V.D. is for everybody.

while reading about america's cultural policy (or lack thereof), i learned that Woody Guthrie had been commissioned to write songs about venereal disease. apparently many of them were just plain raunchy. good for you, Woody.

anyway, that information led me to search for these raunchy PSAs. unfortunately i mostly came up empty handed, but the search did lead me to this:
The V.D. Radio Project. syphilis was a real problem back then.

and this:


and this, too:


...the more you know.

i make awesome decisions in bike stores!

i love kanye west. i really do. his music is great (let's forget 808s and heartbreak). but part of what makes him so appealing is his flamboyantly crazy behavior. i appreciate that he puts this on full display on his twitter feed. and right now i also appreciate josh groban poking fun at it.

you're not a whore if it's for charity.

addendum to my previous Movember post:

Attention, ladies! There's only one day left before "Have Sex With a Guy With a Mustache Day." Now's the time to make sure you have a mustachioed individual willing to help you fight cancer. Because, as we all know, cancer steals titties. It steals balls. It loves Glenn Beck and it hates nachos. We can't just sit around and let it get away with that. So use your vagina to make a difference.



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we all play synth.

funny stuff! the tune is pretty good too.



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wild. nocturnal.

combining three things i love: owls, conan o'brien, and advertising


yanked from team coco.

get ready for the comedy, folks.

improving the arts by severely limiting them

this week i have an assignment to reflect on american cultural policy, so this seems appropriate. mr. show can be an excellent research tool.

pomplamoose does gaga.

this is pretty fantastic. their version of single ladies is also worth a listen.



check out their channel here.

G-Force? more like gee, he's fat.

please to enjoy the latest installment in the always enjoyable Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis:

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis: Steve Carell from Between Two Ferns

arrested development, in production.

according to IMDB, there's an Arrested Development movie in production. it's apparently scheduled for 2011.

i'm skeptical. they've been talking about making a movie since the show was cancelled in 2006. any more information about the possibility of this happening would be very much appreciated.

until then you can watch episodes on Hulu, and catch it in repeats on IFC.

food party.

i just discovered that a show called Food Party exists of IFC. it's insane!

check out this clip and see for yourself:



i have always had a soft spot for anthropomorphic food.

whoopi goldberg has a problem

have you seen this? it is perhaps one of the best commercials i have ever seen. absurd advertising at its finest.



you can find individual commercials for each of whoopi's alternate personas on youtube as well.

what's going on here is uncomfortability.

successful seduction.

the Found Footage Festival is a treasure trove of amazing and odd video clips. it's like Found Magazine, but for video! incidentally, Found Magazine is pretty fantastic. also fantastic: their collection of found Polaroids.

anyway, here's a highly informative clip from FFF. with this information you will never fail at seducing anyone again.




i especially relate to the girl with the freckles. and, no, i don't want to talk about it.

academy award winning movie trailer

this is pretty great. as much as i like to think i'm insightful because i can usually guess who will win oscars, it really is fairly predictable. these guys have distilled the formula pretty perfectly in just under 4 minutes.

"and as they were out was when the calamity went down. . ."

watching court room proceedings on television can really give you a lot to think about. take the following case for example. what does the absurdity of their situation say about our culture at large?



it's pretty funny stuff.

**be sure to check out the affiliated music projects as well. Narwhalz is pretty terrible, but worth listening to for a second because of how mind blowingly bad it is.

Я очень рад, ведь я, наконец, возвращаюсь домой

i'm about to blow your mind.






and here's this for good measure:

questlove on comedy.

Parks and Recreation is the Wu-Tang of Comedy - watch more funny videos

Mustmayostarayonnaise

Also on the subject of combining condiments, there's this gem from Mr. Show. Mustmayostarayonnaise would sure give Dijonnaise a run for its money.