omg baby sloths.

Usually I would just tweet something like this, but then I wouldn't be able to find it when I want it.  Like on some bad day in the future when only baby sloths set to music from The Royal Tenenbaums will do.

Meet the sloths from Amphibian Avenger on Vimeo.

Church of the Granny Bike: Keeping internet memes safe since 2008.

obligatory muppets repost.

My best friend shared this with me today.  I wasn't feeling particularly cheerless, but it still cheered me up.

Now back to reading about Hare Krishnas...

mid-afternoon muppet distractions.

I was in the midst of a I-must-know-everything-about-Nelson-Rockefeller-ever-written kick this afternoon when Big Brother sent along this magical NPR review of a Muppet Show comic book.  It is genius because A. it starts out with a brief cultural history style context, which I dig (though where's the Reagan Revolution in all this? Come on, man!) and B. The guy rates the comic book on a scale of 1-10 based on good/bad Muppet Show clips.  Working your way through the list is probably not a bad way to kill a half hour, unless you know, ahem, you have lots of reading on Nelson Rockefeller that you'd like to be doing.


For the lazy- here are two of the more awesome clips- the first, because it's effing funny and the second, because "this is your pig chorus" is my new favorite deadpan statement, and also because it features the lesser-known Muppets Beauregard (which makes me want to watch The Great Muppet Caper immediately) and Sweetums (which suddenly seems like a great Halloween costume idea).

disney templates.

Big Brother shared this with me. The kids liked the music. Clever stuff.

a magical neil young cover.

glorious scarves.

even my baby niece was rocking out to this.

Haven't enjoyed a first listen this much in quite some time. Something about being back in this area makes me want to rock.  

monday funnies.

I've been loving PhDComics' series trying to justify Humanities graduate students. Read it here.

This is priceless:

this is genius.

kristen wiig is a genius.

if i had only followed cnbc's advice, i'd have a million dollars today... provided i had started with a hundred million dollars.

I'm not usually a big follower of The Daily Show (or anything that requires actually turning on my tv) but Jon Stewart has been out of control brilliant lately. People worried about Obama bringing about the Fairness Doctrine have nothing to fear. Comedy Central has instituted checks and balances in the media more successfully than any other source before it. Freedom of speech, freedom of the press... god I love the First Amendment. [I had problems with the embed here: click the second link in each respective link chunk]

The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c

Fox News Reports Joe Biden's Gaffe

Daily Show Full Episodes
Important Things With Demetri Martin

Political Humor
Joke of the Day

The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c

CNBC Gives Financial Advice

Daily Show Full Episodes
Important Things With Demetri Martin

Political Humor
Joke of the Day

:19 = every single day of grad school.

we are eating pepper and chips.

This one is sweeping the facebook these days and I could not resist. I love clever children.

pray to god you don't drop that shit.

Random Bike Movie: The Ice Storm. Beautifully crafted film of my favorite genre, the disenchanted suburbs. In the seventies, no less! The bike scenes are really, really lovely and should make anyone want to go out and get an upright.

Fascinating bit about academic freedom, or, how the tenure system doesn't exactly control for crazies and how that's not so good for business. Hahaha, tell me something I don't know!

I was in the mood for this tonight. I will never tire of Black Bush.
(warning: mildly offensive to some)

Chapelle. So classic.

100% funk.

Yah, yah, yah, the Mac is here, with its freakishly large screen and ridonkulously fast processing. See? I can do this now:


It's been a little overwhelming because I am pretty demanding of my machine and have little patience for learning the ins and outs of a new operating systems. One of the hitches has been the file transfer since I happen to have a Windows formatted external hard drive (that was a fun 40 minutes on the phone, Apple support!). I'm taking care of it tomorrow since moving my computer over GIG by GIG on a flash drive turned me into a homicidal little monkey. Anyways, the unexpected outcome of all this was that I wound up with only the early part of the alphabet on my iTunes, putting the album "100% Funk" right at the top of my playlist.

I don't know how I overlooked The Gap Band, but I'm pretty sure this is one of the most badass songs I've ever heard. It might just be that I'm fried from churning out twenty pages and a hefty edit as of late, that my mind goes crazy when I come in contact with anything not related to parents rights, the gay agenda, or, god forbid, having to wait until you are SIXTEEN to get married (really Gayle? REALLY?!)-- but really, methinks that this song is just awesometown no matter what one's immersed in. The Mac is bumpin' and really, who doesn't want to start looking for a new lover AS SOON AS THEY GET UP?!

The Gap Band - Early In The Morning @ Yahoo! Video

so you can put it in your pocket if you need to.

This is still funny to me. Sadly, what happens around 4:03 is what I've been doing to my thesis for the past three days... five days... I don't know...

big brother thinks this is funny after drinking a forty.

finals week math.

Today's been a good day on the school front-- turned in a big paper, got a paper back with a very nice compliment, had a productive chat with a lady who cleared up some questions on my thesis.

That

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Hot Buttered Rum (if you spill it on yourself, you'll smell like Christmas)

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NYT talks to Julian Zelizer (I read this for pleasure)
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This:


= a pretty good Wednesday!

using them is big and clever.

This video is fascinating. I particularly like the condom washing machines.

who doesn't love a musical.

See more Jack Black videos at Funny or Die