Saklad | Skeletor | Boing, boing, boing

[prog]

This will only be funny to a very thin slice of the people I know.

Of course, this is based on the incorrect assumption that comprehension (of several neo-geo-cultural references colliding, in this case) equals amusement. It is probably actually funny only to me.

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My housemates went to a Tool concert, and I tried to imitate the vocalist's voice for them, but M said it was, if anything, a very good Skeletor voice.

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Skeletor is the villain from the TV show He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, part of the pantheon of 1980s U.S. TV animation that, while serving the practical purpose of episodic ads for toys, was actually engagingly written. Given the raw materials, anyway. We have been watching these again since getting cable.

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If I do eventually acquire a technology that lets me not watch ads, I will use it, despite my awareness that I really like some ads. To take a recent example, last night I saw an ad for Seeley mattresses, the one with the little kid bouncing on a bed. I found it hideously funny, as it intended I find it, due to its visuals and sound effects -- which stop short of being overblown -- written into Philip Glassian measures of repetitive minimalism, and still telling a complete story in two parts. I nigh fell out of the papasan.

I believe that Sturgeon's law applies to TV advertising just like it does to TV programming (and every other manner of media): one out of every 10 examples is worth experiencing. Unfortunately, due to the nature and format of TV advertising, you can't choose the ones you want to watch, like you can with TV shows. So for a given hour-long show you will still get, in the commercial breaks, about 12 minutes of excrement -- noisy excrement, also on fire and with clowns -- rubbed into your eyes. It's a losing ratio.

Comments

ok, what am I missing

[cthulhia]

I caught the kibo, and elbonia.
what cool stuff did I miss?

Re: ok, what am I missing

[prog.livejournal.com]

That's more or less it. I just appreciated seeing reference to these things in that newsgroup, two (fringey) areas of my life I wouldn't have expected to intersect.

It also served as confirmation to me that the Don S. who posts to the gb-reuse list all the time is the same Don S. who is famous in the kibology newsgroup for his paranoid rambles about the Boston Public Library. (I am too lazy to Google for the details of this mythos at the moment.)

What the hell is kibology, anyway?

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

I know I've run into it before out there in the Wide Web, but I've never quite figured it out . . .

Re: What the hell is kibology, anyway?

[cortezopossum.livejournal.com]

Wasn't Kibo the nickname of some guy who was really bored and had nothing better to do so he scanned the entire usenet news listing for his name and replied to each and every instance or something?

Anyway, for a while he was some famous net-entity. Especially prior to the net going ultracommercial.

Re: What the hell is kibology, anyway?

[prog.livejournal.com]

It's a religion named after James "Kibo" Parry (about whom you can no doubt Google-glean a great deal). Ten years ago he was famous for grepping the entirety of Usenet for his name and responding to any thread that invoked him. Nowadays he mostly keeps to his own newsgroup, going on at great length about the secret lives of orange traffic cones or essays about food discoveries he made at various Boston-area Asian supermarkets. He has various things at his own website. I recommend the photo galleries. Le Cage aux DIE!!!!!