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"I Found This Star On The Ground." The Flaming Lips' newest song is six hours long and available online.
posted to MetaFilter by Joey Michaels
at 5:56 PM on September 22, 2011
(110 comments)
David Byrne: How architecture helped music evolve. A TED talk.
posted to MetaFilter by Joey Michaels
at 9:37 PM on August 25, 2011
(25 comments)
"Bohemian Rhapsody" covered the the Porkka Playboys. Finnish
polka group covers Queen's classic.
posted to MetaFilter by Joey Michaels
at 2:58 PM on June 30, 2011
(20 comments)
Can anyone help identify this classic movie about ghostly children?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Joey Michaels
at 2:20 AM on April 22, 2011
(9 comments)
Riverdale. Over
100 Craig's List Volunteers from Vancouver create a "gritty" fan film trailer featuring Archie and the gang.
posted to MetaFilter by Joey Michaels
at 12:46 PM on February 25, 2011
(33 comments)
Neuroscience explained using LOLcats (SLLJ). You're-a-kitty filter. That is all.
posted to MetaFilter by Joey Michaels
at 1:56 PM on February 9, 2010
(26 comments)
What sort of professional response should I write to a person with whom I have some personal issues?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Joey Michaels
at 4:03 PM on August 24, 2009
(38 comments)
What would be an appropriate gift to give a nun?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Joey Michaels
at 4:04 PM on June 16, 2009
(24 comments)
What should I look for when hiring a U.S. customs broker?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Joey Michaels
at 1:22 PM on May 6, 2009
(4 comments)
Indecent Haiku is a selection of urban-themed musings in 5-7-5 haiku format.
Previously.
posted to MetaFilter by Joey Michaels
at 10:57 AM on January 14, 2009
(23 comments)
What alternate rules did you follow when you played specific sports as a kid?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Joey Michaels
at 5:48 PM on June 13, 2008
(27 comments)
Paul Sills, son of
Viola Spolin and one of the fathers of
Chicago style improv comedy through his work with
The Compass Players (who sort of morphed into
Second City) and through his
Story Theatre work has
passed away at age 80. Chicago has lost
two of its legends in one day.
posted to MetaFilter by Joey Michaels
at 5:20 PM on June 2, 2008
(4 comments)
“I would say ‘No, Hillary.’" The 97 U.S. Senators who are not currently running for President reply to the question: “If you were asked, would you accept an offer to be the VP nominee?”
posted to MetaFilter by Joey Michaels
at 6:16 PM on May 14, 2008
(64 comments)
My employee may or may not have a genuine psychological problem. How should I address this?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Joey Michaels
at 4:01 PM on February 8, 2008
(30 comments)
New York No Wave Archive. "
No Wave was a short-lived but influential
music and art movement in downtown New York in the late 1970s and 1980s. The
name was a
reaction to the sanitized Punk Rock trading under the name '
New wave' for those people who wanted a sanitized version of punk." Also,
outside of "No New York."
posted to MetaFilter by Joey Michaels
at 4:18 PM on December 17, 2007
(28 comments)
How do I install an air conditioner unit into a window with jalousies?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Joey Michaels
at 11:52 PM on September 2, 2007
(6 comments)
How do I reverse the negative attitudes of my employees?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Joey Michaels
at 10:23 PM on August 22, 2007
(39 comments)
The Paisley Underground. From about 1982 to 1985, the Los Angeles club scene featured a bunch of guitar bands on the verge of being the next big thing, including
The Dream Syndicate,
Green on Red, The Long Ryders,
The Rain Parade,
Game Theory (later known as
The Loud Family) and, of course,
The Bangles (the only ones who managed to actually become a big thing).
