Scott Wade has got a lot of free time. Instead of writing “Wash Me” with his finger on the dusty cars in his neighborhood, he uses paintbrushes, chewed popsicle sticks, and about anything else to create the most incredible artwork in the dust. I wonder what people do? Really great work. [via autoblog.]
For the dozen of you that don’t know what “net neutrality” is or the ridiculous debate currently going on in Congress, let me sum it up for you. Big telecoms and cable companies want the ability to charge more money to big companies to provide more bandwidth for them to deliver bigger and bigger files [...]
I’m not expert on entertainment or popular culture anymore. I haven’t seen a movie in months. I think Dr. Phil is the best show on television. He gives some seriously good advice, and because of him I am in more touch with my inner self than I have ever been before. I want to have [...]
Bryan “Danger” Murphy, once again, thinks of the coolest, funniest thing, ever. Not only did this guy write the best farewell letter ever when he quit his job, but then he also went ahead and got mugged with a tree branch. Now, he came up with a little game that you all can help him [...]
I will admit that I have a been a little obsessed with Gnarls Barkley since first hearing “Crazy” on the radio in Dubai a couple of months ago. Since then, I have learned that that song, which is as catchy and addictive as singles can get, was actually the first song to hit #1 on [...]
I realized a few weeks ago that I have a collection of old emails, scattered about various online accounts and desktop software that I am quite fond of. There are many rants and raves, a couple love letters, a few breakups, and some dirty-talk. It occurred to me that I should scrub them clean of [...]
Very, very exciting news for those of us in Dubai. It looks like Google got a huge refresh of satellite images of Dubai in their latest map update. This means you can now zoom down almost to the lowest level, actually one tick before it, and see nearly every important building and landmark in this [...]
Everyone’s talking about Zinedine Zidane’s World Cup Final headbutt of Marco Materazzi. I have no opinion of the World Cup, of violence in sports, of international politics, or of France. I can only say that this is the single greatest headbutt I have ever seen… And the world holds its breath to find out what [...]
Will Ferrell just keeps getting better and better with every movie he makes. Please, do not watch this clip with food or drink in your mouth. It will most definitely fly out of your nose after watching this trailer. Please enjoy.
This is an email I sent to my bosses and co-workers at one of my old jobs late on a Sunday night after one of my Halloween parties. I was evidently very hungover. Sometimes I have no idea how I get away with this shit… Hey kids, It is 4am and I am awake and [...]
I had a roommate one time that turned out to be a criminal. We’ll call him “Bob” for the purposes of this post. It’s a long story. Maybe I’ll write a book some time. Here’s an email I wrote after he skipped town and the shit hit the fan. Bob, You HAVE to sort your [...]
I wrote this email on the afternoon of September 11th, 2001. To this day, I still can’t believe how worried I was about work-related stuff with everything else that was going on around me. This was to the Chief Creative Officer of the company, Organic, I was working for at the time. I was a [...]
A girl I knew in NY moved to California. We’ll call her Susan. I dated a friend of hers for a while. Somehow while in CA, we started emailing. It was very flirty and I started to really like her eventually. But long distance never works, so we never wound up together. We have long [...]
My friend Slob and I worked on a HUGE freelance CD-Rom project back in the day when CD-Roms were still important. A guy who worked for me at my fulltime job got us the job. The plan was that the 3 of us would share the responsibility and the money, which was substantial. It turned [...]
Ladies and gentleman, let me introduce Herman, the world’s largest bunny, at 7.7kg and 1 meter tall, and also, quite possibly the single cutest thing in the history of mankind. It looks like a fucking kangaroo in a donkey costume. [thanks you so much kathlene.]
Jake Shimabukuro plays this guitar ukelele solo, “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” written by George Harrison. I have never heard it before. It is absolutely incredible. Stick it out until the last minute, even if you don’t really like it, because it really goes off near the end. I have a playlist on my iPod [...]
I’ve been drawing robots lately, of all shapes and sizes, on sticky notes, in red felt tip, like before. Of course, I don’t have a scanner here, so I can’t share them. Well, I’ll save them, and then maybe I’ll unload them all in one shot when I am back in NY. “The Dubai Robots” [...]
