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I picture John Cusack holding up a stereo playing this

Monday, July 21st, 2008

This is NSFW, though I’m assuming you don’t work in a place where you can play sounds from your computer at all, let alone ones about how a woman would pass through the flames of Hell to get to your cock.

Eminem, in Alf shirt, with birthday cake

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

Not sure how old he was when this photo was taken.

From the What The Shit Files

Friday, July 18th, 2008

A man preparing a race course through a park in the Netherlands was slightly injured when he fell into a pit lined with sharpened spikes — the third such trap found in the area this year, police said Monday.

The pit — lined with 15-30-centimeter (6-12-inch) metal spikes embedded in a concrete block — had been carefully hidden under leaves and branches in a park near Venlo, a town near the German border, police said.

“A person could fall into this, but also a dog, a child, people walking, bikers, motorcyclists — anybody,” police spokeswoman Nicole Theuns. She said the pit was about 1.5 meters (5 feet) deep and 80 centimeters (2 1/2 feet) wide.

The world is a fascinating place.

Useless Facts

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Watch how quickly this goes to hell.

Feel free to contribute your own.

Did you hear the one about the monkey and the testicles and the birthday cake?

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Mack “John Cheese” Leighty sends me this link, with the instructions, “This is fucking awesome, but you have to read the whole thing. You’ll want to stop, because you’ll think you know what the story is about, but you have to keep reading.”

Then he linked me to this.

Do what he says. You won’t regret it.

In print journalism they talk about the inverted pyramid structure, where you put the important facts at the top of the story because 1) you know many people will not read very far and 2) if the editors need to cut for space, they can just lop of the less important facts at the end. That’s why newspaper stories seem to just peter out rather than building up to some kind of conclusion.

I personally believe that this reporter just started making shit up and sticking it on at the end, just to see if anyone was reading that far. And I believe that he is a genius.