I work from a home office, so I can crank the tunes when I feel like it. Today’s motivational music is the entire album Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death, the compilation album by the legendary Dead Kennedys.
I shouldn’t be the only one pogoing while working, so here it is…enjoy!
It seemed like a good idea at the time: the couple above got engaged at dinner at a teppanyaki restaurant and decided to get a photo to commemorate the big event. They probably thought “Hey, we’ll show this to the grandkids someday!”
Somebody got the idea to spell out their initials in rice on the big plancha stove with a big heart between them, but it never occurred to anyone to to confirm that those initials didn’t form any unfortunate words.
My thanks to Frédéric Harper, who pointed me to this photo, saying “I think of you when see stories like this.”
This one’s from The Onion:
If you read one tech-related humor piece today, make it Bay Area to Standard American English Translator on McSweeney’s. Here’s a sample:
Bay Area:
“Who are you again?”
\ˈhü\ \ˈär\ \ˈyü\ \e-ˈgān\English:
“What company do you work for?”
– –Bay Area:
“Do you live in this neighborhood?”
\ˈdü\ \ˈyü\ \ˈliv\ \ən\ \ˈthis\ \ˈnā-bər-ˌhu̇d\English:
“Can you afford to live in San Francisco?”
– –Bay Area:
“We should get lunch.”
\ˈwē\ \ˈshu̇d\ \ˈget\ \ˈlənch\English:
“I’ve identified your value relative to me and wish to start the process of exploiting your talents.”
Once again, that’s Bay Area to Standard American English Translator.
Thanks to Dare Obasanjo for the find!
Here’s one from the “How’d I miss this?” file: a fan-made video of the cover of Pulp’s 1995 hit Common People, as performed by William Shatner on his first good album, the 2004 alt-rock surprise Has Been. It takes the song and adds cuts from the original Star Trek series, syncing lips and lyrics whenever possible (the “I’ll see what I can do” lyrics lines up perfectly with a scene where Kirk utters the exact same words). It was posted in 2011, and has been making the online rounds after getting some press on Slate by way of Dangerous Minds.
If you go back another three years, you’ll find a similar treatment using scenes from the animated Star Trek series arranged in a Kirk/Spock slash fiction manner:
If you’re not familiar with the original version by Pulp, here it is:
Distractify’s set of videos in which some very sweet, white-bread moms are presented with terminology commonly used in porn (and in my private life, hur, hur, hur!) and guess what they mean is nothing short of adorable.
Here’s the first one, where they’re asked to suss out the definitions of: BBW, DP, money shot, and glory hole:
In the follow-up video, they’re asked to ratiocinate the meanings of MILF, BBC, golden shower, and Japan’s gift to adult cinematography, bukakke:
I love the definition for MILF that one mom came up with: “Mother In Lactating Fits”.
Despite all his rage, Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan is trapped in the world’s most powerful rat’s cage.
Photo from Consequence of Sound. Click to see the source.
And now, music:
Thanks to David Janes for the find!
Found via Death Wish Coffee’s Google+ account. Click to see the source.
Today started with an early wake-up to make the 40-mile drive from Westford to Logan Airport to catch a 7:20 a.m. flight. Damn right coffee was involved.