Luke Skywalker on a tauntaun: 1-man halloween costume remix.
How to order drinks like a bartender (like a BOSS)
They’re currently gathering signatures for the 2010 California Marriage Protection Act. I’m all for it, frankly. If they want to protect “traditional marriage” then California better goddamn commit to protecting “traditional marriage.” Via RescueMarriage.org
Rob Cockerham, internet pranksman, in his halloween costume: the money you could be saving with Geico.
A weekend in Singapore in 5 minutes, photographed by a point-and-shoot hung around the guy’s neck.
Marble sculpture carved to look like styrofoam
Google Dashboard is surprisingly useful. Check it out, googlers.
What to learn from this: wash your hands, especially if there is flu around.
Big NYTimes/Disney fail: Mickey Mouse isn’t a brand.
Disney is a brand, it’s the logo printed on the back of Hannah Montana DVDs and whatever the hell else they produce at that crap factory. Pixar is a brand, and easily Disney’s most valuable asset.
Mickey Mouse is, contrary to what all these idiots say, a character. He’s a cartoon character like Bart Simpson, who also got shilled for money and “branded” in the 90s. Here’s the difference: Bart Simpson still has writers and producers breathing life into his character and using him to crack jokes and annoy Lisa and all his other shenanigans. He has evolved naturally over 20 years to inhabit the world he currently does and, as such, is a mainstay of Sunday night television and one of the stars of a surprisingly good movie. Mickey’s been boring since before I was born.
What the article completely misses the point of is that Mickey was a boring character for decades and no one had the balls to do something interesting with him. Maybe that’s changing, the article hints that it might, that maybe we’d actually want to spend time watching Mickey in the near future, but all this talk of “brand” and “core consumers” will probably crush any true creative effort.
Song of the day: Everybody’s Gotta Live - Arthur Lee
Why do I not have a use for the Gerber Kick Axe? Daaaaamn.
The McSweeney’s newspaper: San Francisco Panorama
