Found this on MAKE and I put it here just cuz it’s cool:

Dennis Miller once described Dan Quayle as “the Rosetta Stone of political comedy”. In Tina Fey’s hands Sarah Palin has become the fucking Holy Grail.
While hilarious to watch, the really scary part is that a lot of her answers here are verbatim from the original interview.

The Huffington Post has a full transcript of this [...]

A nifty mashup of Dark Night and Bush’s bailout speech from the folks at Overthinking It.

Yes - it’s more monkeys.
Enjoy.

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This was created for Cadbury by Glass And A Half Full Productions. They’ve done more than one spot like this and their site features a number re-mixes submitted by fans of the first and most popular appearance of our simian friend.
What can I say? I like monkeys.
Cheers

FilmMaker Magazine web site has a great post by David Rosen on the evolving battle over Net Neutrality and the growing cries for Common Carriage legislation.
Rosen’s take on it, naturally enough, is from the perspective of the independent filmmaker - at least initially - but the article goes beyond that and delves into the history [...]

Paul Newman died yesterday at he age of 83.
I’ve recently been in the process of rediscovering some of Newman’s earlier work which I hadn’t seen for years: Hud, The Hustler, Somebody Up There Likes Me and Rachel, Rachel, which he directed.
I’m still looking for a decent wide screen copy of The Silver Chalice.
There’s a [...]

I’m not a regular habitue of Second Life but I do enjoy testing the waters of this, and other, virtual worlds since they are touted as being the future of our interface with interconnected digital media.
I’ve posted often about the convergence of technologies and our consciousness - referencing everyone from McLuhan to Kelly in my [...]

Glenn Gould would have been 76 years old today if he had not died, at the age of 50, in 1982.
He was not only a famously obsessive and extraordinarily talented musician, he was also one of the foremost thinkers on the meaning and making of media - in my opinion, right up there with Marshall [...]

Good luck folks.

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My love to you all.

I present here, for your viewing pleasure, Tommy Smothers‘ acceptance speech at this years Emmy Awards.

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Mr. Smothers received the honorary award in recognition of his writing career in television. He is an iconic and outspoken figure who became a cause celébre with his brother Dick back in 1968 when their television comedy series was [...]

I found this video over on Michael Geist’s blog. It is a superb finger in the eye of the Harper government’s attempts to control our culture - and it is sadly true and fucking hilarious.

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Cheers.

Today Michael Moore has released his latest film Slacker Uprising for free on the internet.
He has done this in the hopes of reaching as wide an audience as possible for a film that desires to increase the number of young voters participating in this years U.S. elections.
In his own words:

“This is being done entirely as [...]

This is a rare recording of the Reverend Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr. giving a sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta in 1967.
It’s about civil disobedience.
It’s called ‘But If Not.’
This mp3 file is an episode of Pacifica Radio’s Democracy Now.
The speech itself can be found about 13 minutes into the file.
As with the others [...]

It’s been one of those days where one thing leads to another and I end up finding this on YouTube - and since Fred is out of town, what better time to post it than now?.
Ladies and jellybeans, boys and gorillas . . . I now give to you the main reason why The Big [...]

Ze Frank is unceasingly amazing.
From his year long efforts with the sublime The Show to the astonishingly viral yet short-lived Twitter Color Wars, he has demonstrated an innate ability to gather a crowd and incite them to random acts of inspired creativity. A lot of people talk about the power of the internet to [...]

I’m featured today on Carrie Lowery’s My Cool Job blog.
It’s always odd seeing yourself presented by other people - even when your own words are used.
After my head has shrunk back to it’s normal size (ie. huge) I’ll be easier to deal with.
Cheers.
P. S. Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day! Arrrr!

Congratulations to George Takei and Brad Altman on yesterday’s nuptials.

Cheers.
P.S. Looks like Chekov can’t manage the Vulcan shocker - either that or he’s really hardcore.

I found this on the Late Night Coffe Shops blog - a sublime combination of Tom Waits and Fernwood 2 Night.

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Lemme tell ya - it’s been a helluva day - and I’m just in that kinda mood.
Cheers.

I’ve blabbed on a lot here about Lawrence Lessig enough to make him sound like he’s Lawrence of Arabia - of the net - Lawrence of the Net-ia? - whatever - and I’m always eager to include any other insights he has on where we stand (or are falling) with respect to the development of [...]