Wishful Thinking

Lies

Good Year for the Roses

My favorite Elvis Costello cover.

Happy Earth Day

"New" Tolkien Book

Rock and Roll Radio

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This always sort of weirded me out when I was a kid.

Two Men with Ideas

That's About the Size of It

Name That Food!

Subway!

Time for Timer!

Costello's First TV Appearance

Goodnight, Mr. Vonnegut.

Worst Chips Ever

9. Tako Chips Octopus Flavored
They're not quite octo-licious. Taste bad and smell awful.

3. Howard's Crispy Fried Chicken Skins
Putting a chicken skin in a bag might not be such a good idea.

2. Cuttlefish Flavored Snack
These just don't smell right.

Lawrence Welk Plays Velvet Underground

20 Greatest Historical Myths

15. Van Gogh sliced off his ear

Van Gogh is known as the archetypal starving artist, only selling one painting in his lifetime, and - in a quarrel with Gauguin - slicing off his ear, not long before committing suicide. Though he did face a tragic end, and his own paintings sold poorly, it is worth noting that he spent most of his life teaching and dealing art. He only spent eight years of his life painting, which helps to explain why he didn't starve to death. Also, he didn't slice off his entire ear, just a portion of his left lobe. Painful, but not nearly as bad as you might have thought.

Tom Snyder and U2

Two of my favorite things - together at last in 1981.

Wide Awake in America

4/4/68

This American Life TV

This American Life, a.k.a. the best radio show ever, is branching out into television. Watch episode 1 on the site if you don't have Showtime. (It'd be cool if they put these out as video podcasts, or at least sold them in the iTunes store..)

Les 5 Gentlemen

A Scopitone of the song Cara Lin - click the title bar to watch the video of this song from the 60s - 70s.

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The Fritz Lang film. Click the title to watch or download it.

AFSCME

Holy Grail