Got this e-mail yesterday from my brother, about a close mutual friend who is also his business partner:
J. has grown tired of the endless stream of scam / tele-marketers who call ( Read more... )

It is possible that there is something more entertaining on the Internet today than the Muppets performing their own skewed take on "Bohemian Rhapsody", but somehow I doubt it.

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I am going to be grinning idiotically about this all day. Thanks to Jeffrey Overstreet for the tip. And for more Muppety video goodness, check out shoebox2's recent post.

I am speechless with glee over this.

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Thanks to Hardcore Nerdity for bringing this bit of genius to my attention.

ETA: And while we're bringing the 80's TV & classic SF mashup love, how about this one:

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If my Facebook news feed was half as much fun as Austenbook I would spend a great deal more time over there.

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Dear heavens, lizbee and kerravonsen (among others), why did you not warn me that AUSTRALIA WANTS TO KILL US ALL???

Coming from a province which has only one poisonous snake to its name and that one's an endangered species, I find that whole thread deeply disturbing. (Well, and also funny, especially the YouTube videos. But still.)

Thanks to Weaves for the tip.

In conversation with my seven-year-old tonight:HIM: It's weird how in all those old TV shows like Knight Rider and Starsky and Hutch and a third one I saw, I can't remember...

ME (guessing): The Six Million Dollar Man?

HIM: No, not that one so much. But the other ones. They always have, like, people lying around drinking apple juice and wearing ( Read more... )

This afternoon I was chatting with the debut2009 crowd when I thought I heard my husband calling me, so I got up and went to the kitchen to see what was up.

Husband: What? I was talking to Nicholas. [pretending to be affronted] It's not all about you!

Me: Heh. No, I just thought you were calling me. Never mind.

Him: [loftily] For nigh on ten years now, ( Read more... )

Oh. My. Word.

The Phoenix Requiem (which is a wonderful web comic you should all be reading, and if you haven't read Inverloch, which is now complete, you should read that too) has the best. April Fool's joke. Ever. And I TOTALLY did not see it coming ( Read more... )

As the originator points out in comments, this is not a Photoshop Disaster as advertised, but a genuine Original Art Disaster -- which if you ask me makes it even better:

Princess Three-Hands and the Nuzzling KnightIf any of the other debut authors on my f-list are fretting about what their covers might look like, take comfort: they cannot ( Read more... )