Zombie Sister Smackdown is Come For Her Flock
(Well, for Cindy anyway…)
A Magnet Laboratory (1959)
Directed by the late Richard Leacock for the Educational Development Corporation as part of the Physical Science Study Committee (PSSC) series of films.
I hope at least one or two people watch this twenty-minute gem of an “educational film,” wherein half a dozen MIT researchers set out to demonstrate the power of electromagnets and inadvertently spark a brief fire.
Also, partway through the film, the phone rings off-screen, interrupting Francis Bitter’s concentration on busbars. “Tell ‘em to call me back later — I’m busy,” he says.
If you like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing you’ll like. There’s actually a lot going on here.
I’m sorry…
Danny started this tonight. I couldn’t help but play along.
In the sixties, my brother and I once owned an Allen Sherman album. We prided ourselves on memorizing the lyrics to his songs. At any given moment, I can pull this one out of memory. Danny’s heard me enough, he can pull most of it out himself.
Weird Al Yankovic don’t have nothing on Sherman.
I wish there were an “I’m sorry” category.
the entirety of human conversation in eleven sentences
From Medium Large
Fare thee well, Jane Russell (1921-2011)
Ain’t there anyone here for love?
Dear Clusterflock – Recurring dreams, past and present?
Have you had them?
Have we discussed this before? If so, sorry!
I remember jack shit about dreams and then suddenly this week I remembered a recurring dream from the 80s and 90s. It was fairly simple, I was always a distance from home and I was always naked from the waist down and I was always trying to get home! I was running and although slightly put out by the situation I got on with it. That’s all I remember.
the photograph is pure gold
From Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870 by Leonard McCombe (via)
“[Eyes right is executed with almost military precision by dining car males aboard New York bound 20th Century Limited as Kim Novak eases into a seat]“
Rediscovered: Homer and Jethro
(Thanks to my friend Paul B. for this.) Like Roger Miller + Cole Porter + (like the man says) great rhythm guitar.
I had purt-well forgotten Homer and Jethro.
Ricky Cameron, you listening?
Tuesday Morning Corporate Sellout
Dear Clusterflock…
How’s your weather?
I’m coming off of 14 hours of manning the phones during snow removal. We don’t have nothing like points east in the last week or so. Still I’ve been up since 3:45 this morning. Phones ringing and answering with calls coming in as I talked. I’d like to think it’s under control. Phones are quiet now, but who can say? We might have another 2.5″ by 6:00 in the morning. I imagine the phones will start again about 2:00 am. I’m off to bed now, I’ll let you know how it goes.
Amazing how things that happened this morning seem like two days ago.
Oooo! And windchills here tomorrow are expected to be -25. It will be a bitter day for our workers. But we’ll be in final clean-up. I don’t know what to expect.
Andeeeeee monthly (wee hope) gazette | For Andrew
Andeeeeee monthly (wee hope) gazette: The journal of the Andy Warhol Fan Club of New York City, ca. 1965 / Andy Warhol Fan Club of New York City. Newsletter : 5 p. : ill. ; 36 x 22 cm. Leo Castelli Gallery records, circa 1957-1990. Archives of American Art.
Besties!
Gabe Leidman and Jenny Slate are BESTIES!!!
@cybersanta
My friend Aaron wrote a Twitter bot that searches for tweets of the form “I want a ______”, rephrases them as a message from Santa, and sends them back to their author.
It’s amazing to read what people tweet about wanting.
I never knew Charlie Brown was a barber’s son.
Dogs Don’t Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving.
Packing all of your belongings into a U-Haul and then transporting them across several states is nearly as stressful and futile as trying to run away from lava in swim fins.
I know this because my boyfriend Duncan and I moved from Montana to Oregon last month. But as harrowing as the move was for us, it was nothing compared to the confusion and insecurity our two dogs had to endure.
Pretty Well Sums ‘It’ ‘Up’
Thanks, Lara.
Bats
Mom and Daddy. Church Halloween Party. Mom sewed up the costumes on her old Singer. Sweatshirts and crepe paper. 1967.
“Va Fa Napoli, Hipster”
an exclusive interview with the new Gap logo
Q: Do you feel like the logo version of Heidi Montag?
A: I think Heidi Montag feels like the human version of me.
man on trial for stealing 40,000 coat hangers
A most extraordinary trial is going on in the High Court at the moment in which a man named Chrysler is accused of stealing more than 40,000 coat hangers from hotels round the world. He admits his guilt, but in his defence he claims that — well, perhaps it would be simpler just to bring you a brief extract from the trial. We join the case at the point where Chrysler has just taken the stand.
quote out of context
Swagger transforms unfresh men into legends of confidence.
Run and tell that
I’m not sure this qualifies as clusterlore, but it was a pretty funny riff that Cooper and I got into, and what set me off today was recalling “Run go tell mapache! That pit bull went and dug under the fence and got loose!”
New York Magazine’s profile of Jon Stewart
“Even if you’re eating delicious chocolate cake, there are moments you feel like, ‘I’ve had too much,’” Stewart says. “Now replace ‘chocolate cake’ with ‘shit taco’ and you know what our day is like every day. But this is not a fragile country. I’m not suggesting we couldn’t find ourselves in deep conflict. But we had slaves, and we fought a civil war; now we’re down to Glenn Beck being hyperbolic with his audience about nostalgia. This too shall pass.” Which doesn’t mean that Stewart is so confident in the inexorable triumph of good and right that he’s going to stop ridiculing the evildoers and charlatans.
spam name
Cindie Rosy.
burning before reading
