Beware the adorable, yet homicidal lamp. A brand parody of Pixar:
You can find it here, if the embedded video crushes your browser.
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New poll shows Canadian voters not apathetic, but in existential crisis
TORONTO (The Skwib) — They may wear toques instead of berets and scarf down high-octane Tim Horton’s coffee instead of smoking Turkish cigarettes, but a new poll shows 79 percent of Canadians are in as serious an existential crisis as most French novelists about to write a bleak philosophical roman ennui.
“A bit of uncertainty is healthy, but a crippling lack of meaning and purpose can really screw up your political system,” says Martin Angst, Director of the Void Institute for Philosophical Research.
According to the survey, a whopping 72 percent of Canadians who are undecided or who have said they will not vote in the next federal election have said they “don’t see the point”. A further six percent say the “meaningless” of the vote drives them to despair. One percent say they are heavy industrial magnets. The latter group are likely not existentialists, but absurdists.
“It is clear from these poll results that Canadians must accept that existence is prior to essence,” says Angst. “In other words, if they want meaningful choices they will have to make the choices themselves.”
And if Canadians don’t like the candidates available on the ballot?
Angst just shrugs.
Alltop and humor-blogs.com are both filled with a sense of despair.
Stanley Kubrick Bloopers
You can always find the Kubrick kookiness here if you need a retake on the embedded video. Via the talented Dan Meth.
Alltop and humor-blogs.com still think Dr. Strangelove is Kubrick’s best film.
The Marvellous Hairy Podcasts
As readers of The Skwib, you may be aware that I am also a novelist releasing his second work, Marvellous Hairy – a novel in five fractals. It’s available direct from the publisher now, and in stores in October.
But I’m also podcasting this bad boy, and they are well underway. I’ll be listing them all here, at iTunes, at Podiobooks.com (released soon) or you could check out the episodes on my writer’s blog:
Part One, The Cult of the Claw
Episode One (chapters one and two)
Episode Two (chapters three to five)
Episode Three (chapters six to eight)
Part Two – The Human Ideal
Episode Four (chapters one to thee)
Episode Five (chapters four and five)
Buy Marvellous Hairy directly from the publisher. Released in stores this October!
Alltop and humor-blogs.com are also easy listening humor monkeys.
The Marvellous Hairy Podcasts
As readers of The Skwib, you may be aware that I am also a novelist releasing his second work, Marvellous Hairy – a novel in five fractals. It’s available online from the publisher now, and in stores in the Fall.
But I’m also podcasting this bad boy, and they are well underway. I’ll be listing them all here, at iTunes, or you could check out the episodes on my writer’s blog:
Part One, The Cult of the Claw
Episode One (chapters one and two)
Episode Two (chapters three to five)
Episode Three (chapters six to eight)
Alltop and humor-blogs.com are also easy listening humor monkeys.
Listen to my new novel, Marvellous Hairy
If you’d like to join me for the podcast of my second novel, you can find the listing of them as they’re released at the Marvellous Hairy website. While you’re there, sign up for my newsletter to catch all the news as it happens.
The first episode (which is about twenty minutes long and covers the first two chapters) can be found at my other blog, on my author’s site. I’ve added the second episode now too. You can also subscribe at iTunes, and soon at Podiobooks.com.
Or you could just go get your own copy to read yourself. Just sayin’.