So yesterday, I'm strolling around Jerry's neighborhood after the VTN show to get some grub from my favorite taco shop (Delta Taco) when I see a malicious tribe of Santa zombies. Scary. Especially the hairy fat ones. The female ones were kind of cute and wanted to feed me candy canes.

What a brilliant way to promote the Diesel XXX Party! I think they should have gone a bit more subtle at times... but overall it's hilarious.

YouTube may take it down soon...so if you can't watch the video below check it out at it's original location by CLICKING HERE.

I think it's a bit weird and fascinating how everybody's talking about "The Secret". Oprah's been pushing it big time and just about everywhere you turn you hear someone mentioning or making fun of "The Secret". From the little I casually gathered, I thought it was the latest pop psychology trend that reiterates the typical assertions about the importance of positive thought and action.

What I didn't know is that it's supposedly the teachings of non-physical entities speaking through human channelers that assert there's a God in us all. This is some pretty wacky stuff! All this talk of "vibrations", "wave lengths", and "consciousness" sounds like some silly hippie talk. But is it? Oprah obviously feels it's legitimate. What do you think? Have the kooks succeeded in converting the confused? Or is there something more to it all?

I like to think about how this relates to art. The idea of channeling sounds crazy... but I think the concepts behind it are not too far off from true artistic exploration. But I'm still not sure if "The Secret" dialogue is anything more than taking some decent concepts and perverting them for financial gain.

CLICK HERE to hear Oprah Winfrey interview Esther Hicks on XM radio.

Below is a video of Esther Hicks (the infamous missing part of the famous Secret DVD) channeling the entity of Abraham at a Conference.

Have you heard of the Cho Aniki shoot-em-up game series? I never did. But with the release of the first game in the series (Cho Aniki for the PC Engine/TurboGrafx 16 CD) yesterday on the US Wii Virtual Console I was pleasantly exposed to this surreal Japanified gaming series.

Cho Aniki is a slightly creepy/funny game where you fly around as a regular looking dude or girl shooting stuff. It's kind of like Gradius or Life Force but you're controlling a shooting person instead of a shooting spaceship. Beyond the atypical visuals and music, the game is through and through a traditional shoot-em-up. About the weirdest thing is a powerup where you have two musclebound dudes with lasers shooting from their heads helping you kill enemies.

Those musclebound dudes were popular enough that they became the focal point of a sequel called Ai Cho Aniki. That's where things got fascinatingly weird. As you control one of the 2 muscle dudes, he does muscle flexing poses that shoot sparkles at enemies over some of the intentionally cheesiest J-Pop tracks you could ever imagine. Subsequent sequels became weirder and crazier with many half naked baddies shooting strange things like pee pee rays and bulgy-eyed fish with flexed biceps.

Since us Americans just got the first game on the Wii Virtual Console, I'm crossing my fingers that we'll get the wackier second one. I can only hope!

For a nice detailed history of this wacky game series check out this nice article on Hardcore Gaming.

Ai Cho Aniki (The Musclebound sequel):

Sega Saturn Version (Japan Only):

The Less Interesting Original (Available via Wii Virtual Console in EU, US, and JP):

Jerry is super inspired by this Photo cover. It freaks me out because Shazam looks like my Dad! I'm sure this comic will morph into some kick ass idea in Jerry's crazy brain. I'll keep you posted...

Jerry showed me this awesome hilarous spoof on McCain asking Sarah Palin's to run as his Republican VP. Absolutely brilliant! I keep wanting to go back and rewatch it.

Is McCain Palin's Bitch?: