2008

May

“Out of Control” (1984) This early Nickelodeon comedy show starring the winsome Sir Dave...

“iPhone 3G features wishlist: IM, videocam, wifi sync, better...”
— Mat Honan

Visioneers (2008) Yes, Zach Galifianakis....

Noony and Nunni This recurring sketch was one of my...

“Deliverance” Duelin’ Banjas I’m about to go and take my first banja lesson....

Ray Walston as ‘Poopdeck Pappy’ Did you...

Supergirl thinks Popeye’s Chicken is fuckin’...

“I have had a goatee beard since I was in my early twenties,...”
— Louis C.K. on shaving for his...

JOBBOTRON IS OPERATIONAL Career-Confused? WE CAN HELP YLNT...

Vintage stereoscopic photography When you align your eyes...

‘Sex Panther’ to be Defictionalized by the guy who brought you Brawndo! From the New...

Tim, Eric and Zach for Absolut (the unreleased 2nd...

Jim Henson - Kermit Learns Visual Thinking from Harry the Hipster The remake from 1966 is cool,...

ksen: I know I’m a little late, but the Sandwich Day...

This American Life Live Tonight I’m going. I’m going with these people. We’re...

Tuvan Throat Singing The real deal, gang. None of that fake crap I was doing on YLNT Ep. 4, which...

Apr

"David Taylor" (the missing iPhone...

September of last year, I called out the fact that the one acceptable non-musical ringtone I’d...

Yahama concept: key for you The concept is a...

Dusty Springfield “Love Power” Because in some cultures, two Nicole Kidman-related posts...

"Wristcutters: A Love Story" (2006)

If you go in expecting typical indie whatever, you might be pleasantly surprised by this atypically...

BMX Bandits (1983) Neven reminded me the other day about this Australian movie inexplicably in...

Reducing Music to Math

Somewhat related to Three being a Magic Number, Science Daily reports on the research of a team of...

Radio Lab: Three is a Magic Number When Radio Lab goes musical, the world shifts a little bit into...

Fireland's Rejected Twitter Post No....

fireland: Either someone spilled a Shamrock Shake in my jacuzzi or I just fucked a leprechaun. ...

Doggies lickin’ babies, yo. My sister’s dog...

Kubrick : centrifuge :: Jobs : iPhone?

Gruber links today to an audio interview with renowned skeptic James Randi in which Randi compares...

Ugh. Way to pioneer the fart joke, “Blazing Saddles” (1974). On this news of Mel...

Murray Head “One Night in Bangkok” (1985) I will never, nor do I want to understand why...

Boy on Swing via vintagephoto

Mad Men Season One DVD packaging. Oh yes. (Reblogged from...

Tumblr is going pro.

Read this tumblr news. It’s good tumblr news. Intelligent group tumbling with moderated...

OGC Rubs Out a New Logo UK’s Office of Government...

Sillage aka The Ephemeral

Sillage (n.) - a term used by perfume aficionados to mean the trail of scent you leave wafting...

Charlie Rose on Charlie Rose Charlie Rose: Microsoft, Yahoo!Charlie Rose: Microsoft, Yahoo!Charlie...

Ho Daddy! (Maynard G. Krebs chin person) Surf rock. Bongos. Chin people. Krebs fully-bearded....

Like, Maynard G. Krebs, man. On the beatnik character Bob...

Redid

I’ve been working with Master Themesman Cameron Hunt on redesigning my tumblelog, and earlier...

Hairstyles for the New Male: The Poster Because pointing and...

Chopin Meets Radiohead - Jack Conte via antville

D.A.R.Y.L. (1985) trailer “It’s only human to make mistakes. But D.A.R.Y.L. never...

Early-onset jewfro (my nephew Wes) I don’t care how...

Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Glass. *Pass the Snare!* *Pass...

Keith Jarrett Trio “Autumn Leaves” Tokyo, 1996 With Jack DeJohnette (d) and Gary Peacock...

Citizens † Of † Praise...

Square root by magnetbox

“This coffee is making me super agitated. I asked for a...”
— Briana Mowrey

Hot Lunch (1978) 41 x 27 in. (104 x 69 cm.) One in a...

PA4: Citizens on Patrol Arguably the best in the...

Zildjian promotional video, 1990 This will be fascinating to no one except you and me. To us,...

You Look Nice Today: A Journal of Emotional...

The Runaways “Cherry Bomb” Japan, 1977 Who’s that on lead guitar? Oh,...

Anthony Rivens - “Every Thing is Gonna Be Alright” Anthony was playing in the Powell St. BART...

“Mister Lonely” (2007) - dir. Harmony...

Krasinski Cutting his Teeth and...

The New York Times has a brief and cursory interview with 28-year-old John Krasinski (you know him...

One Final, Desperate Wedgie I can’t miss an...

Your Glottis and You (NSFW) via wikiped/Glottis

Someone Actually Remembranced Some Gratuitous Dumbass named...

