The Simpsons’ Mr. Burns Explains the Fiscal Cliff

For those of us confused by the “fiscal cliff,” Mr. Burns of The Simpsons helpfully explains the looming disaster in this short animated video.

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steampunk lamp

PeteJ sends in "a steampunk desk lamp I built, the valve is also the on/off switch." That's a hell of a switch.

Honest Movie Trailers: The Dark Knight Rises by Screen Junkies

Screen Junkies has released a new fake honest movie trailer that comically questions numerous plot choices, characters and spoken lines found in The Dark Knight Rises 2012 superhero film. Mike & Jay of Red Letter Media (responsible for the 70 minute Phantom Menace film review) make a cameo and share their thoughts as well.

The Worst Things For Sale Catalogs the Best of Ill-Conceived Products

Bill Clinton corkscrew

Drew of the Toothpaste For Dinner comics has created The Worst Things For Sale, a humorous Tumblr blog that catalogs the best of ill-conceived products. There’s stuff like a Bill Clinton corkscrew, a brass knuckles iPhone case, and

A-Mia-Gurumi Wallace, Pulp Fiction’s Overdosed Mia as a Crocheted Doll

By Rusty Blazenhoff on December 5, 2012

Shove Mink of Croshame was recently commissioned to create Uma Thurman’s Pulp Fiction character, Mia Wallace, as a crocheted art doll (needle and all). The piece is called “A-Mia-gurumi Wallace” (from “Plush Fiction”) and it depicts the scene where she overdoses on heroin and has to be injected with adrenaline. We have previously featured Croshame’s delightful crocheted dolls in the past.

…for about 20 years, I avoided the Quentin Tarantino movie Pulp Fiction, telling people, “The only way I’ll watch that film is if someone pays me.”
Well, someone finally paid me.
I was recently commissioned to recreate Uma Thurman’s character Mia Wallace, specifically from the scene in which she’s revived from an accidental heroin overdose with a giant shot of adrenaline.

The scene from Pulp Fiction that inspired the doll:

photos by Chuck McNary