Grampa Bob’s Animal Park (Mexico, NY)

Last fall Ham and I visited the little-known Grampa Bob’s Animal Park in Mexico, NY. If you’re in upstate NY this summer and looking for something to do - be sure to check it out (google for directions!) - but first, be sure to read our review!

Kelly

Upstate NY Country

Check out some of the absurd video clips contained in “Upstate NY Country“.

Ham

New Kids Perform - Today Show 05/16/2008

 

Did’ja see it?

Click here to check it out.

Still NONE more Project Absurd-worthy! ;P

P.S. Project Absurd is off to Vega$ to get hitched! No new posts for the next week or so.

Kelly

 

Lunchroom Manners

Messing around on archive.org we found this fabulous video from 1959 on having good lunchroom manners. WordPress won’t let me embed the video from that site here so I found it on youtube and have posted the youtube one instead. Enjoy, and if you want even more fun, click the link after the video to read the comments over at the archive.org site - including some comments from the stars of the video themselves!

http://www.archive.org/details/lunchroom_manners

Kelly

UFO Abduction - 1989

UFO Abduction was the predecessor to the successful UPN show, Alien Abduction. Click here to see my full review, which also features new comments from the creator of the film, Dean Alioto.

Ham

Mourning Thrifty Treasures

It is with a heavy heart that we bring you the news that Thrifty Treasures has gone off to that great antique show in the sky. See what we saw on our last trip to Thrifty Treasures in January 2008.

Kelly

None more Project-Absurd-worthy!

Associated Press

New Kids on the Block to Reunite

BOSTON (AP) — They may be pushing 40, but the New Kids are returning to the block. The Boston boy band New Kids on the Block, which sold 70 million albums in the 1980s and early 1990s, has reunited and plans to release a new album and go on tour. The reunion comes 20 years after the release of the group’s multi-platinum album, “Hanging Tough.”

The group released a new photo Wednesday and reportedly will appear on the Today show Friday morning — the same time an unmarked countdown clock on http://www.nkotb.com ends.

“The fan response to this has been incredible,” band member Donnie Wahlberg told the Boston Herald.

Wahlberg said he was convinced to get back together with his former bandmates — Joey McIntyre, brothers Jordan and Jonathan Knight and Danny Wood — when they decided to record new music. Wahlberg said he wrote 80 percent of the new material with McIntyre and Jordan Knight.

“I had no interest going out on a nostalgia tour and singing the same material,” said Wahlberg, 38.

But he added, “We absolutely will do the old songs for sure.”

Producer Maurice Starr formed the group in Boston in the 1980s, hoping to recreate the success he had with another teen group from the city, New Edition.

At the height of their popularity, New Kids sold out world tours, marketed millions of dollars in merchandise and spawned a Saturday morning cartoon.

The group disbanded in 1994. Wahlberg has acted on television and in movies, while Jordan Knight, McIntyre and Wood released solo albums. Jonathan Knight became a real estate developer.

Now, don’t get me wrong. Back in the day I was a hair-metal addict and hated this group with a depth of intensity that cannot be described with mere words. My best friend and I even wrote a humorous song about the suckitude that sprang forth from this band. In the twenty years that have come since “Hangin’ Tough” I have obviously come to better appreciate the most absurd areas of life. And to that end, there can be no greater absurdity than the once-enormous popularity of this fantasmagorical boy band. You have to admit, there’s a certain genius to their work. I can only hope the killer dance moves are all in place for tomorrow’s Today show appearance!

A refresher (So exciting! I hardly know what to post first!)…

Ok, if held at gunpoint and forced to choose my favorite New Kids song, this would have to be my choice. It must be the groovy bass:

Cover Girl

I still can’t believe they’re all older than me - Joey by only 9 months. I could have sworn back then he was in junior high when I was in 11th grade!

Step By Step

I can’t get over those overalls! LMAO! This next one is notable not only for it being one of the earliest of New Kids videos, but also for the fab parody Weird Al did called “The White Stuff” (referring to Oreo cookies)…

(You Got It) The Right Stuff

“I love the white stuff, baby, in the middle of an Oreo…”

Finally, we have one of the… most Project-Absurd-worthy of all of the New Kids songs and videos…

Tonight

I hope you enjoyed this trip down Memory Lane. Don’t forget to watch the Today show Friday morning 4/4!

Kelly

Frog Pond Farm - Little York, NY

Come and check out the absurd metal art at the Frog Pond Farm!

Ham
March 2008

February At The Dollar Store…

…this is what we found.

A picture of a Fancy Hippopotamus, suitable for framing…

A Fish. Thing.

…and a Room Decoration.

Mongolian Death Flu, and…

Just wanted to apologize for the lack of updates lately. Ham and I have both been monumentally, epically, absurdly sick (actually bedridden for days at a time) for over a week now with what appears to be the Mongolian Death flu. We’re working our way back to health, but I also don’t know how often we’ll be posting in the next few months ahead because… 

Project Absurd is planning a wedding!

Yes, we are getting married in a few months so we’ll be extremely busy with that. Rest assured, though, that after mid-June things should get rolling here at Project Absurd. And over the next few months the updates won’t stop completely, they’ll just be fewer and further-between. We don’t want anyone to think we’re losing interest or the site is dying. Nothing could be further from the truth! We’ve just got some life to live!

Much love,

Kelly