John Mc_____
Hi, Folks. The Twenty120 site has launched and the video featuring me is up. I can’t direct link to the video, but I can send y’all directions — under films, the one featuring yours truly is #10. Directed by Henry Lu, Joe Rudge and Dan Maloney. I hope you enjoy my video as well as all of the others! Thanks to curator Conor Swegle for putting it all together.
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.
iPhone 3G: Will it blend?
Jib Jab is back at it
Twenty 120
This year I was invited to have my Vote Free or Die Hard Campaign documented for a festival called Twenty 120. Henry Lu and Joe Rudge directed and our editor is Dan Maloney. This year’s theme is Truth vs. Deception and the website launch party is tomorrow, July 17th at Cinespace in Hollywood. Although the party is too far for me to attend, it is free with RSVP, (through the Twenty120 site) if any of you internet types in CA are out there. It should be a fun time, and the shorts will surely be a good time. More to come here soon.
Tao Lin: reading
Picked up from his blog.
An Inconvenient Sock
The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre discuss global warming.
Gay Zombie
For some reason this just struck me funny.
Imaginary Madonna Video: “Scroggins To The Oldies”
Dear Clusterflock
What’s the funniest movie ever made?
How to Become a Writer
“First, try to be something, anything, else. A movie star/astronaut. A movie star/missionary. A movie star/kindergarten teacher. President of the World. Fail miserably. It is best if you fail at an early age–say, fourteen. Early, critical disillusionment is necessary so that at fifteen you can write long haiku sequences about thwarted desire. It is a pond, a cherry blossom, a wind brushing against sparrow wing leaving for mountain. Count the syllables. Show it to your mom. She is tough and practical. She has a son in Vietnam and a husband who may be having an affair. She believes in wearing brown because it hides spots. She’ll look briefly at your writing, then back up at you with a face blank as a doughnut. She’ll say: ‘How about emptying the dishwasher?’ Look away. Shove the forks in the fork drawer. Acccidentally break one of the freebie gas station glasses. This is the required pain and suffering. This is only for starters.”
(via GracefulFlavor)
BS-free business
How instead of this, we agree to this:
This spot only gets better as it ages.
(via swissmiss)
Opium 6 Go Green! (But Save Me First)
The Go Green! issue of Opium Magazine (Spring 2008) is now available. Sample spreads at davidbarringer.blogspot.com. (You can also see sample spreads of issues 3, 4 and 5 on my site). Meanwhile, buy the issue or subscribe here.
Contents: stories by Aimee Bender, Benjamin Percy, and many others. Winners of the Opium Bookmark Story Contest. Each issue comes with a bookmark on which is printed the winning 250-word story. Interview with Amanda Lear. 100-word stories from Tuesday Shorts, including one by Jacquelyn Mitchard. Select stories from the wit-lit ezine Sweet Fancy Moses. Beautifully wrought satire from the “Go Green! Guidebook of Restraint & Responsibility,” by yours truly. Art from Tymek Jezierski. Cartoons from CM Evans and John Callahan. Editor Todd Zuniga.
foxhunt - taking a bit of heat off the squirrels
those are lighthouses…really
via uncertain times
“That’s a wise quack . . . “
You know, I like to think that I’m no dummy, but that mother ducker joke that Deron just recounted (courtesy of Jonathan) stumped me. And all I could think of was this classic scene from the Marx Brothers’ Horsefeathers.
The superlative makes it, I think
ridiculous
recockulous
repenisulous
“He was destined to be an omelette but now he’s an emu.”
“We’ve had chicks, we’ve had lambs, we’ve had all sorts - there was even a duck in the shower once.”
Osborne will grow to over 6ft tall.
From Peter Shapiro
Al Sharpton rides bike during Critical Mass NYC June 2008. Thanks Peter, for the share.
Hitch
Oh, and I do not “profess” to despise religious extremists. I really do despise them.
From “Just one question,” The Guardian, May 27, 2008. Part of a longer piece in which luminaries at The Guardian Hay festival ask each other questions. The full classic Hitchens comment is after the jump.
Cruel Machines
[...] The hair on the back of my neck stood up, and I glanced to my left. The killer watched the inspection process, his lips twitched in silent disapproval, he waited, watching me. Curious, proud, almost haughty. I locked his gaze. His telepathic hatred seared my brain, but…yet…he sought my approval, who can enter the mind of the mad? [...]
Cheneyhenge
Best. Gothamist post. Ever. By John Del Signore:
Dick Cheney Visit to Neutralize Tonight’s Manhattanhenge
Manhattanhenge, the visually stunning phenomenon that occurs twice a year when the sun sets in perfect alignment with Manhattan’s street grid, is happening tonight. It’s just too bad that Vice President Dick Cheney has arranged to be in town at the exact moment of the sunset, to speak at the New York Republican State Committee Dinner and simultaneously smother the golden light under his all-encompassing shroud of darkness.
Of course it’s no coincidence that the famously secretive Cheney would time his visit to Manhattan to coincide with Manhattanhenge – he’s long been devoted to ensuring the triumph of darkness over light; as he once told Tim Russert, “We also have to work, though, sort of the dark side, if you will.” So don’t be alarmed when tonight’s sunset is suddenly eclipsed by a frigid black miasma – that’s just Cheney taking the podium . . .
The hour approacheth. I’m scared.
Sex On Star Trek
via The Daily Dish
Overheard at the 8th Grade Graduation Dance Sat. Night
“No shit. I’m pretty sure I know who farted!”
it’s only — a year — a-way!
Y’all. We’re a year away from clusterflockstock.