onathan Coulton is an excellent troubadour of the digital age. A friend took me to see him in London a year ago: brilliant. His song Shop Vac has been set to a ‘kinetic typography animation’ by Jarrett Heather. It is exceptionally cleverly done and well worth watching.
Archive for the ‘Humour’ Category
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ife’s for the living, I guess. Have a look at this advertisement filmed live in Liverpool Street Station. Lovely to see such delight on people’s faces!
HT: Gavin McGrath
abotage. What would you do if you really wanted to sabotage any organisation? Well, here are the CIA’s recommendations from 1944.
Arguably, a selection of the worst prose written cannot but include the inimitable G Ragsdale McClintock, a delightful creation of Mark Twain. Twain writes of McClintock's work The Enemy Conquered; or, Love Triumphant:
The reader must not imagine that he is to find in it wisdom, brilliancy, fertility of invention, ingenuity of construction, excellence of form, purity of style, perfection of imagery, truth to nature, clearness of statement, humanly possible situations, humanly possible people, fluent narrative, connected sequence of events–or philosophy, or logic, or sense. No; the rich, deep, beguiling charm of the book lies in the total and miraculous absence from it of all these qualities–a charm which is completed and perfected by the evident fact that the author, whose naive innocence easily and surely wins our regard, and almost our worship, does not know that they are absent, does not even suspect that they are absent.
Bad poetry is a delight to the soul, especially when it is so unashamedly bad that no one could contest its enormity. For example, listen to these words that no doubt brought a smile to the Rev Gilfillan of Dundee, and have been bringing smiles to countless people since…
‘Greet one another with a holy kiss.’ This is the advice of the New Testament time and again. Perhaps the following analyses of kisses (to which I was pointed by David Wayne) will help you fulfil this command.
