Had to share this... found via Great White Snark. Just because you know where it's going doesn't make it any less funny, so check out Patrick Stewart visiting Sesame Street to help The Count:

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Yeah, more pithy post to come. Stuff is brewing in my brain (eeek!) so I will probably have to dump it all out onto some pixels to make sense of stuff. You ( Read more... )

Sadly, this channel has turned off embedding, but if you want something that will make you squee (and possibly find the 67-as-of-today Walken impossibly hot-or is that just me?), clicky here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Ky5R-vxns

Got this from unclesiko and had to share... and yes, I will take advantage of my all-alone morning to see if I can find my Pearl and make some semblance of this coolness happen for myself...

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Sharing this from cluegirl... friggin' brilliant (except for the part in the description where they say it's Pachelbel Canon in D... written by Paganini...)

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And robgonzo? It has a ukulele! Yay! Sorry, it was only masquerading as one. Sheesh.

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.. and this from a girl who wants the "English Major: You Do the Math" t-shirt. At least I'm smarter than Verizon! Pwned!

Dancing With the Stars totally wins at life! OK, it wasn't Bjork singing, but "It's Oh So Quiet" was a PERFECT choice for a group dance featuring the pros! The vocalist did a pretty admirable job, but the band as always blows me away. Can't imagine the logistics of orchestrating a live broadcast... ooof ( Read more... )

Just passing on a couple things over which I have metaphorically stumbled. First, this piece which really drives home how much our culture has and will shift. Not sure where the stats came from, but even if they're ballpark-ish, well... my mind has been blown.

Then there's this link from themadblonde, filled with renaissance & medieval recipes and such. ( Read more... )

... a few weeks ago, KDGE's Adventure Club featured about 45 minutes of Johnny Cash music, leading up to his cover of NIN's "Hurt." (Surreal moment hearing a live version of "Folsom Prison Blues" actually recorded in a prison - the inmates all cheered loudly when he sang, "I shot a man in Reno/Just to watch him die.") LOL ( Read more... )