2008

Aug

That basketball…was like a basketball to me (via @lizstrauss & @Marti_L)

Damn. Adam West, he had the moves, baby. (via my sister)

““Without a doubt, the business model of network television...”
— Could a Little Indecency Save...

“Plan in Projects, work in Contexts, and strive to not let...”
— (Merlin on the Great Gmail...

So I was asked to do a reading. A sex-ay reading. My friend, fellow blogger and fine human being,...

Jul

Genius designer and expert curse-word user Aaron Draplin on...

“If I were a right-wing blogger, and I found out that Barack...”
— Let’s Play: If I Were a Right...

This magnificent sample is a microcosm of the wonderfulness...

An-ton-i-o Ban-der-asY cinnamon twistsIts The One-Semester-of-Spanish Spanish Love Song (via...

Sometimes I just like to pull up a ringside seat to the end of the world and watch the flames curl...

glass: catbird: 10 years ago, we only had 2 kinds of...

Can’t we all just get along? Right on, right on… Hippomothamus - 99 Problems /...

“I’d like to kill it.” Best edit point ever. (Dog Barks Nonstop for 6 Years | The...

Nellie McKay sings "Mother of Pearl" and "If...

cubicle17: justwatchthesky is a new tumblelog from The Big...

This is why I frackin’ LOVE the internets. Heather Morgan is one of those pivotal people in my...

I confess that I was not a huge fan of the Conchords when the BF tried to turn me onto their show....

merlin: Maybe if Michael DeBakey had helped our President...

So we’re clear, there is much that I love about my...

“…we tend to overestimate what we can complete...

Find of the day (via Dave Pollard & Darren Barefoot)

“So, like, let me get this straight. God got this lady...”
— Overheard at the Beach (via...

“It blows the Twisty mind that the subjects of these...

glass: Flagpole Sitta + uke [ via cal ]

Finding fabulously enriching things to do in Los Angeles has...

Jun

Longer trailer for docu feature Must Read After My Death, a film comprised entirely of home movies,...

strict-theme: This is simply awesome.

youlooknicetoday: Scott’s House

glass: Cat Blanchet

“It’s the Lord’s holy wordAs my second wife said to my third” —Roy Zimmerman...

Sesame Street, via Funkytown (via @DaveHamilton)

Everybody Toe Jam! (via 2 Blowhards)

Another goddamn @#%@!) meme

[via cthomasesq] “Here is how it works. Copy this list. Leave in the bands you’ve seen...

lonelysandwich: Fishback Powers As heard on Day to Day this...

It’s “who-serves-yogurt-at-their-wedding” good! [via Salon, lilylife]

The BF, a new Flip video and sniffles. That is good eatin’.

The other signs of hope: purple dress and a fist bump....

“Office No. 119: Jared D. Moses. If The Times could pick only...”
— Two theater rats graduate from...

May

Worlds collide in the form of Tim Souers and Joe Pytka: two...

Apache! (via james finn garner)

Ira Glass on the taste/ability gap. With earnestness, humor and self-effacing charm. God, I love...

It’s funny…because it’s racist.

As a Crohn’s blogger (in remission, thanks) who gets many hits from people searching for...

glass: NOT A BOBBLE-HEAD. BOBBLE-FEET give-away at a...

Peter Shankman sends his Flip video through the TSI x-ray machine. In other news, I continue to love...

I just came across this photo of my beautiful dog, Arnie,...

Streaming in my pants

mrgan: This is what I want: My iPhone should be able to stream iPod content just like any other...

I could get into a whole thing, but the Human Slashdot has...

“Perhaps you share my reaction to clever ads: as soon as I...”
— Why I quit advertising, by...

Billy O tears the roof off the sucker, a.k.a. “is an ass, remixed.” [via Mike the Knife

I don’t know who/what I love more: This American Life or Chris Ware’s animation for This...

“Saturday Night Live’s” Message From Hillary Clinton: “I Have No Ethical...

“America under Bush is like a family that has been repeatedly...”
— Breathtakingly beautiful...

There Vill Be Blood. (from Muppet-movie poster mashups)

Helvetica is younger than John McCain (via BL Ochman)

“If you are ten years out of high school and you say, “damn,...”
— Stephen King on NPR’s Wait...

merlin: Saturday Night! Strong contender for the greatest...

glass: Yes, lets make it… OFFICAL!

