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Q:What's your song for summer?
A:"Our song about summer love. The lyrics are 'Oh, you're just for fun, don't you know. I only want you for summer months.'"
AS A KID, YOU loved video games. And when Mom wouldn't let you play them, you'd let your imagination run wild by building multicolored plastic things out of Legos.
You'd even try following the instructions to build the wacky spaceship or tractor or whatever that was on the Lego box — that is, until you lost one or two important pieces and the resulting frustration led to violent rages and eventual grounding. Or maybe that was just me.
Anyway, some creative chap has now combined those things into a video game you can't play, but that's still nostalgia-inducing to watch.
This is our favorite Michael Jackson homage of the day, though it's about six months old. Ukulele master Jake Shimabukuro reinterprets "Thriller" for the Ukulele. And yes, it's that amazing. Take a look.
Check out these visualizations of Twitter! Even what sometimes seems like The Idea Most Likely To Demolish Culture As We Know It can yield some incredible results.
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This one is a little creepy: the 9:30 Club's Michael Jackson tribute band, "Who's Bad," was scheduled to play BEFORE Michael Jackson' sudden death. The show is sold out now, of course, but they've added a second, late show to handle the overflow.
» 9:30 Club, 815 V St. NW; Fri., June 26, 11 p.m., $15; 202-265-0930. (U St.-Cardozo)
UPDATE: Rest in peace, Prince of Pop.
REACTIONS: YouTubers rally to the defense of Jackson.
WAX NOSTALGIC: MJ's legacy lives on in varnished form.
OH SAY IT ain't so. TMZ is reporting that Michael Jackson has died of cardiac arrest. "Billie Jean" is our all time-fave wedding dance song. Sigh. This is one of those stories you don't want reputable media to be able to confirm.
For now, let's pay the Prince of Pop homage and hope these dancing inmates can send positive vibes his way.
IS THIS GUY for real? He certainly seems sincere when he talks about finding his "goddess" for "awesome marriage." here are a few more choice excerpts:
THE MAN: "I am much more than a computer scientist. I am a Global Visionary"
THE PLAN: "Transformation of Computers and the Computer Industry into the LIGHT.
Transformation of Science into the LIGHT.
Transformation of Health Care into the LIGHT."
[A lot more stuff gets transformed into the light, but we'll keep it short]
THE WOMAN: "She is NOT a Scientologist."
"She never feels greed."
"She is extremely attractive. She's HOT. She turns heads wherever she goes."
"She has a trim waistline. Alternatively, if her waistline is ALMOST (but not quite) trim, she is willing to trim it down for me and keep it trim for me. No exceptions
Her hair is her own and at least TO HER SHOULDERS. Alternatively, she is willing to grow her hair long for me and keep it long for me. No exceptions."
"She is deeply disturbed that each day approximately 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes."
"If she has been a prostitute, that is GOOD!! We can discuss it at length."
So line up, ladies, for a global visionary who meditates and lot and has designed sets for "The Music Man." Unless you're a Scientologist, that is.
TWO STUDENTS at the University of Chicago have gotten themselves a book deal, in which they squish works of classic literature — Dante, Shakespeare, J.K. Rowling — into twenty 140-character sentences. They call it "Twitterature." We call it "The Death of Culture," or maybe "They Had Cliff Notes When We Were Children, Guys."
Ugh.
If you want a less horrible Twitter/literature convergence, look at the Twittered Ulysses, created this Bloomsday. Rather than condensing the story down into 20 lines, these guys twittered a section of the book from the point of views of various characters. Start here or here.
Photo by Dayna Smith for The Washington Post
"True Blood," "Twilight," blah, blah, blah. Know what we miss? Buffy! And The Internet has made a mashup showing exactly what would happen if our favorite slayer ran into our least favorite puffy-haired undead dude.
The mistress of this blog posts 19th century personal ads. They're sometimes sweet, sometimes strange, but totally fascinating. The more things change, blah blah blah.
SINCE OBAMA'S fly swatting incident on Tuesday, the usual people have reacted in the usual way. Namely, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals expressed dismay at the animal's demise, but acknowledged that Obama "isn't the Buddha." They're mailing the president a cruelty-free bugcatcher.
Photo from CNBC.
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