Of Course This Isn’t Real, But Let’s Humor Scope For A Bit…

 

Ho-kaaayyy… for the record, if you even THINK there’s going to be a bacon-flavored mouthwash (with a hint of mint at the end, yet!), you’re nuts. Or plain crazy. Or you’ll be SO upset about this gag that you’ll be calling up some shady law firm and planning to sue Proctor & Gamble for getting your hopes up (or “false advertising”, as it’s called). Granted, if you’re so upset about NOT being able to gargle with artificial pork and salt (and mint!)-flavored alcohol soup and you have THAT kind of money to hire a law firm then perhaps YOU’RE playing the bigger and better April Fool’s gag on a big company that needs that kind of surprise in their Monday morning mail.

Yes, I am a genius. But too busy of one to get to the contacting of a non-busy real or fake lawyer to set this up. Yeah, I’m too lazy, to go to all that trouble as well – so get to it and you’re welcome in advance if your, er, MY idea works out well enough to get you on TV or in a newspaper in your area…

Humor: Doctor Octoroc’s Doctor Who “Game” NEEDS to Get Made. Seriously.

 

OK, I usually don’t fall for goofy videos on sites like College Humor, but a friend sent me this link and it made me crack up, so here you go. Philadelphia-based artist/musician/pixel genius Doctor Octoroc rocks, I say. Speaking of “say”… say, If you just so happen to see a TARDIS pop up in your neighborhood, keep this link handy so you can show the Doctor (who’s bound to be amused) and maybe ask him to take you for a spin so you both can go on an adventure of your own back to… oh, say 1992 or so and try to convince some game publisher to make this a reality. Then again, I can just see you getting arrested and tossed in a mental hospital like Bruce Willis’ character from 12 Monkeys if you go around telling people you’re from the future. If that doesn’t get you committed, whipping out a thin laptop, tablet or phone will DEFINITELY land you in a rubber room. “Suuuuuurrrre, you can watch movie quality videos over an online connection… O-K, now… Hands up and drop the plastic toy, buddy… NOW!” Or something like that.

Oh well… I guess there’s always RPG Maker for the more talented and impatient types out there…

Random Film of the Week: F for Fake

F for FakeOK, I’ll admit I fell asleep the first two times I saw this astounding “documentary” (and final directorial effort) by the late, great Orson Welles… but not because the film was boring. Hell, Welles’ own “trailer” for the film clocks in at over nine minutes… for a film that’s under an hour and a half long. Even more amazing, it’s not even a trailer, but a separate film shot around the same time that ended up not being shown to promote the film before it vanished for a bit and was later found and restored (*whew!*).

Um, where was I again? Oh yeah: On the contrary, dear readers, I’d been really looking forward to seeing this film each time, but in both cases, it was shown very late at night (actually, very early in the morning) and I’d been awake both times for a bit longer than I’d expected. The third time wasn’t the charm, either, as it was on again at a very late hour and I took a nap in front of the TV so I’d be refreshed and ready to go. Of course, guess who slept through the first hour of the film? Did I mention that I don’t have a TiVO or other fancy (or dated) video recording device? *Sigh*…

And so it went until attempt number four…

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