Missives From Troy
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Choose Your Own Adventure: Author Edition
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“I just sit at my typewriter and curse a bit.”— P.G. Wodehouse
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Sesame Street performer Eric Jacobson and Super Grover 2.0 stopped by Comic Con 2012. From the looks of it everyone had a great time. Check out the photos!
I’ve started three or four lists this week, many of them a little ranty, and after I got bogged down in each of them, I wound up on Youtube, going through my favorite videos for a quick pick-me-up. So it finally occurred to me, why not just take a week and give you ten amusing things to watch? And so, that’s exactly what I did.
- Simon’s Cat — “Let Me In!”
- The Muppet Show — Danny Boy
- Gogol Bordello — American Wedding
- OK Go — This Too Shall Pass (Rube Goldberg machine)
- The Mountain Goats — Thank You Mario, But Our Princess Is In Another Castle!
- Discovery Channel Song “Boom De Ya Da”
- Stephen Fry Is Broken By Guests on QI
- David Mitchell’s Soapbox — Television Credits
- Mitchell & Webb Show — Advertising for Women and Men
- Ed Helms sings “Stu’s Song” from “The Hangover”
Sunday Sountrack: Jason Segel — Man or Muppet (written by Bret McKenzie)
Does this choice need explanation? If so, here you are: the dude from Flight of the Conchords just won an Oscar for a song he wrote for the Muppets. If that isn’t the maximum amount of awesome one can pack into a sentence, I simply don’t know anything about awesome. Or sentences.
Sunday Soundtrack: Christmas Lists
Merry first day of Christmas everyone! I apologize for the delay, but today I bring you two playlists: one for the Whos down in Whoville and one for the Grinches. I hope you’ve all had a safe and happy December 25th!
Nice List:
- Electric Mayhem Band — ‘Zat You, Santa Claus?
- Guster — Donde Esta Santa Claus?
- Jeremy Fisher — Snowflakes
- The Clumsy Lovers — Snoopy’s Christmas (Christmas Bells)
- Sara Groves — Toy Packaging
- June Christy — The Merriest (Thunderball Mix)
- Louis Armstrong — Christmas in New Orleans
- Duke Ellington — Sugar Rum Cherry
- The Bird & The Bee — Carol of the Bells
- Mogwai — Christmas Song
- Aimee Mann — Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
- Coldplay (:P) — Christmas Lights
- Kermit the Frog — One More Sleep ‘Till Christmas
Naughty List:
- The Hives & Cyndi Lauper — A Christmas Duel
- The Killers — Don’t Shoot Me Santa
- The Flaming Lips — Christmas At The Zoo
- Ben Folds — Lonely Christmas Eve
- Me First & The Gimme Gimmes — Hava Nagila [Christmas Arrangement]
- Oscar the Grouch — I Hate Christmas
- Thurl Ravenscroft — You’re a Mean One, Mr Grinch
- Stephen Colbert — Cold, Cold Christmas
- Holly Golightly — Christmas Tree On Fire
- The Decemberists — Please Daddy (Don’t Get Drunk This Christmas)
- Weezer — The Christmas Song
- The Waitresses — Christmas Wrapping
Adorable Duet of the Day: Flight of the Conchords’ Bret McKenzie and Kermit the Frog perform “Life’s a Happy Song” — the opening number from the upcoming Muppets movie.
McKenzie, who served as The Muppets’ music supervisor, wrote and/or produced all of the movie’s original songs.
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