Dee Xtrovert: ... George Carlin's material seems even funnier and more intriguing today. I don't know the history of American humor, but with his wit, social commentary and willingness to tackle divisive topics candidly, he seemed more like a Mark Twain figure than a "stand-up comedian."

Don't know if anyone's commented on this yet, but last week it was announced he was to be awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humour by the John F.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 4:43 AM on June 23, 2008

These are great. I've always wanted to live inside superbad.com.
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 10:51 AM on May 13, 2008

The site's been acting up a bit today, but keep trying, it'll work.
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 5:23 PM on May 10, 2008

I think it needs a crafting system -- if the proteins could learn enchanting or blacksmithing, you could make totally twink armor and kick ass in PvP!
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 12:12 PM on May 11, 2008

Oddly enough, I had the voice of Walter Kronkite in my head.
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 1:07 PM on May 7, 2008

J: Five thousand? 'Tis a mere trifle; we shall
bring it to thee upon the morrow, Sister.

S: Nay, and a thousand times nay! I shall not
accept such filthy lucre, thus purloined.

J: Alas ... I guess you're really up shit creek.
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 12:45 PM on April 20, 2008

E: Hark, Babs, a question: where do eggs come from?
B: Fowl lay the eggs, mother, for us to eat.
E: Another question, O Babs: if the fowl
were chased from this earth, what then of the eggs?
B: such fevered imagining is folly!
E: Forsooth, Babs? If the fowl be gone, would not
also the eggs cease to be? Forsooth, Babs?
B: Aye, mother, but smooth thy furrowed brow, for
t'will always be chickens,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 6:08 PM on April 20, 2008

Although I grew up in that area, and therefore learned a lot about it in school, this is the lesson I remember best.
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 5:38 PM on April 19, 2008

what active steps other MeFites are taking along these lines

I've begun replacing our light bulbs with those long-lasting energy-efficient ones, plus we rarely have more than one or two lights on in the apartment at a time. We turn computers off when not in use. We have a very fuel-efficient car (Honda Civic), and I take the bus to work roughly 3 days a week (even though my coworkers laugh at me for taking the bus). We carpool with my... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 5:47 PM on April 18, 2008

I'm all for stem cell research (really), but I'd sure wish that while they're focusing on the womanly blood, they'd figure out a cause for the endometriosis that is causing me and thousands of other women constant agony and infertility, and maybe a cure while they're at it. How friggen hard can it be. But then again, stem cell research = glamorous, and endometriosis = yucky.
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 12:09 PM on April 14, 2008

It sounds like those cells are a creative and productive bunch.

They also make a great adhesive, as any scan of my innards would show.

Plus it's a floor wax, AND a dessert topping!
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 12:59 PM on April 14, 2008

Yes! You know how when your gut accidentally gets sliced open, and all your innards fall out and it's all ropey and slippery and you're trying to stuff it all back in but it keeps squiggling around? I totally don't have that problem anymore, it just comes out in one big clump that I can easily tuck back inside. We can make a mint off this stuff!
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 1:23 PM on April 14, 2008

I was just a small-town girl, living in a lonely world. So I took the midnight train going anywhere.
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 10:29 AM on April 11, 2008

Unfortunately it was to another small town, so I had to take another train.
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 10:31 AM on April 11, 2008

That train ended up in some trainyard in farm country, so I said fuck it and bought a car.

But I never stopped believin'.
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 10:33 AM on April 11, 2008

Dave's not here!
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 12:44 PM on January 30, 2008

I too hope this comes to Canada. Standing on a boulevard with no shelter and constant northwesterly winds and -35 C wind chill for 20 minutes or more because your bus is late really really really really really sucks.
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 12:11 PM on January 27, 2008

My emotions are perfectly balanced; I follow each spell of uncontrollable, shrieking laughter with a crying jag of equal length. Pretty soon I'll be publishing my Great American Novel! It's fucking awesome please kill me!
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 7:11 AM on January 17, 2008

People, people, calm down! As far as I'm concerned, you're ALL sexist pigs!
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 10:36 AM on January 9, 2008

Sweet!
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 11:56 AM on January 5, 2008

as was the "maybe they're doing this because of the writer's strike!"--does the writer really have zero clue about how long it takes to make a movie like this?

"And put yourself in their shoes: with the writers' strike in full effect, no wonder - maybe Hollywood actors thought this would be their last chance to throw the kitchen sink in until... who knows when?"

