Two audio clips that make me very happy
Chris L. on the Best Show doing an impression of Herbie Hancock being welcomed on Elvis Costello’s show:
Jon Glaser tearing it up on Delocated:
Moustache Debate Part 2: The VP Edition
Even the moustache was insufficient in squashing the anger. But it helped. Maybe next time a full beard needs to be employed.
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- Joe “El Guapo” Biden
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- Serious Stache
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- The Stache Understands
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- The Middle Class Stache
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- Straight Talk Stasche
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- Waiting for Instructions Stache
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- Hockey Mom hairlip
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- Cha cha cha!
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- Compassionate Stache
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- Selleck, Alaska
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- 70s Sarah
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- Gwen measures it
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- AHH! EYESTACHE!
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- Finger stache
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- I have a wristband, too
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- Gwen’s Sunday Crown
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- So close
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- Smokin’ Stache
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- The Unibrow
MICHELLEOBAMASISTABO!
If you didn’t see the original, the guys from Detroit Octane did a song called Barack Obama-Sistable set to Simply Irresistible. Here’s my ode to our future FLOTUS, Michelle Obama. YouTube should be removing it soon, either for copyright infringement or for TERRIBLE singing. Really, I will never quit my day job.
“Giant dog turd wreaks havoc at Swiss museum”
My brother and I like to collect weird headlines. I think I’ve won with this one from The Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/12/3?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront
Shark Memo!
I love weird logos. This one is from “Great White” style copy paper from a vendor. I like that they’ve tried to cram everything in: oh, it’s called “Great White” so add a shark, also it’s recycled so throw that in there, but people don’t want to think it’s recycled shark bits, so put a memo in there. There — perfect!
Cool Photoshop tutorial: Make pictures look like models
Before:
After:
UPDATE: FOUND magazine submission
Got posted as the “Find of the Day” — fitting for 911.
http://www.foundmagazine.com/comments/2322
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Found this on the subway this morning (December 11 2006), and sent it off immediately to FOUND magazine (http://foundmagazine.com/); not as good as the shopping list my brother found that included items such as “nipple shields” and “Kill Bill 2″.
Contest Entry for The Best Show on WFMU
a) not my friend
b) a woman (sadly, not many ladies call in to the show)
c) sorely lacking in your life
They’ve got a video and art contest going on, and I’ve just put up an entry:
New Toy – Watercolor brush
We all know that the Japanese are cooler than we are, but they even have cooler art supplies. When we went to Seattle I found a Japanese bookstore and a cool little Pentel Aquash set that comes in a little case; I’ve had the single color brushpens before, but the set is so much cooler. Even a lazy sketcher like me can have fun with these beasties (click on the images for bigger versions:
Directions while in Seattle:
Sketches on a bus out to Long Island:
All the News That’s Fit to… huh?
There are times that you think maybe the editors of newspapers let the guys from The Onion take over for the day. Two recent examples — one from Yahoo and another from the Times (good to see Kenneth Starr staying focused on important things, and good to see the Supreme Court tackling the hard issues).
Truck of the BEAST!
Weddings are for the Awesome
One of the best things about having a wedding is getting to see AWFUL examples. Here is a very tender site of well-intentioned geeks: http://www.geocities.com/jediwedding/photos.html
All credit goes to Marite for finding this gem. Her finding it, and her appreciating yet vetoeing of it as a theme, is more proof of her awesomeness.
A couple of the best:
Bushy words
This is perhaps the most awesome thing ever on the NYTimes website:
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/washington/20070123_STATEOFUNION.html
Look up the words terror, terrorist, terrorists, September the 11th, and other fun ones!
Reminds me of this Weekly Radio Address: http://weeklyradioaddress.com/WRA20060911.htm
Something awesome: Typos
I’ve always pleased to see typos on things. Here’s one on the back of a can of Trader Joe’s knockoff of Manhattan Special, the best beverage EVER. Check the note on the middle left.
And here’s one from none other than The New York Times. Apparently the old gray lady has not the SpellCheck. And this made it to the homepage!
Wooster on Spring
The Wooster Collective (http://www.woostercollective.com) is hosting an amazing street art show this weekend in the city. Here are some photos from the opening that I was lucky enough to sneak into thanks to a friend at Cabinet magazine (so subscribe, please — http://cabinetmagazine.org). The photos REALLY don’t do it justice, but click below to see some snapshots.
Like a Cat with a Cardboard Box (and a Secret Handshake)
You know that sense of annoyance you get when you spend a lot of money on a present for a child or cat and they enjoy the box more? My girlfriend may be feeling it now when she brought home the Greatest Thing Ever from the free bookpile at work: Duncan’s Ritual of Freemasonry! Better (possibly) than any Christmas gift!
Freemasons, besides being a guaranteed chuckle for me, have some hilarious illustrations. Check out the gilded cover and Figure below!
So if you see me on the street, give me the Real Grip, My Mark Master Mason!
