Weekend Edition
Saturday Mornings, as we all know, are a time for ploughing recklessly through your to-do list — which may, if you are a farmer in a more temperate part of the world than Ohio, include ploughing recklessly. That has a pleasing symmetry.
As you may be able to tell, it’s a busy morning here on the river. Readers of Reinventing Fabulous will know that Krissie is coming to visit in a few days, and there are Chores To Be Done. Not to mention the fact that our adorable children, who have to be dragged physically out of bed during the week, have decided that 6.30AM is a perfectly reasonable time to start demanding pancakes.
All of which, dear Betties, is by way of an apology for a somewhat hurried Weekend Edition. If you’ve discovered something awesome on the internet in the last seven days, please share it in the comments, or via email to backstage@bettyverse.com, and I’ll include it in next week’s collection.
Let’s get started!
Via Boing Boing, a glimpse into the fascinating history of Cora Holben, a “Lady Detective” who began plying her trade in Chicago in 1902.
All commercials should use this aesthetic.
By the brilliantly-named Terry Fan, Victorian Star Wars.
I didn't realise until I saw this image just how Steampunk C3PO is.
The best part of Victorian Vader is imagining Anakin Skywalker as a Dickensian boy-hero.
From the wonderful Overthinking It, an interesting question: does Alec Baldwin exist within the universe of 30 Rock?
I'm not convinced Alec Baldwin exists in this universe.
These outlet stickers are genius. After all, what better way of convincing the children in your house that electricity outlets are friendly and playful?
They are cute, though. I'll give them that much.
Lastly for today, TheTrollMasterFlex performed a back flip. Every day. For a year.
To win a $100 bet.
Of course, if I could backflip like that, I’d do it at every opportunity too.
That’s it for another Saturday, Betties! Enjoy your weekend, and FGBVs to all!
C3PO just looks so RIGHT dressed in Victorian era clothes. I just survived yet another viewing of Star Wars IV-VI.
This is for all the moms who have had a child come out with something inappropriate at an inopportune time, pronounced something so it sounded, um, wrong:
http://www.rantsfrommommyland.com/2012/02/island-of-misnamed-toys.html
@Betty Bear – Have you seen Star Wars Uncut? As far as I am concerned, it is the culmination of all that the internet, digital media and social networking can accomplish. I just re-watched the trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvYZhKgWVjM
The thing I love best about this is that, for the most part, it is not a snarky parody. It’s pure geek love, which warms my geek heart. One of my favorite scenes is of a guy in a Darth Vader mask threatening his baby daughter, who is dressed like Leia.
I can’t even do a forward roll without falling over sideways, so I loved the back flip guy. Especially the ones where he runs up a wall… *envy*
Happy Weekend to all those at Squalor in the River, and all the Betties out in Bettyland.
Betty Bear: thank you for the video link. GGW (Great Googly Wooglies, for those not yet on the anti-OMG train), it made me laugh so hard (quietly … I live in an apartment) that I cried. Thank you so much!
I love the backflips. Always wanted to be able to do them but I’m such a clutz I smashed my face and my glasses when I was 11 trying to do a front flip using my arms (I just kind of hand-walked my face into the ground). I don’t try fancy stuff anymore. But I love watching parkour/free running videos more than any other video.
C3PO is completely a neurotic and amusing gentleman’s gentleman.
Thanks for another great week, BB! Have fun getting ready for and hosting Krissie, all of you at SotR!
I’m like you, Deborah. No gymnastics for me. Back flip guy is awesome. But I love, love, love the Private Detective Agents business card. Thanks BB, hope you got to eat some of the pancakes. ; )
Backflip guy. YES.
that is all.
As someone who couldn’t ever do a cartwheel because even as a small child gravity wasn’t ABOUT to let my large ass swing over my head, I’m so amazingly impressed by the backflip dude.
Ok, now back to Super Bowl prep. GO COMMERCIALS!!!
Great collection of fun stuff, BB! I’m developing an interest in steampunk and CPO in Victorian garb is delightful! It so works!
But I am with Roben about the Private Detective Agency ad, mostly because my great-great Aunt owned a business in Chicago just a few years before our intrepid Miss Cora. There’s fascinating family history that is swirling in my head as story potential about my relative’s laundry and bath houses–one in Chicago and one in a small town west of the city–where men could go for a bath and to have their clothes washed and pressed. She had ads a lot like Cora’s.
YAY steampunk! YAY Star Wars! Yay pancakes!
Although if child-creatures woke me up at such an uncivilized hour to demand food, especially at your kids’ advanced ages, I’d mutiny and tell them to bring me an elderberry before they’d be fed a crumb more. Or at the very least, to make the bloody fracking pancakes themselves. But with more swearing. Clearly you and Lucy are angels. And I am not.
Happy Weekending and FGBVs to all!