kate beaton makes my favorite thing

katebeaton.com

and of course, h/t to the lovely jen for finding this lollercoaster.

and that's how they became the brady bunch

surely the best youtube i've seen in months:



stick around for the whole thing, plz.

my new post story: small but significant!

"Silver Slaps FDIC"

haha, it was originally a good deal longer, but they only had room for the first two paragraphs. but hey—the point was that i now have my first SOLO byline in an ACTUAL major metropolitan newspaper! and the editors said they really liked it and want me to write more, as opposed to just getting information and phoning it into someone back at the offices! huzzah!

TUSK!

best daily show bit in a while

john oliver takes on CNN's magic election screen.

blunder-scale

thank god for jason sudeikis—he's all SNL's really got, now that mccain and palin are out of the picture. i mean i love fred armisen with all my heart, but even he knows that he can't do a good obama.



i look forward to bits like this, and to actual real-life joe biden mistakes!

if you watch one youtube video all year

make it this one:



sweet jesus this is statistically impossible.

in case you wanna watch it

paramount just released the official, high-res versions of the new star trek trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/startrek/

abortion contest

TAKE SIDES.

battle of the late-90s alterna-rock songs about regretting an abortion:

-"the freshmen" by the verve pipe


-"brick" by ben folds five



personally, my vote goes to "the freshmen," but it's close.

thoughts?

and so it's come to this

timeline:

-10:37pm: i am opening wikipedia to read about the star trek reboot
-10:38pm - 1:45am: i am reading lots of other articles on wikipedia, each leading to another.
-1:46am: i somehow am reading about budd dwyer.
-1:47am: i watch a video of budd dwyer killing himself at a televised press conference.

good night, internet!

rise above my station

i have no history of child abuse, and yet, as of late, i can think of few songs better than "hast thou considered the tetrapod."




the only other song i can listen to these days is "love and affection."




oh, and also this wonderful and forgotten gem: a live medley/mashup of "love and affection" with "sweet jane," all performed by a largely forgotten group called two nice girls.




i guess this is a music blog sometimes?

also: found on the internet

not made by me. but appreciated by me.

seriously, a guy named barack hussein obama II.

did anyone else choke up at...

...the sight of jesse jackson with tears streaming down his face and his fingers in his mouth, like a child?

not to mention the scene at NBC election central afterward, when tom brokaw, ann curry, AND chuck todd all had to fight back tears of emotion. only brian williams stayed calm, but that's because he's brian fucking williams.

seriously—tom brokaw.