Lou and Andy

More “Little Britain.” Lou Todd is Andy Pipkin’s kindly, selfless friend and caregiver. Andy is in a wheelchair; unbeknownst to Lou, he can walk (and swim, and skate) just fine.

Here, Andy expresses his dislike for Lou’s Polish girlfriend:

Andy insists on going to church as the baby Jesus:

Lou takes Andy to the swimming pool:

My “Bride wigout” post leads to massive Aussie invasion

Wow, I get home from the gym, and see a bazillion hits from Australia, the vast majority of which were directly to the Bride Wigout video I merely linked to. Did the story just hit Down Under?

Now, I love you Aussies, and I’m planning a “We Can Be Heroes” fanboy post soon. (“Indigeri-don’t, Indigeri-do / Indigeri-old, Indigeri-new / Indigeri-me, Indigeri-you!”) But just to make things absolutely clear, the video was made by actresses as part of a viral marketing campaign for Sunsilk hair products. Canadian actresses, no less.

What’s also scary is that Googling “bride wigout” brings up my blog entry, not somewhere on page one or two, but as the first result, or the “I’m feeling lucky” result. Wow. I only started this blog a few days ago, and was hoping for some readership, but this was wholly unexpected.

Next time I get all bipolar and flip out here at the PuckPad^®, I’ll be sure to video it. Maybe I can be a YouTube star too.

As a side note, I’m the seventeenth fastest growing blog on WordPress. I guess that’s kind of cool.

This stuff must have been excellent

Speed to get you going, but carefully mixed with a tranq to smooth out the ride.

A barbiturate can also be administered with a centrally active sympathominetic amine such as dextro-amphetamine for the salutary effect of the combination on mood, anxiety, and tension.

Why is this woman tired?

…maybe either of those two reasons, or maybe because she lives with a bunch of pigs who leave piles of dirty dishes for her and generally treat her like shit. Personally I think if her doctor were to switch her to Dexamyl^®, she would get the added benefit of amobarbital, and not give a fuck about her family. (Check out those excellent slanted cupboards, though.)

And no woman should go through the change of life without adequate “daytime sedation.”

[Mabel] just can’t help being impatient and exasperating—it’s “that time” in her life.

To see her through the menopause, there’s gentle “daytime sedation” in tranquilizing—

BUTISOL^® SODIUM.

Let’s do a quick close reading here. I can see how Mabel would be “impatient,” what with all the hot flashes and night sweats disrupting her day. But she’s also “exasperating”—to whom? Her husband, no doubt. He’s livid that he has to get up from his comfy chair to make his own Manhattan because old Mabel is indisposed. And who’s going to rub his feet and pack his pipe?

Seriously, you can’t make this stuff up. Nowadays it’s all about neurotransmitter regulation and shit. Back then, if you had a gripe, they just threw speed and/or downers at you.

More at Deco Dog’s Ephemera.

John Pinette

Holy crap, is this man funny! Much of it is in his delivery. We watched his latest DVD, I’m Starvin’!, last night. It was taped at the Just for Laughs festival a couple of years ago.

Here are two clips. You’ll notice he’s lost a considerable amount of weight between the first and the second; he’s since lost even more. He played the Divine/Harvey Fierstein role in the Broadway and touring productions of Hairspray for a while, and was put on a workout regime. Good on him.