a few movies I'd like to see:

Romance, hipsters, San Francisco. That young black guy from the Daily Show.





Heroin, midwesterners, 70s New York. Pre-Godfather Al Pacino.






Adultery, Mennonites, Mexico. No one you've ever heard of.

humor in the new era of responsibility

There were a brief flurry of articles before the inauguration on how media satirists like The Onion and the Daily Show will have to work harder in an Obama administration. (I seem to remember Stewart giving a quick plug to go out and vote before the 2004 election with the plea: "Please, make my job difficult.") But The Onion seems to have hit on one possible angle for Obama: his nerdiness.

Obama Disappointed Cabinet Failed To Understand His Reference To 'Savage Sword Of Conan' #24

Also, did anyone notice how The Onion closed out the Bush administration by subjecting him to a series of extremely painful pratfalls each week before killing him off on inauguration day?

11/12/08 Bush Tumbles Wildly Down Washington Monument Staircase
11/19/08 Crocodile Bites Off Bush's Arm
11/28/08 Bush Passes Three Pound Kidney Stone
12/4/08 Bush Dragged Behind Presidential Motorcade For 26 Blocks
12/8/08 Bush's Eyelid Accidentally Nailed To Wall
1/14/09 Spider Eggs Hatch In Bush's Brain
1/20/09 Bush Dies Peacefully In His Sleep

how to complain about a false obituary

Well, happy 2009 all, sorry about the extended hiatus, I think the awesome January weather has been making me sluggish and forgetful. To the point where I leave this blog at the George W. Bush video Christmas letter for a month. Seriously, we're in the Obama era people. The age of the internets! So here are a few interesting tidbits I've come across:

Salon has a great piece on how the current administration (or any administration) should navigate their use of the internet, including what a White House blog might look like, how to monitor comments, etc. Even what the protocol is for a facebook page. It was all hip when Obama was a dude running for President, but we're in uncharted territory on what it means to be facebook friends with the leader of the free world.

Also, following brief mistakes on Wikipedia claiming that Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd had died, the site is considering changing its editing rules, subjecting it to more oversight. Which doesn't make much sense to me, the only advantage of Wikipedia over a standard encylopedia is the speed and ease with which it can be updated. Mistakes and errors are to be expected, I expect pretty much everything on there is hearsay, with a strong tendency towards accuracy. Both of the errors were corrected within minutes, which makes the issue seem moot to me.

And a friend had this letter to Virgin Airways and Richard Branson as their away message, proving that no one complains better than the British.