Nerdiness revealed. Reveled in.

I mentioned elsewhere online, and many times to innocent bystanders aloud, that I have a serious thing for the writings of Neil Gaiman, and incidentally also for his website*. Turns out he was on NPR, and I missed it. Luckily, there does appear to be a God, and this interview has been safely catalogued on the internet for our listening pleasure. And such a pleasure it was. Please listen here.


There is a HHG fan club. Did you know? Hitchhker's Appreciation Society ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha.


On the topic of awesome websites, Ok Go has a pretty great one as well. I recommend it. I have taken the liberty of linking you to their "videos" page, which, horrifyingly, is missing my original favorite Ok Go video ever*: The Ping Pong Instructional video. I have located it elsewhere:




On an entirely different note, I have been listening to more country music radio than usual lately. Here in my lovely city we are blessed with two whole country music stations, which provides a lot of commercial-avoidance opportunities. (When this fails, I also flip through the alternative stations, the indie station, and the Christmas music station. If those all fail me, there's always NPR. As a last resort, cds, or silence.) I have begun to mentally compile a "this is my dream for my life" song list. So far it mostly includes a song entitled "Redneck Yacht Club." Don't judge me.

You can look it up if you want, but I am choosing not to inflict Craig Morgan's obnoxious head-bobble on you against your will.

The other song, less firmly decided, is Sugarland's latest song, "Stuck Like Glue." This one I'm not linking you to because the official video is one of those that doesn't follow the actual message of the song. Look it up if you like. Just so you know, if you are one of those who isn't a fan of the genre, Sugarland tends to be less annoyingly country than many other bands.


























*I've linked you to the "Cool Stuff & Things" page, which is the coolest page in my opinion. I feel that I should point out that it will show you different cool stuff and things each time that you click it.

**I say "original favorite" because my favorite changes with pretty much every successive Ok Go video release. I can't help it.

I remembered!

Here are the other two things I meant to share:

First, a video on one man's hopeful view of the future of local transportation:


(Trust me--it's really cool.)


Second, a video shared with me by my friend John. I have never heard of this artist and his style isn't usually my thing, but I pretty much love this song:




Lastly, here's that picture of Stephen Colbert. I just feel like it needs to be here in the flesh.

I've not been online much lately

I've been house and dog sitting for one of my aunts this weekend, and I haven't gotten online at her house. I have instead been listening to NPR and fending off her enormous dog, Augie, as I drink tea or kahlua and read coffee table books in the evening on her antique sofa.

I did want to post these songs though the other day, as evidenced by the text message I sent to my email address from the Wal-Mart parking lot: "Michael Buble; Layla. leaves: gold became brilliant red, orange, deep maroon, dancing and flying"

Only the first two are directly related to music, of course, but I have this thing about the fall leaves. On to business: I love Michael Buble a little bit, and though I don't love watching this video, I must say that I am impressed by his talent at portraying prominent figures in pop culture.





On an almost completely different tack, here's Clapton singing "Layla," but not the original. I am extremely partial to the slower, acoustic version. This isn't the version I've got on my itunes, but it'll do.

Don't Judge Me.

Okay, so I just created a third blog. Not that the second one is getting any views at all, really--that's not actually the point. The point is that I am tired of feeling like I have to qualify every time I post links on the first/real/main one. Usually I'm posting them because I was reading/watching them and don't want to lose them, but I'm too lazy to make use of universal bookmarks. So.


Current open-tab list is as follows:

An article I ran across last week on how the Democrats might be winning the war, though they lost a battle.

Sara's blog post about NaNoWriMo, which I have been meaning to read but haven't yet gotten to.

A photographic list of amusing septic carrier tank slogans, posted on facebook by my uncle.

An article about the rather horrifying and, honestly, utterly counterproductive (economically, sociopolitically, environmentally, and medically speaking) slaughter of dolphins in Japan. Is it just me, or does it almost seem like they're <i>trying</i>* to make people hate them**?

A news clip video about a small town which banded together to keep Westboro Baptist "Church" away from the funeral of a soldier and member of their community. Very hopeful.

A video depicting an attempt to interview Jake Lloyd, the actor who, as a child, played the young Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace. He isn't very charismatic. I think maybe we could be friends.


Lastly, I don't really know much Guster music, but somebody posted this song on facebook (the source of most of my internet reading/time wasting), and I liked it:




I would like to say that it just took me about four tries to get Blogger to actually embed that video, rather than just passive-agressively post the embed code. What did I ever do to you, Blogger?*
























*Screw you, Blogger. I type the html code, you translate the html code. That's how this is supposed to work. I don't know what your problem is, but we are going to have to have a talk.

**It occurs to me that this could be taken as a racist statement. Please note that I do not have racist opinions of people of Japanese descent. I just have a difficult time dealing with certain aspects of Japanese culture. I know that there is a lot more to Japan, and that I am poorly educated in this area. I also acknowledge that American culture has a lot of crappy stuff in it too.