Rant

So how come all the junk mail I'm getting at Verizon is all about penis enlargement? Not to boast, but I doubt that any complaints have been registered.

Actually, I recognize, without looking further, that these junk mails are all phishing scams.

Gmail, it seems to me, has the best filters in the business. I wonder, what's the disincentive for the other big providers to not do any better?

Happy holiday

Found via AMERICAblog.

So awful it's a delight.

The Two-Hour Star Wars Holiday Special in only Five Minutes!

The Late Night Explosion is proud to present, from 1978 The two-hour Star Wars Holiday Special cut down to five festive minutes.

Happy Life Day!

Harrison Ford, Bea Arthur and Jefferson Starship. Un-fucking believable, but it really happened in 1978.

Faux Al Gore

The kids aren't all right.

An Inconvenient Youth
About one and a half.

Children are urinating in our pools, our lakes, and our oceans. - causing glaciers to melt at an alarming rate.

They dig up the beaches, and then eat the sand.

Yes, The Kids are Alright..

The end

Found via AMERICAblog and Boing Boing -

RX2008
The End of the World
About three.

I laugh even as I weep.

REM
End Of The World As We Know It (And I feel Fine)
About four.

It's the end of the world as we know it.
It's the end of the world as we know it. (It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it (It's time I had some time alone) and I feel fine.

The great thing abou irony is that you can pile it on- layer after layer.

I feel fine.

More Tommy Wallach

A love song with a kazoo. Who doesn't love a kazoo?

Tommy Wallach
Apple of My Eye
About eight.

I'm not gay. Really.

Yeah, honey.

I Ain't A Cowboy Anymore
About four.

Related: Tommy Wallach does Jacques Brel at Dirty John Bonny.

More here at YouTube.

Music

A post at Crooks and Liars put me in mind of this.
Of course I quickly found it on YouTube. Google paid about one and half billion dollars for that.

From about 1982,
the Scottish/English Alan Parsons Project.
Eye in the Sky.
Four and a half.

I am the eye in the sky
Looking at you
I can read your mind
I am the maker of rules
Dealing with fools
I can cheat you blind
And I dont need to see any more
To know that
I can read your mind, I can read your mind