If I made Battlestar Galactica, I would have them all sing "One Toke Over the Line" instead.

teenygozer told the world about: http://obamiconme.pastemagazine.com/

Thanks to the miracle of the region-free DVD player, I've been watching something called Snuff Box. Which is sketch comedy, except when it's being a sitcom. With music. And porn. And savage beatings. Also there are hangings, time travel, and whores. It's surreal and dreamlike, though not necessarily a good dream.

(These videos are NSFW, NSF small children, and probably not something you want to play in the house with all the relatives there for Thanksgiving. Unless your relatives are like mine, in which case, turn up the volume.)

Here is a small example of what goes on:



That's Darkplace's Matt Berry as...Matt Berry, utter swine, dick, and fuckhead. He does this sort of thing a lot.

There are also songs, usually variations of this tune:



Want more? Try here:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=snuff+box&search_type=&aq=f

‘Opus’ creator to retire from comic strips
--some site somewhere.

1. Thank CHRIST.
2. This better not be a massive tease like Lynne Thingie's 'retirement.'

ETA:

Heroes Isn't Derivative, Claims Executive Producer
-IO9.com





Why yes, I read cleolinda's linkspam, why do you ask?

IFC has licensed The IT Crowd with Richard Ayoade, which is awesome even though I don't get that channel, while Adult Swim will be showing the exquisite LOOK AROUND YOU OMGYAYAYAYAYAYAYYYYYYYYY.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117990430.html?categoryid=14&cs=1&nid=2565

Quark is coming to DVD. I remember it very, very well -- and yet I'm still excited.

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Quark-The-Complete-Series/10206

I really like the girl on the Channel 8 morning news. Today she pronounced "analogy" with a long 'A' in the first syllable.

So. Second Wednesday in a row spent cowering in the basement, listening to the tornado sirens go off. I cannot begin to describe how annoying and scary this is. Also dull. The accumulating stress is making the entire city go wiggy.

Channel 8 weather guy, as a rule, starts to lose steam after the first hour and a half, and starts coming out with things like, "Tornados are bad." Last night he was reduced to drawing new warnings on the screen with that pen thing sports announcers use, because the staff just couldn't keep up. It was rather charming, really.

Window developed a massive leak right onto a bookcase. Fortunately the only things lost were old mixtapes and VHS cassettes that needed to be got rid of anyway. Tried to go out and look at it from outside, but the rain was overflowing the gutters and I only got a thorough dousing for my trouble. I lost my cellphone in all the towels, and had to call myself several times to find it. Morning revealed a sinkhole-like feature that will need to be filled in.

Deb is related to one of the poor kids who was killed by the storm, so I am glad I did not explain my morning tardiness as being due to having to pick bits of boy scout out of the chimney.

TVshowsonDVD.com presents info on the US release of Spaced. And God damn that is some fugly purple-and-pink:

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Spaced-The-Complete-Series/9559