Brando’s Funeral Script

by kartooner on October 27, 2003

Hol­ly­wood leg­end Mar­lon Brando has told fam­ily and friends he is ready to die, and has writ­ten the script for his own funeral.

Freaky Links

by kartooner on October 25, 2003

Another show I miss was the short-lived tele­vi­sion series Freakylinks. I can remem­ber it being one of the first tele­vi­sion shows to fea­ture a web­site that show­cased var­i­ous arti­cles and tid­bits as if the web­mas­ter (played by actor Ethan Embry as Derek Barnes) was actu­ally main­tain­ing the site simul­ta­ne­ously with the show.

The Beauty of Rust

by kartooner on October 21, 2003

I received my copy of the beau­ti­ful Rust­boy book in the mail today. Accord­ing to the pack­age it was shipped from Bel­gium, which for the moment is bring­ing forth an odd feel­ing of “rich and creamy choco­late” nos­tal­gia. Any­ways, back (…)

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Earworms

by kartooner on October 21, 2003

Uni­ver­sity of Cincin­nati mar­ket­ing pro­fes­sor James Kel­laris has coined the term Ear­worms “for the usu­ally unwel­come songs that get stuck in people’s heads. Since begin­ning his research in 2000, Kel­laris has heard from peo­ple all over the world request­ing help, (…)

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