Honesty has never been so awesome

Ian McKellen, an actor who has spent my lifetime (and then some) playing interesting characters (and been knighted for it), marched in an anti-Pope rally in London. I don’t know what his particular difficulties are with the Pope, but my take on this is that he should wear some version of this shirt every day.

I knew I should have gone to Comic-Con

I feel that my friends on the West Coast have an unfair advantage when it comes to awesome conventions. They get the real Comic-Con (not the knock-off NYC version)  and WonderCon, which a friend who has attended tells me is awesome. I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about my coast’s crap luck when it comes to conventions, but I do feel minor pangs of sadness when I hear about conventions that I would have attended if it had been geographically feasible. This past weekend, I read several items about this year’s Comic-Con and felt a little sad. Until I saw this article, and then I felt a lot sadder.

Pacey-Con??? I know that this is all for a Funny or Die skit, but the premise still pretty hilarious. I’m envious of California people, again.

If I were a famous singer, I’d do this all the time

Good on Funny or Die for coming up with this video, which was pretty entertaining. Jewel, disguised as frumpy, mild-mannered Karen, absolutely kills at karaoke doing songs by…Jewel. Love it!

Good food for a good cause

I hope you’re hungry, North Jersey. Today, Wednesday July 14, 2010, Blue Moon Mexican Cafe of Englewood is hosting a fundraiser for the Englewood Public Library. In order for the library to benefit from your excellent taste in restaurants, you must present the following flyer. It’s good for the entire day, and for eat-in, delivery, or carryout orders. Help the library!

Here’s a link to the flyer by itself, without any text from this post.

Update: Future Husband Isaiah Mustafa, AKA the Old Spice Guy, says a few words about libraries:

Okay, but how do I get him to respond to me?

I’ve pretty much abandoned Twitter, so as not to use up my lifetime allotment of words before I exit my 20s, but I’m almost tempted to go back. Why? Because Isaiah Mustafa, aka the Old Spice Guy, aka Nicole’s Future Husband, sometimes responds to people. Now, looking at the usernames, you’ll see that these people are all celebrities (of both the Real and Internet varieties). It almost makes me want to write my brilliant novel years ahead of schedule, just to bring me to the notice of the Old Spice people, so that I’d get my own personal message.

Almost.

Any idiot with Microsoft Word and five minutes can make a poster

Except for this one.

Why didn’t I know about Perry Bible Fellowship comics before?

I’m really getting a kick out of these.

Knitting little nightmares

These knitting dissected-animal thingies are weird, but in the spirit of what I want to knit when I get old and crochety (that not a pun, since I don’t crochet, I just plan to be the grumpiest granny ever). (via Slightly Warped’s Curiosities)

“That would be Ott-iss”

It’s always nice to find out that people who you don’t think of as funny have a good sense of humor. Here, Tobey Maguire played a trick on his wife, Jennifer Meyer, two weeks after the birth of their son, Otis, whom they hadn’t named immediately, and who needed a birth certificate. He spelled it correctly on the real birth certificate, and then brought an extra home with the baby’s name spelled as “Oatis.”

Awesomeness ensued.