I got this email from a dear friend today who I’ll be seeing on my upcoming trip to Barcelona. We used to work together, now we just flirt via email. This was a part of her response to one of my long, rambling emails that included some concern over the insanity in Lebanon right now… [...]
Every once in a while Dubai radio surprises me and turns me on to something new and great. First it was Gnarls, at least a month before he slammed into the US, and now it’s something else. I heard a song called JCB Song today and I instantly fell in love with it. It’s the [...]
Wow, yet another great email sent to me TODAY, if you can believe it. A good friend of mine from NY moved to Costa Rica with her boyfriend last year. I never fully understood the details of their living situation. Recently we started emailing again, and in my curiosity, I asked many questions. To my [...]
Umm. What? I, uh… Who? Did you? Which? I uh. Yeah. Keeley Hazell is a UK page 3 girl that is so hot she is making me question my own morality. I don’t know how to describe it exactly, but since seeing these pictures I have thought about both suicide and murder. If a 95 [...]
If football (soccer) was played like this all the time, I’d actually watch it. Honestly, I can’t think of anything more fun you could do with a car. These Top Gear boys really do know how to have a good time. Watch the Toyota Aygo vs. the VW Fox in a quick game of soccer… [...]
Gaming website IGN.com has the first 24 minutes of Richard Linklater’s latest “animated” feature film, A Scanner Darkly, online and free for anyone to watch. Linklater, writer/director of the acclaimed Waking Life, uses a technique called rotoscoping, where the film is shot with real actors and then is made to look like excellent animation in [...]
I hate it when network TV like ABC can make me laugh out loud. Unfortunately, as old as it gets, and as old and unfunny as the hosts are, America’s Funniest Home Videos does it to me every time. I assume this “Don’t Drink and Dance” clip is from that show. To be specific, this [...]
Yeah, as if Bowman 1 wasn’t great enough, they made a new one, Bowman 2, with a few more options, and a bird hunt mode that seriously could not be more satisfying. Keep playing until you get good and can shoot your own arrows out of the air, or pin 2 birds with one arrow. [...]
So, although most of the rest of the world has already seen Superman Returns, Dubai doesn’t have it yet. But we will. In just a few days it will open here. So, as you can imagine, the marketing machine is running fast and furiously. One of the local newspapers, 7DAYS, ran this Daily Planet insert, [...]
I don’t care if this one makes me a nerd. Vader Sessions is fucking brilliant. Akjak is an editing genius, and this Star Wars parody is going to make him famous. Well, at least web-famous, and at least for 15 minutes… [via popoholic.]
Here’s a little flash animated romance called “Everyday” to brighten your day. [via screenhead.]
Holy crap. As if the last Vader spoof post, Vader Sessions wasn’t funny enough. Check out this brilliant new one, Chad Vader, Day Shift Manager. Too good. [via horny oyster.]
How could something like this slip past me? I didn’t even know this was being made… I have hated every single on-screen representation of the Eastman & Laird classic comic since the day the first shitty movie came out. All of the cartoon series, movies, etc, have been shit. But if this new teaser trailer [...]
Jonas Geirnaert is a 21 year old animation grad student who’s short film FLATLIFE won Best Short Film in the Cannes Film Festival in 2004. It’s now up in its entirety on Google Video, and it is absolutely fantastic. Genius even. Enjoy. [via screenhead.]
So much for video fun on chrisdiclerico.com. YouTube is now completely blocked in Dubai. That means I can’t view, post, or enjoy, YouTube’s video goodness. For any of you reading from Dubai, any posts you find that say “AWESOME”, “funny”, “hilarious!”, etc, followed by a big empty white space, that’s where the embedded videos used [...]
I’ve got friends visiting NY this week while I am here in Dubai, and so I was compiling this list of places for her to go WITHOUT ME, and realized I should probably post it. Here is my take on the very best of NY, or at least my favorites. Best Italian Dear god, you [...]