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Jane Russell No, it isn't. It's just a cool website filled with interesting images. If you like these, check out where they came from. This Isn't Happiness  

I'm sure most of humanity has by now seen this clip, but it always makes me smile, even if it's the ?-teenth time I've seen it.

Pete Larsen.  Reporter with handy notepad on left. Will Smith.  Star.  With hand to ear on right. Tonight, once again, my daughters and I get to watch my husband don his traditional rental tux and drive up to the red carpet at the Oscars to interview all the stars alongside all the other media paparazzi. Peter Larsen, Pop Culture Reporter, Orange County Register I was so predictably irritated by this today that I didn't even take any of my usual photos of him on his way up like I have all the other times.  My bad. Now that his daughters are older, we ALL get to pretend it's just fine we're not there with him.  That we all couldn't be happier to left alone in the middle of a perfectly good Sunday so he can go TO THE OSCARS. And that it is JUST FINE that he gets to go "see it all" and meet all those Oscar-winning celebs over and over again.  And over, again. Anna Lily and Juliet Larsen giving pre-Oscar interviews It's fine.  Rea

Late last night I watched a funny link  of the Muppets singing a cover of LCD Soundsystem's Dance Yrself Clean .   It's an  amusing clip, to be sure, but not as truly great as some of their other work. Below is another clip of LCD Soundsystem singing Losing My Edge, which reminded me of how great they were this past fall at Hollywood Bowl last October.  And they were great.  Absolutely great. Sorry, but I simply cannot fathom that I'm going to miss their farewell concert in April in New York later this year.  The last concert, ever for this group?  - No.

I guess the real question is:  When deciding what's funny, which audience member is more moral? This house has been divided by a debate about "humor."  Specifically, if something (in this case a Youtube clip) isn't really a "funny incident" but it still makes you laugh, is it still really "humor?" Apparently some people (including one living at my address) think it's morally wrong to laugh at something which is "real and bad" even when it looks funny.   (See, I don't think this.  I think if it's funny, it's funny.) Some people also think it's more acceptable to have a laugh at something which first started out first as "comedy," even if the clip leads to painful accidental injury to some poor bloke during the "comedic" act.  (I think the following: If it's not funny, it's not funny.) Frankly, even if it did come from Boing Boing, Clip B only pained me to watch it. However, every sin

Tom writes: "I was working a gig in Vegas with a brand new Phantom Flex high speed digital cinema camera. I had to try it out. In fact, I never did go to bed that night. I opened up a wormhole shooting at 2,564 frames per second." Please visit my website for Phantom Flex 1080p ProRes file downloads:  tomguilmette.com/​archives/​1986 Extremely cool camera work.  Hope you tipped the maid. Locked in a Vegas Hotel Room with a Phantom Flex from Tom Guilmette on Vimeo .

Well, the title sums it up nicely: The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger (original narration by "Randall") FYI: NSFW, kids .  (Yes, that's you.)

Look out, Charlie Sheen, you got company...

Trying to sort out the storyline of "Drunken Angel Vs. Drunken Angel," an art house mashup with the music of Lucinda Williams mixed with Kurosawa film clips of the film with the same name. This works.

No, not that teenager.   I meant Justin Bieber, of course! -- Poor Jonah.

If there ever was an artist whose work should be associated with Valentine's Day, it's Jim Dine with his unique use of the heart image. I used to own a print of the image below.   I think it's called "Pink Heart" and was done in 1983 as a Metropolitan Opera Centennial poster.  I discovered it in the late '80s and purchased it with great glee one day in the Lincoln Center Gift Shop -- on clearance!  (I was a waitress at the time, okay?) I loved that print and no matter where I lived I always seemed to find the perfect spot for it.   For me, what the print represented in its strong, but brightly hopeful way was a statement that beauty is first rooted in nature, but transformed into art only as a result of very hard work and skill.  And that the heart of this skill and labor is essentially impossible unless fueled by an even greater love. Truthfully, I haven't a clue if this is what the intended message was, but it made perfect sense to me and it always

I prefer to sing wrapped in bacon.

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."  "Unbeing dead isn't being alive."   "We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit."  i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)"   ( and then there's the one that will make my kid's laugh ) "Women and men (both dong and ding)   summer autumn winter spring   reaped their sowing and went their came   sun moon stars rain"   —   E.E. Cummings

If anyone wanted to send me a British Airways ticket right now, I'd gleefully accept the offer.    Sounds like an interesting production of this Hellman classic. The Children's Hour - review  Comedy Theatre, London Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian " There's only one question to which everyone wants the answer: can Keira Knightley and Elisabeth Moss cut the mustard? The short answer is that they prove as potent a combination on stage as at the box office." For more of this fine Guardian review, click here...

Cool video of making art by Putney School alumnus, Holton Rower, who also has an interesting   website with even more work  there.  Check it out. And then there's the post-pouring work.   I don't know, looks like fun to me. -- Thanks to Wm. Heller for posting.

Granted, I was only sixteen at the time, still bouncing around a few schools in New England, but even during my occasional trips to NYC it was clear the place had become a jungle. There was a visceral discord and an intoxicating wildness to Manhattan which I can't recall really witnessing anywhere quite like that again.  The LA riots were nothing compared to NYC in 1977.  Thank God my parents had no idea how insane the place really was, or I'd never have been allowed to go there on my own. As for the collective madness and creative explosion going on, well, I guess you have to really feel like you're dying to finally find your most creative side.  Bummer. Love Mayor Koch's quotes. But -- Hello?  Be Warned. The video below is NSFW  (Yes, this means not safe for kids or for work. ) NY77: The Coolest Year In Hell   is a terrific documentary that captures a pivotal moment in the history of a city and its pop culture. Here’s the whole beautiful mess. -- Than

Seriously, SCR's "Midsummer Night's Dream" really  rocks .  Literally.  South Coast Repertory's newest offering, " Midsummer Night's Dream ," under the masterful direction of Mark Rucker, both dazzles the eye and grabs you by the heart, spiriting the audience on a whirlwind tour of fantasy and festivities which never once fails to entertain from start to finish.  I can promise, like any great party, you'll never want this show to end. This show has truly become my new sparkle pony.  It's pure magic from the moment the lights go up, I mean, pop up.  This is a show that immediately grabs the audience and transports them far away, somewhere magical where everyone's interesting, they all do funny things, the music just gets better and better and absolutely no pharmacueticals were involved! What else can you say  that  about?  It's like a long rave at Coachella but, one where you actually care