Introducing General Zod

Editor's note -- Sad and Useless: the most depressive humor site on the net presents:

Movies from an Alternative Universe!

re-imagined by Peter Stults 

Stellar! 

John Wayne at his Most Patriotic!    Spencer Tracy is Pure Kryptonite!
Clint Eastwood is a convincing menace!
--Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times


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Movies from an Alternate Universe -- William Shatner and Natalie Wood in "Avatar" !! po.st/MqEeUg via @Po_st

And it's kooky!

Editor's note -- To celebrate the centennial of the late, great cartoonist’s birth, Google feature on Jan. 7th a deft ghoulish “Doodle” in honor of Charles Addams, the longtime New Yorker magazine contributor who was a master of the macabre and a brilliant wit of the weird.

“I think he was so far ahead of his time by realizing that horror was funny,” Robert Mankoff, the New Yorker’s cartoon editor.

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karenagardner k. a. gardner 

It's creepy! -- CHARLES ADDAMS GOOGLE DOODLE: Spooky ‘Addams Family’ logo celebrates macabre cartoonistwashingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-ri…

Oregon Route 212

Editor's note -- Known for his dry wit, British photographer Martin Parr has long gathered amusing photos of contemporary boredom. The firetruck below serves the unincorporated community of Boring, located on Oregon Route 212 in Clackamas County.

A Boring Firetruck

Editor's note -- Boring's unincorporated community motto: An exciting place to live and work. 

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Today's Pictures: Boring! todayspictures.slate.com/20111110/via@MagnumPhotos

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Covert cat?

Editor's note --  Author and former CIA Agent Larry J. Kolb relayed this picture of a short man conferring with a suspiciously tall cat to Roger Ebert's Journal.

  

Editor's note -- As it turns out the cat was not an undercover spy in a covert operation, but was simply overly tall.

ebertchicago Roger Ebert 

 by KarenAGardner

Photo for 9/9 of a tall cat: bit.ly/mWIWis


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Tick. Tock.

Editor's note -- The guy from the Infectious Greed blog gloated at WSJ's contradiction in headlines yesterday. 

"Mind your own beeswax Kedrosky,"  
WSJ fired back. "Our Futile Headline as of 12:41 p.m. is Talks on Debt Resume!" 

"Cute"

pkedrosky Paul Kedrosky 

 by KarenAGardner

This is cute: WSJ can't keep up and has contradictory adjacent headlines on US debt dance. http://twitpic.com/5u8m8d

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Sky Scooters

Editor's note -- This experimental Social Media feature article is not altered news via twitter. 

Jet Ski Thingies

Karen A. Gardner

Streetcars and more! | Flipside. Florida.

www.flipsideflorida.com

JACKSONVILLE — There have been a number fast-moving developments at Jacksonville Transit Authority (JTA) of late, most importantly, the City Council approved a “2030 Mobility Plan and Fee” for the Northeast Florida multi-modal transit network on May 24th.

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    Patty Lamb ‎2030? Do you have plans to ride it then?
    

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    Karen A. Gardner I plan to own a chair-on-wheels in 2030.
    

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    Patty Lamb By then, maybe like a water jet sky but fly around in the air.
    

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    Patty Lamb I mean jet ski thingy
    

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    Karen A. Gardner Maybe everyone will have their own lunar landers, too.
    

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Black Friday

Editor's note --  Left-over Thanksgiving news:  Slate complains about the tastelessness of white-meat turkey. The Old Foodie offers a "few enthusiastic words." 

The Unbearable Whiteness of White Meat

Dark meat is better. Why don't we love it more?

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 by GardnersGazette

Thanksgiving turkey: The mortal struggle between dark meat and white meat.: Let me say at the outset, I don't ...http://slate.me/gL3hUw

White meat turkey has no taste. Its slabs of dry, fibrous material are more like cardboard conveyances, useful only for transporting flavorsome food like stuffing and gravy from plate to mouth. It's less a foodstuff than a turkey app, simulated meat, a hyperlink to real food.

But I am fascinated by how tastes get made and unmade, the intersection of culture, class and sensory responses. Not being a postmodernist I wouldn't call the overwhelming American preference for white-meat turkey a form of cultural hegemony. More like a mass hallucination. Why, for instance, hasn't white meat shared the same fate, the same cultural disenfranchisement, as packaged white bread?                               

"Why White Meat," asks Slate.

Editor's note -- "Here are the enthusiastic words of a columnist in the New York Times of May 13, 1941" ...

"The Hazards of Making Gravy" RT @TheOldFoodie Solving the gravy problem in 1941 http://tinyurl.com/2fewvfm

Ready-to-Cook Gravy Latest Addition to Quick Aids for Harassed Housewife.

"We are in a perpetual state of amazement these days over the endless parade of culinary short-cuts constantly coming into view. If things keep up at this rate much longer, filling the water glasses will be the most taxing part of preparing a full-course feast." ... 

Editor's note -- and a The Old Foodie "Quotation for the Day" ...

"....grease is not gravy. How often I have wished, from the depths of a loathing stomach, that certain well-meaning housekeepers - at whose boards I have sat as guest or boarder - who fry beefsteak in lard, and send ham to table swimming in fat; upon the surface of whose soups float spheroids of oil that encase the spoon with blubber, and coat the lips and tongue of the eater with flaky scales-that these dear souls who believe in 'old-fashioned cookery,' understood this simple law of digestive gravity!"

Breakfast, Luncheon and Tea, Marion Harland, (Mary Virginia Terhune) (1875)

The Gazette wishes a Happy Thanksgiving to Nicole and Terry!

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