To promote Cirque Éloize‘s imminent arrival at Birmingham Hippodrome, roving reporter Chris Unitt bravely submits his body to the whims of a quicksilver bicycle stunt.
Let me save you quite a bit of pinching and tell you that you are in fact awake, and that is in fact Tom Hanks doing a weather report dance with Chiquinquira Delgado on Univision morning show, Despierta America.
Deep Fried Thing of the Day: Chicken Charlie Boghosian purveyor of all things artery-clogging shows off his latest homewrecker: Deep-fried Kool-Aid.
According to Boghosian, the doughnut-hole-shaped death warrant was a best seller during opening weekend at the San Diego County Fair, with as many as 9,000 deep-friend Kool-Aid balls served.
It tastes just like a doughnut ball, remarked fair attendee Rashed Karram, who noted that he preferred Chicken Charlies deep-fried Klondike Bars.
Rebecca Black’s “Friday” is off YouTube due to a copyright claim from … Rebecca Black. The “singing” “sensation” is in a legal battle with the song’s producers, Ark Music Factory.
RB alleges that Ark never gave her the master recordings for “Friday,” and they didn’t obtain the necessary publicity rights to advertise her as one of their “artists” and sell ringtones and other Fridayphernalia.
tl;dr: Friday, Friday, got a takedown on Friday. Everybody’s looking forward to the lawsuit, lawsuit.
Tonje Langeteig — Norway’s answer to Rebecca Black (who the hell asked?) — doesn’t want to be a crappy housewife, but she’s more than okay with being a crappy everything else.
Comedian Eugene Mirman (of Delocated/Bob’s Burgers fame) reads aloud a full page ad he recently ran in New York Press and elsewhere excoriating Time Warner Cable for being the worst.
Funtivity: Replace “Time Warner Cable” with the cable company of your choice and the crux of his message magically remains relevant.
Background starts @ 3:13; letter recital starts @ 4:38.