Thursday, August 31, 2006

19th Century Images of Albinism

This page has an interesting collection of photographs of Albinos, many of whom worked for Phineas Barnum in his travelling sideshow. It states on the page:
The phenomen of trading in images of unusual people seemed much more common in America than elsewhere in the world...
Interesting, though for some reason, not surprising. We Americans do love us a good freak show, do we not?

Paul F. Tompkins

Tonight Joren and I are going to see the very funny Paul F. Tompkins at a taping for a Comedy Central special. Many of you may remember Paul from Mr. Show or perhaps as the man who introduced Tenacious D every night from their HBO series. He's also very fond of drinking. Check out his site for more info. We'll let you know how the show was. Because I know you're all dying inside with concern.

Fun With Substance Abuse!

This is an interesting/depressing way to calculate how your drug money could've been spent, had you not been drinking/smoking/shooting/snorting your life away. I'm only a few drinks away from a Caribbean Cruise!

Drug Calculator

Cobra-san!

This is an amazing promo for Sylvester Stallone's seminal film Cobra. Surpisingly, Stallone is actually more intelligable in Japanese.

Welcome!

As many of you are aware, I have a tendancy to want to share a lot of the things I find on the internets. I assure you this is only out of love, and not meant as a form of punishment. But I can understand the toll it must take on your inboxes and sensitive schedules, and so: Kyle's Best of the Blogs (or kylesbob). Feel free to stop by for all of the shit that amuses me, or add me to your RSS feed reader for easy updates. I'll add to it when I can. Also feel free to comment away so that we may all share in riveting discussions on everything from celebrity antics to robot antics to presidential antics.

I thank you.

Jerry Opens Up

This is the kind of honesty that makes us all very...uncomfortable. Thank you Jerry.