The future of Rick and Morty is in jeopardy, as the nefarious scoundrels at Adult Swim have yet to renew the show for a fourth season, but neither Rick nor Morty are letting their unknown future get them down.
They're too busy starring in a kickass music video for the kickass Run The Jewels song "Oh Mama" and proving they've got a very bright future as music video stars. (NSFW language)
-Via VICE
It's no wonder Japanese creators come up with some of the most creative and bizarre characters and stories in pop culture considering their mythology is so darn strange and interesting.
But as original and creative as Japanese myths are they also contain many elements and themes you'd recognize from other myths, such as the snake-haired monster and the curse doll.
The Japanese version of a voodoo doll was made of straw and constructed to inflict a curse upon someone:
We all know the now famous movie trope of the ‘voodoo’ doll, but accounts in Japan show us of a type of straw doll used for cursing a person. To make one, create a small straw figure, then write the name and age of the target on paper and insert it into the doll. Next, draw a face on a separate sheet of paper and fix it to the figure.
At night, visit a sacred space and find an old tree, then with an iron crown on your head (which holds three candles), wait for the hour of the Ox – this is similar to our own ‘witching hour’ but the time is actually between 1:00 and 3:00 a.m. At this time, nail the doll to the old tree and your curse will manifest itself on your victim.
The Japanese version of the Gorgon myth involves reflections and shadows revealing the truly monstrous nature of a person:
It is said that the real intentions of a lady can be shown by her reflection and shadow. A gentleman who wishes to know the mindset of a woman should watch her reflection in a mirror, and if the beauty he observes in the reflection is actually a hag with writhing snakes for hair, her heart is impure, and a relationship with her would be catastrophic.
Likewise, if two women appear to get on in polite conversation then check their shadows: if both shadows display angry snakes in the hair, each trying to bite at each other, then know that the women actually hate each other, in truth, even though their conversation is polite.
An erstwhile German horticultural magazine, Möllers Deutsche Garten-Zeitung (“Möller’s German Garden Newspaper”), was a monthly publication that contained gardening tips and science articles about the plants of the world. They celebrated the first April Fool's Day of the 20th century in style, by peppering their April 1900 issue with fake articles featuring fake plants and fake gardening techniques, most of which were fairly obvious to regular readers.
There was a “tree strawberry,” which towered over would-be snackers. There was a trumpet that could kill all insects in its vicinity with a single blast. And then there was Echinocereus dahliaeflorus, a cactus covered in sharp flowers. According to the text, the cactus was found in Madagascar, and its strange blooms perfectly solved a longstanding argument between members of the German Cactus Society and the German Dahlia Society.
Everyone in the office must have had a good laugh over the tall strawberry and the bug trumpet. But as the months went by, E. dahliaeflorus proved unmemorable even to its perpetrators. As a later cactus compendium explained, “The April Fool joke is so cleverly concealed that the editor deceived himself”—when compiling new discoveries at the end of the year, he “carefully indexed” that particular fake plant among the real ones.
That indexing placed the fictional cactus in the rarified category of April Fool jokes that left a lasting legacy. If you Google Echinocereus dahliaeflorus, you'll find a few references to the plant as an April Fool joke, but The Plant List just flags the name as "unresolved." Read more about Echinocereus dahliaeflorus at Atlas Obscura, and see more in their week-long series of articles on historic April Fool's Day pranks.
There really shouldn't be a debate going on in the 21st century about whether the Earth is flat or not, but there is, and it's every bit as backwards as it sounds considering Pythagoras explained the Earth is round over 2,000 years ago.
However, if you find yourself in the middle of a debate with a flat earther just show them this comic strip and shut them up with a smile, because the creator of Cujko Comics is definitely on to something with this whole "world sandwich" theory. I mean, who's gonna argue with a sandwich, right?
-Via Geeks Are Sexy
It looks like chaos in the park for the Easter egg hunt! I don't know if there are actually any eggs in this picture or not (I see plenty of other discarded food), but you'll have fun trying to find and identify all the Marvel comic book superheroes and villains. Ryan Reynolds posted this picture, so you know Deadpool is in there (hint- he's wearing bunny ears). After you start really looking, you'll realize that the rarest figures are regular citizens who are neither Marvel characters nor cops. -via Uproxx
In an advertiser's paradise consumers would buy every single product advertised to them every single day of the year, but as we all know advertising and marketing aren't that effective and don't make people buy with abandon.
But if ads worked they way advertisers wish they would it would look something like this Good Mythical Morning video, as Jordan buys everything advertised to him and charges it all to Rhett and Link's corporate credit card. Advertising FTW!
Han was used to riding solo, he was used to being alone with his thoughts and a walking carpet to cuddle up with when the galaxy felt colder than usual, but then he met Leia and suddenly solo wasn't an option anymore. She brought out the goodness in him, turning that rogue into a ravishing romantic, and the solo became a duo who shared their love with the stars above. Suddenly it didn't matter how many wars they'd fought in, or how the odds were stacked against them, because they knew their love was a force to be reckoned with- and time would forever be on their side...
