Kiss that frog!

I love Peter Gabriel; he's a brilliant artist, doesn't take himself too seriously & has done a lot of good in the name of some worthwhile causes.
I love his song Kiss That Frog, but this little guy here is not the kind Mr Gabriel had in mind I think.
Add water to the cute little green guy & hey presto! a squat, strangely positioned little guy with terrible hair appears.
I think I'll keep the frog thanks...

Have some plastic with that food

Not the kind of drawing you would expect from a plastics company.
PolyFlav offers the unique service of flavouring the plastic container your food comes in, in order to enhance the taste...
Frankly I'd prefer not to ingest plastic-flavoured food. Besides the synthetic taste issue, I'm sure there are other hidden health risks.
Like scurvy ;-)

Where oh where could my luggage be?

Despite modern gadgets and sophisticated technology that has developed over the years since the invention of velcro and sliced bread, airlines are still losing luggage, sending off peoples' precious belongings to the strange destinations in abandoned corners of the world.
But if you've ever wondered what happens to all that lost & un-claimed luggage, wonder no more.
A bunch of savvy individuals in Alabama (obviously new and exciting things are hard to come by in that neck of the woods) have devised a use for all those items that clutter the Lost & Found departments at airports the world over - they're selling the items to would-be bargain hunters.
Yehp, you can buy your lost items back, if they've been found that is.
No doubt there are some rather "interesting" items in that store, aside from the bags of travel-sized toothpaste tubes & secondhand toothbrushes available for sale...

Bye Bye Bad Memories

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a brilliant movie - one of those ones that leaves you going "hmmmmm" for a long time afterwards.
It also serves as a reminder that Jim Carey can be taken seriously as an actor and that occasionally he presents one with the opportunity to watch a performance that doesn't feature fart jokes and rubber-faced expressions.
But back to the fundamental idea behind the movie; what would the effects of controlling peoples' memories be & would it be a healthy thing?
Scientists in the Netherlands have been conducting trial experiments (with human subjects) in erasing/blocking traumatic memories - take a pill and all the bad memories are gone.
While I can see the value for victims of violence and such, I'm still left questioning the long-term consequences of such "treatments".
It's likely that the "treatment" will be far more readily available in first world countries - leaving third world countries with their bad memories.
There is already such a mental divide between wealthy & poor countries - just look at how unconcerned people are with the conflict in Darfur & how long people have been struggling to get the "powers that be" such as the US & certain European countries to actually give a damn. Administer this pill to the populations of western societies and we'll widen the gap between people.
Take a person who has no recollection of any violence or painful life experiences & let them try & relate to a child war veteran in some African country who watched their family get massacred at the age of 4 & has been killing people for the ten years since...
While the potentials for this magical eraser pill need to be considered, there are so many other things that come into play - when you consider it in a global light.

Jean Clutz van Dammit is back! Again!

Obviously inspired by the success of such internet phenomenons as The Hoff, Chuck & Vernon Koekemoer - Jean-claude van Damme has determined that his day of reckoning has come!
He has apparently decided to make Bloodsport 2: The Sequel (A washed-out fighter makes his comeback after many years of going off the rails!)
So in the first movie, his character battles his way through a deadly tournament, much like the Tekken games & the Tekken movie that is due for release this year.
Obviously a similar, predictable plot won't do for Jean Clutz! He wants to dig deep into the character, explore the role, expand on the plot, make it real, gritty, dirty and oh-so-awe-inspiring!

"You know, like, we’re gonna do Bloodsport 2, which was my first movie. And I want to do it now in a very mature way, where the guy from Bloodsport is a complete bum, maybe abusing his son."

Man, I'm dying to see the movie already! I'm drawing no similarities between Mickey Rourke's recent comeback in The Wrestler, Sly Stallone in Rocky Balboa & the rest of those awful comeback movies that have assaulted & insulted audiences' intelligence over the last few years.
I wonder if he'll still be able to do all those ballet splits, now that he's 48...?