Humour
Maywa Denki – Dedicated To Whimsy
by Nick Glossop on May 14, 2013
Innumerable species play, and many – certainly many primates – laugh and tease and jest. But are we alone in our ability to grasp, appreciate, and delight in the absurd? How stands the octopus on Dada? (On his head-foot, of course.) As this video of the Maywa Denki group illustrates, true nonsense requires a most subtle and flexible mind, and whimsy takes dedication.
Via Laughing Squid
Originally posted May 24, …
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Beaster Bunny
by Craig Elliott on March 31, 2013
I saw this sadly sweet animation about a man whose giant rabbit might be standing between him and love. How could I not share it?
Red Rabbit from Egmont Mayer on Vimeo.
We’ve got a comments section if you’ve got any suggestions along the lines of lessons learned.
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Originally posted September 22, 2011…
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Video:Downton Zombie
by Tony Longworth on March 20, 2013
Downton Abbey gets a Zombie infestation! Spoilers for the finale of season 3, btw.
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Irish Physics And The Miracle Of Guinness
by Nick Glossop on March 17, 2013
The universe, so say the bloody physicists, is foam, and the most perfect foam known to man, and made by man, sits atop a pint of Guinness stout. Go and have one, stare into it and contemplate its Hegelian proof; Man apprehends the universe, man creates the universe, man drinks it up (and falls down).
Via Open Culture…
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Jerry Jerry ~ I, Showbiz
by Nick Glossop on March 14, 2013
Some talk of Buñuel here at the site prompted me to put this clip together. Luis Buñuel made this strange film L’Âge d’Or in 1930. When I first saw it, I had a eureka moment as I thought I had discovered the cradle in which Monty Python had been birthed. The inception point comes earlier in the movie, when the protagonist becomes enraged at the site of a blind beggar, …
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Louis CK on Marc Maron’s WTF
by Andrew Loewen on March 1, 2013
If like me you missed the 2-part Louis CK episodes of WTF when they were originally aired posted in 2010, they’re up on YouTube. CK is widely regarded (justly in my opinion) as the greatest comedian of this troubled present. He and Marc Maron were friends from their earliest days as 19-year-old standups in Boston, and the candor and intimacy of this interview has sent journalists trailing after Maron as …
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Post-Soviet Post-Meteor Humor
by Nick Glossop on February 20, 2013
1. Chelyabinsk before the meteor shower.
2. Chelyabinsk after the meteor shower.
h/t Alexandr Evstr…
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Deja Voodoo ~ Viet Cong
by Nick Glossop on February 1, 2013
Four-string, no-cymbals sludge-a-billy duo of Montreal Deja Voodoo put Viet Cong on their third album, Swamp of Love in 1986. They also ran Og Records which played an essential role in allowing Canadian indie music to flourish. A lifetime of kudos is owed them (and perhaps a couple of seats in our appointed senate).
In 1989, Peter Jackson, now of Lord of the Rings fame, released Meet the Feebles, …
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Burns Day Musings On My Glasgow Years (and on my love for Ivor Cutler)
by Nick Glossop on January 26, 2013
Scotch Odds 1
There should be an annual celebration of Scottish oddness running from January 15th to the 25th. It would end with the usual Burns Supper Bacchanalia of dubious cuisine, impenetrable verse and bellicose tea towels, but it would begin with a more modest acknowledgment of the birthday of Glasgow’s most lovable wordsmith Ivor Cutler (15 January 1923 – 3 March 2006). Cutler’s poems, stories and songs (typically played …
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The Tall Tale Of An Alternative Burn’s Supper
by Nick Glossop on January 26, 2013
There were none but Scotsmen present at the event in question so we cannot claim to have a reliable account of what went on, but, according to at least one scurvy Caledonian, it began with a general malaise that settled on the city of Glasgow. A restless dissatisfaction held the entire population in its grip. Blandly and blindly, the people went through their daily routines, stopping at the chip shop …
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