Archive for May, 2012
Today is Victory Day
It is only in the last few years that, thanks to one of our resident Russophiles, LP, I have come to appreciate a good May 9th party. May 9th, as you may know, is the day that Russia and the other former Soviet republics celebrate as Victory Day, when the Allies finally overcame the Nazis […]
MCA
Thanks for changing culture in a really fun way. There’s a fabulous mix here courtesy of Z-Trip.
Died and gone to Valhalla
Today I join with my fellow comic book fanboys and fangirls in celebrating the highly anticipated opening of The Avengers or as Flixter User Reviewer Flutie Archibald called it: “. . . THE BEST MOVIE I’VE EVER SEEN IN MY ENTIRE LIFE!” Six super heroes, two secret agents and one seriously cool villain (I have had a “thing” for Loki […]
Thursday playlist: latest online enthusiasms
Oh, this video is really good! (thank you Bryan Waterman for the link–our BW who has a fun tumblr blog now): buying cigars online [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO6y1-erVEw[/youtube] If that wasn't your moment of bliss for the day, and you can stop yourself from replaying it, I recommend following this link to a tumblr page called Shallow Rewards […]
May we tease?
I have realized this week how terribly I am led to tease people. It’s a very bad habit that I got from my father, but since I never had much of an ego of my own, and was teased mercilessly and cruelly all throughout my childhood, it feels to me as though teasing, of the […]
Ten hours
I recently stumbled across this video: ten hours of Darth Vader’s wheezing. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc1Zc4qsTQk[/youtube] Hypnotic! Weird! Fabulous! But then things got even more hypnotic, weird and fabulous when I discovered that the “ten-hour video” is a bona fide Interwebs phenomenon. People are looping together short clips to make ten hours’ worth of all kinds of ridiculous […]
