Scribal Terror

Tommy Lee Jones in Japan

Tommy Lee Jones did a series of these commercials for Suntory Boss.  According to Katz515:

Alien Tommy Lee Jones came to Japan to research the human on earth.

When he first came to earth, he went to a movie theater and saw Tommy Lee Jones in a film.

So the alien decided to decorate himself to be Tommy Lee Jones and trying out different occupations and observe the human behavior.

Only he went to Japan....

He's eating Beef Bowl at Yoshinoya, and researching human behavior.

This is the first commercial in this series.

This was made for Suntory Boss Rainbow Mountain - canned coffee products sold by Suntory.

Thanks, Mitz. Your tips are awesome!

This was worth doing

"Real-life transformer" by Guillaume Reymond. Now make it fold up, Bill. Via Neatorama

Hand in hand

The dancers are Ma Li and Zhai Xiaowei, choreography by Zhao Limin.

Dancing skeletons

À la conquête du pôle (1912)par Georges Méliès

Read more about the film -- based  on a Jules Verne novel -- and the somewhat hapless director at this excellent site. Link to the video via Monsterbrains.

Bill Bailey, 1955

Check out the final move.

Nokulunga Buthelezi can move

Dangerous games

Letter to the editor about the dangers of video games, at Bits & Pieces.

Introducing . . .

The world's only full-time performing flatulist. Quick now, for Scribal Points -- his highly dignified predecessor died in 1945. Who was he?

In a burst of genius, LSokolow trots home with the honors, identifying the great Le Pétomane  as the locus cl-ass-icus of the flatulist's art. HA HA HA brings up the rear with:

"When a medical school in Paris requested the privilege of examining the late Le Pétomane's famous anus, the family declined, stating, 'there are some things in this life which simply must be treated with reverence.'"

Here's a movie scene with reverence for the flatulent arts. Thanks for reminding me Chas:

Welease Wodewick

I was just in the mood for a Biblical epic.