The 2023 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Winners. The challenge is to write the opening line of the "worst novel ever." (via Fark)
An Honest Trailer for The Little Mermaid (2023 Version).
Scientists reconstruct Pink Floyd song by listening to people’s brainwaves. (via Damn Interesting)
A professional color consultant shares the 9 shades you should never have in your bedroom. So red is fine.
My Parents Are Dead: What Now? A practical guide for what to do that you should read ahead of time. (via Metafilter)
How HGTV’s Barbie Dreamhouse Challenge Became a Neighborhood Nightmare. Oh yeah, the house is for sale now. (via Digg)
How the Atomic Bomb Influenced Noir Films. (via Nag on the Lake)
29 Couples With Ridiculously Tacky Weddings.
The 50 Worst Decisions in TV History. (via Fark)
People keep saying everyone needs to turn the TV off and read more. I just turn on closed captions.
ReplyDeleteHappy Friday Miss C!
That first link to the fiction contest cost me a lot of time. They were so good I had to read them all. Some real clever folks out there.
ReplyDeleteThe color consultant is full of brown. My bedroom is orange and beige, two walls of each with the break line not straight down the corner but a couple feet along one wall at the ceiling to a couple feet along the adjoining wall at the bottom. I'm sure the color pro would have a conniption but you know what, when it's time for sleep and turn off the lights, it doesn't matter what color it is.
Tacky weddings proves "you be you", and "do your own thing", is not always wise... at least not with guests.
Happy Friday, gwdMaine!
ReplyDeleteThe 50 Worst Decisions in TV History should have included coming up with laugh tracks as #1
ReplyDeleteAn Australian addition to the 50 Worst TV Decisions list:
ReplyDeletehttps://meaww.com/forget-hb-os-the-idol-controversy-australias-naughtiest-home-videos-was-so-explicit-it-was-cut-while-it-was-airing