I never found Garfield that funny. But then we’re on the 59862145th strip now and it’s pretty hard to think of something new isn’t it? People have taken to photoshopping the cat out of the strip, and now they appear to be a look into the mind of a man on the edge, a wildly delusional schizophrenic. Much, much better.
The best can be found on the garfield minus garfield blog.
It’s only after you read the BBC Innovation Labs briefs that you start to get a bit bogged down by ‘Web 2.0-speak’. It has even started to creep into Private Eye magazine on an almost fortnightly basis now. We need help in these fast moving times. We need a man who knows the media. A man so pioneering, a man so brave and a man so in touch with what’s happening right now. We need this man to help us through all the buzz words. The man we need is Alan Partridge. My colleague at rckt wrote a few Partridge-esque ideas that might help the BBC in producing some new and exciting content for the web.
“Photos posted to Flickr from Alan’s Iphone, geotagged and mashed onto Microsoftâ„¢ Live Map”
This is what the web needs.
Surely now those pesky creationists will no longer struggle with the concept of evolution after they read this craigslist post.
“I have hypothesized that the blue M&Ms as a race cannot survive long in the intense theater of competition that is the modern candy and snack-food world.…”
Yeah yeah yeah, It’s all very complicated. I think I want Obama to win personally, but after a mere 219 years of all-white presidents, I’m not holding out that much hope. So as I can’t vote (what, being a British citizen and all), I’m forced to point and laugh from afar. I could join the ‘Brits for Obama‘ facebook group I suppose, but lets face it; the guy doesn’t need someone like me supporting him from over the pond.
This video makes all the salient points and stars McLovin (from Superbad) and professional Steven Colbert impersonator Ed Helms. I suddenly feel enlightened since it’s been explained so firmly and passionately.
Finally, someone is dealing with the things that really matter. I think I’ll stick with Aesop Rock though, to be completely honest.
I know from personal experience that winding up racists can be pretty good sport. However, this takes it to the next level. White Power? White Flour! A textbook example of countering ridiculousness with more ridiculousness. A hoard of KKK’ers take on regiment of clowns in Knoxville, USA [indymedia.org]. I always did think humour was the best weapon.
That’s not a typo. This is a new comedy about a folk-pop band composed of two New Zealanders in New York. Wikipedia tells me that the act was created before the HBO show, but it’s so hard to tell what’s genuine these days isn’t it? I blame the internet. You can see the 1st full episode in lovely streaming flash video here. It features the oldest Fleetwood Mac joke ever, mockery of the New Zealand tourist board and peripheral ‘Peep Show’ actor Rachel Blanchard. Watch for hipster-friendly music references and cringe-worthy relationship development and a promise of Welsh legend, Rob Brydon.
A sheep-based horror film. Watch the trailer. How can this not be awesome? Here’s hoping for a UK release or, even better, a Welsh remake.
The answer, quite blatantly, is yes. Stephen Colbert is the Greatest Living American. This has absolutely nothing to do with his current attempt at a bit of Google bombing, it’s just a statement of fact that occasionally needs stating now and again. I know I’ve written about Mr. Colbert before, but I’ve been paying even more attention to his shows recently and he’s really making sense of the world. He just won’t shy away from real controversial viewpoints like some of those cowardly lefty pundits; take Anne Coulter for example. His truthiness knows no bounds.
So we pray that, like an eagle soaring through the sky in the bright mid-day sun, Colbert continues to fly high over us all.
The guy everyone loves to hate; Bill ‘Papa Bear’ O’Reilly finally gets shouted down big-time. On his own show. By fellow sensationalist Fox ‘news’ muppet Geraldo Rivera. Great to see it when their own kind viciously turn on each other. Beats anything Attenborough has ever shown on television anyway. Still, in this case Geraldo easily has complete moral supremacy.
More of this sort of thing, please! [oliverwillis.com]
It’s been ageeees since I’ve posted here and I’m not even sure Ian still wants my light-hearted bitterness spilt freely over his mighty blog like Jif Lemon sprayed over a filthy toilet in an embarrassing yet understandable confusion. But fuck it, new year’s as good a time as any to start blogging again and my blog seems to have been bummed in the gob.
Well, January’s traditionally a time for looking back over the previous year, if not the previous night, with a sense of faint regret. I for one regret that it looks like Dan Brown’s going to get away with The DaVinci Code, since the Catholic church apparently “don’t do fatwas”. But let’s not be so negative. There’s been lots of good things happen, for one Ian’s job’s taken him to the other side of a country I often feel is far too small, and I mean that in a nice way, darling. I’ve also discovered Doctor McNinja, the finest webcomic I’ve read since Dragonball was translated into farts and homosexuality on a website I can’t be bothered to look up. And in what seemed suspiciously like a rush on Bush’s part to make good on some of last year’s resolutions before Auld Lang Syne, we’ve seen a middle - eastern dictator hanged - on cameraphone, no less - and turned into what is surely the world’s most widely distributed snuff film. I can’t help but think it’s a shame we didn’t have camera phones to record Clinton’s major achievements, I think they’d be in much better taste.
And after scientific trials, I can honestly say Monica Lewinsky’s easier to masturbate to than Saddam’s execution.
Instead of a predictable yearly moan about Pitchfork’s Top 50 Albums of 2006 list like the pretentious hipster-wannabe I am, I’m just going to link to this, the Pitchfork’s Top 50 Albums of 2006: The Drinking Game. Everyone wins. Especially people who think along the lines of this startlingly honest commentary at Coke Machine Glow.
I laughed anyway.
The internets is in a state over the recent display by comedian Michael Richards (who played the likeable Cosmo Kramer on US show, Seinfeld). He said some erm… select words to some hecklers and it’s was pretty shocking and/or hilarious. We could use his outburst to take a deep look at the racism inherent in American society. We could discuss freedom of speech or what constitutes good taste. We could talk about the fact that when his outbursts are directed towards jews, no one bats an eyelid. However, all things considered, I think it’s best to think about it like this: it’s really just a case of a not especially thoughtful comedian saying some not especially intelligent things.
Lets take the piss. That’s all comments like this deserve. Lets allow YTMND to help us do this in the funniest way I’ve seen so far. Also; c’mon Mel Gibson! You gonna let some 2-bit comic take your crown?
So, Borat, Borat, bloody Borat. I’ve not seen it yet but I have no doubt that when I do, I’ll laugh. Two hours of easily tricking idiots into displaying their inherent small-mindedness does sound like quite a giggle.
My token Borat mention (one feels that one must fit in with the rest of the ‘blogosphere’ and refer to Borat at least once) concerns this news item from the Sydney Morning Herald. Read it and then pretend the title is “Shock as actors character found to be an act!”. Wait, Mr. Cohen doesn’t really act like Borat/Ali G? Incredible news. Too many Ben Stiller films if you ask me. Idiots. Or maybe, like Sacha Baron Choen, they’re doing something subtle and ingenious and I’m just not getting it, hmmm…
