Humor

July 23, 2012

Monday Funnies: Of Flatulence, Felines, Humans,and Giggles

The last week has been full of awful news. This is my attempt to provide you with a momentary diversion. As disgusting as it is, we find flatulence funny [Lastech: it’s only disgusting when somebody else does it, non?]. We find it funny when Maz Whang? (Kitsy) does it. We find it funny when Miss Jenny does it.

Imagine our glee when watching an interview that happened on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Dax Shepard and Kristin Bell were guests. Part Two of their interview had us in stitches. We had published another interview with Kristen Bell where she described her meltdown over a sloth. This time, they’re discussing…yes you guessed it! FLATULENCE!!! Enjoy…

July 6, 2012October 29, 2013

A Bit of Friday Absurdity

It’s Friday and the start of the weekend for most of you. I came across a couple of photos that made me laugh. My most important survival skill is my ability to laugh. Life can be a pain in the tuchus, so it’s good to be able to laugh about it whenever possible. It beats the alternative, at any rate.

Here’s a State Trooper’s nightmare.

I love this one

Last but not least is a talk given at TED by Charlie Todd, the creator of Improv Everywhere. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

July 2, 2012July 2, 2012

Guillermo Del Toro: “H.P. Lovecraft project is back on”

Some notions, no matter how far-fetched they might appear, are simply too exciting to just whither and die.
The long rumored and awaited Guillermo Del Toro project “at the mountains of madness” based on an H.P. Lovecraft story is getting some renewed interest from a new source, Steven Spielberg.
The new production will likely rely on the motion capture technique Spielberg became familiar with in one of his most recent projects.

We can’t wait…

Tintin's Lovecraft style — A tentative movie poster generating buzz

June 23, 2012June 23, 2012

Caturday: the kitteh in black

Do cats dream? Yes, and not just about chasing mice or stealing food from the kitchen. We found out Kitsy likes sour cream, and hot sauce, which of course sends him sauntering to the litterbox right quick with what I call a bad case of volcanorifice. Cats like watching movies as well.
They just get it all confused at times, which in turn confuses us. In other words, you can never trust what a cat thinks…

We haven’t even seen “the woman in black” yet, but after watching this clip from “Fry & Laurie”, they’ve decided to… Re-enact what they haven’t seen yet. What imagination they have… But first the clip:

Somehow, from this, Jenny started acting the part of the kitteh in black:

Jenny the woman in black — Woooo…! Woooo..! LOL.

Mazuzu, still too weak to really play, acted the narrator, as if there was one, but it doesn’t matter because – well, because…

Kitsy narrating LOL woman in black — “… Don’t go chasing shadows, Gigadoon…”

Gigadoon is Tito’s new(ish) nickname, by the way, and Jenny’s is Gigic with hard G and pronounced Guiguitch. Balkans style. Sort of. Doesn’t matter.

In the haunted house, Tito finally surrenders to fitful slumber…

Trocadero haunted house — “The windows are where the doors should be..! Oh. This is all so confusing!”

Kitteh in black Tito sleeping — Dust bunny! Dust bunny! No escaping that for me..!

June 4, 2012

Manic Monday: Bouncy Bouncy

Our last journey to Golden Gate Park was on Memorial Day. While there, we discovered an invasion of bouncy houses. They were everywhere.

Of course, that means that I have to include the little ditty that inspired all those bouncy captions. We’re fans of the Mighty Boosh.

May 20, 2012October 29, 2013

Musical Sunday

The other day, I made a post about musical blinds. Tito is strumming as I type. However, first thing in the morning, Tito and Jenny go into berserker mode and careen around the apartment at full speed. Of course, going at full speed means drifting around the corners and leaping over and on the furniture.

Don't let that placid look fool you. Tito and Jenny are monsters in the morning. — Don’t let that placid look fool you. Tito and Jenny are monsters in the morning.

Action as exciting as theirs deserves some good theme music and here it is. It’s called Devil’s Galop, by Charles Williams. Please forgive the typo on the YouTube video. It is named after the galop, a French dance.

And now onward to the cute stuff. We came across some geese and goslings when we went to Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park. It was the day we saw the nesting herons.

Have a happy Sunday everybody

May 18, 2012

The Mystery of the Musical Mini Blinds

I was working on a computer project when I heard it. It was a steady thrumming of the mini blinds in the other room. It kept going on and on. I finally couldn’t stand it any longer and got up to see what it was. It was Tito and he was strumming the mini blinds like a guitar. His strumming was downright furious, let me tell you.

Why was he doing this?

Then I went and looked out the window. Next, I had a fit of the giggles so bad I had trouble holding the camera still enough to shoot the picture.

Tito was the victim of a cruel taunting by a rat with wings, er, I mean a pigeon.

May 4, 2012October 29, 2013

Creepy Friday with Creepy Pets

I love creepy movies and I love creepy pets as well. Like many people, I’m a fan of icanhascheezburger. The last theme I did with lolcats was Monty Python. This time it’s Silence of the Lambs. Hannibal Lecter was one of the most delicious bad guys ever.

April 29, 2012

Two pillars of humor: context and reference

For your enjoyment, two related videos:

April 28, 2012

Caturday: morning socksplosion and playtime

While Mazuzu continues his recovery, Jenny shows signs of boredom. Add to that the oh-so attractive scent of freshly laundered socks and she’ll leap into action, ‘sploding the contents of the laundry bag all over the kitchen floor.

She spent so much time rolling in it, biting and clawing, that we actually noticed two colored spots on her gut: a solitary dab of orange and a light blue one where she was, erm…- fixed.

socks explosion in kitchen — And she fought us for them, too...

Weird, I know, but there you go. Getting the socks all over the place was just the “apéritif”, and she moved on to paper towel shredding on the bed, attacking our toes and my calves, throwing one of her stuffed toys in the air repeatedly (we had to cover our coffee mugs just in case).

Jenny nursing Sphynx cat — The nurse is now bigger than the patient

Hours later, the little Hellion’s crashed on the cat tower recharging her batteries while Tito’s out chasing some flying thing, perhaps imaginary.

cat chasing bug — "Don't make me get up there!"

… What Nurse Jenny does most of the time: keep Maz the Schnazz warm:

how to keep a sphynx warm — "Yeah. He's mine too..."