Happy Wednesday from Hoops and Yoyo

This video is dedicated to all you worker bees in your teeny cubicles this fine Wednesday morning.

: )

My Sassy Vampire Killer

Jeon Ji Hun of "My Sassy Girl", "Windstruck" and "ll Mare" fame is back in "Blood: The Last Vampire", an adaptation of an anime film of the same name from 2001. Say what you will about the silly plot and premise - easily seen in the trailer that all but gives everything away - and low production values of this movie --- we still love her!

Aja!

Human Mirror

I had a twin who died a few days after we were born, so I never really had a chance to live the life of a twin.

This explains my fascination with real-life twins I know -- Angelique and Steph, Kathy and Noreen -- who I have peppered with questions on the life of twins: "Do you communicate telepathically?" "Did you ever take a test for your twin? "So did you ever do a buffet but paid for only one person?" "Can you feel when your twin is happy/sad?"

I'm sure it would have been fun once we got past the "you can't wear the same thing I'm wearing today, bro" arguments.

It would have been a hoot!

Emma Watson on David Letterman

Wow. Emma Watson's all grown up now -- of course, right? They're already on Harry Potter movie #6, after all.

It's nice to see that she actually becomes cuter with age, unlike say Dakota Fanning. Here's hoping that she keeps her wits about her as she does, unlike Lindsay Lohan -- who I heard got charged with stealing, among other things, a formula for a tanning spray manufacturer plus an undisclosed amount of jewelry from a fashion shoot.

It would be a waste if she self-destructed.

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Thanks to Manny Neps for sharing this one.

Michael Jackson, Tinikling-Style

Here's a video from 2004, pre-dating the Cebu Inmates' Thriller extravaganza by several years.

Here's "They Don't Really Care About Us" -- performed by UC San Diego's Kaibigang Pilipino.

No prisoners were harmed in the making of this video. Several performers suffered bruised shins and egos in practice however. (I don't really know. I'm guessing.)

Thanks to Art Silva for sharing this!

Michael Jackson Beats It

Michael Jackson
August 29, 1958 - June 26, 2009

The King of Pop is gone.

Yes, it's been years since he last had a real hit.
Yes, he's never really been the same Michael Jackson who broke into the big-time with the brilliant videos for Thriller and Beat It and so on.
Yes, he was severely damaged by the child molestation charges against him.
Yes, he often seemed more caricature rather than singer.
Yes, he was probably the weirdest superstar of our time, or anyone's time, for that matter.

But he will still be missed. Not because we actually still want to hear more from him in song, but more because "Ben", "Thriller", "The Girl is Mine", "Bad" and many others really don't work if it's someone else singing them. He owned them and, for a while, he owned Pop music.

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However, it's not really totally implausible that he's just hiding out somewhere in the Nevada desert or wherever ala Howard Hughes. Or Elvis.

Because we know you love Andi9

Here she is with "Beautiful Ride"

(I think it's for Clean and Clear)

Little Drummer Boy

His name is Igor Falecki --- and he's four years old.

See more at http://www.igorfalecki.com.pl/

Cool, huh?

Obama is a Ninja

Britain's got flame, Burger King gets lame

I'm usually one of the first to applaud Burger King's crazy but wildly creative stunts. But this one is a bit too weird for me.

Piers Morgan from Britain's Got Talent 'endorses' FLAME, a new cologne from Burger King in this mock TVC (or is it a real TVC?).

The scent (and I'm getting this from the BK website) "bucks the trend with a hint of flame-grilled beef. What’s more, beyond helping Burger King®’s signature burgers to sizzle, the hint of flame-grilled beef is reputedly also a surprising scent of seduction!"

There's even a real honest-to-goodness scent you can buy, if you were absolutely wanting to smell like a flame-grilled burger.

Even if I played along with the joke, why would anyone want to smell like a burger? Do YOU know anyone who would get the hots for you if you smelled like one?

In the world I come from, smelling like beef is more 'eeeew!' rather than 'ooooooh!".

(That's it: eau de eeeeeeeew! )

It's not funny. It's not even sexy.

I don't get it. Am I missing something or what?