My jaw is hanging! Fiddler on the Roof in Japanese!

Wow! And the Rabbi looks a lot like Grandpa Jones. And Tevye is cute...and JAPANESE!!! Wow!!

Do you like to make things with your hands, but you're too lazy to ever actually finish anything? A few years ago, a crew of knitters from Houston turned their tendency toward procrastination into a guerrilla art movement called Knitta.

They took on Gangsta rap monikers and started tagging Houston with knitting. I've seen their work covering shop ( Read more... )

This is so dumb, but this is video of the Star Wars theme played on the banjo.

This prompted an idiotic response from a guy with a ukuele and too much free time. Eew.

And finally, what happened in the Emperor's office after the Death Star was destroyed.

All the Star Wars content is due to the fact that this is one of the few nights in the year that I ( Read more... )

I don't know why I'm on a money kick today, but I am. Maybe I'm about to win the lottery.

Pennylicious is a blog from a person who writes about coins, scrip, banknotes, bills and credit cards. Sounds like a snooze, but it's oddly entertaining.

There's an apocryphal story I've heard for years that Picasso used to pay his rent by making art scketches ( Read more... )

It's amazing how many people draw on their money. Why? I don't know. Maybe people feel the need to personalize our banal-looking currency?

Johnny Burrito, a Mexican restaurant in Charlotte, NC, hangs on to all the weird cash they get that has been drawn on, altered, mutilated or otherwise personalized.

Pretty cool.

This is my new obsession: Mr. Deity.

Imagine God as a highly-creative, non-detail-oriented guy with assistants who just don't get his vision. The Mr. Deity filmmakers post a new installment of the series every two weeks, and it's a hoot. They're jockeying for a half-hour TV show, and I hope they get it. My only reservation is that the format of the ( Read more... )

I work at an art museum that's really, really dedicated to children's education. We offer free, hands-on art activities to families every single day, and we really try to push the cultural diversity thing: every Dia de los Muertos we set up an ofrenda, and at other special times of year, we try to educate the public about other people's cultures. ( Read more... )

It's been 17 years, and it still makes me happy.

Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch
Who watches over you
Make a little birdhouse in your soul
Not to put too fine a point on it
Say I'm the only bee in your bonnet
Make a little birdhouse in your soul

--They Might Be Giants, "Birdhouse in Your Soul".

I just got back from seeing Borat, and I took something from one scene that no review I've read has talked about yet:

Spoilers follow

Borat attends a dinner party in the Deep South (on "Secession Drive", believe it or not). All the guests are white and are very, very understanding of Borat's ignorance of American culture. They put up with him calling ( Read more... )

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This blog is really hilarious. Check out Geoffrey's take on the wonderful entertainment known as Serpentes on a Shippe!

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