Friday Fun Times

I was dubious about using this because it's my normal rule not to re-use songs where I don't understand the lyrics.

But then I thought, "So perfect for Friday!"

So I went and found translations and, well, it's an odd song, certainly, but no more offensive than your average run of English-language pop.

Friday Fun Times

The easiest possible way to come back to non-work-blogging -- posting videos!



And the fun partner game: how many of these can you name?

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When making a comeback, always come back with something great.

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You're welcome for the earworm. :)

And this is the movie they're talking about, by the way: Outlaw of Gor. I'm sure it's a classic somewhere.

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Most. Random. Thing. Ever. Or at least today. Or at least this half-hour.

So, really, I suppose this should be a Friday thing but y'know what? It's shaping up to be kind of a rough week, I don't have a lot of time to put a more complicated post together... and, honestly, I think we all need this.

Don't you think we need this?

And here's how they did it.

Thanks to Diana for pointing this out to me when my normal news sources were sadly remiss. :)

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Hey, I owe you something cheerful after Wednesday, right?

So here it is: cheerful and terrible at once! (But not terrible in the classic sense of the word.)

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"The alligator speaks the truth!"

Here's something cheerful for midweek. Expect chuntering about Time of Angels and Flesh and Stone this weekend. Plus another few episodes 'cause I've nearly hit the end of the season! And then I'll have nothing to do but twiddle my thumbs, endlessly discuss the episodes, and...oh, yeah, catch up on little details like Being Human, Primeval, Survivors, Supernatural, Bones, and...just whatever else I think of!




Y'know what kind of makes this for me? It's Matt Smith's little pop in at the end -- like: "Hi! Here I am! And...what am I doing here again?"

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It is a fact.

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Can you explain it? I can't.

And because that's just totally baffling and weird and...did you recognize the voice? Yeah, full points if you did. Bet you'll never look at I, Claudius the same way again.

So in light of all my professional affiliations -- both library and archives -- here's a short, very neat little Second Life (I always want to call it Half Life but that's a totally different idea!) video for Banned Books Week:

friday fun times: more bagpuss

'cause how could I not? Seriously.

And you think the one last week was trippy? Check out Part 1 at around...oh, 6:50. And then the rest of it, of course. Happy Friday, guys.

If I could only adopt a pink cat...

...I'd have a name all built in.

and

And am I totally crazy or does the owl sound like William Hartnell as the first Doctor and the toad much like the apocalyptically stoned Danny from Withnail & I?

"A little water never hurt anyone!"

Good god, it's wet. Boston is damp today. Very very wet, in fact.

Anyway, skinny post today, folks -- if you want more, I suggest you check out my Tumblr blog. I'm wading through Google Reader feed backlog, calling some folks about jobs, and generally doing not very much. Oh, and getting through a few more chapters of Tony Judt's Postwar -- excellent book, but very tiny font -- tough reading.

In any case, I can't just leave nothing up on a Wednesday -- especially not a thunderstormy Wednesday -- so I went to find amusing things on Youtube.

So I started with the idea of finding a Clangers short from Oliver Postgate which I have done -- it's right down there -- but there was also a link to a Bagpuss short. Now I've only ever heard about Bagpuss and The Wombles which were Postgate's other two really successful creations and mostly heard about them through things like Alice on Vicar of Dibley or Brendan Gleeson's wonderful/insane turn in Breakfast on Pluto.

This is trippy. This may be the trippiest thing I will see all day -- and I want more of it. I want lots more of it:

And then there are the Clangers who are also trippy and deeply so, but which I am more familiar with. Don't blame me if you start to whistle after watching this:

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for your friday fun and entertainment, some animated shorts which i cribbed (mostly unashamedly) from irene gallo's regular saturday morning cartoons feature over on tor.com.

the first is...well, either the weirdest or the grimmest, depending on your point of view.

...and then it gets slightly cheerier, but still weird but i love rats and this is kind of like rats meet the matrix...sort of...

...and who can resist dave mckean, really? i mean, i bought the hardcover version of the graveyard book, okay, yes, because it was new neil gaiman, but also because it had marginal drawings and chapter sketches by dave mckean.

in leiu of part 4, here are men in kilts...

cross-posted from anna's blog...

So it's been one of those weeks where every day seems to run from about six am to midnight without a lot of time to stop and pause for breath. Let alone movie quote blogging. So Hanna and (much more tangentially) I are taking a pass this weekend on the final installment of the movie quotes post.

If you are absolutely positively dying to read lists of things related to film and our commentary about them, then you can enjoy last years' list of twenty-nine of our favorite romantic movies.

Meanwhile, we were sucked into watching the latter half of the opening ceremony of the Olympics last night and were completely won over by these guys (and gals)


Who played fiddles, had GREAT body art, and did step dancing in doc martens to boot


And in case you happened to miss the show, here's the answer to the mystery of who was going to carry the torch on its final leg to the stadium.

Enjoy the long weekend, sports (if you like that kind of thing) and movies (if you enjoy that). See you back here next Saturday for the concluding installment of "don't ever link those two things again..."

*image credits: Winter Olympics - Opening Ceremony and 95658513PB085_Olympics_Open @ Flickr.com.

scientific revelation!

for a monday, you can't do much better than straight-up revelation, can you?

so go forth and enjoy your new enlightenment after viewing the following:

wow.

okay, so i liked my college. for the most part, i enjoyed my time there; i thought it was a good and/or nice and/or pleasant place to be and a reasonable way to get my undergraduate degree. every now and then, i think about it and realise that, in my memory, it is beginning to acquire a tiny halo and then i think about two feet of snow in four hours, running out of bagels at brunch again, and the peculiar smell in the science building and that mostly seems to counteract the halo-izing effect.

but i still enjoy seeing pictures of it -- mostly -- and i always flick through my alumni magazine to see if anyone i know shows up and to see what the place looks like now -- which is actually, considering i only graduated in 2002, quite different.

what i have never once in my entire post-marlboro career thought is, "wow. if only there were a webcam so i could go online and watch my undergrad campus 24/7." this would seem to make me different from some sizeable fraction of northeastern university alums who seem to have had precisely that thought.