The most publicity Tasmania will get all year

Amanda Fucking Palmer. Bless your heart.

(NOT SAFE FOR WORK)



How do I love this, let me count the ways.

(FYI: This all sprung from an on-the-spot performance when AP was in Tasmania last year)

Sunday Brunch: Oren Lavie

I haven't remembered to do a Sunday Brunch post in awhile, but as I'm sitting here getting ready to head north for the Warrens Cranberry Festival (!), I thought I'd take a moment to share a really lovely music video I stumbled across the other day. It's a good song, but the video takes thing to a whole other level of awesome. Please to enjoy, and have a great Sunday!

Gonna agree with Shep on this one

(NSFW unless on headphones)

Sunday Brunch: Late night ska edition

This, this right here is a piece of fine musical history, folks: A live performance of the song "A Message To You" as played by the Pogues and with guests Lynval Golding, Joe Strummer, Kirsty McColl, David Byrne, and more. This is definitely one of those shows I would have paid good money--or risked sneaking past bouncers--to have been at, had I been of age.

Sunday Brunch: Edwardian Ball

Part of the motivation behind throwing the Fire Ball was to give those of us interested in the so-called "steampunk" aesthetic to dress up accordingly. I've been fascinated by the whole genre for awhile now: I love its combination of history, science, sci-fi, and DIY ethos. And it's catching on around the world.

The second annual Edwardian Weekend in San Francisco (also a de-facto steampunk convention) happened this January, and someone with a camera was there to document the action:

Who doesn't love an excuse to get dressed up and play with mechanical toys? Crazy people, that's who.

Sunday Brunch: Bo-de-ga

Food for thought on this, the second-to-last day of Bush II's presidency. Man, that feels good to type.

Sunday Brunch: T-U-R-T-L-E Power!

I challenge anyone who was roughly my age when this movie came out if they claim they never memorized at least part of this song.

Just sayin'.

Sunday Brunch: Sausages

Ah, Kids in the Hall. How I do miss serialized doses of your insane, delightfully Canadian brand of comedy. Well, barring DVD purchases, there's always Youtube to bring back some of my favorite sketches. This one is probably one of their most absurd, for sure, and has stuck with me ever since I first saw it so many years ago. I share it now with you all:

Sunday Brunch: Stand By Me

I'm in such a good mood about the election, so I feel like this video is appropriate for our brunch today. If only things were as simple and beautiful as sharing a song. And the idealist in me asks, why can't they be?

Sunday Brunch: Bicycle kung-fu!

OK, this is seriously just about the most amazing thing I've ever found on Youtube. It is at turns both incredibly rad and completely baffling, and I love it for that.

Bicycles. Kung-fu. Lady and her gang using their bicycles to kung-fu the bad guys into submission. I mean, it just doesn't get much better than that. Enjoy!

Sunday Brunch: Protein synthesis super hippie freakout!

Oh man, if I had been shown this film when I was studying protein synthesis back in school, I might have been compelled to pay more attention and actually retain the information. Or, it's entirely possible I would have been so distracted by the hilarious hippie science orgy taking place that it would have all gone over my head anyway.

Regardless, it makes me happy to know that this is still shown in some classes, and I am pleased now to present it to you in all its glory: "Protein synthesis: An epic on the cellular level" as produced by the Department of Chemistry at Stanford University in 1971 (featuring, if you can spot him, Frank Zappa!).

Sunday Brunch: "Deadly Sinners"

Well, rain and storms have been blowing through our little town, putting the kibosh on the Waterfront Fest. I was excited about the festival because it's basically in my front yard and I could just sit on the front porch and listen to good music all day. Sadly, nature had other plans, some of which involved breaking a few trees (seen right).

So, as Wisconsinites once again ride out flooding and severe storms, forced to forgo outdoor activities yet again, I offer up this little tidbit of joy, a fan-made video for "Deadly Sinners" by 3 Inches of Blood. Rock!

Sunday Brunch: "Don't Wanna Come In"

Me and my fella went camping this weekend up at Buckhorn State Park. Write-up is forthcoming, natch, but in the meantime, I thought I'd offer up this video, which rather succinctly sums up how I felt about coming home today.



Normally, I wouldn't post a video of a woman talking to her cat (even if the cat is hilarious), but I'm making the exception this time because the woman in question has an English accent. English accents make just about everything better.

Sunday Brunch: "Food Fight"

I've decided to start a small, semi-pointless tradition on this here blog, wherein every Saturday or Sunday (one or the other, but certainly not both, heavens no) I post something that's just fun and/or interesting. It will likely have nothing to do with Madison, or even Wisconsin, or sometimes even Earth. But I enjoy sharing fun/interesting things with people, and I'm hoping you all will enjoy it, too. So, here we go.

Today's Sunday Brunch is "Food Fight" (a history of modern warfare since WWII as reenacted by an iconic food of the associated countries) - courtesy of the ol' Youtubes.



History, food, and a lesson well learned, all in one. Bone appetite!