WARNING: Do not watch this video around lunchtime.
God knows what abomination this sewer cam has caught (and why have a sewer cam in the first place?!), but it appears to pulse, throb and disgust. Are we seeing the infancy of a real-life Blob hell-bent on the eradication of all humans? Is it some bizarre, new, benign lifeform who will teach us the mysteries of the universe? Is this just some god-awful surgery video mashed up with footage of a sewer? Is it a hoax?
Just as Twitter gave us those amazing photos of the plane crashing in the Hudson River and minute-by-minute updates about Michael Jackson, it also brought us reports last week that actor Jeff Goldblum died when he fell off a cliff in New Zealand.
Based on his Monday appearance on the Colbert Report, it appears he's very much alive. Or is he?
As a recovering sufferer of Duke Nukem's disease because of my excessive first-person shooter video game playing (Anyone up for a round of TF2!? No? What about CS:S? COD4?!? PLEASE?!), I fully support the publicizing of this growing problem.
Let's help remove the stigma of a crippling disease that makes people flip out when they see barrels (they might explode!), climb up on any crates they see (hidden items might be up there!), crawl through air ducts (well, it was open), and carry around crowbars and pipe wrenches for no apparent reason (to be fair, you never know).
Thanks to my buddy Vinod (who is actually an artist on a first-person shooter being made) for sending this my way.
Remember the Thriller dance by the 1,500 Filipino prisoners at the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center? After learning about Michael Jackson's death, they choreographed a new number in his honor.
The Thriller dance was much better. It was Number 3 in Watch This Now's Top 10 Viral Video Clips of 2007.
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