Are you a Tuba Hero? I am.

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Chances are, if you are a fan of those newfangled, plastic guitar-powered video games “Rock Band” or “Guitar Hero,” you’ve seen some of the spoof shirts, such as “Cantina Band,” “Cowbell Hero” and “Recorder Hero.” But “Tuba Hero” is by far the best one yet. Oh, if they only had this back when tuba heroism was my life.

You know how to talk like a pirate. Now it’s time to have yourself a pegleg-worthy pirate name. But first, matey, you have to take this quiz. It’s pretty entertaining, and you get to call yourself something really cool. You can refer to me as Dread Pirate Kidd from now on. (Which is kinda funny because one of my fraternity nicknames in college was Dead Kidd, but I digress. Arrr.)

I’m a big fan of animal shadow puppets, but I can appreciate the artistic bent of these creative creature hand-paintings. They are hella creepy, however.

Sticking with the animal theme is this awesome post featuring a slew of ravenous critters. Take a gander at the many squirrels in there, the crazy-eyed cat discovered in the fridge, the Welsh Corgi caught in the jar and a very cute rabbit raiding the cookie plate.

This is a really funny and comprehensive list of really bad stuff that can happen to you, ordered in terms of badness. Things such as sneezing three times in a row, writing a terrible haiku and bumping your shin into the coffee table are pretty low on the bad scale, while getting keelhauled, skinned alive and finding that you “step through a time warp sending you back to the age of the dinosaurs, and step on a bug, resulting in the human race never evolving, causing a paradox ripping reality open at its seams” all qualify as “epic.”

Got a stupendously awesome link you want to share? Send ‘em to novapoppin@gmail.com. If you’ve watched and/or read “Watchmen,” you’ll laugh heartily at the video of the week:

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