and led the league in ERA three times.
For the non-sports fans, you can also compare this stint to Eddie Murphy's 1983-1984 run, where he was carrying the born-again Saturday Night Live on his back and ruling the box office with Beverly Hills Cop.
Jellio's Top Ten Creepiest Icons in Advertising History post, in tandem with Scaramouch's exclusive coverage of National Underwear Day 2006 (the Joe Piscopo in the Eddie Murphy comparison), brought YesButNoButYes close to its first 100,000 unique visitor day. [Can someone from our analytics/tracking department confirm these figures?]
This came on the heels of his Top Ten Obscure Sports post, which inspired the folks at Mental Floss to host an invent-a-stupid-sport contest (see the winners).
Only a matter of time before a publisher agrees to fund Top Ten Magazine, which will lead to the inevitable VH-1 series starring former MTV VJs Kennedy and Jesse Camp. And not too long after that, we'll get to post the Top Ten Suspect Financial Decisions Made by Jellio & his Newfound Fortune. Fasten your seatbelts, kids.
this guy may blow up the world a week from Tuesday (or perhaps just Israel).
As first reported in the Wall Street Journal, and then repeated by everyone from Fox News to BoingBoing, the August 22nd timing of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's response regarding his country's nuclear program corresponds to a very holy day in the Islamic calendar, when Mohammed flew to Jerusalem and then to Heaven. And yes, this is the same Ahmadinejad who once said Israel must be wiped off the map.
All I'm saying is that you may want to watch his 60 Minutes interview tonight for clues, and you should probably try to have a really good week.
And one last thing. Remember what I was saying about the timing of the foiled terror plot announcement. Not only was that discussed on every Sunday news program, but it turns out British intelligence didn't want to break the story until they could gather more evidence, but were pressured to by American officials...We can't vote these fuckers out of office soon enough!
Ok, no more political crap for at least a week. I promise.
Gideon Television here, superstar, explorer, frequenter of strip clubs, and citizen of the land of Linden - Second Life. In the coming weeks, I'll be your guide to the coolest shit you can find when your First Life just doesn't cut it. I'll show you how to go skydiving, play golf, get Mai-Tais in Tiki Bars, test water slides, and visit Dublin, London & Vegas, all from the comfort of your armchair. We'll be flying in planes, helicopters and even a TARDIS, and, perhaps more importantly for you reprobates, I'll be sharing my love of the seedier side, including my trials of the XCite genitalia, plus an up-close & personal review of the Top Ten Escort Services in Second Life.
While I'm getting ready for my first post, if any of you have your own special place in SL you'd like me to visit or review, email me at gideon (at) yesbutnobutyes dot com.
Peace.
I'd like to welcome the newest member of the YBNBY writing team, Gideon Television. I've been trying to persuade Gideon to write for us for a while now, and I'm glad he's finally taken the bait. Look for an post introductory post soon.
I heard about Eons a couple weeks ago on the ABCNews podcast. It's basically MySpace for Senior Citizens, and I thought I might include it in the breakfast links one day. Looking around the site this morning, I see that on their list of today's top ten searches, senior sexuality is at #3. And I decide the site needs its own post. You go, grandpa.
To very interesting art posts on Neatorama. In China, visitors can view an outdoor project called Fashion Slave. I like when I can grasp the concept, and the work is also incredibly cool to look at. It's a win-win.
On the flip side of that coin we have Skin Gun, a piece the artist assembled using an 8 inch piece of her own skin. And with that, I opt to skip the bacon with this morning's french toast.
- Tina Fey's new show 30 Rock looks friggin' amazing. And remember, when they don't have apple juice, have a vodka tonic.
- You watch a 3 minute clip of jiggling anima breasts, and you wonder...exactly when do they have time to build better cars?
- After that, I need something educational. Watch this claymation reel of 35 famous paintings and see which ones you know.
- Clell Tickle is the Suge Knight of indie rock? No, Suge Knight is the Clell Tickle of hiphop. Play the cd, or he'll burn your kids.
- And the people taken aback by Ms. Jackson's nipple would go into cardiac arrest if they watched the Scheddy Weiner bit.
"Lady in the Water" ** (out of four): M. Night Shyamalan's attempt at a modern day fairytale is lacking a vital ingredient: a point.
M. Night Shyamalan makes the kind of movies where a character can appear in a pool, introduce herself as Story and no one questions it. I don’t have a problem with that, per se, but I have to ask: what is it with this guy and water?? First, it’s kryptonite to Bruce Willis’ reluctant hero in the missed opportunity that was "Unbreakable", then it’s acid to the ill-informed aliens in the misfire that was "Signs". So I suppose “The Lady in the Water” might be called the latest in M. Night Shyamalan’s “Water Series”.
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