Big hitter, the Lama. Gunga galunga. Gunga… gunga lagunga. via Carl Spackler

Zapped! and the Aames/Baio Gaze From the trivia: Even more...

Cody Hoyt via goldenfiddle

Dave Brubeck Quartet - “Take Five” (1961) This version of the famous anthem of West...

April Fool's Day Pranks Gone Wrong...

From corporate-casual: Pete K. baked a cake for his friend using salt instead of sugar. His friend...

Mar

Popcorn The composer of the classic electronic track made famous by the band Hot Butter in 1972 does...

“Can’t wait. I feel like I am learning a new...”
— my grandma, who sent me her...

Jon’s Walker Jon Deal made a Walker. I don’t...

Drum Tips with Victor Benedetto #1 If you’re Fred Armisen and you’d prefer I take this...

Complicated Drumming Technique - page 7 Eight pages of...

Mask, the Musical at the Pasadena...

Albatross Swimming Club, 1931 I’ve gotta get back to...

The State Reunited at UCB LA and I missed it. Goddammit....

Only a Ninja Can Make a Ninja Movie Ninjas are played out, but ninja movies will never lose their...

Johnny Mathis “Chances Are” Because I’m making a mixtape for the funeral tomorrow...

1924-2008 Best pal.

Jason Kottke Before I knew what a blog was, when reading...

Andrew W.K. makes a song about The McLaughlin Group And why wouldn’t he? He’s a goddamn...

LevelStar Icon Mobile Manager for the Visually Impaired The...

Jean Cocteau Cocteau’s experiments with the human...

Moustache Party Each style of moustache had a name....

VIDEO Re-enacting Full House: Episode 28 Joey Gets...

Trinitron The day that I hauled the carcass of my 13”...

Richard Feynman on Spirit-cleansing Percussion “I gotta have a little bit o’ that...

Baseball Boogie Bunch, 1986 LA Dodgers Okay, the Internet gets it - the 80s are funny. But this...

buzzandersen: Wow, I do believe that was the fastest series...

via yourmonkeycalled

AssEffects® (raberprazole sodium) How embarrassing for Belgian pharmaceutical company Janssen...

“When you’re young, you look at television and think,...”
— Steve Jobs in WIRED...

And now… The Architect Post Did you know that for the...

[THE CHOICE OF A NEW GENERATION]

Newsweek: How much have brands like Target or Apple or Volkswagen—these high-design, but...

Feb

Happy Birthday, Richard “Night Stalker“ Ramirez...

Found: the instruction booklet for my Macintosh Performa...

Obama on a sleeveless T custom designed by Larry the Cable...

Hillary on a T custom airbrushed by Marc...

The Echo Park Time Travel Mart This place has been open a...

Hygiene, Colorado

This town’s name stems from a time when it had a sanitarium to work with tuberculosis...

Thirsty Monkey There are only two really good videos on the Internet. Both have monkeys. This is...

The Fall (2006) - released next month Watch the trailer...

Robert Doisneau Le Costume...

"Be Kind Rewind" (2008)

Let’s Put on a Show at its finest.

Kubrick Toys Nine is the number of tools (a toy industry...

There Will Be Blood and 2001: A Space Odyssey Still and...

hystericalparoxysm: “Created to celebrate the modern woman,...

“We must all rainbow our puppy princess with butterfly hugs;...”
— Merlin Mann Fine, asshole....

Slow Motion Karate Chop via Cynical-C

The Looking Glass is an imaginary invention...

The Downfall of HD-DVD The theater of format war. (2004, in German, with English...

“You can imagine the panic at Warner Bros when they realized...”
— CHUD on rumors of Warner...

The Amanda Show and the sweded video store Michel Gondry on cynicism: I don’t think I have any...

The Sartorialist: Archetypal Hot Nerdy Girl ca....

Leni Riefenstahl (alt. “Triumph of the...

“The implication is there is a social justice politic, and...”
— Tay Zonday, saying things you...

Juicy Beans Today, everyone picked a favorite. Here is...

SNL and the search for Obama

[Lorne] Michaels auditioned Obama candidates last week, both newcomers and those on the show’s...

Floaters Another entoptic...

And the confidence of a nation is hence restored.

The Sack’s Inner Light These geometric and scrolling...

1ON1 Freestyle Battle Finale 2007 - Deutschland Maybe you’re growing tired of all these German...

Examining the Obvious in Great Detail

Based on some common rules-of-thumb, I’d written several books worth of email messages over the...

Americans: "Do not play God with my...

I made a joke a few days ago in mock mockery of Ray Kurzweil’s declarations on the future...

Variety SHAC - Hot Apple Cider! Maybe you like Stella because of the way David Wain, Michael...

George Harrison and Pattie Boyd, England, 1968 (Alt. title:...

Doing a nice thing FTW This just happened across the...

Index finger in twirling motion near...