Rue The Day!

You’ve gotta love these commercials starring celebrities before they were famous.

Seriously, this might just be the most mind-blowingly awesome tattoo ever.

This week I got to check out the food, fun and frivolity that is the San Diego Fair and here is the result. While I didn’t eat any wacky doodle foods (just fried calamari and a cinnamon roll), I did document all the craziness.

This was the one booth that did tempt me, being as how I am a huge cheese fan and macaroni and cheese in a cup sounded great, as did deep-fried cheese curds.

Last year, this booth made all kinds of waves with their deep-fried butter and chocolate-covered bacon, and this year they stepped up their disgusting fatty food game with deep-fried bacon and chocolate covered corn dogs.

While I didn’t get any of the crazy food, my friend did try the chocolate-covered corn dog and the result was surprisingly boring. According to him, the melty chocolate covering completely covered up the flavor of the corn dog. I had some of the chocolate-covered bacon last year and I have to admit, it suffered from the same problem -mostly because the bacon slice was so thin it would be hard to taste without a chocolate covering.

This is the most famous of the food booths, featuring deep-fried Girl Scout cookies and deep-fried Kool Aid.

They’re so popular that they actually have two connected kitchen trucks.

One of the fair’s longest-running food stands, this barbeque joint serves up killer smoked ribs and grilled chicken for the greatest prices of any fair booths.

Inside the wood-working room was this sexy wood bikini.

There was also this incredible replica of every wand from the Harry Potter movie series. A geek’s dream.

All in all, a great time was had by everyone and I highly recommend anyone in the area stop by and enjoy yourself.

Update: It occurred to me that this video from Charlotte’s web was a suiting addition to the post.

It goes without saying that there were a lot of USSR residents who longed to escape to live in a democracy, but few of them were so determined as to jump off a cruise ship in the middle of the ocean and swim their way to freedom. Read about this amazing escape and more in this great Cracked article.

Soviet soldiers that have become Americanized at last. And that’s what the Cold War really was all about.

Now these guys know how to pull a great prank.

I’d feel bad for the dog if it wasn’t so cute and if his tail wasn’t wagging the whole time.

They say a true artist is never limited by his canvas. If that’s the case, then these guys definitely meet the qualifications.

There’s something so delightfully wrong about replacing a baby and it’s mother or father’s heads in a photo. See more here.

This wedding proposal that was actually created by the company that puts out Borderlands is so ultimately geeky and cute that it made me tear up the first time I saw it. For more awesomely nerdy proposals, check out the 8 I wrote up for Neatorama and the 12 recently featured on Oddee. If you’ve ever wanted to ask a gamer, blogger, or any other type of geek to marry you, there are some great ideas in there too.