Michael Quercio of
The Three O'Clock and
Salvation Army inadvertently named the scene "
Paisley underground" when he made an off handed joke during a radio interview. Most of the bands are now, to borrow a phrase from
Game Theory leader
Scott Miller, languishing in national obscurity, as opposed to local obscurity.
posted to MetaFilter by Joey Michaels
at 3:28 PM on July 9, 2007
(30 comments)
What should we expect from a "day of" wedding planner?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Joey Michaels
at 10:08 AM on April 17, 2007
(4 comments)
Don Ho passes away. Legendary Hawaiian
entertainer Don Ho passed away this morning. Aloha, Don.
posted to MetaFilter by Joey Michaels
at 5:45 PM on April 14, 2007
(51 comments)
Elf Defense. A man accused of a stealing underwear from a shop in a knifepoint raid believed he was a
female elf at the time. He was
found guilty. The man believed he was playing
Shadowrun at the time.
posted to MetaFilter by Joey Michaels
at 4:11 PM on March 9, 2007
(36 comments)
Who should keep the cats?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Joey Michaels
at 3:39 PM on December 6, 2006
(52 comments)
What is a reasonable price for a 3-5 minute marketing video?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Joey Michaels
at 5:01 PM on July 5, 2006
(6 comments)
Is there anything I can do to make my boss a better communicator?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Joey Michaels
at 11:50 AM on May 5, 2006
(12 comments)
Michael Jackson's Credit Card. In which a band of pranksters manage to successfully imitate the King of Pop for one night.
posted to MetaFilter by Joey Michaels
at 1:24 PM on April 4, 2006
(22 comments)
Is there really an advantage to gold dental fillings?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Joey Michaels
at 3:14 AM on April 1, 2006
(9 comments)
The Torn-Up Credit Card Application. Can you get a credit card with a torn-up application? One citizen puts in the minimal effort to find out.
posted to MetaFilter by Joey Michaels
at 4:38 PM on March 12, 2006
(49 comments)
Is it standard practice for an employer to interview a current employee (who works face to face with them every day) over a webcam?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Joey Michaels
at 5:33 PM on March 8, 2006
(15 comments)
Glossophobia aka
Lalophobia or, more commonly,
stage fright is allegedly the
biggest fear for Americans. If you experience it, you are hardly alone. Many well known performers, including
Sir Laurence Olivier,
Barbara Streisand,
Donnie Osmond,
Dusty Springfield and
Andy Partridge of XTC, share your fear. Indeed, all kinds of performers suffer from it,
including musicians,
jugglers, and
public speakers. Many
people have (sometimes contradictory)
advice about
overcoming your fear of
speaking in public. However, in a pinch, one can always use a
Beta Blocker. Drinking booze, however, is not frequently recomended.
posted to MetaFilter by Joey Michaels
at 11:13 AM on November 23, 2005
(17 comments)
Newsfilter: Samuel A. Alito Jr. is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. His ideological likeness to United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia has earned him the nickname "Scalito."
According to CNN, he is expected to be nominated to the Supreme Court later today.
This site provides more background and links to some of his important decisions. Here's one
anecdote about him. If you want, you can even
rate him at Rate It All.
posted to MetaFilter by Joey Michaels
at 3:36 AM on October 31, 2005
(223 comments)
When does a FPP deserve a follow up thread and where should one post it?
(more inside)
posted to MetaTalk by Joey Michaels
at 8:42 PM on October 12, 2005
(7 comments)
Does a wet shirt dry faster on a line or while you are wearing it?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Joey Michaels
at 12:05 PM on October 12, 2005
(11 comments)
John Byrne v. Wikipedia John Byrne, comic writer and alleged curmedgeon, and his legions of fans did not like Byrne's entry on
Wikipedia. Ultimately, he and his supporters " managed to raise such a stink that the head of the Wiki project himself stepped in and
edited Byrne’s entry down to what
Byrne wants."
posted to MetaFilter by Joey Michaels
at 8:48 PM on September 17, 2005
(87 comments)
A break in the strange case of Judge Joseph Crater. In 1930, Judge Crater, later dubbed
"The Missingest Man In New York", stepped into a cab and was never seen again. He left behind
a mourning wife and one of New York's most enduring mysteries. For 75 years, his disappearance has been the butt of many
dumb jokes and also has been the subject of the
occasional book.
