The basic premise at “before I die I want to.org” is to say exactly what it is you want to do before you die. Here are just three examples of the many postings:

I hope you’re still alive when they carry you out.

Sounds to me like you’re ready to go at any moment

We have no clue who you are. You’re a total mystery. Since YOU know who you are, WHAM, you just solved your first mystery!

Here are the official rules:

To submit your own “Before I die I want to…” Polaroid to this project,
please follow these steps:

1. Think about what you want to do before you die.

2. Have someone take a Polaroid photo of you AS you are stating what it is you want to do before you die.

3. In your own handwriting in the large white area of the Polaroid under the photo, write down with a BLACK sharpie marker what you just said you want to do before you die, starting with the words “Before I die I want to…”

The Great Office War from Runawaybox on Vimeo.

What a fantastic video short of epic proportions. Has a nice little ending.

One word - HOT!  I love the impish grin!

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Songs for Gay Dogs?… What about lesbian cats?
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Dear Freddie,
I only wish I knew your friends before they passed. I bet they were fun to hang out with. Cheer up champ. There’s a light at the end of that tunnel… I mean, there’s always hope.

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Heaven came down alright… Right on his head!

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Whoa … For a second there I thought that was a real dog/wolf/lamb behind his guitar. Turns out it’s just a super realistic puppet.

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Brilliant cover. I only wish that it included a skull mask!

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Gary, please, please … Can you just sing this one for me?

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No Mike, THANK YOU for the music! Because the music fills my soul and makes me feel all warm inside. I picture doves floating above my head singing sweet songs. Thanks again Mike!

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Ummm … I’m not even going there Little David Wilkins, King of ALL the Taverns. Simply put. YOU ARE THE MAN!

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This is just wrong! Wrong, wrong, wrong. Now I would be interested in singing along with Teddy Kennedy and a bottle of Scotch!

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I’m not a huge fan of musicals. I always thought it was bizarre that spontaneous song and dance would suddenly break out and the extras in any scene would never react. Hello? Does anybody else out there find musicals incredibly corny? This video shows how people really act when a musical breaks out in the food court. Brilliantly pulled off by improveverywhere.com.

These interiors were all the rage back in 1974. Colorful, hip, modern, and cool. Yes sir, this was the cutting edge. Put on your bell bottom jeans, big collar shirt and strut through some three inch shag carpeting. Cue up your favorite 8-track tape and you are ready for some seasons in the sun Terry Jacks.

I recently purchased a LASKO fan for a family camping trip. On the flap of the box are these selling points:

Why Buy a Fan?

• Create a Wind Chill
• Circulate Air Conditioning
• Bring Fresh Air In
• Dispel Stale Air & Odors
• Use for Only Pennies a Day
• Get Comfortable!

WHAT? If you’re buying a fan and you’re thinking to yourself Hmmm, I’m not convinced yet and you ask yourself why you should buy a fan – chances are you probably don’t need a fan.

Yet another comic that I created over at stripgenerator.com. I like dog + pig. I think I’ll work up some more cartoons with these two characters. They look like ‘ol pals. Dog has a smug look on his face and pig just looks slightly surprised and overwhelmed. [Click the image for a larger version]

If you like this strip, click on the “bookmark” button below and Digg it or add to StumbleUpon.

Here’s another cartoon that I created over stripgenerator.com. I haven’t visited the site in awhile and thought I should check back in. Stripgenerator.com makes it very easy to create your own comic strip with their pre-built cast of characters and bubbles. Click the image to see a larger version.

Also see:
Strip generator is addictive
Why the long face?

After spending five and a half hours on the tarmac in Austin Texas late last year, It was interesting to read that 2007 was one of the worst travel years on record.

