Chris Kissel is a writer based in Los Angeles.
Chris Kissel
Eddie Vedder Releases New Track From Upcoming Ukelele Album [AUDIO]
Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder will release a new album consisting entirely of tunes played on the ukelele later this year, music blogs report, and the first song is out today.
It's a fresh recording of Vedder's "Longing To Belong," which the singer has played at solo shows throughout the last couple of years. Listen to the new recording after the jump.
McLobster to Scuttle onto a Menu Near You?
McDonald's reassured nervous Twitterers this morning that, no, the McLobster isn't making the move from New England to a menu near you.
Foldable, Electric-Powered Bicycles Just Might Be the Wave of the Future [VIDEO]
If you've got $3,600 to spare and don't mind folks gawking at you from behind the wheel, it might be time to invest in a "YikeBike." Conceived as a faster and lighter alternative to the Segway, the YikeBike is a foldable electric bicycle that was ranked by Time Magazine as one of the best inventions of 2009.
It looks kind of like a unicycle with a training wheel, but its inventors say it
British Schoolchildren Rock Out to Iron Maiden [VIDEO]
The legendary British heavy metal magazine Kerrang! recorded a group of schoolchildren at the Watville Primary School yelling and headbanging along to Iron Maiden's 1983 classic "Flight of Icarus."
It could be enough to turn these tykes off Justin Bieber for the rest of their lives...
NASA Captures Massive Solar Flare on Camera [VIDEO]
It's an amazing sight — and something you'll never see it on this planet. A 90-minute storm on the surface of the Sun was captured on video by NASA last week.
The video of the massive "solar tendril" was taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, a small satellite orbiting the Sun to gather data on how weather there affects the weather on Earth...
American University B-Ballers Make the Best Trickshot Video Yet [VIDEO]
Sports trick shots are taking over the Internet, if the popularity of amazing video montages by college trick shot masters UConn quarterback John McEntee and USC Asheville Goalkeeper Lassi Hurskainen are any indication.
Continuing the collegiate athlete reign of terror, American University basketballers Joe Hill and Steve Luptak take on the kings of the trick shot with this collection of full-cour
Supercut Alert — A Short History of Product Placement [VIDEO]
Product placement has been a part of TV and movies since their beginnings, and finally someone's put together a video montage of laughably obvious placement moments — for historical purposes, of course. Fred and Wilma Flintstone split a pack of Winstons while Bugs Bunny unironically urges the children of America to drink the Kool-Aid.
They're not all really product placements — some are just ads
Angry Hippo Chases Down An African Lake Tour [VIDEO]
Evan Petkau and Luke Willms, a couple of average dudes from Vancouver, Canada, were on a tour of Lake Naivasha in Kenya when their boat was suddenly accosted by a pod of angry hippopotami.
When hippos aren't acting out their roles as the poofy, adorable creatures of popular lore, they're vicious, boat-chasing monsters. Check out this news video from MSNBC, in which a very angry-looking hippo head
Beavis and Butthead to Return to Television
According to Justin Bieber and the cast of Skins, Beavis and Butthead, the subversive and often-imitated MTV cartoon, will return this summer after 14 years off the air. (You can watch entire episodes from the show's initial run on its MTV page.)
Gutsy Kid Crowdsurfs in His Wheelchair [VIDEO]
In a fit of rock ecstasy, an excited kid at a concert is lifted up by the audience for a crowdsurf. Not an uncommon occurrence, of course — except this kid's in a wheelchair.
Despite the fact that, uh, lots could go wrong, the moment is pure rock and roll...