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Charles Darwin had ten children, and at least three of them were young artists during the time Darwin was writing his 1859 book On the Origin of Species. They saw dad's project as a source of paper for their drawings and paintings! Of Darwin's first manuscript, only 45 out of 600 pages still exist. They are in the process of being digitized for posterity, and they have yielded dozens of the children's artworks. More than just scribbles, they are historic marginalia worthy of preservation.
The drawings, made with pencil, ink, and watercolor, are playful and often humorous, although they reflect Dad’s talent for recording details, whether it be the multicolored wings of a butterfly or the pattern on a highlander’s kilt. Indeed, several of the drawings are more military-concerned and show battles or soldier’s portraits. Others show the children’s fluency with the natural world: bees buzz around flowers and a variety of animals are shown in profile and face-forward. Apparently, Darwin also recruited his kids for basic research including collecting various specimens and encouraged them to make their own observations.
See more of the drawings here. -via Everlasting Blort
(Image credit: American Museum of Natural History and Cambridge University Library)
Economy schmeconomy and Capitalism schmapitalism, amirite? Now depending on how you reacted to that statement you're either passionate about Capitalism and your country's current economic state or you don't give a damn, and frankly it's okay to feel either way about these financial matters.
But we're not here to argue- we're here to watch an old timey cartoon show about Capitalism, more specifically a "Corporate Cold War-era cartoon linking Bill of Rights to free-enterprise ideology" from 1954.
And despite how it may seem It's Everybody's Business isn't boring at all, especially when viewed with 21st century eyeballs.
Co-worker got his lunch stolen and they’ve agreed to let him watch the security camera tape. This is the most excited I’ve ever been at any job ever. Ever.
— Zak Toscani (@zaktoscani) March 29, 2018
Someone stole another person's lunch out of the refrigerator at work. The victim watched the security video, and now everyone in the office knows who did it. However, the perpetrator doesn't know she's been identified. How do you act? It's only a matter of time until someone spills the beans, or else she figures it out from the weird ways they've all been acting.
HOLY SHIT. He’s back. He watched the tape. He knows who did it.
— Zak Toscani (@zaktoscani) March 29, 2018
I can't imagine that she hasn't figured it out by now, because the Twitter thread has almost half a million likes and over 150,000 retweets.
I love this ending. I don't need to know why she did it, I enjoyed the ride.
— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) March 30, 2018
Thanks for today.
You can read the whole story at Digg.
Whenever you install and use iTunes you're forced to agree to Apple's user agreement to continue, a lengthy document that is essentially just a long-winded way for Apple to cover their butt.
I've never read this entire document, and chances are neither have you, but illustrator Robert Sikoryak has and somehow it inspired him to create a comic book version of that ridiculously long legal document.
Robert rendered his "unauthorized adaptation" of the iTunes Terms and Conditions in the style of many famous cartoons and comics, from the Simpsons to Peanuts to Dick Tracy, and his graphic novel is making people actually want to read the document!
-Via VICE
It might be an unpopular opinion, but I always found gender reveal parties to be a bit self-obsessed -after all, your friends and family members probably don't actually care that much about whether you're having a boy or a girl. That being said, they're also a bit boring, I mean, there's really only two options out there when it comes to the big reveal. On the other hand, the gender reveal party in this comic by Adam Ellis is features a truly exciting surprise.
Via Geek Girls
Elton John is one hell of a showman who wows crowds with his stage shows while playing hit songs like "Candle In The Wind" and "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", but imagine how much more dazzling his stage show would be if he played a flaming piano!
There's no way an audience would forget seeing Elton play "Tiny Dancer" while his piano burns away to a pile of ash, and there's no way you'll forget seeing James Nelson play his flaming piano either- because he really cooks on those keys!
-Via Digg
You might get away with filling an Easter basket with boiled eggs and Peeps if your children are young, but adults are much more discriminating in their Easter treats. Ranker compiled results from over 13,000 online voters to determine the best Easter candies. Cadbury Eggs took three of the top five slots, but did not make #1. The overall results are:
1. Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs
2. Cadbury Creme Egg
3. Cadbury's Mini Eggs
4. Lindt Chocolate Bunny
5. Cadbury's Caramel Egg
The list ranks 27 different Easter-themed candies. You can sort results by sex, generation, and region and get somewhat different results, but Reece's Peanut Butter Eggs stays at the top for all of them. -via Uproxx
If a little kid carrying a cardboard box comes up to you and asks you if you want a cat you should say yes immediately and free that poor kitty before it suffocates.
But maybe you should ask that kid for their name first, because if they say their last name is Schrödinger you may not want to see what's inside that box... (Comic by Raph Comic)
-Via Geeks Are Sexy