Apr

lonelysandwich: Doggies lickin’ babies, yo. My sister’s...

merlin: French Fry Holder Cars now come with several...

glass: It’s Not a Compound (via jwz)

Etsy :: janabrevick :: Jacked—Cat 5 Compliant Wedding...

Information design at its sweetest…for so many, many ...

hystericalparoxysm: [via BOINKOLOGY] My take-away message...

Artur Dimke’s awesome animation of Citizen Cope’s Let The Drummer Kick (via David...

Your fingers are just fingers/My fingers wear pants/They walk, they talk/They poop and they dance (I...

Cupcake waltz - Boing Boing

“I was working on a soundtrack for a commercial with a...

Cubby-Blue: The Amazing MLB Team-Logo Urinal Biscuit!

There are several places where a marketing message should...

It’s so sad when talented babies force their parents into show business. (via merlin)

hystericalparoxysm: [via Intercourses]Photo by: Ben Fink...

Worth1000.com | Photoshop Contests | Are you Worthy™ |...

Postcards From Yo Momma

The most charming and delightful young lady I’ve stumbled since I discovered the Ditty...

William H. Macy accompanies himself on the ukulele singing an autobiographical tune. About his...

The first rap song about gettin’ high with dinosaurs. You’re welcome, Internet.

Husker Du - Eight Miles High (London 1985) (via Coudal’s kickass public service project, Cover...

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

“This week, Hillary Clinton called for a national panel to...”
— Roosevelt-era reforms are...

Mar

Why Twitter is the greatest thing ever, and why Quotably...

So via lonelysandwich, a fellow whose acquaintance I’ve just recently made, I learn of this...

No wonder I shop there.

I love Gary Vaynerchuk, even if he does dismiss me and my entire generation with air quotes.

merlin: Phone Guy gets a new unit. communicatrix is looking forward to him testing out ...

Eggsellent design, and that’s no yolk. (Yeah, yeah—you...

“My mom was arrested last November for crossing a protest...”
— Tara Anderson, about her mom,...

“Responding to citizens’ objections in adoption...”
— from “Confessions of a...

“I’ve long thought that the Baby Boom should be divided...”
— Melinda, in a comment on...

“Laughed my ass off at this website called Garfield Minus...”
— Erik Patterson, about Garfield...

“There is actually a channel on DirectTV where they show four...”
— Neil Kramer, Citizen of the...

DJ Earworm delivers: U2 (One), Beatles (Come Together), Mariah Carey (We Belong Together), Diana...

“I’ve said it before and I’ll again: patriarchy isn’t some...”
— Goddammit, I’d...

David Lynch, keeping it real.

“It was pretty cool all evening to hear audience members...”
— James Finn Garner, on the...

An hour and a half with Barack Obama

Star Wars credits, as imagined by someone imagining they were Saul Bass. Princess Leia = hawesome....

Feb

“I do feel that when you’re born into the world,...”
— George Carlin [salon.com]

Laughing babies are…funny! [via runjenrun]

I don’t care if you don’t like my candidate—you cannot deny that he and his wife,...

“There are no clear winners tonight but ha ha ha that’s...”
— [Jezebel]

Jan

“God knows the women of America wouldn’t want to vote...”
— —commenter on Jezebel re: a...

Jesus loves me, this I know. [via noirbettie on Twitter]

“Capitalism used to belong to the guys who stole lunch money....”
— Not 100% true (yet), but I...

“If I ran for president…I’d hold a press conference and...”
— If Scott Adams did become...

This is page 2 of McDonald’s. Here we have the rare...

“Essentially, if you have to make a decision, you are not...”
— Ojai Yogini Kyra Ryder, on...

Dang. I wouldn’t want to be anonymous right now. Oh, wait…

“It is a wonder the squirrels don’t carry that...”
— Becky McCray, my new source of...

“Here’s the bottom line on the noodge factor. If you...”
— Tact. It’s not just for...

“It may be presumptuous of me to mention it, but there is a...”
— You tell ‘em, Cary. You...

“What’s startling for me is realizing more than half of...”
— Hilarious (and true) list of 7...

via Find Industries Blog (category: wakawakawaka!!!)