Category Archives: Weird

On and off my meds

Days I’ve been hic­cup­ing: 9. I had my wis­dom teeth removed on May 10th; since then I’ve had on-and-off bouts of hic­cup­ing last­ing, oh, three or four hours at a stretch. It’s really quite dis­tress­ing. Okay, it’s !@#$ing irri­tat­ing. You wormed it out of me. I’ve been to two doc­tors about it. The first one sug­gested a

I’m there right now”

Warn­ing: Freaky spooky con­tent ahead. Don’t click unless you like the heebie-jeebies (or the jib­blies, if you’re a Strong Bad fan). Today, on YouTube, I dis­cov­ered two of the eeri­est moments com­mit­ted to cel­lu­loid, and they’re both from David Lynch films. Chrono­log­i­cally first, here’s a snip from Lost High­way: I have the sound­track to this film.

That boy needs therapy

Ah, YouTube. Is there any­thing it can’t do?

They’re Made Out of Meat

If you’ve read and enjoyed Terry Bisson’s story “They’re Made Out of Meat”, you need to see this film. If you haven’t read it, and you like odd­ball SF, then you need to see it, too. The story itself is online, too. Found via Boing­Bo­ing. (where else, really?)

Scary

We all get them: credit-card appli­ca­tions in the mail.  I usu­ally rip ‘em in half and toss ‘em in the recy­cling. I may have to rethink that tech­nique. The Torn-Up Credit Card Appli­ca­tion Long story short: Good ol’ Rob Cock­er­ham, of cockeyed.com, tore up a credit card app, taped it back together, sent it off–and