Here are a few of my favorites from a USAtoday article:

• A passenger in first class on a British Airways Delhi-London flight in March awoke to discover that a corpse, upgraded from coach, had been propped in a seat in his row.”She kept slipping under the seat belt and moving about with the motion of the plane,” Paul Trinder told Britain’s Sunday Times. “When I asked what was going on, I was shocked to hear she was dead.”
• A 64-year-old man was hospitalized earlier this month after chugging a liter of vodka rather than surrendering it at a checkpoint in Germany’s Nuremberg airport.
• SkyWest airlines apologized to a passenger who said he was forced to urinate in an airsickness bag during a short flight in March because the only restroom was closed due to a malfunctioning light. The man told the Salt Lake Tribune he’d had two “really big beers. It was like I had no choice.” The pilot called police upon landing in Salt Lake, but the airline later gave the passenger a travel voucher in addition to the apology.
• In July, a flight from St. Petersburg, Russia, to Turkey turned back after the crew was unable to break up a fight involving three inebriated men. It started, said the Russian News and Information Agency, when one of the men was “given the cold shoulder” by a woman he was chatting up and hit her in the face.
• Toilets overflowed on an Amsterdam-Newark flight on Continental Airlines in June, causing passenger Collin Brock to tell a Seattle television station King 5 News, “I was forced to sit next to human excrement for seven hours.”
• Passengers weren’t the only ones guilty of bad behavior in 2007. In April, a Northwest Airlines pilot locked himself in an airline restroom, where he had a loud, obscenity-laced conversation on his cellphone as passengers boarded his flight in Las Vegas. When confronted by a passenger, the pilot cussed at him. The flight was canceled as a result of “inappropriate language by a crewmember,” the airline said.
• A stowaway squirrel on an American Airlines flight from Tokyo to Dallas in February caused the plane to land in Honolulu. An airline spokesman told the Associated Press the pilots were worried the “varmint” might damage the plane’s wiring.
• Nepal Airlines personnel sacrificed two goats on the runway in front of a malfunctioning Boeing 757 to appease the “Hindu god of sky protection,” Reuters wire service reported in September. After the goat sacrifice, the plane took off for Hong Kong.
• Not even Vatican-backed Mistral Air was willing to appeal to a higher power when authorities confiscated holy water from pilgrims returning from the Roman Catholic shrine at Lourdes, France. The airline’s president cited rules that ban carry-on containers holding more than 3 ounces of liquid, telling the Associated Press, “These (regulations) have to be respected.”

[Thanks JC]

Nothing funnier than a drunk Malcolm Middleton dressed up as a drunk Santa in and around London town. This must be a fairly normal event as most of the people in the video hardly notice or have any reaction to him at all.

In this video, indy rocker Malcolm Middleton puts a holiday spin on his upbeat “We’re all going to die” number. Just add bells, a children’s choir and BANG, you’ve got yourself a holiday classic. He’s pining for the number one Christmas slot on BBC radio one. See the official song site here.

We’re all going to die
We’re all going to die and what if there’s nothing
We’ll all have to face this alone
There’s a when not an if inside everybody
Mortal thoughts like this can make you feel so alone

You’re gonna die, you’re gonna die, you’re gonna die alone
You’re gonna die, you’re gonna die, you’re gonna die alone
All alone.

And what if I don’t become famous posthumously
Maybe my story’s no good
If I can take one possession then it’ll have to be my duvet
When oblivion comes calling it’ll be so cold

You’re gonna die, you’re gonna die, you’re gonna die alone
You’re gonna die, you’re gonna die, you’re gonna die alone
All alone.

When you can’t sleep at night and there’s no one to hold you
Remember I’m going through the same
You’ve got to laugh into the dark
We’re all one in a million
We’re alive, we existed, we took part, in the game.

We’re gonna die, we’re gonna die, we’re gonna die alone
We’re gonna die, we’re gonna die, we’re gonna die alone
We’re gonna die, we’re gonna die, we’re gonna die alone
All alone.

Also see:
www.myspace.com/malcolmmiddleton

The Honda Element Commercials are well done, funny, and simple. Honda reaches out to their key demographic with a BIG “What up?” On the other hand, the Honda Odyssey commercials also reach out to their target demo but without the pizazz.

Check out the mini site:elementandfriends.com Here you’ll be able to play the companion game driving either the EX or SC model. The game is fun to play and addictive. The basic premise is you drive around an island, in an Element of course, looking for the animals from the commercials. When you see one, a talk bubble pops up. You can either speak with them [initiate dialog between the Element and the animal] or play a game. The animals are an interesting bunch.

So, which commercial do you like the best?

Also see:
Forget the Honda Odyssey Viking spot