Possums in the Mail
I just received a nice email:
My friends and I do a photo caption contest every Friday we call “Photo Caption Friday” (brilliant, right?). It usually turns into battle of wits via PhotoShop. The rules state that folks can only spend 5 minutes re-touching the photo. Anywho, I wanted to let you know that I used the possum photo today and got a huge response. I’ve attached a few of my favorites.
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
Joss Whedon (the creator of the Buffy The Vampire Slayer Movie and TV Series, as well as Firefly and Serenity) has joined forces with friends of his to create Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. It stars Neil Patrick Harris, Nathan Fillion and Felicia Day and is a supervillain musical that’s quite funny. It’s only going to be on the website for this week and will go away after Sunday the 20th. So click the image above and check it out.
For those interested, Neil Patrick Harris is best known as Doogie Howser and currently stars in “How I Met Your Mother” on CBS. Nathan Fillion was in Buffy, Firefly and Serenity ( as well as a bit part on LOST ). Felicia Day was also on Buffy and has a pretty funny web video called “The Guild” that’s based around World of Warcraft.
Sorry for the “ad”, but I thought this was funny and that their work should be appreciated by as large an audience as possible.
Word
The rut (thanks, Erin!)
“Fuck You, Wombats”
“Fuck you, wombats,” was my friend’s IM tag line and the above picture was my response. I later found out that wombat in her social circle, for some mysterious reason, is the code word for “cramps” which makes where I found the picture all the more funny.
Wal-Goatse: Courtesy of Mike D.
I’ll be applying
for the faux-Jim Morrison job after Ian What’s-His-Name? gets tired of it. I’ve already got my first quatrain for Robbie Krieger to write a driving guitar lead to.
Here’s how it goes:
Hey baby shake that thing
Hey baby diamond ring
Hey baby now you’re mine
Take a bath in turpentine
For the second or third pass-through of the lyrics, I’ll change the first line to “my thing”, thus deepening that already intense Morrisonian sense of sharply intellectual sensuality. And of course for the extended coda of the live rave-up we’ll all four join in on the fourth line, singing it as “Make that breast milk into wine.”
Puppetry on Parade!
This is not for everybody (she says, blustering just a bit, working a little too hard at crafting an image of One Who Is ‘In the Know’, the priestess of high hip mysteries).
It was the first installment of Tracy Hinshaw’s Sister Smackdown series that got me started on my latest puppetry jag, and then Daryl Scroggins had to go and propose sock puppet re-enactments of bits from favorite movies.
I have no idea how this comes off to people who’ve not seen any of the Gerry Anderson ‘Supermarionation’ programs. But it’s a wonderful reminder of what fine physical (as well as verbal) comics were Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.
It’s — eh — it’s, um, a parody of a Thunderbirds (Supermarionation) episode in which Cook and Moore impersonate the marionettes, and, um, it’s about a mid-1960s version of a Gunpowder Plot against the British hospitality and tourism industry.
w/ extra duck
w/ extra duck, the flickr set, via mefi.
George Carlin, rest in peace
“Why do they lock gas station bathrooms?” he once mused. “Are they afraid someone will clean them?”
Oh Heavens
(This is a kind of companion piece to an earlier one — A Few Important Religious Ideas — that appeared in elimae.)
I don’t know much about it, but it’s going to be great!!
I don’t like family visits that last more than a couple of days, but in heaven something will make me like that for eons.
I guess I’ll like the new body they give me. I’m betting they will have food that tastes great but only puts “spiritual” weight on you.
I’m sure I’ll still be “me” and I’ll still know it, since I’m the one who did all the work of arranging to end up there in the first place. I mean, if I turned out to be some other totally different kind of being, why would I give a shit if I saw grandma again—which is a big part of the pitch for going.
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My WCW/Interstate Driving “Poem”
Has there ever been
a red pickup that
wasn’t hauling an
open-bed trailer full
of construction crap?
Coal: Cheap, Abundant, Clean
I present the following video to you in memoriam of a conversation I recently had with a person who did not realize electricity comes from coal. And no, I am not making this up. Sometimes the depth of American ignorance and entitlement is more remarkable than I’m comfortable facing.
This video is done by the Free Love Forum, a sketch comedy troupe whose endeavors have covered TV, radio, animation and theater. I discovered them (and this video clip) via And I Am Not Lying, and have followed them ever since.
This is obviously satirical, and it represents the perfect intersection of ignorance and the current, trendy alternative-energy meme.
Coal: Cheap, Abundant, Clean (Video)
David Sedaris on The Daily Show
David Sedaris talks about how he moved to Japan to quit smoking.
Listen to an audio excerpt here from his new book, “When You Are Engulfed In Flames”.
clusterflock by the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre
The custom clusterflock video is here!
Pussy On The Mat - A Ditty by Ivor Cutler
I thought I was the only one who did this!
It’s funny because he farts.
Ellen DeGeneres and Gladys Hardy of Austin, Texas
Am I the last person in the world to see this?
Big Bill Hell’s (NSFW)
Mom Jeans
This is too good:
hat tip to Erin
Goodbye To The Normals
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore: The Art Gallery Sketch
From “Not Only . . . But Also”.
Inspired by Amy’s reference to swearing at art museums (inspired by Cindy’s cussin’ at the Fort Worth Modern), dedicated to my fellow Peter Cook devotee, Elizabeth, and presented in the hope of making y’all spit sandwich.
Dear clusterflock
What should be in the clusterflocksockpuppet video?
I’ve warned the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppets that we’d like to commission a video and help sponsor them in their efforts to bring their show to The Fringe Festival. The Socks have responded:
You little beauties. We’ll pull out the stops for you!
Love The Socks
I can scarcely contain my glee, people! This is a chance to be a modern Medici of the Sock Puppet arts, and we’ll most likely be the only blog that has a sock puppet PR video. Contribute funds or just your ideas.
Clusterflock/Scottish Socks Video
Ok, people. So far Deron, me, Cindy, and Sheila are hip to the idea of getting The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre to create a custom video for us. They need funds to help pay for their trip to Edinburgh and we need adorable puppets to speak our names in Scottish accents, talk about clusterflock, and basically be our bitch. Anyone else interested in pitching in?
Socks Video Star
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre are looking for help to get them to Edinburgh for The Fringe Festival in August. For $200 they will create a custom video for you and upload it to YouTube. I’m thinking a clusterflock socks video could be brilliant. Anyone interested?
Saturday Night Live has always been like this.
Jesse Thorn, host of radio program/podcast The Sound of Young America, making a defense of SNL:
Saturday Night Live is a wonderful phenomenon. On a Tuesday, a team of spectacularly talented people get together with someone who’s famous but probably not funny. On Saturday, they put on a 90-minute variety-comedy show. That show showcases their talent, even when the sketches run on a bit long or are unfocused. It runs live on television, the only fictional program that does so in the United States. The stakes are high, and even when something falls flat, as it often does, it’s a great ride, buoyed by the best performers of their kind.