Because any blog, no matter how high-minded, eventually turns into a YouTube dump.
First, Verka Serduchka’s near-win for Ukraine in the recent Eurovision contest (via WFMU’s Beware of the Blog):
Next, a big, bad, breakdancing man has some bad moral luck (via Justin the Birthday Boy):
Finally, that video than which none more awesome can be conceived (via […]
“Walt Disney is being kept cryogenically frozen in the basement of one of the medical buildings.”
-The only thing I remember from the UCLA orientation tour
According to Neal Gabler’s new biography, Walt Disney was so obsessed with a vision of his boyhood home that he wanted to recreate it as the entrance to Disneyland. Thus his […]
Bernhard Fleischmann at the Austrian Cultural Foundation, April 27
Bernhard Fleischmann is on a great compilation album I have from a few years ago of German and Austrian IDM groups covering Slowdive songs, so when E. Tan said he was playing a free show as part of some wholesome European state-sponsored arts goodness, I was happy […]
Do you remember the first book you ever owned? The first one you ever loved? The first one that really knocked you on your ass?
I remember loving Bartholomew and the Oobleck, one of the slightly more serious — and wordy — Dr. Seuss stories. I loved Sherlock Holmes. I loved The Hobbit so much the […]
Stella took a plane and a boat to an island
where the ocean is blue.
She stayed in a delightful guesthouse
where the towels entertained
and the ocean mesmerized.
People lived in the town and played basketball.
Visitors watched the sunset.
Someone lived in a conch house.
At the south of the island is a sculpture garden,
and the eastern point of Mexico, with […]