Silly

Have you been hearing about online movie spoofs lately? Brokeback Mountain has inspired a number of parodies, but the art form is certainly not new. An old favorite of mine is Store Wars; it's Star Wars told with health foods. There's Chewbroccoli and Darth Tater (who killed Organican Skywalker), and R2D2 is a cube of tofu--well, see it for yourself, it's just too precious.

The leader of the faux-trailer group might be this contest winning entry for Shining. It takes actual footage from The Shining, rearranges it with uplifting music, and voila, you've got a heartwarming family film. A funnier current one is Brokeback to the Future. It would work even better if Doc wasn't always bug eyed and crazed sounding. And lastly, I wonder about the people behind an online picture book using peeps to play parts in Lord of the Rings; check out Lord of the Peeps: Fellowship of the Peep. I think they're working on the entire trilogy, one chapter at a time.

And for an entirely different brand of silly, there's Katamari Damacy. It's the strangest video game ever, and now you can play a mini version online. Here's the official description: "When the King of All Cosmos accidentally destroys all the stars in the sky, he orders you, his pint-sized princely son, to put the twinkle back in the heavens above. The only way you can do that is by rolling everything on Earth into clumps so that he can replace what's missing in space. 'Everything' includes cookies, lawn mowers, lamp posts, sumo wrestlers, bulldozers, brontosauruses , cruise ships, and more." Come on, roll away, it's Friday.