local news does it’s best to put the onion out of business.

i know that he gets a lot of crap for… well, i guess for being randy newman. while he has become a kind of caricature of himself over time, i submit this argument:

who hasn’t? have you taken a good hard look at your parents lately?

anyway, disney theme songs aside, i like randy. here’s a reason:

here’s another, just for fun. clicky.

i know i spend a ton of time on the flickr, but how is it that i randomly come across SO MANY FETISH pools? i don’t understand things like odds and math, but it seems freakishly too often that i happen to spot some weird photo in the everyone’s uploads section of the home page.

see!?

my friend lisa has a way with words. this review she wrote for schindler’s list never stops making me laugh.

for as long as the internets have been luring me into hours of research on my favorite topics, media, people, micro-organisms, bugs, etc., every once in a while i have an inspired “holy crap, why haven’t you ever searched for __________?!” moment.

today, that moment belongs to tom lehrer.

i love his irreverence, poetry, and syncopation. because he didn’t do much performing, videos are rare. i’ve listened to his albums endlessly but now we get to see him too!

below is a classic, but you need to hear this one too. and this one, and also this one.

even your precious lord isn’t safe from crappy swag marketing.

since this is now, i guess, NOT blasphemy or insidious to the god lovers, how ’bout:

god’s love is like this case of scotch

or

god’s love is like this toilet duck

or

god’s love is like this deluxe bucket of chum

feel free to join me in the comments section, won’t you?

this is gonna be stuck in your head for a long time.

i’m really sorry.

oh how i love me that jessica hagy! she’s creative, hilarious, scientific and she has a twisted beautiful take on the world in which we live.

you can buy a collection of her diagrams in book form, but you also have to do some rss action so you don’t miss anything. clicky.

made of linoleum, steel, string and a broken desk chair, this chandelier is art. adam says

Now, I can’t promise anything, but it is entirely within the realm of possibility that some teenage heartthrob from the future will show up in a Delorian and need this very piece of dining room lighting to help him get back.

clicky.

i love this cartoon so big. weaved into all the wacky good times you’ll find political satire, anti-war sentiments, and brilliant bob clampett animation. i give you, draftee daffy.