September 2009
79 posts
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain Puts Tiny Tim... →
If you’ve been on the internet for very long, you probably heard of the Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain ages ago, but it’s nice to see them getting some love in the NY Times.
I realise that this is just screaming into the...
rutabagaparsnip:
hangingfire:
…but for the love of god, why can’t some people on Tumblr put at least a touch of credit on photos?
I SEE WHAT U DID THAR, DAMNIT.
(In fairness, I should note that most of y’all I follow are good about that, and if you reblog something that was originally posted sans credit, well, there’s only so much you can do about it. I just had to get this out of my system,...
Only a Game Explains Michael Moorcock To You
Chris Bateman, on his Only a Game blog, has a series of posts about Michael Moorcock and his immense body of work, of which I’m a huge fan. (A fact probably well-known to most of my friends.) Hat tip to LJ friend numb3r_5ev3n for pointing them out to me.
Michael Moorcock
Law and Chaos
The Eternal Champion
The Multiverse
Jerry Cornelius
The Game of Time
I realise that this is just screaming into the...
…but for the love of god, why can’t some people on Tumblr put at least a touch of credit on photos?
I SEE WHAT U DID THAR, DAMNIT.
(In fairness, I should note that most of y’all I follow are good about that, and if you reblog something that was originally posted sans credit, well, there’s only so much you can do about it. I just had to get this out of my system, is all....
“In Russia, and in Russian literature, there’s a lot of talk about the...”
– Alex Blumberg, talking about what initially seemed like a very bad date in Russia in This American Life #238, “Lost in Translation” (This is one of my favorite TAL episodes; the interview with the guy who’s Yao Ming’s translator is brilliant.)
(I was reminded of this piece...
Mika reinvents Lady Gaga’s “Poker...
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YouTube - Mika - We Are Golden (official video) →
This video pretty much just screams, “THIS IS POP MUSIC, MOTHERFUCKERS.” Sure, I can see how one might find Mika excessively precious, but what can I say, I like him.
Trailer: New Rose Hotel →
For rocketsandrayguns.
This is admittedly not anywhere near as cool as his Dead Ringers photo.
We rented this for our first date. “Hey,” we thought, “how bad can this movie be? It’s based on a William Gibson short story and it’s got Christopher Walken and Willem Dafoe.”
Answer: pretty bad. But if your first date can survive this, your relationship can...
The Mad Men Animated GIF You’ve All Been Waiting... →
I can watch this over and over again. In fact, I have been for the last several minutes, trying not to laugh loudly enough to attract coworker attention. This probably makes me a terrible person.
(Big ol’ spoilers for ep. 3.06, “Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency”.)
Pleonasm →
Today’s new word.
Lessons From A Stuntwoman (Do Not Try This At... →
In which Zoe Bell explains how to fake-clothesline someone in Roller Derby.
“I’m pretty happy living in this decade. We have things like painless dentistry,...”
– Jon Hamm, quoted in this Salon article
Austin Craigslist: Hipster girls of Austin - m4w →
To be honest, things like this make me embarrassed about the fact that so many of my daily accoutrements are “hipster”.
The thing is, I like my Converse trainers, my Freitag bag, and my t-shirt with the inexplicable scissors graphic on. If it makes me a hipster in your book, whatever. What will earn you a punch in the face is if you imply that I only like these things in an effort to...
AnnaTheRed's Bento Factory: Ponyo Bento →
Utterly adorable bento based on Ponyo. Hurray for AnnaTheRed’s Ghibli bento boxes!
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“We were chatting casually when the president’s favorite speechwriter came...”
– Matt Latimer, in “Me Talk Presidential One Day”, published in GQ.
(He also writes: “In 2007 I finally made it to the Bush White House as a presidential speechwriter. But it was not at all what I envisioned. It was less like Aaron Sorkin’s The West Wing and more like The...
Bookforum: What is your favorite conspiracy... →
Bookforum provides a roundup of conspiracy theory articles and blogposts from around the net.
Bonus goodie from another entry in the Bookforum blog: The 5 Most Embarrassing Failures in the History of Terrorism.
lizlet:
thedailywhat:
President Obama Calling...
Aimee Mann: The Scientist →
I can’t stand Coldplay. (Yeah, I know, me and every other pretentiouse arse of a certain age.) But I do like covers of their songs, in particular Aimee Mann’s cover of “The Scientist”.
And hopefully a proper recorded version of the Pet Shop Boys performing “Viva La Vida” (which is part of their current tour setlist) is on its way.
