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This Saturday Glenn Beck reclaims the Civil Rights movement in his “Restoring Honor” event. (via Other 98%) (Thanks, BR!) Tea Party enthusiasts are so shallow, so ill-educated, so dismissive of the conservative values of tradition and honor, and so repulsed by the humane policies of progressives that they think it perfectly reasonable to celebrate the words of [...] Here’s a vintage police department safety book reminding you of all the ways you can suffer injury or die if you’re not careful. (via Scanning Around with Gene) That is the LAST time I hide in a pile of leaves. Here’s some good advice from Jenny Dryeraseboard - The original “girl quits job on dry erase board” post here. TheChive’s revelation of the hoax here. TechCrunch’s story of the hoax here. In 1995 Lisa Simpson visited a carnival fortune-teller that foretold her future. Part of that future was Lisa’s wedding today. (Unfortunately, her groom decides he can’t be a part of the Simpson’s family and skedaddles before the ceremony.) (via Funny Stuff) Here’s a poem, from the Moon. (One of my favorite moments from The Mighty Boosh.) Neil Armstrong, walking on my face Hyperbole and a Half is officially my new favorite blog. A bunch of tea party enthusiasts began spreading the following video on their Facebook pages and Twitter accounts, not realizing it was an Onion piece from 2008. An alert blogger took screenshots of the Facebook comments and posted them online. In other news, Bill Clinton declared himself president for life. A baby seal pinata. Stuffed with blood-red candy. Hyperbole and a Half perfectly captures my lifelong struggle with responsibility. “But a few times a year, I spontaneously decide that I’m ready to be a real adult. I don’t know why I decide this; it always ends terribly for me. But I do it anyway. I sit myself down and tell [...] Rich Fulcher plays characters Bob Fossil and Eleanor in the British comedy series The Mighty Boosh. Bob Fossil perfectly matches my idiosyncratic sense of humor. I could watch Fulcher perform for hours. Here he is being interviewed by Richard Metzger on Metzger’s show Dangerous Minds. Rich Fulcher: Tiny Acts of Rebellion from DANGEROUS MINDS on Vimeo. In [...] Thanks, Douglas Adams! “Towel Day is an annual celebration on the 25th of May, as a tribute to the late author Douglas Adams (1952-2001). On that day, fans around the universe proudly carry a towel in his honour.”
Douglas Adams Wired has a brief history of Towel Day. “Two weeks after the death of Douglas Adams, author of [...] My new mantra. Jessica’s Daily Affirmation. WGN News anchors Robert Jordan and Jackie Bange perform a choreographed… something during a commercial break. I suppose I should be delighted by the whimsy and execution of this performance, but frankly, I think these two have too much time on their hands. Perhaps they have built it up bit-by-bit over the course of years of [...] The allegations swirling around ex-gay crusader George Rekers reminds me of this Mr. Show skit about homo-sin-uality and the joys of relapse. OK, so it’s one guy doing impersonations of Walken and Nicholson. Still, it’s better than anything I saw on SNL last night. Celebrity Reenactment #1: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Michael Berube notes some of the more stunning revelations that have been coming out of recent polls of self-identified Republicans and Tea Party protesters. Here is a select sample (read the whole list here). Barack Obama is a socialist—67 percent Obama is a Muslim—57 percent Obama was not born in the United States and so is not eligible [...] Two imaginary works from Fafblog I hope someday see the light of day. The novel - “Giblets is going home to work on his novel,” says Giblets. “It is called This Is Stupid and Boring and Stupid and Shut Up. It is about a young man coming of age in small town America and being eaten by [...] (h/t Rick Dakan) “Do you want to be a nicer person? Are you looking for inspiration to do good things? Well keep looking. But if you’re into opening up terrifying vistas of reality then the Esoteric Order of the Old Ones and Cthulhu Cultists want to help. Contact us today to find out how.” JB’s favorite Mighty Boosh song. (I have too many to count.) Cheese is a kind of meat Don’t forget, 21st century troubadour Jonathan Coulton will be playing at Nova 535 in St. Pete on Friday, January 15. It’s an all ages show and Paul & Storm kick it off at 8pm. I hope I see you there! For those of you unfamiliar with JoCo’s work, here are a few samplings to whet your [...] (via urlesque) Christmas Is Interesting by Jonathan Coulton Happy Christmas, y’all! Chiron Beta Prime by Jonathan Coulton. JoCo is playing St. Pete January 15! Please pardon my dust while I do a little site re-design. Helen Killer peruses Etsy looking for the most oddball, inexplicable, and stunningly bad works of amateur art and promotes them on Regretsy. JB has been obsessed with this site for a week now, but I’ve only started checking it out. My favorite part is their photoshop efforts “View it in a room,” where they take [...] Presumably this was a just-in-case page built last year. (h/t the crunch) Snoop tweets - “only person that every smoked me out is willie mothafuckn nelson!!! straight O.G.” Class all day Friday and Saturday, assignments (including a real-work-as-opposed-to-school-work deadline) due Thursday, Friday, Saturday, & Sunday. And then the push begins to finish 5 projects due the first week of December. If I weren’t doing so much work and school, I’d be writing more about hyper-polarization and how communities can search for common ground, [...] This idea for a sitcom sort of randomly popped into my head this morning. Here it is - It’s called The Discoverers. It’s about these nutty, geeky Canadians who have built a DIY space exploration outfit and are going to explore strange new worlds. In the first episode they’re launched into space, while napping their instruments [...] |
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