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Heavy Metal Parking Lot
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ShareJohn Heyn and Jeff Krulik's documentary film Heavy Metal Parking Lot is a classic celebration and good-natured mockery of partying hard rock fans outside of a Judas Priest concert in 1986. If you've heard about this (it's been floating around on VHS bootleg tapes for years) but have never witnessed these goofy characters, you're in for a treat. This is pure gold:
If you want a better quality version of Heavy Metal Parking Lot, it's finally available on DVD at Amazon.
Blair's New Pure Death Sauce
A new sauce has just been made available on the Blair's Website: Pure Death. No, it's not one to top the 750,000 SHU threshold of Jersey Death. Blair promises this one to be around the same as level as After Death, which measures just shy of the 50,000 mark (still pretty darned hot). Unlike a lot of liquid super scorchers on the market, Pure Death contains no extract, and gets it's heat from the pods of bhut jolokia and orange habanero peppers...
Growing Bhut Jolokias - Step Two - Planting the Seeds
In my last article about growing bhut jolokia peppers, I briefly described the seeds and my experience eating a pepper flake. Now we get to the good part - planting the seeds!
The Beatles Featuring David Lee Roth
You've got to hand it to the guys who think up these things and then construct them. Here's a nicely edited audio/video mashup featuring The Beatles and David Lee Roth performing "Drive My Car" and "Runnin' With the Devil":
In case you were wondering, the Beatles footage was taken from their 1968 "Revolution" video, and Van Halen's from their "Runnin' With the Devil" clip produced ten years later. Audio was the naked David Lee Roth studio vocal track of "Runnin'" (that surfaced some time last year) inserted into the Fab Four's classic hit from Rubber Soul...
RobertsSTL Site
Things are going to slow down a bit on the RobertsSTL.com site, so don't be expecting a whole lot of updates. Instead, in the coming months I'm going to focus more attention on updating my Scott Roberts web site.
Scotty's Gut-Pleasing Spicy BBQ Sauce
Recipe time! If you're looking for a good, sweet, dark, and rich barbecue sauce to slather on your grilled steaks, chops, ribs, and chicken, give this one a try next weekend...
Introduction to PHP - PHP Variables
Because of it's wide availabilty on web servers and it's free nature, PHP has become the choice scripting language in the internet. If you would like to get a good grasp on its precepts using variables, read on...
Jerry the Dog and His Ball-Throwing Machine
Jerry the dog needs no help playing with his ball, thanks to this cool ball-throwing machine:
Bad Physics Report Card For Sci-Fi Movies
IO9 has posted a report card for bad physics in science fiction movies. Both Apollo 13 and The Right Stuff passed, but technically they're not science fiction; they're science fact and history. I'm surprised Armageddon didn't fail on more topics, as there are more inconsistencies, continuity errors, and plot holes in it than any other sci-fi movie I can think of...
Garfield Comic Spoofs
Have you always loved the antics of Garfield, the lasagna-loving cat? Yeah, me neither. Here are a few links that poke fun at the ridiculously unfunny comic:
Remove that wisecracking orange feline from every frame of the comic strip and you get Garfield Minus Garfield. It's amusing to see Garfield's owner, Jon Arbuckle, turn into a lonely, depressed, schizophrenic man who has conversations with thin air.
Realfield borrows from that last idea and pushes it further by replacing Garfield with a real, non-talking cat. Jon is even more psychopathically sad in this one.
My favorite is the Garfield Randomizer, where three random frames from Garfield cartoons are generated in succession. Both surreal and goofy, these are funnier and make just about as much sense as any real Garfield comic strip.
Lastly, things get taken to an extremely bizarre level with Lasagna Cat. Actors dress up as the Garfield characters in costumes and act out actual strips that have run in the past...
Perhaps the Funniest "Whose Line Is It Anyway" (US version) Segment Ever - With Richard Simmons
How To Grow Bhut Jolokia Peppers
This is my first season growing bhut jolokia peppers both indoors and outdoors. Read along as I document my endeavor to plant and grow the hottest chile peppers in the world in this multi-part "how to" series series.
• Growing Bhut Jolokias - Step Two - Planting the Seeds
• Growing Bhut Jolokias - Step One - The Seeds
Growing Bhut Jolokias - Step One - The Seeds
Like many of you fellow chileheads, I'm a budding gardener and I attempt to grow my own peppers. My bhut jolokia seeds just arrived in the mail yesterday and I'm very anxious to get them planted in soil and germinating in hopes of producing fruit by the late summer...
Wings So Hot, They Require A Waiver
CBS Channel 2 in Chicago posted a video on their website today that featured Jake Melnick's Corner Tap, the Windy City establishment that claimed to have hottest wings in the world.
What Every Man Wants In Bed
YouTube Videos Of Hot Peppers Being Eaten
For some mindless fun, I've gathered a small selection of videos from YouTube showing people (and a ferret) consuming hot peppers.
A man chomping down on a fiery bhut jolokia pepper:
Click the "Read More" to view the others...
2008 Fiery Foods Show Underway
The 20th Annual National Fiery Foods & Barbecue Show 2008 is going strong this weekend in Albuquerque, NM. In case you don't know what it is, the Fiery Foods Show is probably the preeminent showcase of the spicy food industry, where well over 200 vendors hawk their wares, including sauces, peppers, spices, and other culinary-related items. Hotsauceblog.com, as usual, has fine coverage of the event, which promises to have over 10,000 in attendence:
• Saturday's Show | Saturday Update
• Sunday's Show
• A Defcon Perspective
If you'd like to see coverage and pics of past Fiery Foods Shows, fiery-foods.com has links dating back to 1998:
Fiery-Foods & Barbecue Show Articles
Help For Harassed Teenagers
Finally! A solution for harassed teens!
Online Etch-A-Sketch
The classic toy/drawing tool everyone loved as a kid is available as an online Flash program. Just use your keyboard's arrow keys to create your own masterpiece:
Link: http://www.etchy.org
Download Older Versions of Programs With OldApps
If you've ever downloaded a new version of a software application only to discover that it's bloated with unnecessary features, harder to use, runs slower, or just doesn't work right on your computer, you'll need OldApps.com. The site features downloads of older versions of free and shareware programs including web browsers, utilities, instant messaging programs, music apps, CD and DVD authoring tools, and more. While OldApps.com focuses more on Windows programs, it does host some Mac applications as well...
