The Trader Joe's Song--a delightful fake commercial

I mention this video in a recent post that I did on LaughingSquid as the same director also directed a few cool commercials with the Mythbusters guys in them.

But it felt off-topic and like too many videos to put in one post, so I excluded this amazingly catchy parody of the TJ-reality. So I decided to share it here instead.

Two posts in one day, this could portend grave happenings.

Daily Show skewers CNN's weak, leaving-it-there coverage

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This must be one of my favorite Daily Show segments ever. They could stop a couple times along the way, but thankfully they see the satire all the way through. And there is a lot of damning evidence: CNN is a weak weak choice for news.

Those who celebrate goat *ucking will be particularly excited.

Political Pranksters: Billionaires for Wealthcare on the Rachel Maddow Show

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On Monday night, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show did a feature on "Billionaires for Wealthcare", a small group of pranksters who crashed Glen Beck's 9/12 protest in Washington DC this past weekend.

Their slogans include Let them eat Advil and Let's save the status quo!, and they wore tuxedos, drank champagne, and smoked cigars. And they put it all together with a song that they set to the tune of The Battle Hymn of the Republic

Definitely political pranksterism in the spirit of Improv Everywhere and the Cacophony Society.

Here's their full music video

Bolt puts his own World Record in Rearview Mirror

]What a personality, and what a roadrunner. Makes running in a straight line a lot of fun. That's pretty amazing.

Attaboy solo art show in San Francisco

My buddy Attaboy, artist, illustrator, toy maker, and publisher of Hi Fructose has a new art show opening Friday in SF

It's been nearly a decade since Attaboy had a solo art show in SF, but the drought is over. Opening tonight at 1:AM Gallery (at 6th & Howard), Fri. August 14th 7-10pm and runs through September 5th.




Here's a clip of Attaboy being interviewed about his work in the movie "Vinyl Frontier":


(originally there was a typo on this post, saying that the show opened tonight [Thursday]. but that's not right. it's wrong. Friday 8/14 is the opening.)

A 5-gallon pickle bucket full of unleaded gas

Bad Livers - "Turpentine Willie"

The great, recently reformed (sorta) Austin band Bad Livers, with a hilarious intro and eventually song about life in the wilds of low rent Texas....

testing if

this posting via email still works.

 

If it does then I should have something meaninful to say.  I *should*. 

 

FYI, there might be some brief downtime of this blog.  If so, never fear, we'll be back and utterly unimproved.

 

Miklem.com is overdue for a redesign and it is going to get overduer, I'm afraid  But with new awesome hosting (soon) behind the scenes by those charismatic geniuses at http://laughingsquid.net , who knows, anything is possible!

 

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