Sillybean

Trying to be… V?

There have been jokes for years about Michael Jackson’s plastic surgery, and how he’d never be as pretty as Diana Ross. I just found him painful to look at since he’d so drastically altered his face. Now, of course,…

Amazon: staffed by hypocritical jackasses

Not five minutes after posting a quick word about #amazonfail, I skimmed my home page to see what I’d linked to lately, just out of curiosity, and visited the onion goggles from the Castle post.

What’s…

Whatever Superman is trying to do with his hips here, it’s not working.

Far be it from me to deny the cheese factor in the early Superman movies, or in the street dancing scenes that were so popular in the ’80s.

However, I feel confident in saying that only in a Bollywood film…

Someone open the wormhole and get us out of here

We’ve landed in Bizarro-world:

Why Secretary Paulson asked for seven hundred billion dollars: “It’s not based on any particular data point,” a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. “We just wanted to choose a really large number.” Excuse me while I…

Morning with McSweeney’s

Hamlet: Facebook news feed edition

The king poked the queen.

The queen poked the king back.

Hamlet and the queen are no longer friends.

Marcellus is pretty sure something’s rotten around here.

Hamlet became a fan of daggers.

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Paco y Juan

When Michael and Shenan are cooking, fixing a computer, or tiling a bathroom, they become Paco and Juan. As of this week, their adventures will be chronicled at the new Paco y Juan website. As you can see, the…

Contemplating the monkey

I can’t stop thinking about the process that led to a ceramic monkey trash can arriving on the shelves at Target. I mean, let’s take another look at this thing:

Someone designed that. (“What is missing from my monkey…

Never, ever send the boys to Target by themselves.

Shopping: they’re doing it wrong.

Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

Short version: Joss Whedon has a musical web serial; go watch it.

Longer version: this is the video blog of Dr. Horrible (Neil Patrick Harris), a hapless evil genius who’s trying to perfect a freeze ray that will stop…

Overheard

We were in the mood for hamburgers tonight, so we went to a little joint where they have half a dozen booths ranged around a long bar. It’s built-in entertainment: you, the sit-down diner, get to listen to the conversations…

Translation from Aburt-speak to English of selected portions of his SFWA presidential platform[1]

Burt’s campaign posters

cf. Dr. Andrew Burt for SFWA President. See also A Gut Check Moment for SFWA.

Greetings

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Friends, zombies, countrymen

In honor of the zombie literacy project. I could not resist the text my grad student, Ryan, suggested:

Friends, zombies, countrymen, lend me your ears;
For they are crunchy and delicious fried.
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Oh, the irony

Had trouble getting connected at the sandwich shop tonight… this was the message I got.

From the “are you fucking kidding me?” department

Headline: “Who would have been the best dressed at the Golden Globes?” leading to this story.

Excuse me. I have to renounce the intarwebs for a little while now.

This week on LiveJournal: fun with pets

1. Cat vs. Monkey
2. Aubade (scored for four cats and two bipeds): A Play in One Act
3. Howard’s customer service card