December 2010
60 posts
Selections from the Cosby Codex, Vol. 1:... →
[An exquisite parody of both The Cosby Show and postmodern critique, from McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and none other. There are three more volumes if you can stomach them.] In the pilot episode of The Cosby Show (“Pilot,” episode 1.2, a title that also—whether consciously, subconsciously, or by chance or synchronicity—foreshadows Theo Huxtable’s later professed desire to...
Ut pictura poesis, with eight-year-old
We drove past the darkened restaurant, early summer, having left the park. I said “Mokehouse”— inside joke and looking for his memory of a burnt-out letter, the name in doubt. “No,” he said, “it’s Smokehouse again, all fixed,” and then a pause as we observed the sign. He signaled otherwise, noticing the shared effect of what was once defunct singly. The...
Actual Web site for "Space Jam" →
Still online, unchanged since 1996. A work of art.
'T'was the Night Before Christmas (Postmodern...
Twas a Postmodern Christmas, when all through the regime Not a concept was stirring, not even a meme. Essentialist dogmas were nurtured with care, And imperialist ambitions still hung in the air
The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While grand narratives of progress danced in their heads. And mamma in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just performed gender before taking a nap. When...
Light of Gold
Light, warm and heavy as pure gold and the angels sing softly to the new-born baby. — Edward Esch
IsItChristmas.com →
Hurry up and go there before it gets mucho depressio
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The Common Life
[Tumbled in honor of my recently acquired position as a tutor of high-school geometry, among other subjects.] That’s the down-town frieze, Principally the church steeple, A black line beside a white line; And the stack of the electric plant, A black line drawn on flat air. It is a morbid light In which they stand, Like an electric lamp On a page of Euclid. In this light man is a result, A...
The Blue Buildings in the Summer Air
I Cotton Mather died when I was a boy. The books He read, all day, all night and all the nights, Had got him nowhere. There was always the doubt, That made him preach the louder, long for a church In which his voice would roll its cadences, After the sermon, to quiet that mouse in the wall. II Over wooden Boston, the sparkling Byzantine Was everything that Cotton Mather was And more. Yet the...
Connoisseur of Chaos
I A. A violent order is disorder; and B. A great disorder is an order. These Two things are one. (Pages of illustrations.) II If all the green of spring was blue, and it is; If the flowers of South Africa were bright On the tables of Connecticut, and they are; If Englishmen lived without tea in Ceylon, and they do; And if it all went on in an orderly way, And it does; a law of inherent...
Get The Milk Out (Santa Claus Is Back) →
Holiday video by Billy “Baby Bear” Disney, feat. Ryan “Rexuty” Denardo.
Lunar Eclipse Beginning Late Monday Night →
For the first time in 456 years, the Moon will pass through Earth’s shadow on the same night as the Winter Solstice, resulting in a play of amber and red. Check around online for the best time to view it locally. In Chicago, the schedule runs as follows:
12:32 A.M. CST - Partial eclipse
1:40 A.M. CST - Total eclipse begins
2:17 A.M. CST - Point of the greatest eclipse
WatchStephen Colbert: Jesus Is A Liberal Democrat Colbert takes on Bill O’Reilly’s claim that Jesus was charitable, but “not self-destructive,” since “the Lord helps those who help themselves” (Ben Franklin).
IBM Supercomputer Will Compete Against Ken... →
It’ll air February 14-16. Stay tuned.
An Arrested Development Writer Answers Your... →
Have your questions answered by the guy who, among other things, wrote GOB’s “$500 suit? Come on!” gag and came up with the picture of Buster being attacked by a goat.
WatchAnimation video for new Comedy Central logo, debuting on-air in January. I’m all for it. Here’s Brand New’s take.
RUSH 2: Path 2 Despair →
My roommate Marty Jones offers a review of the N64 title we’ve been playing lately and have lovingly dubbed “The Existential Crisis Game.” To sum up: “This game plays itself, players be damned.” Here’s a longer excerpt:
Stunt mode is what keeps me and my roommates coming back. It may also be what keeps us depressed. “Fog” is a variable element in...