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Category Archives: humour

Stanley Unwin’s Deepest Joys. Oh yes.

I’ve been picking up audio clips by Stanley Unwin (1911-2002), at long last — the stimulus being listening again to certain morsels used as interstitial material in a mix I picked up from Tom Raworth’s blog, many moons ago. I … more…

Posted on March 9, 2008 by pilgrim
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garfield minus garfield

So, it turns out that Garfield comics are enormously improved by the simple expedient of removing Garfield from them. A valuable discovery, and a very nexistepas kind of joint altogether.

Posted on February 28, 2008 by pilgrim
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links for 2008-02-05: Paul Di Filippo

Paul Di Filippo’s Wikiworld Short story, a year old, not sure how it escaped my notice this long… (tags: scifi fiction wiki Paul_Di_Filippo)

Posted on February 5, 2008 by pilgrim
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links for 2008-01-26: Donald Barthelme, Malki’s Expendable

Donald Barthelme’s barthelmismo jessamyn’s collection of Bathelme links (tags: barthelme jessamyn pynchon humour) Wondermark: Expendable David Malki’s venture into moving pictures. Its an action comedy, with live actors. (tags: david-malki wondermark shorts movies comedy humour youtube)

Posted on January 26, 2008 by pilgrim
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links for 2008-01-05: aloha woebot, warren’s robotics

WOEBOT: Farewell So, yes, farewell then to WOEBOT, knocking it on the head after five years. Not only the blog, but apparently all his online contributions. Radical (tags: music bloggery WOEBOT) Warren Ellis » The Three Laws Of Robotics Excellent. … more…

Posted on January 5, 2008 by pilgrim
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Tomek Baginski’s Fallen Art

Dark, humorous, and well worth repeated views; the subtleties, especially in the soundtrack, become apparent from the second viewing onwards. The site for the film is here (via Posthuman Blues)

Posted on December 18, 2007 by pilgrim
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festive brass toad

can has bluebottlz? Gorbless us, every one. UPDATE: the preceding post is apparently not considered related, and without it — if you are arriving in the hereafter, once this has scrolled away — you will not see the origin of … more…

Posted on December 7, 2007 by pilgrim
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links for 2007-11-29: Schrodinger’s LOLcat

Schrodinger’s LOLcat Geekiest lolcat of teh year? (tags: Schrodinger lolcats quantum uncertainty multiverse)

Posted on November 29, 2007 by pilgrim
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Home cooking…

…is killing the restaurant industry. Nice little graphic I ran across on one of those nasty evil, killing-the-entertainment-industry sites just now. Thought I’d share…

Posted on November 23, 2007 by pilgrim
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links for 2007-11-17: wondermark, beatles

Beatles online soon says Sir Paul Old folks say the darnedest things department. (tags: beatles mp3 music old-folks) Wondermark: #354; In which This Dude may not be Strictly Licensed Can’t recall whether I’ve linked to David Malki’s Wondermark before, or … more…

Posted on November 17, 2007 by pilgrim
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