Pumpkin Night.
Tonight, we invited over a few of our pals with one goal in mind: make some fucking Jack O’Lanterns.
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There’s something in the forest.
Just in time for Halloween, here’s a real life ghost story.
This is the Aokigahara forest, at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan.
It’s known in Japan as the Sea of Trees, it is thought of as a home to demons in Japanese mythology, and also, it’s a Suicide Forest.
Look, it’s Leelo and Fri from Futuramo!
Painted on the side of the House of Mirrors at the Griffith Park Halloween Carnival.
The Meltdown is an LA Weekly Pick of the Week!
So now you have to come, right?
Get your tickets here, and follow us on Twitter at @meltdown_show! We’ll see you Wednesday!
Gynomite’s Reading Room
New CPR regulations. Ha ha, funny funny, but seriously click here and keep yourself informed.
I had the pleasure of interviewing Shanae Hall, ex-NFL wife, about Brett Favre, dating, and how women need to take more responsibility for themselves.
A laptop thief mails his victim a USB key with all of the stuff from his stolen laptop on it. Awwwwwwww.
A really great essay about being bullied. Go read it.
The most pretentious sentences from reviews of Jackass 3D, collected. My fave?
The Jackass movies blossomed, like a flowering plant from the derriere of a nudie in a Hieronymous Bosch painting…
Brett Favre’s wife says that faith is getting her through her husband’s indiscretion. I advise her that faith should include holding his ass to the fire. At Lemondrop.
Ooooooh, watch out! These shoes are sooooo performance-enhancing, NBA players can’t wear them! Or as Vivek said, “This might as well be a paid advertisement”.
Christina Hendricks is apparently going on a diet. Here’s my thoughts on how we’re all part of the problem that made this happen.
OH HOLY SHIT Jezebel decided to repost that post from Lemondrop, which was a huge deal to me. Go read it again?
Turns out our translation of the Mayan calendar may be off by as much as 50 to 100 years, so the world probably won’t end in 2012. John Cusack must be embarrassed.
Another group project for TV.com where we all talk about our dream TV parents. Mine are Bill Cosby and the Mom from The Adventures of Pete and Pete.
Hey guys, your art school degree is way worse for you than it is for ladies…
Four reasons why we choke under pressure and how to avoid them- from Lifehack.
The Army is redesigning their uniforms for women. Hooray!
Does this look like rape to you?
Australia thought so. They just banned this Calvin Klein ad for promoting violence and rape.
Preeeeeeeetty promotional, I’d say. What do you think?
Sephora is awesome
I ordered this “On-the-Go Eyebrow Kit” from Sephora a few weeks ago, and when it arrived, it was awesome, except that the eyebrow pencil lead, so to speak, had broken inside and was just bobbling around in there. So after having it for like two days, I pulled off the lid only to have the lead fly across my bathroom and into the toilet.
I found this both disappointing and amusing, so I emailed Sephora to tell them about it.
What did they do?
They rushed me another one free of charge!
Thanks Sephora!
The power of the podcast.
No one is saying that these three news items are related, but let’s do a timeline, shall we?
It’s announced that Mel Gibson will make a cameo in Hangover 2 as a tattoo artist, a la Mike Tyson (who, by the way, did rape someone many years ago).
Zach Galifianakis appears on the Comedy Death Ray podcast saying:
But a movie you’re acting in, you don’t have a lot of control — you just show up and vomit your lines out. I’m not the boss. I’m in a deep protest right now with a movie I’m working on, up in arms about something. But I can’t get the guys to [listen] … I’m not making any leeway.
Today, Hangover 2 director Todd Phillips canceled Mel Gibson’s cameo, saying:
I thought Mel would have been great in the movie and I had the full backing of Jeff Robinov and his team. But I realize filmmaking is a collaborative effort, and this decision ultimately did not have the full support of my entire cast and crew.
And that’s how that is done.
For anyone who’s ever been told “Walk or shop” as a teenager loitering at the local mall…
This is part of a series called Honest Shopping Mall Maps.
Lots more hilarity in this vein at College Humor!
I have two questions about Hasbro’s newest toy, Cuponk.
1) Why should I buy this rather than just using a cup and a ping pong ball? Oh, my cup won’t light up when I get the ball in? Won’t I know the ball is in the cup when the…. ball… is in… the….. cup?
2) How is this NOT Beer Pong?
Seriously, this is a ridiculous toy on so many levels.
At least Cuponk kids will grow up ready to take on all the douchebags in their dorms.
