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The Hummingbird Spy.

by -RoG- on 03/10/2009, 1:45 pm

UPDATE #2: In addition to the video footage I got of 'em the other day, I just put up a new hummingbird feeder so they'd be more inclined to come back regularly and it worked like a charm. Hit the jump and then scroll down into the comments section to see some photos of one o' the hummingbirds pigging out. (3/14/09)

Bird... James Bird.

For a long time now, there's been a hummingbird who keeps flying up to my window and spying on me while I work. I'll never understand why he finds me so particularly interesting. Maybe he knows that I've had a hummingbird feeder in my closet for almost 2 years now and have yet to set it up so he can drink its sweet Kool-Aid-like nectar. It's one of those projects that requires me to remove the screen from my window, drill a hole in the side of the building, dangle from the ledge while trying to hang the feeder up and hoping to hell that I don't fall three stories down to my death where people will find me with a broken neck and covered in red hummingbird syrup. Not exactly how I'd like to leave this world, hence the procrastination.

Now, I've never been able to photograph the hummingbird in the past, because it would fly away before I had a chance to turn my camera on. That all changed today, when the lil' fella got even more ballsy (or perhaps, just lazy) and decided to sit on a small tree branch outside my window to do his spying from there... (more...)

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In Which I Cast Pearls.

by Max Burbank on 03/03/2009, 3:57 pm

A future masterpiece, just waiting for YOU to put it to good use.

Gentle reader, a colossal rainbow soap bubble of an idea has burst in my brain, or else I’m having a stroke, and in any case the concept is too unmanageably huge for me to dream of actually executing it, busy as I am with all the various what not of my day to day. And so, rather than madly tossing the baggage of my life overboard, throwing my arms wide and embracing it, but also unwilling to let it drift away, another cloud dispersing into the stratosphere of all the grand ideas I’ve had and then forgotten; I’ll sketch it out for you here and leave it; A blueprint made of cobwebs and synapse left lying in some virtual attic corner to be found during my eventual estate sale.

I have in mind a metaphoric tool for looking backwards over our shoulders at the collapsing twentieth century we are rapidly clattering away from and it works like this: (more...)

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My Top Tens For 2008.

by Protoclown on 02/25/2009, 3:27 am

Here are my Top Ten movies, albums, and video games from 2008. I would have done comics too but I read a million of them, and my memory isn't that good. Besides, what do you do--individual issues, story arcs, titles or what? Anyway, I'm curious to see some of your Top Ten lists for last year so feel free to share your own in the comments.

Movies:

This was the easiest category to do, though I was tempted to make my number one choice take up the first five slots, because it really was that awesome. (more...)

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Late Night With Conan O’Brien: Thanks For All The Years Of Laughter.

by -RoG- on 02/21/2009, 5:10 am

Late Night with Conan O'Brien... my all-time favorite talk show.

What can I say... for a big, goofy guy, Conan O'Brien is a total class act. I'm really going to miss having him keep me company late at night while I'm up working on the computer as usual. Still, I hope he does just as well on the Tonight Show as he did with Late Night. He's been a huge inspiration and one of my comedy heroes for many years now, and he really went out in style this past week. He's a brilliant comedic writer (along with the writers on his staff) and one of the most naturally funny people out there. It's been a blast seeing some of my favorite memories from the show again and it reminds me just how much I'm really gonna miss it.

But hey, now he'll be getting his pale ass burned off here in Los Angeles just like I am, and maybe I'll finally get a chance to see him in person when he takes over the Tonight Show. See you in June, Conan. Until then, however, enjoy a well-earned extended vacation.

Survey: For those of you who were fans of Late Night With Conan O'Brien, please share some of your favorite memories from the show in this thread.

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Boo Berry Auction Antics On eBay.

by -RoG- on 02/18/2009, 1:24 pm

Some of you probably recall the "Create A Monster Cereal" contest I held back in the 2007 Halloween season. It was definitely one of our better contests as far as the quality of entries went, and perhaps it's because I was offering up the super rare Boo Berry costume (only available briefly via mail order back in the day) as the grand prize. Well, imagine my surprise when I was searching for "Boo Berry" on eBay the other day (one of my regular routines) when I see the same contest photo of me in one of the auction listings:

Why a fine costume like this isn't still in production is beyond me.

After further investigation, I noticed that the seller of the costume was none other than J. Tithonus Pednaud, the guy who won the contest here on I-Mockery! Turns out he was moving to a new place and had to sell off a bunch of his stuff. Obviously, this excuse alone wasn't acceptable. If it came down to leaving your kids behind or taking that costume with you, any person in their right mind would choose the costume. Mr. Pednaud did have another excuse with photographic proof to back it up at least...

'Look at the size of that boy's heed. I'm not kidding, it's like an orange on a toothpick. That's a huge noggin! That's a virtual planetoid!' -Stuart Mackenzie

He apparently has himself a huge noggin and was unable to wear the costume without damaging it as a result. Poor Pednaud and his broken heart.

Well, I didn't want to see that costume go to some unappreciative home or to some collector who was just gonna try selling it for a fortune, so I decided I would be the one who would win this auction. However, I did have some questions about the costume since it had been out of my hands for well over a year. (more...)

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Happy Friday The 13th!

by -RoG- on 02/14/2009, 2:25 am

COME ON EVERYBODY! IT'S FRIDAY THE 13TH! THAT MEANS IT'S TIME TO DO THE JASON!

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