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'Milkyrie' Faithfully Recreates Plot to Assassinate Gay-Rights-Advocating Hitler

Seth — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:39:59 EST

It's Friday, and that means one thing: It's Defamer Friday Funtime! Wherein we share something completely stupid with you in the hopes that it will make you smile, possibly kickstarting a weekend of savage self-abuse.

Today, we bring you Milkyrie—described by its makers as "Milk meets Valkyrie. Deal with it." Yes, they've gone and done it: With the help of an all-the-rage time-travel plot device, they've transposed late-70s Castro with late-WW2 Berlin, and let the two film's various heroes, anti-heroes, ruthless dictators, and tenaciously gayfro'd campaign managers mingle in a Milk-Nazi smoothie. Does it make sense? No. Did we laugh? Yes. Particularly when Cleve Jones assured Col. von Stauffenberg, "I don't do...losing."

Milkyrie [Funny or Die]

G.I. Joe Characters Like A Michael Jackson Evolutionary Map

Seth — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:15:50 EST

We've already pointed out a chilling similarity between Michael Jackson and Watchmen's Rorschach.

But upon browsing the packaging for a set of G.I. Joe movie tie-in action figures, we were instantly struck by how much of its cast echo the singer's wildly morphing looks throughout the years. And why shouldn't they, really, as Jackson's Neverland Ranch played host to some of the most legendary all-boy G.I. Joe paintball survival weekends on Santa Barbara Police Department record.

Cobra Commander From Sommers' G.I. JOE Movie Revealed, Sorta!! [AICN]

Meet Your 'Puppy Bowl V' Starting Lineup!

Seth — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:20:21 EST

Here they are: your Puppy Bowl V starting lineup. Hopes and expectations are high for all-pro puppyback Eli, coming off another phenomenal year compiling over 4,800 yards passing, 39 touchdowns with only seven waterbowl interceptions.

He'll be missing his favorite target, however: Rottweiler Plax, who was placed in a lick-guard at midseason after allegedly chewing into his leg at a popular Manhattan kennel. Now let's flip the biscuit and get this game started!

Puppy Bowl V [Animal Planet]

Betamaxmas: A Wood-Paneled Time Machine To Your Youth

Seth — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:15:19 EST

We'd like to thank the creators of betamaxmas.com for recreating with stunning approximation the experience of sitting around your parents basement circa 1985 and watching TV during the holidays.

There's no actual Betamax machine with which to play well-worn copies of D.C Cab and 48 Hrs., but there is a remote where you can scan for old cartoons like A Garfield Christmas, episodes of The Facts of Life featuring George Clooney, and a holiday-themed Perfect Strangers (with commercials!); or, if those aren't to your liking, click on the TV Guide and find something else to watch. We can practically hear our mothers yelling from upstairs that its time to light the menorah/eat ham/shake a Kwanzaa stick, or whatever holiday tradition your were forced to partake in in your household.

betamaxmas.com

Hawking Flies

Mark — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:53:44 EDT

We're just going to be up front about this: We have absolutely no good reason to post the above photo, and we're not even going to bother casting Tim Blake Nelson in the Discovery Channel's Zero Gravity: The Incredible True Story of Stephen Hawking's 25 Seconds of Flight to give ourselves even the flimiest of Hollywood tie-ins as an excuse. On a magical Friday morning like this one, when anything seems possible, just knowing that even a 65-year-old genius astrophysicist's wildest dreams can come true is justification enough.

[Photo: AP]

Hawking flies weightless aboard jet [Yahoo! News]