Manu Ginobili forcing amorous attention on Ian Mahinmi after they are singled out by the Kiss Cam during a stoppage of play:
(Were you aware that I am a fanatical supporter of the San Antonio Spurs? I’m a fanatical supporter of the San Antonio Spurs. This is my only sports obsession.)
“If I were an earthworm….”
“If I were a dragonfly….”
Over at the Sundance Channel website, you can watch Isabella Rossellini’s Green Porno videos, in which she dresses up in colorful costumes and enthusiastically and accurately demonstrates the sexual behaviors of various invertebrates. Utterly fabulous.
From the Twitter stream of one of my favorite podcasts, Planet Money, comes this Craigslist ad for a man who is willing to take some blame:
Is your hedge fund in dire financial straits? Are you totally screwed and now realizing that someone has to take the fall? Has your ponzi scheme enveloped numerous celebrity-endorsed charities benefiting Laotian children with AIDS and been discovered by the SEC?
I’m your man.
I will take the reins of your hedge fund for as long as necessary to establish credibility, then present a dramatic “mea culpa” to the press declaring that my poor decisions have saddled your company with mounds and mounds of “toxic assets” and “ponzi schemery.” I will personally apologize to anyone and everyone I [you] have wronged and swear I had only the best intentions for your clients and shareholders. Death threats do not phase me. If necessary, I will go to jail. I will look Bernie Madoff in the eye and say “Hey bro, I feel you” on national television. You and the rest of your company can shake your heads and say “for shame” and then continue on your merry way losing money and what have you.
Minimum compensation one million dollars. Serious offers only.
Awesome. And a style of humor that reminds me of Joey Comeau’s Overqualified, which I love, and which I now notice has just been published as a book.
Mortified is a long running art project devoted to “comic excavation of the extraordinary things we created as kids.” This most frequently takes the form of recitations of overwrought childhood diary. In this episode of their web video series The Mortified Shoebox Show, though, something different: a cast is brought in to do a dramatic reading of the script Jason Smith wrote and tried to film at age 15, about a teenager who races his Isuzu pickup in the Indy 500. The lead character, Hobart Drizzle, is played by Elijah Wood.
Digging around in my parents’ library I discovered a book that my mother denies ever having bought. (My father denies having bought it as well, but does so much more stoically.)
The books was published in 1979 and features a great deal of black and white photography by Douglas Kent Hall. Including, near the front of the book, the following:
Arnold Schwarzenegger – bodybuilder, actor, politician, and occasional real-life Robert Crumb comic book.