Mashup Hilarity: "Top Gear" + My Little Pony

Via the Presurfer, who calls this video "worryingly well-executed"!  I laughed out loud to see Jeremy Clarkson's voice combined with a cute animated unicorn from "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic."  (You may remember previous hilarity with these cartoon horses here.)  Oh, do be sure to read the credits.

99 Weeks of Unemployment

I actually saw this last night when I flipped channels to "60 Minutes" -- a show I never watch.  Still, the Cine-Sib texted me to go because the show was doing a segment on "Top Gear" (our favorite source of televised vehicular British mayhem), so I went over to CBS.  Aside from the "Top Gear" piece,  "60 Minutes" ran this report on unemployment and  the wretched state of things.  The actual national unemployment rate is close to 17%.  Yikes!

Grad School Metaphor: Cry Havoc and Let Slip the Dogs of -- RUN!

OH, YES.  Grad school nerds running for our lives, pursued by deadlines, Nerd Lords, personal neuroses, academic requirements, back-stabby frenemies, and our own creeping mortality.  Oh, the thrill of the chase.  Tally-ho!

Friday Fun Video, World Cup Edition: Playing Soccer With Cars

Check out these outstanding shenanigans by the boys of "Top Gear." The really good stuff starts around 1:20. Richard Hammond, I think I love you!

Oh, and you also get your humorous British idiom of the day, "to be sick as a parrot."

Fun Video of the Day: "Top Gear" and the Race Across London

Oh, how I do love "Top Gear." If you've never watched this BBC jewel of a car show, you're missing some fabulous -- and fabulously funny -- television. Hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May (plus "The Stig," their incognito race car driver) are always up to something interesting and always entertaining.

Anyway, this time the guys are racing each other across London, with each one in a different mode of transportation. Who will get to the finish line first? The car, the bicycle, the public transport, or the boat on the River Thames? This was just delightful. And a rather practical exercise. If you've ever been to London as my posse and I have, you know that it is infamously congested and simply jammed full of horrible traffic.

And is it me, or is Hammond kind of cute in an amusing, nerdy sort of way? His temper tantrums are hysterical. Clarkson's commentary, by the way, is simply hilarious.



Here are the links to the video for Part 2 and Part 3. Enjoy!

RELATED POSTS: Since I love vehicular mayhem, here is the Wii version and here is P.J. O'Rourke's uproariously funny book.

A Book to Read: P.J. O'Rourke's "Driving Like Crazy."

Think about P.J. O'Rourke's latest book, Driving Like Crazy, as a hilarious combination of Jeremy Clarkson (sarcastic wit intact), "Top Gear," and Mario Kart Wii -- or at least my description of said game as "completely unhinged vehicular pandemonium" that's also loads of FUN.

As a paean to the internal combustion engine, with arias devoted to various forms of hysterical self-inflicted Carmageddon scenarios and bouts of unrepentant automotive addiction, O'Rourke's book is an opera of gonzo journalism that had me laughing out loud.

I can't recommend a better book to be the last laugh of the summer -- end the season with O'Rourke's inimitable style, now behind the wheel of a car and cheerfully defying all known speed limits and safety protocols.

Here's a little blurb to get you interested:

But pity the poor American car when Congress and the White House get through with it -- a lightweight vehicle with a small carbon footprint, using alternative energy and renewable resources to operate in a sustainable way. When I was a kid we called it a Schwinn.