Suburban dirtballs of the 1980s are a lost culture, worthy of academic study, that disappeared abruptly, leaving mysterious artifacts for future generations to work over. Think of them as, say, the ancient Mayans, only with mullets.
If there's one thing that will take away any heavy cred you might have, it's the fact that no one looks cool rocking a Barbra Says Farewell t-shirt while bopping around town. But if these t-shirts were real, no one would ever make fun of any of us for loving Celine or even Bieber ever again.
News from the world of heavy metal: A woman is now the gore-smeared face of long-lived horror thrash group GWAR. Apparently she wears prosthetic tits that periodically spew blood and goes by "Vulvatron." (Legal name: Kim Dylla.) If you aren't familiar with GWAR, this clip from Beavis and Butthead pretty much provides…
Things are about to get seriously kawaii-seriously because this is METAL we're talking about—up in here. Babymetal, the world's best (and probably only) half-pop/half-metal entertainment sensation has released their first full-length album and the songs sound insane. And then really catchy. And then insane again.
• A cute, unnamed 18-day-old hippo calf made her first public appearance at the Berlin Zoo yesterday. She is the first hippo to be born in Berlin in three years. •
Remember that South Park episode that spoofed that sci-fi, fanboy-jerk-off-material movie Heavy Metal? Here's a clip from the original, in which a woman has sex with a robot and decides to get married to it after "experiencing ecstasy with mechanical equipment." It's kinda NSFW due to naked cartoon breasts.
Last night's episode of South Park was a take on Salvia, that legal drug that kids can take that make them freak out and fall over, only to wake up and find that their friends had immortalized their trip on YouTube. In the episode, the kids learn they can get high from inhaling cat urine, so Kenny tries it out. He…
