Monday, June 23, 2025
Sunday, June 22, 2025
He's Starting To Speak Like an American
Not really. Laurence Brown will always have an English accent, but he has learned some American pronunciations. there's a 70-second skippable ad at 3:04
Iced Coffee
I'm not sure whether this story is about communication or about coffee. The joke is that Zak Toscani doesn't know, either.
Beam Me Up, Sulu
A group of friends in California watched the original Star Trek in reruns and cosplayed as the starship Enterprise crew. As college students in 1985, they made a Star Trek fan film, years before such things became common on the internet. Stan Woo had always admired the character Lieutenant Sulu for bringing Asian representation to TV, and decided to shoot the moon and ask actor George Takei to appear in their movie. Takei agreed! We don't know (yet) why the film wasn't seen for so many years, but the 24-minute movie Yorktown: A Time to Heal was finally released in 2022. You can see it at YouTube.
The story of how Yorktown: A Time to Heal came about 40 years ago and took so long to be seen is the subject of a new feature documentary, featuring Eugene Roddenberry, Jr. as executive producer. Beam Me Up, Sulu will premiere at the Raindance Film Festival on June 25th and will play in select theaters afterward.
Loki's Hiding Place
This Bengal cat is aptly named Loki, because he's both clever and mischievous. He likes to play hide and seek. This video captures Loki's favorite hiding place -in the dresser! Once he shuts the drawer, you'd never think to look for him there! Unless he purrs with satisfaction, of course. Loki's owner, josht1212, says they closed this room off to him after the video was made, because they're not sure if he can get out of the drawer on his own. I bet he could. (via Laughing Squid)
Saturday, June 21, 2025
Baggage
Three girlfriends are checking their baggage. At an airport? Well, it looks that way, but things are not at all ordinary here. They are warned to dispose of all bottles, but one woman has a bottle hidden deep inside that she'd honestly be better off without. We cling to what is familiar, even when it holds us back. This wordless story seems scary, but in the end, what is exposed and discarded leaves the world a better place. I'm not going to reveal any more of the plot, but do read the small print as you watch this.
Baggage is an award-winning short written and directed by Lucy Davidson at The Aardman Animation Studio Academy. (via Nag on the Lake)
Every International Flight Seat Map
I've only gone on one overseas trip, and it included a leg that was 16 hours long. It was too excited about the destination to pay attention to the motivations of all the other passengers, and too tired to sleep. Plus we had no cell phones, so we had to do with one big TV screen per compartment and enjoy the view with only our eyes. The bright spot was the food, since we had an Asian option for every meal. After that trip, I've never had food offered on a plane flight. This chart is from Matt Shirley.
Dizzy
I'm yall lol & can't STOP laughing at all!!! pic.twitter.com/ItarwS6ITu— Chris Rainey (@crainey3) June 21, 2017
What fun! (via reddit)
Picard's Situation
— Marti Lawrence (@marti-l.bsky.social) June 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM(Thanks, Marti!)
Friday, June 20, 2025
Electric Bill in the South
Jerry Wayne Longmire got his electric bill, reflecting the heat of a Texas summer. The shock and misery causes him to wax poetic in the style of novelist William Faulkner. And like Faulkner, it's long-winded but quite emotive. You can feel his misery through the words. (via Neatorama)
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