Dripmail

I brought Regina back from the dead for the umpteenth time tonight.

The web seems fuzzier on a Mac.



-adam

http://www.hihipuffy.com

happy fun rock band cartoon invasion!

(premieres november 19)

I had never heard of Ashlee Simpson before last night when she was the
musical guest on Saturday Night Live.

Her performance was... disastrous. Hilarious. Other things that end in
ous.

http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/36482
http://www.collegehumor.com/news/ashlee_snl.wmv

While running offstage after your lip-synch track is screwed up is bad
enough -- it was what happened after that was funny. The band - all likely
professional studio musicians - kept going, I guess in hopes she jumped
back on stage and started singing for real in some bizarre "the show must
go on" sort of way, but they cut to commerical after a few seconds. THEN,
at the end of the show, and this was the genius part, Ashlee blames the
band for playing the wrong song.

http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/36482#755961

here's the word from a friend of mine who was at the show, and got it
straight from the director, beth mccarthy, who she was a guest of:

ashlee can't sing. she tried all day friday, but was whining to her voice
coach. they decided to leave her mike on so she could sing along to the
track, but after the first line or two of the first song, turned her off
cause she was awful.

so, as of the first song, all the mikes were off.

now, they had the wrong song queued up for the second song, obviously. it
really was the drummer's fault. apparently he was supposed to signal
something or start in with some beat, and the one he did was for the first
song. because he fucked up, the guy doing the tape hurried up and put the
first song on, because that was what the drummer had signalled. when this
got all fucked up, they did two things:

1. turned on all the mikes so the band could take over and start the real
song. which they didn't. have no idea why.
2. turned off the tape so the band could play the real song.

they were going to turn on ashlee's mike so she could sing the real song,
but decided not to because the band was just playing the first song. the
guys were smiling cause they were simply thinking "what a fucking
clusterfuck".

http://www.lipsync.us/

Clearly the definitive resource, complete with quote from Ashlee about how
she'd never lipsync, and the all important "it was the band's fault"
movies from the end.


-adam

hypothesis: searching for even the most innocuous terms on the
internet will eventually lead to furry porn (for example:
butter, sad, ashlee simpson*)

as a result, the only way to NOT find furry porn is to look
for "NOT furry porn":

http://images.google.com/images?q=%22not+furry+porn%22

* okay, maybe not ashlee simpson.

http://benbrown.com/slushpile/

Ben's personal RSS/XML/ATOM/WHTEVRML aggregation thing.

Ben won't admit it, but this is really his way of saying that he loves
Jason Kottke.

brandbenbrown: KOTTKE

Auto response from adammathes: You are away from my computer right now.

brandbenbrown: OH REALLY
brandbenbrown: cunt face.

http://www.cadenhead.org/workbench/entry/2004/10/27.html#2364

"In these bitterly fractious times, I think it's important to find issues
in which partisans can set aside their differences and join in agreement.
I stand today with O'Donnell, and ask you to stand with me, in strong
support for as much lesbianism as lesbians want to create in the world."

http://www.internetvetsfortruth.org/

Excellent collection of videos (pro-Kerry, anti-Bush) with a just insane
amount of bandwidth. Very impressive.


-adam

http://www.errolmorris.com/html/election04/election04_main.html

I had read about these but hadn't looked at them until now. It's
from the same guy who did the Apple switchers ads, but it's people
who voted for Bush who are going to vote for Kerry. They're really a lot
more powerful and compelling than I had expected.