I missed this story somehow, a jouster was killed in the UK during the filming of the Time Team TV show. The show was a family favorite when we lived in the UK and used reenactors extensively but this is the first time I have ever heard of this severe an accident involving a reenactment [...]

Can anyone doubt the end times are upon us!? Flaming squirrels attack in New Jersey and our only response is mock tombstones. We are doomed. Doomed I say. Via Fark

Our newest Summer of Fear 2008 candidate has a healthy campaign kick off killing nine soldiers and wounding eleven, you guessed it, it is Robots! Yes, I know we have been worried about them since they were first discussed so they really aren’t a new candidate, but now we are giving them guns and telling [...]

Bears are not slacking in the race for Summer of Fear 2008 as they attack a woman in her condo. Remember the golden rule, never invite a bear into your condo, it is always a bad idea. Bears are moving up, according to the story last week they attacked a guy in his garage.

Hey Comcast! When your customer service is so bad old people are attacking your office with hammers, the canaries are singing in the coal mine mate.

The Vampire Beach Babes are a nearly perfect band for the Halloween season, they are fun, talented and smart and their sound is a glorious mix of campy goth rock and surf music. Their first album is Reckless Summer and it is the most ‘surfy’ of the bunch with almost all the songs sounding like [...]

We will beat our fans until we have no fans left. That seems to be the motto of lawyers for Twentieth Century Fox Television who have put a stop to licensed Buffy the Vampire Slayer sing-a-longs being held by fans around the country. It is more important for them to stifle anything that they can’t [...]

Our Summer of Fear 2007 winners the squirrels are not slacking off. Now they are attempting to destroy our national power grid. I would hate to see what happens they ever run into unarmed Swedish moose hunters, it won’t be pretty. Edit: Squirrels destroying our jails as well. (This one via Fark)

I don’t hate copyrights but it is my belief that they are they are being abused beyond all recognition of what copyright was originally supposed to be about. Here is a good editorial from the Guardian on the topic.

The Summer of Fear Race for 2008 has kicked off with a strong entry from an old favorite, Bears! Who can feel safe in their beds when it isn’t safe to hunt moose in Sweden!