Poke Is It

In the noble avoidance of having to do any proper work, CIN has spent an inordinate amount of time this fortnight perusing The Poke, a spoof UK news site that’s just as underwear-soilingly funny as The Onion and The Huffington Post.

While their “Nigerian astronaut needs your £3 million to come home” and “Gang-sign arthritis sweeps LA” stories are both pretty damn good, it’s their re-imagining of Don Draper, Peggy Olson, Pete Campbell, Roger Sterling Jr. et al as Mister Men, which had us laughing loudest. Check it out at www.thepoke.co.uk.
CIN wouldn’t be the most fervent of Kanye West’s admirers, but is seriously loving the 35-minute film he’s produced to accompany his ‘Runaway’ single. A technicolour dream of explosions, car chases, marauding KKK men, human Phoenixes and cute little bunny rabbits, it makes zero sense but is a whole lot of fun.
In case your knowledge of Victoria’s Secret models isn’t as encyclopedic as ours, the female lead is played by 27-year-old Caymanian Selita Ebanks who’s also graced the cover of Vogue and one imagines will now be on many a Hollywood radar. Have a goo at www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg5wkZ-dJXA.
If it’s okay for all the guests on The Saturday Show to be RTÉ employees, there’s no reason why we shouldn’t plug themorningstrut.blogspot.com, a fabulous new fashion site that’s been cooked up by Hot Press-ers Celina Murphy and Ruth Mejdber. Craig Fitzsimons’ offer to supply a column on football shirt design has surprisingly fallen on deaf ears.
Which just leaves time for quick visits to 1cup1coffee.com/x/1024 (Indestructo Tank, Stunt Dirt Bike and 95 other arcade games which, in case the boss inspects your desk-top, are disguised as Word documents); www.unnecessaryquotes.com (a veritable pedants’ paradise); www.beoir.org (Irish craft beer blog); itunes.apple.com/gb/app/bob-dylan-the-little-black/id398974335?mt=8# (scarily addictive Bob Dylan app); and oddculture.com/odd-video/claudia-rivero-humped-on-live-tv (the perils of live news reporting).