It's hard not to spend a good 30 minutes goofing around with video and commercial director Ron Winter's virtual keyboard of dance rock sounds. I now want to include the George Michael "uhhh" in everything. Play with QWERTY Rock Thanks, Metafilter....

UPDATED! The latest facebook internet meme is this little gem (thanks to commenter omnibolg for sending me the full version): 1 - Go to "wikipedia." Hit “random... Read More�or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of y...

MTV's new series How's Your News may seem like exploitative douchebag comedy at the expense of the disabled, but the show actually has a long history. it evolved from a documentary about a cross country road trip with several of How's Your News most outgoing reporters, which was winning ...

Via a request to define the long debated meaning of chooglin, here is LA musician and artist Ami Tallman's essay on the matter, which recently landed in my inbox. Enjoy. Let's begin with the train noises "choo-choo" + "chug" (and let's take a mental note of the chuggi...

Burger King® Flame™, introduced last month just in time for Christmas, is a new meat-scented body spray. It was only sold in NYC at that paragon of good taste, Ricky's. Gothamist interviewed a Ricky's employee who reports that Flame actually smells "Nice and spicy... kind of like Axe body sp...

For a long time I was obsessed with the Sesame Street episodes of yore, before everything got dumbed down all to Hell (thanks, Elmo). Why weren't the best moments in children's television being celebrated? The recent DVD releases of Sesame Street Old School were a boon to my childhood nostalgia, and...

Bob Dylan has recently been championing a pair Jerry Lee Lewis tracks on his Theme Time Radio Hour with infectious enthusiasm, ending one recent spin with the comment, "You know, if anybody ever asks me why I do this radio show, I could just play them that - Jerry Lee Lewis singing Shakespeare....

What's the best way to start your bleary work day? How about rolling around the office and poppin' wheelies in your desk chair to a blast of roller boogie? That's what I've been doing for the past month thanks to Milwaukee DJ The Fed. Via her music blog bounce/oz, you can sign up for a daily blast o...

Living in New York has made me very suspicious of giant, looming cranes. Sure, it's partly because they have a tendency to fall down, but it's also because the presence of a crane signifies a new high-rise billion-dollar piece of crap is about block out the sky. But then along comes something like D...

During a random bout of Googling a while back I stumbled across Thomascow. This elderly Irish gent performs hauntingly warbled karaoke pastiches (ie, what sound like karaoke tracks with drum machine and keyboards added). Then he turns his songs into psychedelic clip art cheesy effects laden music vi...