Apparently I was not the only person who thought this.  Check it out:

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Yeah.

I got to this from the Onion AV Club’s “videocracy” feature, which tracks the most popular videos on the intertubes.  This means that the odds of any of you not having already seen this are, to say the least, slim.  But I still want to link to it, just to express my intense enthusiasm… both for the clip itself, and for The Soup’s treatment of it.

“Art,” says Leonard Bernstein, ” … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world—the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.”  So yeah.  For lack of a better word, I’d say this qualifies.

I present to you as a special peek into my other projects (most of which revolve around a very cool theatre in Greater Boston), an entry into the Providence, Rhode Island 48 hour film project, Monday the 13th, by Nature’s Credit Card Productions (a new team we put together earlier this year). You can watch other 48 hour films at www.48.tv.

Our movie was selected for Best of Providence and won the Audience Award at the Best of Providence showing as well as the “Best Rhose Island movie” for its references and jokes about Providence and the area, which they like to encourage.

To keep you honest, every team in the city gets the same prop, character and line of dialog, and each team picks a genre out of a hat. For us, it was:

Character — A hairdresser named Monty Chaney

Line — “If you see him again, tell me.”

Prop — A pear

Our genre — Horror

Enjoy!

Don’t know what the 48 hour film project is and want to find out? Already know what it is and want to talk about it? Just want to bash my movie? DO SO . . . after the jump –

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I’m a two-blog man now.

As some of you know, I write and produce Hotnewz.tv, the best darn news show for college kids on the web. We recently started a blog where we talk about some of our favorite segments. After the jump is something I wrote for it, on the enigma that is Andrew WK. more »

By which we mean not “the mysterious poetry inherent in random events,” but rather “for no real reason, today, here’s some poetry.” The Madness of Sweeney is a landmark work of medieval Irish literature, one that has stood the test of time and inspired writers ranging from T.S. Eliot to Neil Gaiman.

Also, it is totally emo.  Observe!

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From a help wanted posted on the NYC Craigslist:

Experienced English tutor needed for private home lesson for two French kids ages 6 and 9.
Lots of skills, patience and crop of teaching experience especially with kids is required.
Ability to speak French is required but not necessary.

Part-time ESL Teacher Needed (New York) [Craigslist]

Oh my friends, I have wonderful links for you!

Via Slumbering Lungfish, blog of the deeply hilarious Lore Sjoberg, I was directed to Garkov.  Garkov is a site that takes old Garfield strips and cranks the dialogue through a Markov Chain, a stochastic substitution/shuffling process that has been used in chatbots like ELIZA (although not in the code for Eliza specifically, as far as I’m aware).  The results are often gleefully insane.

But Garkov also has a treasure trove of Garfield-related links on its main page, ranging from the Garfield Variations to the Garfield Randomizer, to Nothingfield (which seems to have been directed by Ingmar Bergen).  My personal favorite?  Barfield: the one with the fart jokes.

Also well worth seeing:  a Garfield/President Garfield mashup from the frozen north.  The artist doesn’t seem to have links that lead to individual comics, but you’ll find it if you scroll down the page.

A quick link from me to a new site I find quite hilarious. From the guy who brought you www.isitchristmas.com (another great site), I give you www.ohnomymoney.com. It updates automatically every day at 2 AM. Enjoy!

[Overthinking It Magazine is the weekly feature where we give you articles you'll like all the more since the sabbath gives you an extra minute to ponder them. It may not replace your Sunday morning tryst with the newspaper of record, but we promise it will give you lots to overthink about. Oh, and if you're in a newsreader, click through to the site. I spent precious time on that graphic. --Ed.]

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The Harvard Classics Project is a very Overthinking It-type enterprise, in that it combines high culture and pop culture.

On the high culture side is The Harvard Classics. In the first decade of the 20^th century, Harvard President Charles Eliot claimed that a five-foot shelf of books could provide “a good substitute for a liberal education in youth to anyone who would read them with devotion, even if he could spare but fifteen minutes a day for reading.” (Which leads me to wonder, was President Eliot implying four years of Harvard was a pointless waste of time and money?)

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