Friday, November 30, 2007

Fellow Friends of the White Shark...

...will enjoy this site from the Monterrey Bay Aquarium. I used to be terrified of sharks (perhaps I'll write up a story or two sometime), but now I definitely like 'em.

We have an understanding; they don't bite me when I'm in the ocean, and I--well, I don't really do anything in return. That's one of the things I like about them. They're low-maintenance.
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Roger Ebert and Groucho

Kate found and forwarded this neat little interview with Groucho Marx, circa 1969...
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Thursday, November 29, 2007

New Elders video...

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Saturday, November 24, 2007

In Case of a Gravy Shortage...

Kate writes a damn funny blog post.

...and yes, we do call the garbage can "Satan's Nutsack."
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007

"You Can't Do That"

Apparently this song--one of my all-time favorite Beatles tunes--was deleted from "A Hard Day's Night." You can understand why--it's Lennon at his most creepily aggressive (bested only by "Run For Your Life" off Rubber Soul?)--but I still love it.

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Saturday, November 17, 2007

"Clucking." (NSFW)

My (extremely dirty) brother Jack forwarded me this short film. Enjoy.
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Hot films of Summer 2009

Kate wrote a funny piece here. (I helped a little, too.)
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Thursday, November 15, 2007

Daily Show writers on the WGA Strike

Terribly funny. Watch it!

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Sunday, November 11, 2007

Civil Disobedience

My wife (whom we'll call "Norma Rae") tells the world what's going down in our apartment. It isn't pretty.
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Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Food Repair

Dennis Perrin unearthed this great old George Meyer sketch (from "The New Show," Lorne Michaels' ill-fated 1984 followup to SNL). I'd never seen it, only read it--it was collected in Laughing Matters, a very nice collection of written humor and cartoons edited by Gene Shalit.

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