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What an asshole. RT @czelticgirl RT @rocketdyke Dan Savage says ‘Fuck Garrison Keillor’ http://bit.ly/hwSjC

CAUSE:

EFFECT:

RT @kevincmurphy Wait, Ken Ober (of MTV’s Remote Control) really did die? Well, that’s depressing…and now I feel old. http://bit.ly/1Cdqpw

Would love to see Chris Collinsworth replaced by Roger Sterling. #NFL #snf

The MST3K/Rifftrax guys are coming live to a theatre near you:

Because when white people talk back to the movie screen, you can sell tickets. Don’t get me wrong—I’m so there. Just sayin’, though.

RT @waitwait heard David Mamet is remaking Diary of Anne Frank. “Who ever told you you could hide in an annex with MEN?” #mametfrank (/PDS)

Half of our idioms are from Hughes’ movies. Every damned night? On the telephone?!

RT @edcetera RT @Cuprisin: Director John Hughes has died http://tinyurl.com/m8znmg – whoa // 1st kiss @ Pretty In Pink

Just passed “Married w/ Children” marathon en route to Sunday talk shows. It was very weird hearing Leela’s voice coming out of Peg Bundy.

Looks like the Disney Vault has a purpose after all – to keep us from realizing how similar our favorite classic Disney movies truly are. According to this video, Disney only ever made one movie, and they’ve been tracing it ever since.

Five years of Subservient Chicken. That was only five years ago? The internet, she moves fast…

I want a frakkin’ bumper sticker.

…and apparently I’m not the only one smelling a classic rat fink bait-and-switch.

Seriously, am I the only person who picked up their New Yorker, saw the cover, laughed, and turned the page?

The editorial cartoon artwork pokes fun not at the Obamas but the people *cough Fox news* who painted this false picture. And to all the hand-wringing pundits who worry aloud saying, “well, I got it, but will Middle America get it? How will this play in the midwest?” Hey, pal, the average IQ doesn’t drop 50 points once you cross the New York or D.C. city limits; on the contrary, most data swings it the other way.*

* disclaimer re: IQ testing controversial, data inconclusive, blah blah blah.

We don’t have a digital video camera yet (apart from the built-in function of the Fuji 5000), but it’s getting more and more tempting. There’s a bunch of Flips in the office, and here’s some easy way to roll your own macro- and micro- lenses for them.

Ah, gorbless da innernets. I love that if you’ve got a nerdy question or idea, someone else has already taken that football and run with it. Last night, I was thinking about the theme music from Doctor Who, and trying to imagine it out as a pleasant little acoustic guitar piece. Well, there’s tons of guitar tabs out there; better yet is this Belgian jazz version for the piano by comedian Bill Bailey.

Top Ten Signs You Know You’re in Green Bay

This American Life discussed that poem and had several of their writers come up with their own.
Link inspired by this comment about the pond.

Jim sent me a most excellent This-Is-You –

So I finally got around to listening to that version of Running with the Devil with David Lee Roth’s vocal track isolated, and now Paul and Storm have a megamix AND the growls and grunts and woooos spun out into their very own tracks. My new ringtone? Awesome.

79 versions of “Popcorn.” SEVENTY. NINE. VERSIONS. OF. POPCORN.
thanks, Matt!

If you caught last week’s “Canada on Strike” South Park, but haven’t been glued to teh internets for forever, here’s a guide to the jokes you missed and their originating memes.

Dude built a gorgeous Bender robot that also brews beer. This man is a hero!

The Republican candidates are all Buffy villians. Seriously, dude. That is some scary-ass shit.
via Quiddity

There’s trouble down at the old salmon farm! — a nice old sketch from Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello, and Stephen Colbert.

{jmac} but that’s not this, ’cause it should definitely at least try, and then fail spectacularly

{me} *hearts it when things fail spectacularly.*
  err, ok by things i mean code
  not life-critical things
  err, ok by things i mean code and by code i mean dev code
  not traffic lights and other important real code

{jmac} new horror movie: br****nt coded your pacemaker

{me} omg i LOLd for real

{jmac} <grin>

The Met’s HD simulcasts to movie theaters is coming to Madison. Twenty-two dollars might sound like a lot, but given that even the Madison Opera’s nosebleed tickets are $85 and they sell out immediately, that’s not bad at all — especially given that the schedule is mostly things that aren’t presented by regional or city opera companies very often, if ever. The only question for me is what one should wear…

Piano-playing cats, hand-holding otters go on strike in support of the writers. Awesome also for Chocolate Rain in funereal chello and a scab cat.

I just got a spam from “Monstrous Schlong Shelley,” and for a second, I thought, “Wow, there were seven-hundred and one hobo names.”

This one is a descendant of Mary Shelley, and, ironically named–indeed, his schlong is monsterous–it is itty-bitty and malformed. It originally belonged to a squirrel.

After Brogen sent me this hott clip from Torchwood, I realized there is one way only I will go see the new fakey Star Trek movie: if the screenplay is written by slash-fic authors. Oh, AND the bring in Gary Sinise to play Bones, because the kid they’ve got is way too young. Kinda sexy, though, so maybe he’s the long-lost son of Dr. McCoy and Nurse Chapel.

I got the new(ish) Morrisey album off iTunes and started listening to it last night. Why was I surprised that it was so depressing? I should know better, duh.