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Michael sent me this.

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

... and I laughed my ass off.

“Make You Happy Tonight”, by Tripod

Baby… gonna make you happy tonight!
Give my love to you, aw baby
Gonna make you feel so right!
Spend some time with you
Do the things you want me to….

...

So get ready for lovin’ tonight….

Before we get down to love
Just gotta finish this level!

You see I got [...]

“So that’s what he meant when he said he had a mandate…”

Monday, February 21st, 2005

A must-see video clip: Bill Maher, Robin Williams, Leslie Stahl, and Joe Biden riff on Jeff Gannon. Absolutely hilarious.

Camp Anderson yell

Monday, February 7th, 2005

“Camp Anderson, Apathetic Ags!
Whoopty freakin’ do.
We don’t go to stack or cut,
Reveille is just a mutt,
Midnight yell is for buffoons.
We SURE as hell don’t bleed maroon.
AAAAA.... whatever.”

That’s probably copyright 1996 or 1997 by the authors of Ewe Hall, whose names escape me just now, but alas, I don’t have the comic strip handy.

(If you’re not [...]

PA and Atlanta Nights

Monday, January 31st, 2005

Atlanta Nights is the hottest book going at the moment.

What the hell is Atlanta Nights?

It’s a book (I use the term loosely) written by a cadre of SF writers in order to prove that Publish America does not, in fact, screen its slush for any semblance of quality.

How bad is it? Jim Macdonald writes:

Two chapter [...]

QOTD

Thursday, July 29th, 2004

My office neighbor, upon being shown the document that was just sent to me for publishing on the web:

“Who is their liaison with this office? The Marquis de Sade?”

My sentiments exactly.

The NOAH certification

Wednesday, June 30th, 2004

As we enter our fortieth day of rain, I propose that starting with next month’s summer session, the university should offer the NOAH certification program, consisting of ark-building 101, animal husbandry, and community waste management.

Geek workout

Tuesday, May 4th, 2004

PacManhattan (via Monkeyfilter)

Catch-all post

Tuesday, April 27th, 2004

Dorcus Menswear for Men is exactly as painful as it sounds. From the incomparable Lileks.

JohnKerryIsADoucheBagButImVotingForHimAnyway.com is my new favorite URL.

I was really cranky on Friday, in case you couldn’t tell. Saturday was entertaining. It’s not every day you get to see someone take a pair of scissors to a dress that costs about what [...]

Silmarillion humor

Wednesday, April 21st, 2004

Another addition to the LOTR humor file: the Silmarillion in 1000 words.

LAST ALLIANCE OF ELVES AND MEN: Push off.

SAURON: Make me.

ISILDUR: Whack.

SAURON: Ow.

ELROND: Hey, you got his ring. Let’s ditch it.

ISILDUR: No.

ELROND: This sucks.

ISILDUR: Tell me about it. <strong>dies</strong>

GONDORIANS: <strong>change calendar</strong>

(via Particles)

Nice crown, Jim.

Thursday, March 4th, 2004

The Passion of the Christ: Blooper Reel, by the fabulous Paul Ford.

Each link more appalling than the last…

Wednesday, February 4th, 2004

Florence Foster Jenkins, Queen of the Night Aria.

Lines from The Lord of the Rings which can be improved by substituting “pants”

Wednesday, January 14th, 2004

Apparently I’m eight too, 3jane, because I thought this was funny as hell:

Even the smallest pants can change the course of the future.

Life in the wide world goes on much as it has these past age, full of its own comings and goings, scarcely aware of the existence of pants… for which I am very [...]

More Tolkienish silliness

Monday, January 5th, 2004

The Witch-King of Angmar has an advice column on LiveJournal.

Just in time for Christmas…

Monday, December 22nd, 2003

Why CDs make crappy presents for kids. Lovingly illustrated.

Return of the King humor

Monday, December 22nd, 2003

This one’s making the rounds: Sauron, the One Ring, and contract law

See, Sauron labels this Ring as ”the least of Rings” but really he can use it to enslave everyone. The Dwarves might well say ”What? We thought you meant that plastic decoder thing that Isildur stole from your breakfast cereal—Elrond’s had that as a [...]

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The Minority Report hand-waving computer interface is now real. Its users will have the best toned arms in the office.

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The Matrix runs on Windows. Ow. It hurts to laugh that hard.

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Google flu trends — doing something useful with all those searches for “flu symptoms.”

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I’m addicted to the NYTimes maps this morning, especially the county bubble view. Hello, population distribution! It’s fascinating to compare this year to 2004.

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LibriVox — “acoustical liberation of books in the public domain”

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