Lone Locust Productions

Day: June 9, 2006

  • My Heros at The Tiki Bar, Say It Ain’t So, Doctor Tiki!

    In the world of video podcasting, one podcast stands head and shoulders above all the rest: Tiki Bar TV.

    Even if you aren’t an alcoholic, it’s funny, irreverent and extremely well put together.

    (And, if that’s not enough, Lala is extremely well put together, too.)

    But there’s something disturbing about their latest episode, Space Cadet. There’s just enough disturbing similarities between this episode and our Fusion Patrol: 1999 episode, The Last Pizza to make me go, “hmmmm.”

    And it’s not just me, several people have contacted me about it since the episode aired.

    Plot-wise, there’s really no similarity, but the premise of the Tiki Bar being sent into “The Outerspace” and even the use of a same joke/pun just seem too coincidental. The video for FP: 1999 has been on the net for years, so it is conceivable that it’s been seen. Doctor Tiki seems so competent and reassuring, I’m sure it must be a coincidence, right?

    Of course, that movie, Zathura, about the house being blasted into space seems mighty suspicious, too…

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  • The Truth Sometimes Sets You Free

    BBC NEWS => Eating pizza ‘cuts cancer risk’

    I hate eating tomatoes.

    For years people have nagged me, “oh, you need to eat more tomatoes, they reduce the risk of cancer.”

    To which I always respond, “I eat pizza, that’s a tomato food.”

    “Oh no”, they say, “That’s not the same.”

    Turns out, it is.

    Pizzas are covered with a potentially protective tomato sauce. Italian researchers say eating pizza could protect against cancer. Researchers claim eating pizza regularly reduced the risk of developing oesophageal cancer by 59%. The risk of developing colon cancer also fell by 26% and mouth cancer by 34%, they claimed.

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