You Look Nice Today is my new fav podcast – it’s 43 Folders‘ Merlin Mann with two other hip-ass Silicon Valley types talking uniforms, odour clouds, and Snare! These guys were described on Digg! as ‘Twitter superstars’. How the HELL does one become a ‘Twitter superstar’? I still don’t think I’m using it right.
Category: links
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Stop Making Movies About My Books!
Brilliance from The Onion – a poem written as Dr Suess protesting recent tsunami of crap-like Jim Carrey / Mike Myers / Dreamworks adaptations of his books.
The Onion – sometimes it makes me want to be a top comedy blogger, sometimes it makes me want to chuck it all away, they’re so good.
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A walk in the woods
Just watch it – this is what the internet is for
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Links
I’ve just thundered in with a coupla posts on The Aucklandista – Two short points on Auckland bookshops, and I want to ride it where I like. I reckon you should get over there and read ’em, it’s heaps better than this blog.
Are you too nice? Do you only say ‘no’ to questions like ‘you won’t mind me giving you a Chinese burn and nicking the last sticky bun, then?’. Check out this article. It seems the secret to success is finding your inner Donald Trump. And yes, I can see their point. Dick.
The best muppet-based heavy metal primer you’ll see on the intenet this week can be found here.
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Links
As children we all loved Garfield, only to grow up and realise his “cynical” take on the world appeals mainly to people who live alone with only a freezer full of ice cream for company. So, you’ll love Garfield minus Garfield. Do you think this would work with Wal and The Dog?
Portishead are back, and The Observer reckons they’re better than ever.
Spin The Black Circle is a very frustrating game. It reminds me of the games you used to get on fish and chip shop walls, kind of a cross between the golf and the ball pinging ones.
Popless is Onion AV Club’s Noel Murray documenting a year where he refuses to listen to any new music, instead documenting his (extensive) record collection. He’s a very experienced reviewer and great writer, which is lucky, ‘cos it’s almost March, and he’s only up to C.
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Link: The Onion writers
If you find The Onion as screen-splatteringly funny as I do, you’ll want to check out this podcast of how they do it.
Turns out they write about 600 headlines a week, then battle in the writers’ room for which ones go in. There’s a whole lot of of intellectualising goes on, and while part of me thinks they’re over-analysing and should just get on with it, I guess that’s what you gotta do to create a long running, consistently hilarious paper / website.
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Link: Five cues that Robert Plant is ready to have sexual intercourse with you
From Merlin Mann’s 5ives:
1. gently enquires as to where you like to put the turkey baster
2. repeatedly offers to demonstrate “how Blighty squeezes the lemonade”
3. stands in your front yard, pants-less and swinging a garden hose in lazy figure-eights
4. makes rapid “milking a cow” gesture while screaming something incoherent about Robert Johnson
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Link: You suck at Photoshop
A nerd’s life comes apart in front of your eyes, while explaining best clone stamp practice. I love that he’s turned a boring old Photoshop tutorial into a mini tragedy. Genius.
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Alright, just one
Link pinched from Spare RoomThis is like a documentary. One of the things I enjoyed about working life in Dublin was getting TOTALLY shitfaced with your colleagues on a very regular basis. Usually on a Tuesday. It was typical for our director to declare over a nightclub table swimming with drink – “If I see any of you in before 11 tomorrow, you’re sacked”. Luckily the company went bust shortly after, so drink induced tardiness wasn’t a problem for long.
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Surf Spots 080806
– 14 Classic Tom Petty opening lines I’m a big fan of Tom and his nuggety, honest songs that always use the same three chords – they take me back to road trips from The Mount to Tairua and back again listening to Full Moon Fever over and over and over. Or maybe just Silence Of The Lambs.- Ari Gold I’ve read a bit about this highly stressed, profane, nihilistic, mobile phone addict Ari Gold from Entourage. This is very popular in the US, and thanks to YouTube, we can have a look now, too. Looks like fun, not to mention the lamented Action.– Delia’s Half Time Snacks For the recent football World Cup, Guardian unlimited optimistically provided these recipes for UK footy fans to whip up at half time. Now I’ve experienced Brit ‘cuisine’ and if it’s not fried, battered, in pita bread or Chips, you’re struggling, really. Plus many of these require preparation pre-match, so she’s cheated there, but still, there’s some nice looking recipes.