I have been told that my lj is insufficiently entertaining lately. (This is because "Just got out of bed at 3:30. Skipped choir practice again. Am too depressed to leave house. May go back to bed" makes for boring entries.) So here, have some early silent comedy shorts, all from the studio of the British director Cecil Hepworth.

( How It Feels To Be Run Over (dir. Hepworth, 1900) )

So, that "what was the #1 song the day you were born" meme?

I was born in 1979. Thus: the Bee Gees.

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Also I have not slept in 21 hours. Yay insomnia.

I feel that there needs to be, like, a Hamlet vid to this song.

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Incidentally, I feel much better after sleep and food and things, so if I do have swine flu it has not yet made itself known.

While I am posting hilariously awesome videos, this one comes from aris_tgd. Hits of the 1980s, reimagined as ragtime piano!

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I am often a little less thrilled with xkcd than many people, as I think it runs towards the self-important, as stick-figure webcomics go. But today's made me giggle:


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So yesterday afternoon while slacking off I found a link to a website that contains the full text of all of the Burma-Shave jinglesFor those of you who are under 50, not American, not painfully retro, or some combination of all of these things, this was a series of ads for, shockingly, Burma-Shave, a shaving cream which was, when it first came out ( Read more... )

This has made my day.

...the horrible part is, this will probably motivate me to actually do one of those "holiday cards for your flist" things this year. Because I am a Bad Person.

A bit of digging has unearthed the long version of the King's Singers' BBC frequency change announcement.

And verily it is AWESOME. :D

I trust that for people who have read this classic post I need say no more about this fantastic WPA poster.


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