These pictures were taken by me with my cell phone @ JFK airport the night we dropped Dylan off to head for Cairo.

I couldn't resist myself.

The Perfessor

Anyways, one of my favorite stories is about Prometheus, the Greek god who stole fire from his brethren and gave it to man. As punishment for his crime, Prometheus was chained to a rock for all eternity and had his liver torn out by a vulture every day only to have it grow back every night.

I recently came across this webtoon by Mark Weinstein that examines all of the humorous elements of this story.

Round and round they go. Like Space Junk made of stone

If you click on the YouTube link itself, you can see the uncropped version with the number of asteroids summed since 1980.
I'll spoil it for you. It's over a half million.

We're not alone out there. Oh, wait. We are alone, but there's a half a million rocks out there waiting to sneak up on us and get all stony and stuff.

Sound not req'd, but it's appropriately trippy music.
Click the HD on the video options in the right hand corner so the little dots don't get too blurry.

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I know that we have the freedom of speech here in this country, but something about not being able to incite a riot or violence against others comes to mind. Well, thank goodness there is someone like Stephen Colbert who can put this stuff in perspective for us....

You go Stephen!

The Perfessor

This guy has balls. And he has to eat them.

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Recently, two movies hit the theaters.

One, The Last Airbender was based on a amine series. When I heard that this Japanese styled cartoon was being made into a movie, I felt a bit lost. You see, I don't get cable TV. If I did, not having kids of that age, I doubt if I would have been watching Nickelodeon channel. The show was made similar to many Japanese amine shows, but specifically made for Nick. I went out, and through the wonders of Netflix Streaming, watched the first season of Avatar: The Last Airbender in nearly one sitting. It's a show meant for kids, but getting around the cloyingly sweet segments, it had a decent story to follow. The movie made from the show was saddled with child actors that had trouble not tripping over themselves and way too much exposition. The cartoon was cleaner and certainly tolerable. And that's what you'll see next.

What I'm going to show you next will be slices, not from the movie, but from the cartoon that ran on Nick.

Now, with cartoon mashups on the web, most of the time you'll get some cool soundtrack.

Not this time.

This time, it's been mashed up from another recent movie, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Scott Pilgrim, as you all certainly know by now, was a comic book first, and then a movie made to look like it came right out of a comic book. The problem with Scott Pilgrim was it was saddled with a child-like actor who unfortunately grew up to be a larger child with the expressive palette of a potato. The success of the movie revolves around some of the really unlikely (but intentionally funny) dialogue.

Ramona's Seven Evil Exes. Love the old guy in this.

So, what this video does, is take the better bits of dialogue from the Scott Pilgrim movie and matches it with the proper action sequences of the cartoon. You'll see below that this is done to near perfection and it's worth a click.

The guy that did the work mashing these two things together notes

Fun Fact:Mae Whitman appears in both Scott Pilgrim as Roxy Richter and in The Last Airbender (animation) as the voice of Katara; one a nemesis and the other a friend.

Really fun, no?

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via BoingBoing
Mashup creator's website

Bonus: The mashup between Scott Pilgrim and The Matrix done by the same guy.

Houston Fire Department spokesman Patrick Trahan said arson investigators were at the scene of the fire, but no cause has been determined.

The three-alarm blaze started about 4:15 a.m. at the football field-size warehouse the county uses to store its election equipment. Firefighters extinguished the flames about four hours later.

No injuries were reported.

The county’s voting machines, including eSlate equipment, were stored at the nearly 27,000-square foot facility, county officials said.

Early voting begins Oct. 18. Election Day is Nov. 2.

You can read more about this story here, or view the video after the jump.

Seriously, you would think that anyone who spends more than five minutes watching Beck's verbal vomits, could clearly see that he is not only a tool, but that he contradicts himself.

Don't believe me? Watch the clip after the jump, and see...

Told ya so!

The Perfessor

Just listen.

Just click through.

All will be revealed.

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