america: a place for americans

Happy 4th! Enjoy the freedom to get drunk and blow stuff up, doves.

david lynch meets dirty dancing

This spot-on mash-up sort of made my Monday. Now off to dig out my Twin Peaks Season 1 DVDs and spend the remainder of my evening talking backwards...



(via, once again, Andrew Sullivan)

paradise lost

This came via Andrew Sullivan and made me giggle:

(I'm dedicating this post to my father. He knows why.)

hot tea-bagging action

It's segments like this one that have me convinced that Rachel Maddow and I could - were we ever to meet - be BFFs. The fact that we both have roughly the same sense of humor as most twelve-year-old boys is just one of our many commonalities...

inside all of us is...

What with all the hoopla being make over Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are, I guess it's not too terribly surprising that he'd try his hand at adapting another classic children's book to film. How very Hollywood to keep cashing in on the same idea, though!



(Via Crooked Timber)

elmo wants this tape!

You've probably seen this already seeing as it's posted on everyone else's blog, but, well... oh well. I guess I just want it on my blog too. Can't help it. Ricky Gervais asking Elmo about necrophilia just makes me GIGGLE.

because we can all use a little help every now and then:

Well, I have "wear all black," "irony" and "hang out w/ Steve" covered. I do wonder where I can get my hands on some "Ambercroombie and Flitch," however...

(Via Notebookism)

shake your tail feather

Who said white birds can't dance?



(Via)

john cleese on twitter:

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it's friday, and you know what that means...

...IT'S DANCE TIME!!!

BOOMBOX from Ely Kim on Vimeo
(Make it to #80, and trust that you will be rewarded.)

(Via Don't Forget to Dance)

kittens inspired by kittens

I just saw this on Boing Boing, and since it very well may be the BEST VIRAL VIDEO EVER, I thought I'd share.  

I laughed so hard I upset my dog.  I think she thought I was sobbing.

wm. shakespeare's five and twenty random things abovt me

Here's something that made me laugh today.  If you're on Facebook, then by now I'm sure you're familiar with this meme that's been floating around - "25 Random Things About Me."  Well, some guy took it to a totally awesome level by writing William Shakespeare's list for him. In Old English, even.  Here's a few choice ones:

1. Sometimes I Feele so trapp’d by iambic pentameter... Does that make me a Freake?

3. I am not uery ticklish. I am Not. So prithee, do not euen try. Waste. Of. Time.

5. Sometimes I thinke plays are all Talke, Talke Talke, and wish for a cart-chase scene. I tried one in The Merry Wives, but it looked like Shitte, so I cut it. The men playing the horses were so Pissed at me.

11. When I am happy I call Anne my Kicky-wicky. When I am cross I call her “Olde Fun Killer Hag-Ass.”

14. On the topic of dating, my daughter Susanna loues to remind me: ~Jvliet was only thirteen! And I remind her that i) she was Italian, an impulsive race ii), she was actually played by a middle-aged Eunuch named Ned, and iii) she died. That always shvts her right vp.

20. As a boy in my Bed, I would shriek i’the night that Witches wovld come to eat me. My Mother (bless her) wovld smooth my Hair and whispr ~ Be not afear’d, the Witches onlie eat the Jews.

(Via Boing Boing)