According to my Itunes, I haven't listened to Dar Williams since April of 2008. That's... that's almost criminal. I'm ashamed. How did it come to this? Anyway, I'm listening to her now.

Saturday Morning Watchmen is pretty great.

Just to bring you back down after the funny link, did you hear about the nine-year-old girl in Brazil who was raped by her stepfather and impregnated with twins? The Catholic Church did. Their response to this tragedy? They call the little girl a murderer for getting an abortion. Ayup.

Wow: Radioactive Pedophile on the Lam!

How is this not a Sci-Fi channel movie of the week yet?

I think the sarcastic font is a great idea, and give it my official endorsement. No, seriously, I mean it. No, really! Honest! Oh, man, this is exactly why we need it.

From Head Trip Comics:


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"Kick the Frog" -- Absurdist radio comedy bit or political science 101?

(BTW, there's no actual video to this video. Just listen.)

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I thought the Oscars were surprisingly watchable this year. I didn't fast forward nearly as much as I expected to. Baz Luhrmann's musical montage about musicals sucked balls to a surprising degree, though.

I was also slightly surprised that Heath Ledger and Eartha Kitt weren't in this year's Big Downer Montage of Dead People. Weird.

Terry Pratchett got a knighthood! Woo!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7896865.stm

Amanda Palmer is Sexy


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"Ok. This is now mad. I am stuck in a lift on the 26th floor of Centre Point. Hell's teeth. We could be here for hours. Arse, poo and widdle"

- Stephen Fry, on his twitter.

So adorable. I love that man so much.