SANTA HE SAY YOU SHALL HAVE ALL THE LINKY YOU NEED THIS CHRISTMAS, PUNY HUMAN
BEHOLD:
Tigers and leopards like to play with pumpkins. Who knew?
The Anomalies make amazing hip-hop recaps of 80s sci-fi action films Predator and Robocop!
The great Tom Lehrer on video
The most inspirational short you will ever see
Andy Kaufman: Live From Hollywood – the comedy channel doco about Andy Kaufman’s stint as a wrestling heel, chopped up into YouTube-friendly pieces. I watched it with my hands over my face. Incredible. (Also: Robin Williams doing something you’ve never seen anywhere else – perfectly deadpan comedy.) (Bonus: That Letterman show incident, uncensored. Has Jerry Lawler ever broken kayfabe on the record and admitted it was all a big work with Kaufman? Apart from in the Carrey movie of course?
Bully watches and blogs Love Actually in realtime as the story counts down to Christmas. (Warning: Keira Knightley appreciation zone.) (Second warning: Richard Curtis adored here.) (Still fun though.)
How it should have ended – some dudes create alternative endings for films that ended in a way that they didn’t like.
I’m embedding this one because I like it lots: Playing For Change gets musicians around the world to contribute to a brilliant rendition of Stand By Me.
Also this one: Derren Brown does my all-time favourite Psyc experiment. A few years ago this was replicated at my university, and weirdly enough, older Maori people noticed significantly more than other ages/ethnicities.
Virtual sitting in a den watching old television. You need to adjust the aerials to get a good picture. It is called Betamaxmas, which is the winningest name of Christmas.
This will make sense to anyone who lamented Forry’s passing, and probably no-one else: dude makes boxes for imagined lines of Aurora Model Kits, like modern monsters and Lovecraft. And he sells them, shrinkwrapped, so you can have your model box sitting on your shelf unopened with an imaginary product inside.
The worst Christmas music ever created!
Some serious things:
Noam Chomsky explains why broadcast media fails in 3 minutes
Clive Thompson at Wired explains why we need more torture in our videogames
And finally: the first Mattel officially licensed Barbie in which Barbie is in the process of having her eyes plucked out of her face and devoured.
(There. That should keep you busy for a while.)
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“Has Jerry Lawler ever broken kayfabe on the record and admitted it was all a big work with Kaufman? Apart from in the Carrey movie of course?”
Yup. (Ghost) wrote about it a fair bit in his autobiographies, and has mentioned it often enough in other forums over the years. He’s quite proud of it all, it seems – putting one over an audience broader than he’d normally reach via wrestling, and getting lots of national attention because of it.