I love Beaker… Poor guy.

I meant to post this a week ago, but it remains funny so nothing is lost. If you do not already follow Dr. Eldritch, you really should.  However, this particular issue might be my favorite. For obvious reasons.  Here’s the start of this storyline, but you should read the whole thing.

I know exactly how Mr. Puppeteer feels. In fact, there are parts of this conversation that could be a direct transcription of my life.

This may be the most awesome latte ever.

You should check out the Montreal Caffe Art Java youtube channel if you want to see amazing things done with foamy milk and coffee.

via epicftw.com

Here, while I’m writing, you can watch Eleanor Powell tapdance with her dog.

This musical theater homage to the internet makes me chuckle.

Whoa. Someone made a wikipedia page for Evil Robot Monkey. I’m baffled.

What an amazingly prescient vision in this moving picture show.

via Eric James Stone

When a friend calls and says, “My birthday is coming up. Do you want to have dinner with ninjas or dimsum?” The choice is clear. So, tonight, I had dinner at Ninja New York.

Not surprisingly, I had trouble finding the restaurant.

Once there, a ninja led us into the bowels of the building where a “feudal” Japanese village had been recreated.  Because I was late, Iwound up following a family with three little boys into the restaurant.  The ninja asked, “Do you want to go to your table the safe way or the ninja way?”

“Ninja way!” Three little boys, and I, chorused.

The ninja way was through a twisty and extremely dark passage built into the wall that led you up and down stairs back to a few feet from where we started, albeit on the other side of the door.

Dinner was fun, mostly because I think we were all determined to wring every bit of fun out of the experience. Otherwise… well, you know, ninjas are not trained to be waiters. Ours said that he’d majored in Forensic Astronomy and Ninja.  He was pretty funny all evening, but more of the ironic, hip version of ninja.

When I left the restaurant and got on the subway, my car and the car in front of it had no passengers.  For three stops, the train would stop, the doors opened and no one got on.

I couldn’t help wondering if the ninjas had gone out and slaughtered everyone while we’d been in the restaurant.

Really, this doesn’t need anymore intro than the title.

via SF Signal

YesButNoButYes: Elmo Meets Ricky Gervais.

There are days when a simple question can make your world collide.  I was looking for non-Henson hand puppets from feature length fantasy films so I tossed the question up on twitter to see what would come back.  (Gremlins are serving my purpose).  In the midst of this Berry Kercheval sends me this message. “Shari Lewis wrote a Star Trek TOS episode!!!”

Yes. Lambchop’s puppeteer, that beloved ventriloquist children’s entertainer wrote “Star Trek” The Lights of Zetar

This is the show that boldly goes…

Edited to add: The picture is photoshopped. The idea amused me, but I’ve just had three people respond as if it were real. Shari Lewis evidently lobbied for the role but was not cast. Lambchop never appeared on the Enterprise.

via Chris Hansen

My friend Doselle Young just sent me a link to this amazing poster from Cool Stuff Toys and Video.

Be afraid. Fear the wrath of the Puppet People!

And today, ladies and gentlemen, I learned that not all to-go cartons are microwave safe.  The container on the left, containing my lunch, and the container on the right began life as the same size.  One minute and thirty seconds later, I had a shrinky-dink.

And this is part of why I love Iceland.

Via Boing Boing.