Saturday
May 11
2013
I write for Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, perform at the Upright Citizens Brigade, and make web videos.
Tuesday
May 7
2013
Dead Parrot sketch
The best thing about the Dead Parrot sketch is that the shopkeeper stays calm.
Saturday
May 4
2013
“The United States of America is home to 4% of the world’s population and 25% of the world’s PRISON population.”
Highest prison population in the world, by number and by percentage, far more than China or Russia. How are we free again? How are we supposed to be the good guys again?
Oh yeah, cuz TV is on and things look free on there.
(Source: thepeoplesrecord)
Friday
May 3
2013
Icona Pop doing “I Love It” last night. Love this song and this performance.
Wednesday
May 1
2013
The very happy Joey Sahakian
This is Late Night’s Mac support guy, Joey. He’s always in a great mood and always ready to help out with stuff. He’s good.
Wednesday
April 24
2013
Link: kottke.org: Is life on Earth older than the Earth itself?
A pair of scientists looked at the rate at which the complexity of life increases and then extrapolated back to a point of zero complexity, aka the origin of life. The answer they came up with is 9.7 ± 2.5 billion years ago. Which is much older than the Earth. This idea has some provocative…
Duuuude!
A tourist stops to get directions from a cop in Questa, New Mexico, 1926.Photograph by Luis Marden, National Geographic
Whoa, this is beautiful.
Tuesday
April 23
2013
This is a wallpaper from TBS.com. I also saw a version of it as a subway ad.
But the quote is wrong.
So.
Thursday
April 18
2013
This is important.
Do you remember SOPA? The bill that would give government the right to spy on internet activity without warrant, and let them censor “unwanted” sites by blocking people’s access to them?
Meet its twin. But this time it’s all the more frightening; the House has passed it despite Obama’s threats to veto. And by an alarmingly large margin, at that. CISPA threatens the US constitution’s guarantees of due privacy and free speech, permitting any government agency to access and transfer of vast amounts of data- from internet records to even the content of personal e-mails, and all without obtaining a warrant.
What’s even more disgusting than this bill actually making through the House is some of the arguments used to help it’s passage, and comments made by one of the bill’s biggest supporters admitting the bill helps big business while insulting opposers (whose is also speculated to have personal reasons for wanting CISPA made into law).
This threatens every element of your online presence. From personal emails to general activity, any government agency will have the ability to go fishing without consequence.
Please, PLEASE, sign the following petitions. You don’t even have to be a US citizen to sign most of them or act against CISPA, and please keep in mind that if this shit flies in America, who knows what country might use its example to do it, too.
Petition: Avaaz: Save the Internet from the US
(you don’t have to be a US citizen to sign this)Petition: Sites Not Spies
(you don’t have to be a US citizen to sign this)Petition: CISPA is Back: Write Congress
Petition: Tell Mike Rogers more that 14-year-olds oppose CISPA
(you don’t have to be a US citizen to sign this)Twitter: Tweet @RepMikeRogers with your age
Twitter: Tweet @BarackObama and tell him to veto CISPA
Twitter: Tweet reps like @RepDelBene, @GovHankJohnson, @KeithEllison and @GovGaryJohnson and thanks them for acting against CISPA. Look for other reps that have spoken against it, and thank them.Call your reps: and tell them you strongly oppose the bill. You can look up your reps using the form on the lower portion of this page.
Resource: Fight for the Future
Reblog: This and other posts like it to raise awareness of this threat to internet freedom and privacy.
I will be posting more petitions and resources as I become aware of them.
(via fuckyeahillustrativeart)
Wednesday
April 17
2013
Attention universe: THIS MAY BE MY FAVORITE SKETCH EVER MADE. It makes me laugh so much. Please watch and share!
“What Happened To The Bone?” Written by Zack Poitras. Directed and edited by Tom Levin. Starring Ben Warheit and George Anagostakos.
This was made in a day for last weekend’s special “Space Cram” Sketch Cram show at UCB East.
Tuesday
April 16
2013
Non-Flyers
Why are penguins non-flyers? Cause there uncle is a chicken
This is a good joke. All penguins have the same uncle? And he’s a chicken? I love it.
Sunday
April 14
2013
Bottle episodes
While watching an episode of Star Trek: TNG with Vero, I thought of tweeting “Oh great, another bottle episode of Star Trek,” as a joke, since there are many many episodes where they don’t leave the ship. Later I went to the Wikipedia page for “bottle episode” and found out that it actually comes from the original Star Trek series. Pretty cool!
Thought-terminating clichés
Today on Reddit someone made a post defending someone else. Then another person accused that person of “white-knighting.” Then a third person commented:
“White knighting” is what is called a “thought-terminating cliche.” A TTC is essentially a word or phrase of a sort that is used to shut down thought, or quite often dissent. Even if you don’t have a counterargument, you can always rely on a TTC, and if the public is already on your side, then you have won. Once you understand the concept, you’ll start to see TTC’s everywhere. In every debate, on every side. The Internet is especially bad. There’s “You’re just offended”, and “That’s racist!”, and “That’s political correctness gone mad!” (see what I say about both sides?), “Hater/hating on”, etc. “White Knight” is a TTC used for when someone is viewed as ruining someone else’s fun, when that fun is harmful to other people. Whenever someone says “Stop being a white knight”, that is slang for “Hey, stop telling me to stop being immoral; it’s causing me cognitive dissonance.”
I had never heard of thought-terminating clichés before, but like this guy predicted, now I see that they are everywhere.
Edit: Added a link to the original comment.
Saturday
April 13
2013
TONIGHT: SPACE CRAM @ UCBEAST. 11:30PM.
A BRAND NEW SKETCH SHOW ABOUT SPACE WRITTEN, REHEARSED, & PERFORMED IN ONE DAY.
WRITTEN BY: Zhubin Parang / Will Hines / Matt Klinman / Kathy Salerno / Matt Moskovciak / Jesse Lee / Lauren Walters
STARRING: Will Hines / Matt Klinman / Jocelyn DeBoer / George Kareman / Lauren Adams / Beth Appel / Phil Del Costello
VIDEO CRAM BY: Adam Sacks / Tom Levin
MUSIC CRAM BY: Dan Chamberlain
ART CRAM BY: Matt Mayer
DIRECTED BY: Benjamin Apple / Brandon Gulya / Zack Poitras
Dress yourself and come to this.
