My birthday was apparently (apart from being the most awesome day in the universe) also called ‘Cheer up Keanu Day’.
A photo of a dejected Keanu Reeves on a park bench has fired up tv and movie nerds from 4chan’s /tv/ board and Reddit to support Keanu during his sad out-of-work actor days.
Today, June 15th, marks the first of what may well become an annual tradition of Cheer Up Keanu Days. What began as a thread on 4chan’s /tv/ board defending Keanu Reeves from all the easy “Whoa” jokes and an epic thread on Reddit anchored around a picture of a forlorn-looking Keanu Reeves sitting on a bench have become that rarest and specialest of things that can happen on the Internet: A genuine celebration of human kindness and decency.
– Happy Cheer Up Keanu Day
Here’s a video Funny or Die did for the occasion.
Keanu has always been one of my favourite actors. For one, his name means “cool breeze over the mountains” in Hawaiian. How mind-bendingly cool is that? Also, if you’ve starred in the 1989 box office hit Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure as Ted alongside one of the best comedians ever, George Carlin, you deserve total respect.
Our intrepid actor apparently has a big heart too, giving away most of his money to charities and helping his sister cope with the medical bills resulting from Leukaemia. Keanu has endured a number of other tragedies since stepping onto the big screens all over the world, such as his daughter being still-born and his girlfriend dieing in a car accident.
He summed up his existence on stage beautifully with one of my all time favourite actor quotes evah:
I’m a meathead, man. You’ve got smart people, and you’ve got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.
Get well soon, Keanu. You’re a meathead, but we love you for it.
Yep. It’s that time of year again. Holiday is over and so it’s time to work on the website again. Just as I got back from Holland WordPress 3 was rolled out, so I feel I have to take a week or so to update the site to take advantage of the many new features which have been included and study up on the new Products feature which the WP crew have so skilfully added. Well done, lads.
Upcoming changes to the website this week will be:
HTML5 fonts for the titles
New backgrounds for the Images and Video sections
A re-working of the Profile space
A new way of displaying the NSFW and Gore/Graphic images for all of you casual readers
New sidebar widgets which will pipe content from other relevant blogs
A new 404 error page
Also expect a few more things I haven’t thought of yet. Anyway, to keep you amused, here’s an amusing picture of a really good camera stand.
Since we’re back from our little holiday I thought I’d update you with a little gallery of pictures I ran across while I was out there and had access to the interwebs. I won’t post any of my Amsterdam pictures yet as they’re currently stuck in my phone and I’ve lost the card reader for the chip. As soon as I’ve located it expect holiday snaps.
Ah, what a nice holiday that was! Last week I visited Holland with my sweetheart and stayed in a lovely little hotel in Amsterdam to celebrate our upcoming 5 year wedding anniversary and my birthday. Many thanks to all you who wished me a happy birthday on Facebook. We visited a number of lovely museums and coffeeshops as well as my mom’s art studio in Belgium. Much fun was had by all.
Also good news is that I’ve paid up for the website for another year so we can keep on trucking with 3nglish.co.uk. Show your love by leaving a comment below!
Here’s a little nerd-video for you to watch to celebrate our return.
Yes, you read it properly. Fuck you Israel. Attacking a peaceful convoy of ships delivering much needed aid to an oppressed people is what we’ve come to expect from you, you tosspot wankers.
Yesterday’s news of the Israeli attack on the peaceful flotilla delivering aid supplies to Palestine caught me unawares. I was at the boat club, working on my newly acquired mirror dinghy when one of the members came up to me and asked me if I had heard the news. When I got home I checked the interwebs and found more than 10 people killed by the Israelis in international waters. Shocked into disbelief I started reading the frightening accounts and watching the videos of the last few minutes of the flotilla as the Israeli thugs went to work on it.
The attack was, without doubt, a clear act of piracy on the part of the Israelis. The flotilla was in international waters, flying a white flag – which meant they were ‘protected’ by international law.
Israel has a terrible track record when it comes to protecting the rights of anyone not Israeli. I can recall no other country that has been able to get away with such flagrant violations of international law. Stealing passports to use in murder plots, massacring villages full of Palestinians and now this. Fuck you, Israelis. Fuck you and your shitty country.
Here’s some footage of Israelis celebrating the killings on the flotilla.
P.S., Shitbags. If you start accusing me of being anti-Semitic, I’m going to start accusing you of being Nazis.
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