Categories for Random Posts

It makes it easier to bear….

More randoms:

• I find it funny when people want to talk about the possibility that George Washington (or any other historical figure) might be gay, but somehow am angry at the idea that Cary Grant might have been. (Via Hairpin/Carrie)
• Thought this wasn’t TBB worthy, but I keep laughing at DouchePug, so I probably should just put it up here. Enjoy Kelly.
• Not to be confused with my Sugarland fav, but Lada Gaga’s “Stuck on Fucking you” is pretty catchy.
• Lumi looks like all the fun of silkscreening without a huge mess of supplies. (Via NotCot)
• I forgot about how much I love Videogum’s end of the year collection of best viral videos.  Watch this years. (also via Carrie)
• Check out these products of the year. (via DYT)
• These match sculptures are pretty awesome. (via DYT too)

Bunch O Stuff

Here are a bunch of things all together instead of dragging a single videos over a couple of days:

• Here are some hilarious Celebrity tweets. Be careful when you mention a celebrity’s name, they may actually see it.
• Drunk History Christmas special.  Does it need a trailer? Just put it up!
• Bad-lip reading is only getting better.  Make sure to watch the Rick Perry one and the Newt Ginrich one.
• Rollo & Grady put up their top 100 singles of 2011.  Good listening.  Probably the start of the end of year “Best of” lists.
• 30 Rock is coming back. Here is a preview.
• Rock of Ages?  Interesting or Glee with rock ‘n roll?
• Picture of Daniel Day Lewis as Abe Lincoln.
• I’m sure this has been all over facebooks, but if you haven’t seen it yet, watch this first kiss.
• This might be on the cute side, but I laughed pretty hard.

“Tell Jimmy Kimmel to suck my balls!”

Kinda like a dishwasher box full of dish rags and gloves.

Literacy strategy: read only books that have been turned into movies or a TV series

As I prepare to student teach a senior American Government class (we will be exclusively watching The Daily Show and Colbert Report: suck it Scott Walker) I try do my very best to enjoy the time I am not lesson planning.  Lately, that has consisted of finding books that have been turned into movies and inquiring into both.

Most recently, I re-watched the PBS Masterpiece Theater series Sherlock (I only assume everyone else’s parents forced their children to watch Masterpiece Theater on a weekly basis;  it becomes an enduring habit)  It came out last year as a special series of three episodes.  Each episode is between 1.5 – 2 hours but it will be the best 1.5 – 2 hours you ever spent since the last time you watched something awesome.  It is modern take on the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic story of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson.  It does not stick to any strict plot line from any of the four original books or stories but instead pulls from all for a smorgasbord of updated Victorian mystery stories.

Since it is old, and we all know Brian doesn’t really work as a graphic designer but instead scours the internet for subversive content to catalog for Wen Jaibao to synergize CCP censorship, he might have posted this already or you have already seen it.  Either way watch it again, read the novels or short stories,  and wait with bated breath for the release of the second series this coming Spring.