David Erik Nelson's Blog, page 24
November 28, 2021
November 25, 2021
FLASHBACK THURSDAY: Our Most Important Thanksgiving Traditions #gobblegobblegobble 🦃💀
I’m a child of the 1980s, so most of my nostalgic holiday memories are TV-related. THANKSGIVING TURKEY GIVEAWAY! (WKRP in Cincinnati) from Tony DeSanto on Vimeo. (Yeah, I repost this every year, because I love this gag, and because watching this on TV—and rehashing it with my mom and sisters each year—is one of my fondest holiday memories. But it is, in my humble, a damn-near perfect gag.
November 18, 2021
♬♫♪ STROKIN’ ♬♫♪
The looks on these Québécois’ faces tell me that they do not have a strong command of the English language. Strike that: the Mike Pence-looking Midnight Cowboy furthest to the right? I think that mofo 1) speaks serviceable English, 2) selected this song, and 3) told the rest of the dance team that it’s about competitive swimming. (For reference, here’s the original video; God bless Clarence Carter...
November 16, 2021
Is It Just Me…
or do Sad Kanye and Resting Xenomorph have the same energy? Sad Kanye (at a zipline somewhere, I guess?
November 15, 2021
This is an extremely intense song about getting the proper amount of sleep…
(i told you)...
November 12, 2021
Flashback Friday: The Jimmy Hold
Straight talk: this still cracks me the fuck up.
November 9, 2021
The title sorta casts the whole thing in a new light…
I mean, a severed Russian head is a pretty dope thrift-shop come-up.
November 2, 2021
I was never a “Union Forever” kinda guy . . .
. . but Elon Musk’s breathtaking lack of shits to give for human life and limb pretty much makes me want to perpetually barf down his throat. Tesla CEO Elon Musk, whose factory in Fremont, California, has more OSHA violations and fines than the big three automakers combined from 2014 to 2018, announced that he was moving the company’s corporate offices to Austinsource I recently spoke to an...
October 29, 2021
Flashback Friday: Halloween Edition 🎃🦇🔪
A seasonally appropriate list of creepyscarry links: Teddy Has an Operation (short film)A Researcher’s Descent into Madness (short film)Actual pages from an actual children’s book from the American “Satanic Panic” of the 1980s (absolutely factual historical info; not fictional in any way, except for in that thoroughly un-fun mass-hysteria-and-the-delusions-of-crowds way)
October 27, 2021
May We Be Brought Back from the Mouth of Annihilation
8220;After the Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting my coworker at the Hebrew school admits she wishes we had less windows” by Joshua Elbaum I bet birds wish the same thing. That anyone would take the sky, crack it, put its pieces where they don’t belong, astonishes them. The birds fear our foolishness. We who dare to choose between gifts the sky offers: light without rain, heat without hail...