Do yourself a favor. When the world is annoying you, go to Youtube and search the phrase I used on for the header of this post: “I like turtles” — that should be good for at least twenty minutes of fun.
Tag: funny
Hilarious Hermione Horror
One of my Media English students — I’m not sure which one, though I’ll find out on Thursday I suppose — uploaded made this hilarious trailer remix (link for LJers, the video is embedded below) as a final project in our class. (They’re doing media remixes, as a kind of break from all the studying of Lawrence Lessig we did this half of semester.) Normally, a short trailer remix is something I’d be so-so about for such a big project, but (minor English glitches aside) this is pretty damned good, if you ask me! (Good enough, indeed, that I had …
Linux/Nethead Injokery
I haven’t actually been working on “A Killing in Burma” lately — the semester has kind of turned into a swarm of bumblebees and I haven’t had much time to do anything besides school stuff — but I did get a little work done on my draft of “Ten Spikes and a Hammer,” a story I’m working on about, well, more WWII-era geomantic warfare as remembered by an old man in the late 80s in a rather different American from the one we all remember. (Or don’t remember, as the case may be.) But when Lime and I were puttering …
new free music
Free, and DRM-free, music: The new Nine Inch Nails album, “the slip”. via BoingBoing, hip-hop/bluegrass mashup madness: Gangstagrass Worth checking out…
Kickin’ It in Iksan
Okay, this isn’t a song about Iksan, but it does bring back memories of the days when I lived in a small place with, um, limited entertainment facilities, and was surrounded by Westerners mostly just as bewildered about what to do with themselves in their free time. (And for you LJ readers, yeah, I embedded the video below on my site, but you’re missing nothing if you follow the link.)