He just means they're doing extra acting... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 11:38 AM on January 5, 2008

I suspect they meant that they want to be a "really good" magazine, to the point where people will collect it. And call me old fashioned, but part of being a really good magazine is being a really good physical object, and "limiting" yourself to 1,000 copies (which seems like a huge number to me, but I live in the world of journals that hit 100-300 copies max) is a way of ensuring that you can afford to create nice objects.

I... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 5:25 PM on December 30, 2007

Also of note is the Kids' presence in Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers.
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 8:47 AM on December 28, 2007

He shouldn't have left the boat.
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 8:37 AM on December 26, 2007

That puts my lobster stuffed with tacos to shame.
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 1:10 PM on December 17, 2007

I could swear that a young Reubens also appeared in The Rocky Horror Picture Show as a Transylvanian, but a search of IMDB brings up nothing. He's one of the partiers standing on the curving rampway down to Frank n' Furter's laboratory. Anyone else see him in that?
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 7:21 AM on December 17, 2007

Gravity twists and pulls at the galaxies as they dance past each other. And, as if they resist the inevitable recession of their partner, they reach out to one another in what looks like a tender embrace, but is in reality a stark (if lovely) portent of the destruction wrought on both galaxies. [the two galaxies] passed each other ... 200 million years ago. The gravity of B ... drew out a long tentacle from the much larger A ..., and it appears as if the passage also... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 7:37 AM on December 14, 2007

FREEBIRD!!!!
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 8:22 AM on December 11, 2007

I always win at Musical Jews.

Me too. When the music stops, you better believe I'll be sitting on a Jew!
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 5:42 PM on December 10, 2007

I realize this is ridiculous, backwards and GIRLy, but I can't read the word "speculum" without wincing.
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 10:42 AM on December 10, 2007

DAVE'S NOT HERE ™
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 9:01 AM on December 8, 2007

This would've made a great opening for that private eye show from the 80s, Simon & Simon, with Rick and AJ going into the temple and pretending to worship and then the gods come out and Rick and AJ hand them a piece of paper and then they yell "you've been served!" and run away and then the credits start and the theme music with the cowbell. I loved that show even though it was a Magnum PI ripoff.
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 7:08 AM on December 7, 2007

Coincidentally, today is Nick Park's birthday.
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 7:09 AM on December 6, 2007

If laughing my ass off at that ad makes me an idiot, I don't wanna be smart!
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 4:00 AM on December 6, 2007

Maybe he had copper veins put in. I've been thinking of doing that too, but now I dunno.
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 10:28 AM on December 5, 2007

You know what, soundofsuburbia, I like you. You're not like the other people here in the trailer park.
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 10:22 AM on December 3, 2007

All of Canada used to be a beer fridge until the global warming came around. This is one of those cart before the horse chicken and egg tomato, tomato things.
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 8:13 AM on December 2, 2007

oops
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 10:42 AM on November 30, 2007

bork! bork! bork!
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 6:08 AM on November 30, 2007

Which of course is the title ... I'm going back to bed now.
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 6:09 AM on November 30, 2007

Nice post. I love old signs, and the cheapo vinyl banners many businesses use today as permanent signage are a big pet peeve of mine.
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 6:36 PM on November 29, 2007

Lovely photos, but I'd like them better if the impatient dog was in each shot.
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 7:27 AM on November 28, 2007

You are in the photograph.

You have always been in the photograph, Mr. Torrance.
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 6:43 AM on November 27, 2007

Hi!
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 3:57 PM on November 15, 2007

Check out the poem:

My angel,

Five years ago, I will always remember the day
When fate made us meet, blissful Alaskan moments in May
Earth spun around us and a journey began
Love, warmth, happiness, enough the years to span.

The longer it lasts the more grows our bond
And with 80 still – of you I will be fond
Whatever happens, I will stay at... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 1:35 PM on October 29, 2007

I can see my blog from here.
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 6:44 AM on October 29, 2007

It tickeles whene they eat the bad humours from me foote!
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 8:03 AM on October 28, 2007

Even the fries are fried!
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 10:28 AM on October 11, 2007

As I understand it, the process for any deep fried liquid (Coca Cola, latte, whatever) involves making funnel cake batter but substituting Coca Cola (or any old fluid that you have on hand) for water.

Please do not use any old fluid that you have on hand.
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 1:29 PM on October 11, 2007

"I thought it would be like CSI, but it was anticlimactic."

WHY CAN'T THINGS BE JUST LIKE TV
posted to MetaFilter by Koko at 12:15 PM on September 2, 2007