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YouTube sensation Simone Giertz empowered by zany robot creations

Edit CBC 21 May 2016
Simone Giertz, known as "The Queen of Shitty Robots," was on All in A Day on International Museums Day to talk about her zany creations, including the latest that washes her hair "in a violent way." ... ....

Zero K review: Don DeLillo on death as we don’t know it

Edit The Irish Times 21 May 2016
Paranoia is the theme that quiet, intense Don DeLillo has made his own. Resignedly, through a major body of work that includes some of the most defining novels of the postmodernist era, DeLillo has kept watch on America through a cerebral intelligence kept at bay by irony and humanity ... Poetry reviews ... Settling on satire ... His novels are full of talk, if not quite as memorably zany as that of the incomparable William Gaddis ... ... ... ... ....

Kevin Smith marries Tennessee couple at Zanies

Edit Nashville Tennessean 20 May 2016
The man behind 'Silent Bob' is also an ordained minister.        .   ... ....

Katamari Damacy gets rolled up into a text adventure

Edit Kill Screen 20 May 2016
Game designer Keita Takahashi’s Katamari Damacy (2004) is easily one of the most charming videogames of all-time. It had a silly premise, a colorful aesthetic, and a grin-inducing soundtrack. Katamari Damacy was like no other game in existence. An underrated aspect of it, though, is its whip-smart writing ... He was inspired for this zany Stupid Hackathon project by an old post buried in the most arbitrary of places ... This is not lipstick ... ....

Paul McDowell obituary

Edit The Guardian 20 May 2016
Reluctant pop star who topped the charts with the Temperance Seven. When the Temperance Seven had a surprise No 1 hit in 1961 with You’re Driving Me Crazy, the band’s focal point was its vocalist, Paul McDowell, who has died aged 84 ... McDowell’s interests had turned to jazz while he was a student at the Chelsea School of Art in London in the 1950s ... Twitter ... In 1987, McDowell’s zany detective story Dope Opera was published by Pluto Press ... ....

The Gilmore Girls Revival Finally Has an Official Title (and Lorelai Revealed It, Obviously)

Edit Vanity Fair 20 May 2016
As fans patiently await a release date for Netflix’s Gilmore Girls revival, here’s some news to tide you over. star Lauren Graham has dropped the new title ... Many people speculated that the new episodes would simply be called Gilmore Girls ... While the new episodes will ostensibly focus on a year in the life of Lorelei, Rory, and Emily Gilmore, fans are also eager to see more zany antics from the residents of Stars Hollow ... X ... ... Mrs ... . again ... ....

The 10 craziest Google patents

Edit Business Insider 19 May 2016
Google is known for pursuing moonshot projects ... Some are cool, some are creepy, but they are all pretty zany. Take a look.. ....

‘The Nice Guys’ Pairs Gosling and Crowe as Slapstick Detectives

Edit New York Times 19 May 2016
Shane Black’s convoluted caper blends pop-culture riffs from the ’70s with a zany mix of mistaken identity, nudity and grisly murders ... ....

Ariana Grande on Defending Female Pop Stars and Staying Away From Drama

Edit Billboard 19 May 2016
While it boasts five bedrooms, marble floors and a huge window overlooking beautiful Benedict Canyon, the Beverly Hills home Ariana Grande moved into last summer lacks any kind of decor -- unless you count the picture frames leaning against a nearby wall, their corners still wrapped in cardboard ... “When you’re playing a zany character on a kids’ show, people don’t want to vilify you as much,” says Grande....

Icemedics watch launch, support mission (Eielson Air Force Base)

Edit Public Technologies 18 May 2016
(Source. Eielson Air Force Base). By 1Lt Elias Zani, 354th Fighter Wing Public Affiarsth Fighter Wing Public Affiars / Published May 18, 2016. EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska -- U.S ... Air Force photo by 1Lt Elias Zani/Released)....

Bookish things to do with children this summer

Edit The Guardian 18 May 2016
Summer is right around the corner and the UK is teaming with literary events and festivals. Whether you’d prefer to forage in the forest with the Gruffalo at Just So festival, or hear Melvin Burgess chat about Junk, there’s something for everyone. Saturday 7 May – Sunday 29 May – Brighton. Brighton Festival ... Twitter ... Gangsta Granny ... Watch the zany pensioner and her grandson, Ben embark on perilous adventures in venues across the country ... ....

The musical numbers in Moulin Rouge!, ranked

Edit Entertainment Weekly 18 May 2016
The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return, and the greatest songs you’ll ever know are all made over and mashed up in Baz Luhrmann’s flashy jukebox musical Moulin Rouge!, which hit theaters 15 years ago on May 18, 2001 ... The pitch for Spectacular Spectacular brings together all the major characters in a zany, impromptu mini-enactment of the plot of the entire movie (“and in the end does someone die?”)....

Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2's Big New Update Detailed

Edit Gamespot 18 May 2016
Part One." ... "Trouble in Zombopolis ... Zombopolis ... Rolls into battle with his toxic toxicity!Numerous tuning and balancing updates, including improving Sunflowers’ damage output, damage reductions for Electro Brainz and moreAdded a Zany Zombopolis Pack with over 1,200 all-new crazy customization itemsAdded Leaderboard improvements to keep track of your friends’ accomplishments, as well as your ownUpdates to the Boat Blast Mini-Game ... ....
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