Obscure national holiday #26

I know that you've all been eagerly waiting for the next installment of 'Obscure national holidays' so it gives me great pleasure to announce that tomorrow will be - Towel Day!

This is a tribute to the late, great Douglas Adams (the author of hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy). Now, I loved the H2G2 books as much as anyone, but in all honesty I find the idea of wandering around with a towel all day just a little bit weird.

But then, I tend to find quite a lot of comic geek behaviour rather creepy if I'm honest.

I for one welcome our new ape overlords

I am happy to report that our glorious ape masters have once more struck a blow for the freedom of brother apes everywhere. This time though, there's VIDEO!

P.S. I love monkeys too.

McDonalds - not just an evil corporate giant...

...but they're also completely out of touch with reality.

I had heard about this piece of news a while back and dismissed it as a fucking stupid idea but apparently the PR bods at MaccyDees disagree with me.

For those of you too slack to read the beeb's coverage - this is McDonald's attempt to get the Oxford English Dictionary to change the definition of a McJob. The definition is currently -

Mc·Job –noun: an unstimulating, low-wage job with few benefits, esp. in a service industry.

Now, thanks to changethedefinition.com, McDonalds are hoping to get enough signatures to force the OED to change it around. I sincerely hope that this is as much of a PR disaster for them as the McLibel case was.

If you would like to complain about the idea that McDonalds is using corporate influence against a British institution, then I would direct you to email David Fairhurst, senior vice president of the company and ask him to keep his hands off the English language.

You might also want to get in touch with Clive Betts MP and express your distaste for this piece of arse kissing.

Supergnar Shredalism

Whatever.

So as winter approaches (what? It's right after summer isn't it?) the snowboard industry has started shaking it's tail feather in my direction trying to tempt me with it's sweet sweet candy. Mostly it's stuff like new kit that's available, and as nice as some of it is, it ain't really blogable.

However, Mack Dawg have released the trailer for their new movie 'Picture This'. For those of you who need this explained, snowboard movies are released every year, and feature a bunch of riders being supergnarly and doing megawootangtrickery. The Mack Dawg crew are some of the best in the world, and their films tend to be pretty awesome.

For the AV nerds out there, I'm sure you'll be happy to know it's also being released in HD DVD. For those of you who have a life and don't spend 45 minutes at a dinner party telling people about the active speaker sound funnel that puts out 1.21 gigawatts that you have - it's being released in normal DVD as well.

Oh those wacky wacky Swiss

The Swiss. A nation famous for cuckoo clocks, chocolate and knives with hacksaws on 'em.

Well, I think there's something else that the Swiss should be famous for. Cow wars!

Now before some animal lover starts crying at the inhumanity of this, I will tell you that the cow's horns are all blunted, and the animals aren't forced to fight (apparently some contests are decided by the first cow to wander away disinterested being named loser).

So there you are. The Swiss. A nation so boring, that when asked to invent a bloodsport they came up with cattle battle. Tune in next week to hear all about Camel Wrestling.

There was no chance I wasn't going to comment on this...

For those who are interested, Rotterdam zoo have a new King Kong attraction.

I have nothing really to say, I just thought I'd let you know about it. Truth be told, I've found the photos from the zoo rather disapointing thus far. I'll let you know if some good ones turn up.

UPDATE! - here's a photo of the ape in question.

Hello True Believers...

I just noticed that despite meaning to have done this for about a month, I haven't actually posted anything up here about 'Heroes' yet (this is now going to delay my Spiderman 3 comments yet further, but I'm sure you can cope with that).

Now, this is a show on the Scifi channel about...

...Heroes (what a shocker!)

More specifically, it's about a genesis point for superheroes. As Picard is so fond of saying in those damn x-men movies "An evolutionary leap". So it deals with normal human beings becoming aware that they aren't quite so ordinary after all.

Now, I remember watching the first episode of this show and not really caring. It wasn't like there was some awesome light and I suddenly fell in love with the show in the way that there was when I saw the first episode of Lost (something else I keep meaning to post about on here).

So for a few weeks I went about my life not really caring about Heroes. Watching the adverts for the show but not really giving a crap. Then one day I come home and it's on, and my housemates won't let me turn it over, so I sit down and watch it. Holy guacamole! It appears that the writers for Heroes decided to try something new with their show - make the first episode crap, then make the rest of them awesome.

You may think I'm exaggerating, but it's the truth - the first episode of heroes was uninspiring, but as the series goes on it gets more and more mega. So now we're nearing the end of the first series, and it's supermega. So you should be watching it, or at the very least feeling bad for not watching it.