Every year, the Dutch town of Zundert holds a grand spectacle known as the Corso Zundert. It's a parade of the most astonishingly well-crafted parade floats. You can never be sure what will come down the street, but you can be certain that it will be covered with dahlia flowers in a vast variety of colors.
Zundert is the town where Vincent Van Gogh was born and raised. Van Gogh is now famous for his depictions of, among other subjects, flowers. So it is fitting that this small town throws a glorious annual festival of flowers.
Not own a cat, mind you. You never really own a cat. You can, however, have a cat in your home. Unless the landlord doesn't allow pets. Then you've got to find a substitute.
Twisted Doodles shows you how. It begins with an expensive cashmere scarf, a cactus, and poor decisions.
This architectural gem is the Friedrich Bayer Bridge in São Paulo, Brazil. It's a path for pedestrians and bicyclists across a canal in front of the headquarters for the Bayer pharmaceutical company. The firm LoebCapote Arquitetura designed it.
There are two metal islands in the canal that provide support for the 90-meter long bridge. The islands have plants on them, creating the impression that they're giant lily pads. They also serve as pivot points so that the bridge can open for boat traffic.
Gather around, children, and I will tell you a cherished tale of our ancestors. Way back in the 1990s, there was a television show called Beavis and Butthead--a soaring epic of courage, beauty, love, and fart jokes.
One of the two heroes of that story was Beavis, a sub-standard teenage boy who transformed into an alter ego when he overdosed on sugary snacks. Thus Beavis would become The Great Cornholio. You can observe the transformation in this video:
Like Peter Parker and the radioactive spider, The Great Cornholio was born from an experiment gone awry. Beavis and Butthead visited a sick friend in order to mock him. The boy's mother offered them breakfast burritos as a snack, which they found repellent. So they rooted through her kitchen cabinets in search for more satisfying fare. Beavis found candy, ate too much of it, and became The Great Cornholio.
(Photo: Drew Swantak)
Perry Santanachote, a culinary necromancer at Thrillist, made this tasty homage to The Great Cornholio. It is a burrito composed of the ingredients that formed our hero's catalytic meal: a Snickers bar, a Twinkie, jelly beans, sprinkles, jam, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, and Fruity Pebbles wrapped up in Fruit Roll-Ups.
When you're playing baseball, you can't be tagged out if you're on base, right? I think that's the rule. But the umpire wasn't paying attention during this impromptu game in South Carolina.
Police in Fort Mill tried to pull over a driver who was weaving in traffic. He refused to stop, which resulted in a car chase. It ended at the suspect's home. He got out of his car and went to his house, apparently thinking that the crisis was over:
The driver then reportedly disobeyed instructions to stay in the car and instead started walking toward his home’s front door. When told he was under arrest, Lafferty said, “You can’t, I’m on base,” and reached out with his hands to the side of the house. [...]
Lafferty reportedly struggled with deputies when they attempted to handcuff him and “continued to state that he was at his house and could not be arrested,” according to the report.
As we mentioned last week, scientists have uncovered bones in Argentina of what they believe to be the largest dinosaur ever discovered. They've named it the Dreadnoughtus after HMS Dreadnought, a revolutionary battleship launched in 1906.
That's quite appropriate because this huge dinosaur that lived 77 million years ago probably weighed 65 tons and was 85 feet long.
What do those dimensions mean? The numbers are so huge that they're hard to grasp. So the BBC has helpfully provided this comparison chart. The Dreadnoughtus is not as large as a 737, but it's close and passengers get free drinks.
How many cats do you need? The correct answer is "more."
You're a cat lady--a person of vogue and glamour. But not necessarily Vogue and Glamour. Historically, you've been marginalized by the fashion industry. But no more. Now there's a magazine that puts you on the fashion runway.
It's called Puss Puss, a new venture that offers "beautiful photography, illustration intelligent writing, interviews and more by established as well as up-and-coming creatives from around the globe." And its core audience is cat people.
(Image: Fox)
The first issue includes an interview with Ai Weiwei, a Chinese human rights activist, artist, and owner of 30 cats. There's also a photo shoot with Anja Konstantinova, a model who has several cat tattoos.
Doghouse Diaries has some brutal ideas for how to inflict your wrath on your most deserving enemies. This is part 3 of an ongoingseries, so the artist clearly thinks a lot about revenge.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
It's already taking effect. My inner thoughts are now suddenly in the voice of Gilbert Gottfried. And I routinely drive joyfully toward what appear to be open parking spaces in crowded lots, only to suffer the acutely painful presence of a microcar or a motorcycle.
Professionally, Scott K. Ratner is known as a writer, actor, and stage magician. He's also, it would appear, a master impersonator. Here he is imitating two classic Hollywood giants, Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda, performing the "to be or not to be" soliloquy from William Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Ratner's performance is particularly effective because he's not just reading the words in the voice of Stewart and Fonda, but also acting as they typically did--even mimicking their postures.
Our favorite pancake artist, Nathan Shields, now has serious competition. A friend of redditor ptgkgte makes full color pancakes that are almost photographic in their stunning degree of realism. He makes them for his kids, who are fortunate to have such a masterful artist in the family.
He really should go professional. This level of artistic quality deserves more than the "nameless friend of a redditor" level of internet fame.
Jason Sanders' dog jumped off a 6-foot deck, breaking both of her front legs. She won't be able to walk like a normal dog until her the vet takes off her casts. But that's not stopping her from going wherever she wants to. Her determination to enjoy herself is adorable.
If my young daughters send me Facebook friend requests, is it okay if I click on "Ignore"? I really don't need this kind of drama in my life. Rob Fee's assessment of what a toddler's Facebook news feed would look like is just about right.
He's like a human getting a professional massage at a spa. The dog lies on his back in the bathtub, dozing happily as his human servant gently washes his fur--presumably with the finest of canine shampoos and conditioners. This is the life!
Are you having a bad hair day? Then you must not live inside a shampoo commercial. In that fabled land, your long, flowing locks wave in the breeze like dancing fairies. Each strand keeps perfectly in line and out of your eyes, as Cassandra illustrates in this cartoon.
