May 2012
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“I am Ingmar Bergman. What am I doing...
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All I do now is dick around.
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“We’re 70 fucking years old,” Brian Wilson says. “You’ll be 70 in September. I’ll...”
– Busy Doin’ Nothin’
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Jeff Mangum, Occupy Wall Street, & Sweaters
Last October as I was easing into my second year at NYU the Occupy Wall Street movement was getting started. I had a few very politically active friends in the NYU community who became very involved with OWS and went down there almost every weekend to orchestrate marches and the like, but beyond that I was relatively unattached emotionally, politically, and physically from the goings-on down in...
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My Friends Write Funny Things →
An NYU acquaintance of mine, Patrick McCarty, recently wrote the following. It’s so tiddlywinking good.
patrickmccarty:
Bluster and So Forth:
A Trite Little Manners Comedy, to Delight and Instruct
by Patrick McCarty
~ * ~
Chapter the Twenty-Third
(In Which the Matter at Hand is Buttsex)
“Lord Witherby,” said Lord Ditherington as he spun the ornate globe which sat in the centre…
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Anonymous asked: you're cute :)
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House & Woody Allen
I used to watch House a lot in the summer of 2010 when I was spending a lot of time doin’ mucha nothing the summer before heading to college and was home a lot during the day, so naturally I watched tons of syndicated House reruns on USA or TBS or TNT or whatever the hell other network in the middle of the metaphorical cable dial was showing them. I’m pretty sure I also watched...
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This epic but tender tune is so different with...
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David Rees, Artisanal Pencil Sharpener
David Rees is a skilled pencil sharpener indeed.
And now, combining things both he and John Hodgman are fans of, here’s a dimestore tune about the foibles of using clip art, namechecking David Rees as sung by Carol Cleveland Sings.
Clip Art (a Carol Channing Sings original) by Barton Lewis “That Guy”
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I’m in line for a John Hodgman hosted event about a book about...
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J'ai Peur des Americains
I’m afraid I can’t help it.
Any thoughts as to all the symbolism at the end?
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Requests?
For the first time in a long time I find myself home in the company of a real piano. So, naturally, I’d like to take this opportunity to make overly theatrical and/or poorly sung recordings and post them for you, my loyal friends/fans.
Anybody got any requests?
To conclude, here is an old picture of me in a colorful shirt with inappropriate matching bowtie.
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A friend with a cover of this classic tune, as...
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