PITY THE APRIL FOOL: Kids dressed like Mr T
So hey – it’s my birthday tomorrow. Give me a birthday gift of an interesting link to an essay, video, picture, whatever. Pop it in the comments, and I’ll open them tomorrow! Hurrah!
This one’s been all over. From its origins until the late 80s, Schulz’s strip Peanuts used a four-panel format. (It then changed to three panels with more formal experimentation.) 3eanuts takes those strips and removes the fourth panel. The rhythm still works because 3-panel strips are more common these days, but without Schulz’s bitter/redemptive final panel gags the tone is… well. Lets just say it’s one more sign that Peanuts was a really really weird strip to be globally famous. It’s not exactly Garfield.
From Alastair G, since seen everywhere: 20 sad etsy boyfriends
Mills & Boon covers recreated – first saw this via Jenni
Mike U pointed out these political/philosophical reviews of the Mr Men books
Police vs Clowns, locked in time:
William Burroughs on Led Zeppelin
“Do you LIKE HIM like him?” That’s contrastive reduplication.
Meant to do this one last year: an American writer reviews and compares the first episodes of NZ’s Outrageous Fortune, and the US remake Scoundrels. In the comments, OF co-creator James Griffin sounds off. Great stuff for people curious about why TV some shows work & some don’t.
A channel featuring the worst of YouTube
Via Warren Ellis, one heck of a short film (a wee bit disturbing)
I linked this on Facebook aaaaaages ago, but think it never made it to a Friday linky: Pictures of Muslims wearing things
Evie found this neato diagrammatic version of Hamlet.
Spider-Man wants you to vote! And drink vitamin C! And use contraception!
There’re a lot of lipsync videos on YouTube. This is the most impressive one you’ll ever see.
EC Segar’s Raiders of the Lost Ark
From the Smithsonian – Top 10 consequences of having evolved (via Monsieur Bartok)
Greatest letter ever printed on sportsteam letterhead
Trailer for fanfilm adaptation of Lovecraft’s Whisperer in Darkness – this has been in my list for months and months, come out already film!
Yoga – not as old as you think
Why are easy decisions so hard? (via gnat)
And finally… Iron Crocodile