posted to MetaFilter by Joey Michaels
at 5:46 PM on August 19, 2005
(5 comments)
The Game? University of Central Florida instructor
Jeff Wirth - an
Interactive Theatre pioneer,
author, and one time editor of the long defunct
ITN resource - brings something like David Fincher's
The Game to life. Interactive Theatre describes forms of theatre that directly involve audience members in the action, from plays like
Tony and Tina's Wedding to kitschy dinner theatre like the
Murder Mystery Players to the one actor/one audience member pieces of
Cruel Theatre.
posted to MetaFilter by Joey Michaels
at 8:50 PM on August 4, 2005
(16 comments)
Buried Treasure Found In Backyard. (Google cache) "The men were digging holes to plant trees in a friend's back yard when Crebase hit a wooden crate buried less than a foot below the surface. Inside were seven rusted cylindrical cookie tins, including one where 'National Biscuit Company,' and the word 'Ginger,' were legible through the thick rust. They flipped one of the tops, which was fastened with two hooks, and found it 'jammed' with the money."
posted to MetaFilter by Joey Michaels
at 2:25 PM on April 27, 2005
(34 comments)
Did The Wizard of Oz inspire Lord of the Rings? "The first film version of L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz was released in the summer of 1939, less than a month before World War II officially began. Though started as early as 1937, The Lord of the Rings was largely composed during the war years, but not published until somewhat later. Therefore, it is by no means impossible that J.R.R. Tolkien saw the magnificent MGM movie before he wrote most of his magnum opus. Could Oz have influenced his tale somehow, consciously or unconsciously?"
posted to MetaFilter by Joey Michaels
at 6:41 PM on April 7, 2005
(35 comments)
Multipolarity: "The tendency toward a
multipolar configuration of
world politics, in which a number of
regional power centers compete for hegemony over their
spheres of influence within a framework of international agreements and institutions, is a
long term process involving incremental gains and losses for the
major players."
posted to MetaFilter by Joey Michaels
at 5:23 PM on February 22, 2005
(7 comments)
S. Dali + 3 Marxes. From
Marx-Out-Of-Print, "a tribute to The Marx Brothers with full reproductions of books and articles from magazines and other publications that are now 'out of print' and hard to find." Dali was
a huge fan of
Harpo and once gave him a
harp strung with barbed wire. He also wrote
a script for the Marx Brothers, which was deemed "too surreal."
posted to MetaFilter by Joey Michaels
at 6:18 PM on December 16, 2004
(8 comments)
My Little Justice League "Here you can enjoy the sight of your favorite heroes--well, MY favorite heroes, really, but maybe some of yours will overlap--as ponies."
posted to MetaFilter by Joey Michaels
at 4:14 PM on October 21, 2004
(14 comments)
Spiderman Reviews Crayons (via
YesAnd.com)
posted to MetaFilter by Joey Michaels
at 11:16 AM on August 31, 2004
(9 comments)
What is a reasonable price for a funeral wreath?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Joey Michaels
at 5:10 PM on August 28, 2004
(5 comments)
Alfred Jarry. Writer, creator of
pataphysics (the
science of imaginary solutions),
adopted father of the surrealists and
extreme bike rider (in reality as well as in Howard Waldrop's
Fin de Cycle). His best known work,
Ubu Roi, inspired painter
Joan Miro, playwright
Samuel Beckett (among others) and gave a music group
its name. (More Inside)
posted to MetaFilter by Joey Michaels
at 9:12 PM on June 8, 2004
(7 comments)
Toy Ads. Nostalgic for that old
Hot Wheels tune up tower you never received as child? Can't recall the name of that
one eyed doll your weird aunt gave you for your birthday? Toyadz.com has all the ads that made you drool when you were nine.
posted to MetaFilter by Joey Michaels
at 2:38 PM on January 1, 2004
(8 comments)
Thaipusam. "The Hindu people are
intense about their religion, and take some
extraordinary measures to display their
devotion. A
good example is the
Thaipusam festival." Warning - images may be disturbing to some people! (more inside)
posted to MetaFilter by Joey Michaels
at 3:13 PM on November 25, 2003
(14 comments)
