I somehow missed out on this for ten days, and that means I'm ten days late to the most beautifully stupid thing ever.

(Found via the Onion A.V. Club, which does a dandy job providing the smackdown.)

What's that, Dave? You want to start a series on James Bond movies, even though there's zero tie-in potential for such a thing this year?

Why, yes. Yes I do.

Midnight Oil's Diesel and Dust was one of my favorite albums during my teen years. I finally picked it up on CD (thank you, Half-Price Books!) and forgot just how much of it had been burned into my brain.

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A nifty documentary short on the journey of Sita Sings the Blues, featuring plenty of Paley and, interestingly, Bill Plympton taking the anti-Paley side:

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The Revolution Will Be Animated from Marine Lormant Sebag on Vimeo.

This is the first time I've seen Darrell Hammond on SNL in months, not counting seeing his face every week in the opening credits anyway.

(And why isn't this show ballsy enough to actually rip Leno apart? Why wuss out like that?)

(And nobody does a Letterman impression like Norm Macdonald. They shouldn't even try.)

This week's YouTube Weekly Address from President Obama is titled "Getting Our Money Back from Wall Street." But when it's embedded, the on-screen title reads "Getting Our Money Back from Wal..." So my first thought was that Obama was going to teach Americans how the refund policy at Wal-Mart works ( Read more... )

Found via Curt Holman:


Jay's 2004 Announcement - watch more funny videos

My overdue list for the best movies of 2009. Enjoy.