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:: June 25, 2007

Dramatic Chipmunk ... I have to agree it is "the best five second video on the internet"

And not that it's an aside or anything, but did you know that the Excitement Machine has birthed a baby?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

This sucks.

Link catchup ...

A huge list of excellent hiding places

I Love the Yeti All things Sasquatch.

Fun with crappy comics: The Nietzsche Family Circus and Marmaduke Explained

Thousands of found Grocery Lists (and the companion book TK)

Real doctors review every episode of House

Good to know halfbakery is still going strong ... here are illustrations of various ideas/inventions by Farmer John and the late Bristolz (eulogy)

Drawer Geeks: Every week, artists and illustrators reimagine/draw a different fictional character in their own style.

Hellooooo! The Excitement Machine will be offline for a few days while it gets a long hot bath. See you soon.

UPDATE: OK, back. See, I switched hosts. Almost everything is working except comments -- will get that in order soonish. Merry Xmas everybody!

Campus Ladies is possibly the funniest show ever and it doesn't get the play it deserves. It's about two lady pals in their 40s in need of some starting over who go back to college and live in the dorms. You are right to be frightened by the premise, plus the fact it's on Oxygen, but seriously, it's hilarious and raunchy. Watch some video samples here, including the entire pilot episode. A new season starts tonight, and it looks like there's even more excellent guest stars than the first season. Hooray!

We got the sad news yesterday that Lightning, the male half of the awesome Milwaukee-based Neil Diamond/ABBA/Patsy Cline tribute band Lightning and Thunder, has passed away. We had the full on L&T experience at Gregg & Molly's wedding a few years ago, see pictures here. Check this video and you'll see -- in my opinion Lightning was more Neil Diamond than Neil Diamond himself. The band/couple has a very interesting story full of crazy tragedy and triumph. We all send Thunder our deepest condolences. It's too sad for words.

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Happy summer! WMFU's Beware of the Blog has many mp3s of Ice Cream Truck Music here and here. Which one goes through your neighborhood?

And, how they get that signature tinny, underwater sound.

In elementary school my friend and I came up with an idea of having an ice cream truck that sells an narrow selection of grown-up stuff -- e.g. milk, toilet paper, smokes. Wouldn't that be awesome?

My hero April Winchell is podcasting, hooray!

I want to have kids for the sole purpose of exposing them to Yo Gabba Gabba. With Biz Markie! (via Drawn)

Today is the five year anniversary of this blog! Of course the thing has become stagnant but I still have the love. Here is the first entry:

Dan has a scary bitchy girl over right now looking at the place. She's little and has a weak handshake. Apparently she didn't feel that it was necessary to hide her disgust with my room depite the fact that I was standing right there.

Dan just said the prospective housemate told him she's "really into her spirituality."

Five years ago I had just gotten engaged and was moving out of my duplex to live in semi-sin with Bryan. We were working at The Austin Chronicle. I was sick of it and looking for another job. In January 2002 we were both mysteriously fired. (These two facts are probably related but to this day I still don't understand it completely.) But never mind -- the early oughts were a wonderful, creative time. Working at the Chronicle I encountered strange and interesting things all the time. The first month of entries reflect that (OK, maybe not that first one) and are still some of my favorites -- I'd point you to others but I just discovered that a number of my archives have been hacked! Hmm, gotta fix that.

I still encounter strange and interesting things all the time, but now they are mostly tied up with my work, and it would be getting into hinkey territory to talk about them online. Honestly though, I used to get out a lot more and was generally a lot more charmed and puzzled about the oddball things that happen every day. I'd like to get back in that mindset and that habit of recording such things, even if nobody is listening anymore.

Art Car Jeep Front originally uploaded by Cloetus

We just encountered this art jeep driving down Lamar Blvd. Photoset by Cloetus here.

For your clever playlisting ventures: 500 Songs About Food

From the Mormon couple who brought you Napoleon Dynamite: Nacho Libre, in which Jack Black goes on the Mexican wrestling circuit to save an orphanage. Loosely based on a true story!

Crazy Japanese commericals for pachinko starring Nicholas Cage, via the essential Retrocrush podcast (episode 60 to be precise, which also includes video game quarter-insertion sound effects)

Stupid bird!

Well hello! I am selling some 8"x10" prints of two pictures I took in New Orleans in May of this year. The full cost goes directly to the Red Cross. Click on the photo above to go to its page, or try Dorignac's Food Center signage on for size. Go here for more donated arts n' crafts.

Bryan (6'8") took offense to his sister's emailed assertion that her new boyfriend (6'4") was "very tall." He replied:

6'0" - 6'2" = average tall / not short
6'2" - 6'4" = pretty tall / living on the outskirts of Tallville tall
6'4" - 6'6" = hey you're tall / back row, middle tall
6'6" - 6'8" = damn tall / change light bulbs, get stuff off top shelf
tall
6'8" - 6'10" = freaky tall or duck through doorway tall
6'10" - 7' = really, really freaky tall / special order tall / (baby giant)
7' & above = giant / sasquatch / guaranteed scholarship tall

Me circa 1973! Doesn't it look a couple decades older than that?

Photobooth.net is all about old-school photobooths, with a blog, a photobooth locator, photobooth sightings in the media ("no, you don't need to tell us about Amelie," they say, which made me laugh), a picture archive, etc. I don't know how they feel about the new digital booths. It's hard to take a bad picture in the old kind, that's all I know.

Flickr: Comically huge Sock Monkey

Lots of good art to see at the Miller Block Gallery website ...

Kojo Griffin, Spilled Milk, 2002

Eric Lebofsky, The Folly of Fashion, 2004

Lori Nix, Birdhouses, 2003 (check her site -- diorama photography!)

Laylah Ali, Blue Leg Hat, 2002

Michael Harrington, Figures With Plants, no year

via Art for Housewives

another opportunity to ridicule our tastes
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