Linky for the Housetrained

Some Friday Linky for you:
Indulge your vertigo: 12 dramatic views looking down.
A surviving audio-free clip from Dead Bart – the infamous lost episode of The Simpsons with a “hyperrealistic” section:

(Dead Bart of course doesn’t exist; it seems like it was a myth made up whole-cloth in the dark depths of the internets, i.e. 4chan. Google it and see if you can find anything. Don’t know where this clip comes from really, a Spanish show maybe?)
Dogs love to sing the Law and Order theme.
Cognitive Fluency, i.e. our tendency to assume that easy = true. (via Blaise some time ago.)
Vice mag interviews the guys behind the Fighting Fantasy books. Awesome, and I love the photo.
Video of a wild 20-minute presentation at DICE that gives a pretty compelling and deeply freaky vision of what is coming – the integration of video-game logic into all human activity. I don’t buy everything he says, but surely a big chunk of this is inevitable. Earns points for figuring out before Bruce Sterling that spimes are a game platform.
The ‘Gator talks briefly about his trip to NYC here, but the highlight is this wonderful essay about one epic dining experience. For serious food lovers, and anyone who wants to know how serious food lovers see the world.
I’m with Matt Colville – why hasn’t there been a book about Jodorowsky’s never-completed film adaptation of Dune?
And speaking of film adaptations of Dune, here’s Brian Herbert and David Lynch on video together.
AV Club interviews Alia Shawkat from Arrested Development which is kinda interesting, but the best bit is the video at the end where Shawkat is in a very home-made video cover of Don’t Stop Believing with Ellen Page (Juno, Whip It) and Har Mar Superstar of all people. And it’s terrible of course, but I don’t care because they made it for Ellen Page’s mum who was retiring. Totally goofy and kinda charming.
So apparently Selleck Waterfall Sandwich is now a category of things on the internet now – Pearce just heads-up’d me to Bea Arthur mountains pizza.
A poem by Clive James, via Garrison Keillor: The book of my enemy has been remaindered
Predator dance troupe on the set of Predator 2, guest appearance by Danny Glover. That movie is under-rated, but this would have made it even betterer.
And finally… Russian (?) commercials from the 80s!

9 thoughts on “Linky for the Housetrained”

  1. I find it amusing that the first thing I see on “12 dramatic views looking down” is a picture of a woman showing a lot of cleavage.

  3. As someone who has over fifty of the original Fighting Fantasy books and *has to* buy any I don’t have (or any related books too) whenever I see them in a second-hand book store that article on Jackson and Livingstone made me go “squueeeee!!!”

  5. Also, yeah, the second clip is Russian I think. The Cyrillic at the top of that second Youtube clip says “Sovetskaya reklama 80x”, i.e. Soviet Ads (of the) 80s and I certainly recognise tiny bits and pieces. I dunno how similar other languages from the region are, though.
    Also, I’ve sampled it for two separate tracks. 🙂
    Also also, I haven’t finished either track. 🙁

  6. “The book of my enemy has been remaindered” is by Clive James, not Garrison Keillor (and it’s right on your link) – have you got another poem in mind lurking out there?

  7. 1. I got a phone ad, no boobies.
    2. I worked with a guy who loved older women. Bea Arthur was considered “very hot” by him. I meant, really older women.
    3. I love food.
    4. Not as good as 80’s Japanese car commercials.
    5. I go to bed now.

  8. Finn – brain failure. Of course it’s Clive James, somewhere between reading the poem a couple months ago and linking it now my brain disconnected. Oh well, fixed! Thanks!

  9. Michael:
    “I like the sensation of luring people into awful situations. That sort of stuff just tickles me. It makes me snigger.”
    I would wear this on a t-shirt. It seems healthy and spry.
    Scott: I heart FF. They were my gateway. One day I will try the Sorcery series again…
    Gator: (2) For me? Betty White all the way, baby.

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