Archive for December, 2006

Personally, I find champagne to be the giver of unwanted morning trauma and limit myself to a single glass. If you’re serving up the bubs this New Year’s Eve, however, take this bit of seasonal advice from the Associated Press and wipe those glasses with a natty towel:
In the latest dispatch from the frontiers of [...]

Despite continued admonishment about the power of imagination, Walt Disney World is mostly an assembly line of identical experiences. Not so the Adventurer’s Club, a faux association of early 19th-century explorers, aviators, vaudevillians, and their treasures from a thousand exploits.
The Adventurer’s Club is on Pleasure Island, Disney World’s “adult” section of the park complex, filled [...]

Aliiiiive…

…but only sort of. I’ve returned with Susie from the land of synthetic joy: Walt Disney World.
It was actually sort of awesome—I’ve got a neat find that I want to share with you guys tomorrow, once I’m actually firing on all cylinders again—but for now I just wanted to raise my hand and wave it [...]

As far as misogynist black-and-white advertisements go, this one isn’t all that bad (if you ignore the intimation that your wife—when not done taking care of the kids, cleaning the house, and greasing your Eames-era office chair—has a duty to providing you carnal pleasure).
But hey, at least they acknowledge that women, according to trained refrigeration [...]

Sample these posts—some personal favorites of ours—and tell us if they need more salt.
• The Truth of Diner Coffee
• Nalewka Babuni 2.0: Super Anti-Oxidant Health Booze
• We We Pipe: An Introduction
• The Hat, and Why It’s Mine
• Dapper or Crapper? Harness Boots
• Sex Advice from a Dungeons and Dragons Player
• Choose Your Own Adventure: The [...]

Listing of Beer-Friendly NYC Bars

A somewhat dated, but still useful listing of beer-friendly bars in the New York area. I’ve found most bars in Brooklyn are dog friendly, as long as it’s not a crowded weekend night. [HBD.org] (Thanks, Ian!)

Vintage Men’s Mag Cover Scans

Flickr user “bittercinema” has scanned an inspiring collection of men’s magazine covers from the ’50s and ’60s, the sort of proto-porn that our fathers and grandfathers used to spank it before Playboy made it okay to own pictures of actual breasts. While I can’t say I’ve ever really read any girly mags from this era [...]

Combining two of the dominant trends of the ’80s—the A-Team and Shrinky Dinks—into the vehicular sensation of lower Dutchistan.

Xeni points us to this wonderful article discussing the backstory to David Bowie and Bing Crosby’s 1977 duet, “Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy.” [Linked via youtube above.]
While Bowie is someone we’ve never given ample attention on Dethroner, it’s Crosby I am most taken by today. The duet with Bowie, recorded as part of a Christmas [...]

Several of you have popped into the wiki to punch in potential themes—we have several dozen really strong topics, enough to take us well into next year. If you’d like to add you suggestions, it’s as easy as editing the page (the edit password is “hairclumps”). Feel free.
The next step would be to flesh out [...]

A fistulated cow is a cow with an intentional hole in it for scientific research. In 1822, a Canadian suffered a wound that refused to heal, but the man otherwise was in fine health. His doctor discovered that the digestive process could be observed directly through the hole. The discovery spread, and for over 150 [...]

Next Transformers Trailer Online

Pardon me while I nerd out for a second. The second Transformers movie trailer is online and despite everything inside me that knows it’s a movie about toys directed by one of Hollywood’s worst, I can’t help but think this looks pretty awesome. It’s dark, but a Transformers movie should (or at least could) be; the franchise is no stranger to dark moments. [Yahoo]




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» Seems Jack Daniels is kicking some butt, profits are up and even their unsavory looking drinks are selling.  # 2

» The Royal Bacon Society is a fancy, fun blog all about you the Dethroner reader’s favorite food: Bacon. # 1

» Evidently a fan of Ebert’s is trying to help Mars breed the supreme race of M&Ms.

Whenever I get a package of plain M&Ms, I make it my duty to continue the strength and robustness of the candy as a species. To this end, I hold M&M duels. Taking two candies between my thumb and forefinger, I apply pressure, squeezing them together until one of them breaks and splinters. That is the “loser,” and I eat the inferior one immediately. The winner gets to go another round.
M&Ms prove Darwin was right Thanks Ryan  # 0

» Baconpig. Zenith of mankind’s porcine proclivity or just gross? You be the judge. Don’t miss the Pig Butchering Guide in T-shirt form. # 0

» A man wants to know if jerking off into his guppy tank will cause his fish any harm. Just don’t forget to cuddle, I say. [StraightDope.com# 1

» An Atlanta florist is selling the “Broquet,” baskets of amply masculine cactus and carnivorous plants that can be given from one man to another. [BananaFlorist.com via Seth Godin# 0

» What may be my next car, the Mitsubishi Evolution X, goes on sale today in Japan. Next year for North America. [Crave.CNET.com# 0

» I haven’t really dug into it much, but JoS. A. Bank is having what appears to be a pretty major sale, with up to 50% off on Fall items and 70% off on clearance items. [JosBank.com# 2

» Cities collapse due to unsustainable growth? Naw it’ll never happen. We have science. [unsw.edu.au, creationmuseum.org] # 0

» Headline of the Day: “Men want hot women, study confirms” [CNN# 2



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