There you are, in blackness, your hand flapping frantically against the wall like the panicked gropings of a strangling victim. You try to walk on with dignity, but the mute, invisible furniture knows; the silent, staring portraits of you hold their judgmental looks, which seem to say, "You looked a complete idiot."

With mixed feelings, you realize that those frozen facsimiles of you are right; you did look a complete idiot. And you vow to never look a idiot again.

Alyce Miles

Just try and wrap your mind around this.

YouTube - MINI DADDY ADRIANSITO EL NIÑO MAS BONITO .

Final Season Of 'Lost' Promises To Make Fans More Annoying Than Ever | The Onion - America's Finest News Source.

A real magician doing a really fantastic GOB impression. Actual magic not included.

YouTube - The Gob Act: A Tribute to Arrested Development.

Futurama timeline at Everything2.com.

We're about to watch 9. We had a couple plans for tonight - one was to watch episodes from our favorite TV shows that take place during New Year's Eve. That is a fine idea until you endeavor to figure out which episodes those might be. IMDB plot searches proved fruitless.

The next plan was to watch a movie that takes place, at least in part, during New Year's Eve. This, too, was largely fruitless for the same reasons. Also, I couldn't recall a single movie we own taking place (in whole or part) during New Year's Eve.

Our final plan was to rent something from iTunes. We enacted this same plan over Christmas at the Gregg household. There we purchased "Four Christmases", which took about sixty minutes to download (and produced about three minutes of laughter). Tonight we've purchased "9", which took about twelve minutes to download. Thank you, MidcoNet high-speed broadband internet.

So far I'm enjoying "9". Check it out. As Holli put it, it's kinda fitting that we're watching "9" on the last day of 2009. That's totally what we meant to do, yo.

Dumb post.

UPDATE: After discovering that Hulu's ball drop was truly a livestream (and not being re-broadcast for Central Time), we rung in the new year with a fireworks display in the city of Funchal in Madeira, Portugal. Thank you, Ustream. The action starts about 3:00 into it.

Ramona Falls "I Say Fever" from Barsuk Records on Vimeo.

"I Say Fever" - the first video from the Ramona Falls debut album Intuit. Directed by the ridiculously talented Stefan Nadelman, winner of a 2003 Sundance prize for his 22 minute film 'Terminal Bar', a prolific animator in the commericial field and the mastermind behind the Menomena Evil Bee video.

Ramona Falls is Brent Knopf's first solo venture, but he has an extensive musical resume as part of trio Menomena (an indie rock band from Portland, OR, that's snagged plaudits from such tastemakers as Pitchfork Media and the New York Times.)

Directed and Animated by Stefan Nadelman
Produced by Tourist Pictures
http://www.touristpictures.com

Austria gave me a snowflake. Well, Austria gave me a snowflake generator, and I went to artistic, snowflake town! If you live in Austria, you can see it on Dec 15, 2009 at 6:49 PM on Vienna's MUMOK. If you don't live in Austria you can see it via video.

Of course, that's illegal, so I told her "Absolutely not." And I'm sticking to that.

ON TIME from Bianca Bodmer on Vimeo.

A travelling salesman selling the future in his suitcase.

Project developed for Berlinale Talent Campus 2008.
Shot and edited in 48h.

Screenplay by David Bradley Halls, directed by Ted Chung. cinematography by Bianca Bodmer, music by Elena Titova and edited by Vincent Schmitt.

THIS IS SOMETHING THAT HAS NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE.

Read the introductory post or browse the Ponders category to read all of them. Or maybe wait until December and make the trip worth it.

"'I am bigger, stronger, and faster than you,' said the Machine."

I continue to find this show densely hilarious. I particularly loved the Batman segments in this one.

You can search Grooveshark for songs or albums or artists, you can upload music to their servers, and you can click the "Radio" button to get a Pandora-like automatic playlist.

Check out Grooveshark today!

Treasury Washington D.C.

While in the army in 1863 at one time when there was bread being distributed I managed to get two loaves when I suppose it was intended for each person to only have one, therefore in order to satisfy a reproving concience I remit one dollar which I suppose will cover the amt, with compound int, which please drop in the treasury.

$1 deposited

Conscience

March of 99

via Letters of Note: For the sake of my conscience.