Category Archives: Journal

Bob Odenkirk starring in the ‘Manson’ sketch he wrote for The Ben Stiller Show. “You want to talk to Mrs. Wilson? Why don’t you want to talk to Charlie? You think if you don’t talk to me, I’ll go away. But I can’t go away, because I’m not even here. I’m the ghost of a phantom of a shadow…

In this instructional video, bike safety guy Sam uses rap — and more thumbs ups than The Fonz — to teach a bunch of kids wearing florescent-colored clothes how to ride bikes. And at 3:55, he launches into an unrivaled robot freakout as the credits roll. (via Dangerous Minds)

“It was a teenage wedding, and the old folks wished them well…”

The guy who posted this video on YouTube had some harsh words: “Perhaps the lowest moment in Leonard Nimoy’s life. One of the worst songs I’ve heard.. and seen.” I feel like he and I must not be watching the same video.

War has always interested me. As a kid, it was for the obvious reasons ‚Äî I wanted to run around with a toy gun and pretend to be involved in a dangerous world of good versus evil. But of course back then I had no understanding of the difference between fact and fiction. That‚Äôs because in the action/adventure cartoons…

The video for Clutchy Hopkins’ new album The Storyteller (Ubiquity Records) was directed by Christian Borstlap, an alum of cpluv.com’s Let’s Talk series. Take a listen, and keep your eyes open.

For some reason, I have a picture from two years ago displaying the contents of my pockets. It was tucked away in a random folder on my laptop. The photo is from July 8, 2008. I’m certain I took this photo with some specific purpose in mind. However, that purpose is unclear to me at this time. In the…

Before I even knew how to read, comic books fascinated me. When I was still very young, probably three or four years old, my sister’s best friend gave me a stack of old Daredevil and Captain America comics from the early 1970s. I used to pore over the art and try to understand what the hell was going on…

Corbin, KY + Knoxville, TN ‚Äî With Colonel Harland Sanders‚Äô Cafe and Museum set plainly in our sights, we set out mid-morning to check out the scene in Corbin, KY. We found these two gentleman (pictured above) eating ice cream cones and defending the local flea mart. Michelle asked if she could snap their picture for…

Stumbled across this video today about the end/future of publishing put together by the UK branch of Dorling Kindersley Books. With the demise of print media having been reported again and again over the past decade, it’s refreshing to hear an optimistic counterpoint for once.