Whimsical Bullshit

In all my years of reading Craigslist ads, I believe this poster found "the ultimate Craigslist formula":

You are looking at one sexy BBW of a bike. Her name is Bertha and she loves to ride. I bought Bertha a year ago and she has been my moped on steroids. I only ride her around the city when I need to get somewhere fast. Dual disc up front on this bitch because fat chicks don't stop on a dime, they stop on big wet burritos. One fork seal is blown. Clear coat on the tank is coming off. But just like any hot fat chick you date they have problems so what do you expect?  Give her love and she will get you laid.  Starts up right away on the first time but then she needs to sit there while she gets her juices flowing.  If you are some skinny mission hipster/trustafarian this would be the perfect bike for you to hide your wealth behind, and mitigate your outrageous 5k collection of apple products you can't even use but to browse the internet and post pics of you facebook playing the same three cord on your guitar with some stupid scarf on your neck. This truly is a poor persons Honda. The only problem with hipsters is you are probably too weak and pot saturated to wield such a big bitch; Hipsters are used to women who starve themselves on cigarettes, cocaine, bottled water, and tofu patties. I think a 50cc Buddy would be really up your ally. If you have any questions let me know. If they are funny and not entirely stupid I may answer. If you actually want to buy this thing I will probably in all likely hood respond. If there are no buyers I will ghost ride this bitch into a wall for 500 and you can video that shit and put it on youtube or digg if you are one of those.

If a motorcycle-riding, 33-year-old Shakespeare wrote Craigslist posts, I think this is what we would have studied in high school.  I mean, it took a mere 7 words for this author to compare his bike to a fat chick.  That's not grammar school bullshit, that's untapped genius.  Let us review this author's formula:

1. Compare product to a fat chick
2. Tell potential buyers that their fat friend will get them laid
3. Inform potential buyers that they'll need to perform cunnilingus on the product for it to function properly
4. Make fun of hipsters
5. Make fun of hipster's girlfriends
6. Tell people you probably won't answer their questions
7. Inform people that if they are too stupid to buy what you're selling, you're going to make said product 'go viral'

Take my money, good sir.

From their description: "When we close our Cobra eyes and imagine the perfect summer day, this is what we see. A midwest love letter, a daydream of kiddie pools, and mexican beer. Captured in a single take."  

¡Que bromantica!

via Goddamn Cobras Collective

Reader Daniel Jarvis sent this video our way.  Thankfully, I don't need to edit my video now, which was sure to be not nearly as good as this video, but not nearly as crappy as the one on mishmish.  Be sure to stick around for the bonus sledding on cardboard shots at the end.  Also, if you don't feel like watching 4 minutes of video, the above photo pretty much sums up the entire event.

ROBOBATTLES 2010 Dolores Park from Andrew Callaway on Vimeo.

Sunset Sail in the Bay from daniel jarvis on Vimeo.

Daniel Jarvis, who, if we're lucky, is going to start doing shooting video for this very blog, decided to take his camera out on a boat this weekend.  Lucky for you, he didn't put SNL in the soundtrack.  Enjoy.