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Ever have an urgent message you need to get out and wish you had an easy way for friends to send it out via Twitter? Let’s say a radioactive ape has escaped from your laboratory and you need to alert the public. You ask your friends to please tweet the following message:

WARNING! RADIOACTIVE APE ON THE LOSE IN LAS VEGAS AREA! Please avoid and what ever you do, do NOT feed it popcorn!

But there’s a rumor floating around the internet that Spongebob Squarepants might get canceled from Nickelodeon; so your friends are a little preoccupied at the moment. If only there was a simple way to create a link that would automatically load the message directly into their Twitter status box so all they had to do was click the update button…

Well, now there is!

Zeek Interactive has created an online application that reduces any tweet you want your friends to share into a simple link, which, when clicked, will instantly load the message into their Twitter status box. For example, right now, if you want to tweet the above Radioactive Ape Warning, just CLICK HERE (don’t worry, it won’t actually process the tweet unless you click the update button on your Twitter status box):

Pretty cool, huh?

If you want to create your own message, go to Zeek International’s Twitter Status Update Creation page and create your own. Let me know what you think.

If you liked this post and want to share it with others on twitter, CLICK HERE to automatically load the following message into your status box: “I saw something pretty cool today on the @deadrooster blog. Check it out!“.

Have fun!

After thousands of years playing tricks to steal mens souls, the Devil–in cooperation with Taco Bell Restaurants–has invented a taco so highly addictive that the caverns of hell are literally bursting with corpses.

I am, of course, referring to the Volcano Taco.

Seasoned beef, cheese and lettuce topped with a cheesy lava sauce so spicy that they are required-by-law* to be encased in a bright red taco shell.

Originally slated to be a temporary menu item, the Volcano Taco proved to be so popular with wandering hordes of zombie-like fast food aficionados scraping their fingernails on the locked glass doors every morning that Taco Bell was forced to permanently add it to the menu.

But, not before a whimsical corporate decision that nearly ended in Armageddon.

The Great Lava Sauce Famine of 2008

In the late-summer of 2008, word leaked out that Taco Bell would be discontinuing the Volcano Taco for good, and with it, the precious, life-sustaining Lava Sauce.

This proved to be much more than any moderately-trained taco enthusiast could handle, so they all started breaking things.

Finally, someone–probably a college graduate of some sort–came up with the idea of duplicating the Lava Sauce. If only they could discover the recipe! Soon, illegal cheese labs began springing up all across America with sole intention of creating an acceptable substitute.

They began with the most logical composition; one part lava, one part sauce

Results: Unacceptable. Vaporizes flesh off face. Irreversibly etches jawbone.

Conclusion: Try something less corrosive.

Lab Notes: Keep fire extinguisher within easy reach of volunteer test subject.

A Legitimate Non-Comical Recipe for Taco Bell Lava Sauce

And, now for the big finish. Two of my alert readers, haddubabe and Kendall, have revealed that sauce-related scientists at TopSecretRecipies.com have come up with an acceptable substitute for Taco Bell Lava Sauce. They require you to pay for the full recipe; however, they do give you a portion of the recipe for free and having purchased the full text myself, I can tell you they reveal the most interesting of the ingredients in that free section.

Why am I sending you over to look at it at TSR instead of just listing the ingredients here? Because they make you accept a non-disclosure agreement in order to protect the recipe in which they scraped from someone else. Can you believe it?

Anyway, to all you Volcano Taco lovers out there, I hope I’ve helped to end your desperate journey to find the illusive Lava Sauce recipe.

Related Dead Rooster Articles Featuring Taco Bell Lava Sauce:

Volcano Tacos Discontinued: Facing Life Without Lava Sauce
Volcano Tacos: The Active Ingredient in the 100-Yard Dash

*OK, so I made up the “required-by-law” part, and probably the notion that the Devil was involved.
**Photo credit: Frenkieb

This is my friend Bret–a successful Pinball Machine & Arcade Game repair man–dancing with a vintage (c. 1990) Micheal Jackson’s Moonwalker coin-operated arcade game. I also have a photo of Bret dancing with a goat, but the goat made me promise not to reveal it.

Anyway, Bret was absolutely devastated with the news that his favorite singer, Michael Jackson, had passed.

Bret loved Michael Jackson; he even confessed to me that he secretly wanted to be Michael Jackson. He often said that, if only he could find a way to do it, he would–if asked–seriously consider having Michael Jackson’s next baby (and possibly naming it “Tilt”).

Haha! I’m just kidding around here folks! I had to issue a little payback to Bret for the cruel Michael Jackson-related social homicide he attempted to pull on me back during the Holidays.

What he did was, he drove me through the crowded streets of downtown Glendale in his heavily-oxidized black Mitsubishi Mini-Truck (which happened to be loaded down with pinball machines at the time) while bobbing his head up-and-down to Michael Jackson’s “Bad” as the song blasted out the windows at full volume for all the Christmas shoppers.

You know I’m bad…I’m bad…you know it…

Real funny, Bret.

He was pretty proud of himself for embarrassing me, but I wasn’t nearly as embarrassed as his hysterical laughter would indicate.

But, I didn’t write this blog post to get back at Bret (at least that’s not the only reason). I thought it would be fun to try and guess how much Bret’s Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker arcade game–which is currently listed on ebay–would sell for given the current interest in everything Michael.

The item is a full sized coin-operated arcade game designed by Michael Jackson himself and is in excellent working condition.

You can see the auction details, more photos and current price HERE.

The bidding started at 99-cents and has had a few bids already.

So, how much will the final bid be?

The person that comes the closest to guessing the final bid will receive a special “I won a lame-ass contest on Dead Rooster” badge to put on their blog (If the winner is not a blogger, I will try and come up with an equally useless item to present them with).

The eBay auction ends on Sunday night, so the deadline for my contest will be Thursday at 11:00 pm Pacific Standard Time.

Go for it!