Hysterical Paroxysm
May 11, 2008 12:13pm

Airborne Commercial, feat. Mickey Rooney

“This Super Bowl ad was rejected due to the showing of Mickey Rooney’s geriatric behind.” (NSFW. Or for people with heart conditions/sensitive gag reflexes.)

You GUYS! Seriously! I don’t know why I am linking to this, other than I want you, too, to share my pain. I clicked on this assuming it was a joke or something, but I assure you, it’s all too real. I wasn’t even sure it was possible for there to be a butt on TV I’d want to see less than Dennis Franz’s butt.

And now it’s been topped, by shades of Cocoon.

May 10, 2008 10:36pm
“ The favorite drink for ladies when thirsty, weary, and despondent. ” -

1905 Coca-Cola advertising slogan [via TV ACRES: Advertising Slogans] 

Ladies: put down that Prozac, and take that razor away from your wrist. Brown carbonated sugar water can cure depression!
May 10, 2008 9:12pm

Young Robert Downey Jr. (Age 5)
[via xInkOnFilmx]

Lil’ Downey Jr. wants to ask you a…personal question.

(Iron Man, so precocious!)

May 8, 2008 1:37pm
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Annie - I Know UR Girlfriend Hates Me

Oh, you thought she was chewing gum…but, surprise, suckas! She’s chocolate!

The Anniemal is back, and not a moment too soon, cause this song is the only thing keeping me awake today. 
May 7, 2008 10:48pm
“ There’s the blank page, and the thing that obsesses you. There’s the story that wants to take you over and there’s your resistance to it. There’s your longing to get out of this, this servitude, to play hooky, to do anything else: wash the laundry, see a movie. There are words and their inertias, their biases, their insufficiencies, their glories. There are the risks you take and your loss of nerve, and the help that comes when you’re least expecting it. There’s the laborious revision, the scrawled-over, crumpled-up pages that drift across the floor like spilled litter. There’s the one sentence you know you will save. The next day there’s the blank page. You give yourself up to it like a sleepwalker. Something goes on that you can’t remember afterward. You look at what you’ve done. It’s hopeless. You begin again. It never gets any easier. ” - Margaret Atwood
May 6, 2008 11:45pm
As if Enid Coleslaw wasn’t already enough to thank Dan Clowes for, he just goes ahead and gives you the best New Yorker cover ever. As if Enid Coleslaw wasn’t already enough to thank Dan Clowes for, he just goes ahead and gives you the best New Yorker cover ever.
May 6, 2008 11:20am
Guru Pitka Will Teach You Sitar[via Buzz Andersen] I’ve lived in NYC for eight years. And yet, I will never tire of Dan Smith parodies. Here, Mike Myers pokes fun at my favorite presumptuous musical instructor (it’s not that he’d *like* to teach you how to play guitar, or could if you called up and asked. Dammit, HE WILL!). If you’re a troo Noo Yawker, I’m sure you already know what this is about. If you’re uninitiated…read on.

Guru Pitka Will Teach You Sitar
[via Buzz Andersen]

I’ve lived in NYC for eight years. And yet, I will never tire of Dan Smith parodies.

Here, Mike Myers pokes fun at my favorite presumptuous musical instructor (it’s not that he’d *like* to teach you how to play guitar, or could if you called up and asked. Dammit, HE WILL!).

If you’re a troo Noo Yawker, I’m sure you already know what this is about. If you’re uninitiated…read on.

May 6, 2008 2:45am
The Royal (Steampunk) Army of Oz [via film_stills] Over dinner tonight, my roommate was asking my boyfriend & me to explain the concept of “steampunk” to her, and much to my chagrin, it occurred to me that one of my very favorite childhood films…is totally steampunk. If I slide down the slippery slope to steampunk self-abuse, I will blame it all on my love for Tik-Tok (who is — if Wikipedia can be believed — “widely considered to be the first robot to appear in modern literature […]” ). Sadly, he probably also contributed to my current moustache fetish. Addendum:  If you’re like me, and you just can’t get enough of lil’ Fairuza and head-swapping princess fun, you should explore this exhaustive unofficial site. The fan art section is especially cool, and I about plotzed when I saw the Return to Oz computer game. Wish I kept my Commodore 64.

The Royal (Steampunk) Army of Oz
[via film_stills]

Over dinner tonight, my roommate was asking my boyfriend & me to explain the concept of “steampunk” to her, and much to my chagrin, it occurred to me that one of my very favorite childhood films…is totally steampunk.

If I slide down the slippery slope to steampunk self-abuse, I will blame it all on my love for Tik-Tok (who is — if Wikipedia can be believed — “widely considered to be the first robot to appear in modern literature […]” ).

Sadly, he probably also contributed to my current moustache fetish.

Addendum:  If you’re like me, and you just can’t get enough of lil’ Fairuza and head-swapping princess fun, you should explore this exhaustive unofficial site. The fan art section is especially cool, and I about plotzed when I saw the Return to Oz computer game. Wish I kept my Commodore 64.

May 5, 2008 7:47pm
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Liz Phair - Cinco de Mayo

A somewhat obvious choice for today, yes, but this is one of my favorite “second-tier holiday” songs…right up there with Aimee Mann’s “4th of July”.

(Also, I think Whip-Smart, the album from which the song comes, is criminally underappreciated. It was Phair’s sophomore effort, and I think the growth between Exile in Guyville and it shows. It’s got more sophisticated guitars, and isn’t so enfant terrible-y, like, “Look at me, I’m singing about blowjobs!”)

Anyway, as you enjoy your ‘ritas, remember: it’s not just about giving props to the people of Puebla, it’s about flipping off the French.*

*(French readers, know that my tongue is firmly planted in my cheek, and take that with a grain of salt. Or a whole rim of salt. As I will.)

May 5, 2008 7:12pm
[via antichocolatofobica]Um…hmm. I’m confused. Is that actually a young Bebe Neuwirth on the right? ‘Cause, if it is, then I’ll go with the “Robert Palmer girls” joke. But if it isn’t, then I’ll go with the “Chicago summer stock” joke.

[via antichocolatofobica]

Um…hmm. I’m confused.

Is that actually a young Bebe Neuwirth on the right?

‘Cause, if it is, then I’ll go with the “Robert Palmer girls” joke. But if it isn’t, then I’ll go with the “Chicago summer stock” joke.

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